February 5, 2025 • 22 mins
Hey everyone! Welcome to a new episode of Wrestling with Freddie. It's just me today as Jeff is out. We're diving deep into the Royal Rumble, my favorite pay-per-view event. Ill give you my thoughts on the winners, and what the landscape is going to look moving forward to Elimination Chamber and WrestleMania.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now you're made. Even introducing the hosts Wrestling Win, Freddy,
Jeff Died, and fready Friends, Junior. What's up? Everybody? Welcome
to a brand new episode of Wrestling with Freddy, and
it's just Freddy because there's no Jeff today and we're
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sad about that, but we're happy because the Royal Rumble
my favorite pay per view. By the way, it's cold
as hell in the mornings in Los Angeles, So I
got my favorite hoodie on. You can't see it, but
it's a Dots in Dots in two eighty Z hoodie
because it's my favorite car in the world. Anyway, it
was the Royal Rumble, thirty man Rumble, which is what
we like, and not that forty man rumble stuff that
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gets a little crazy, except when Titus slid underneath the ring.
That one that was super great. But yeah, so we'll
get into that. Also, next week is our final episode
of the season, just the season. We're coming back, y'all,
don't worry. So this is the second to the what
do they say the pen ultimate? This is the penultimate.
(01:05):
Anybody ever says penultimate anything? Do you just punch them
right in the face. Not me. I'm the one telling
you to do it. I'm not saying it. I'm using
it as an example of why you should punch someone
in the face if they say penultimate, But I'm not
saying it. I'm saying second to last episode because that's
a normal human way to say it. Also, watch the Substance.
That movie was super creepy and the final ten minutes
(01:28):
as wild as well. So I know a lot of
horror wrestling fans are horror fans as well, So that's
a fun one to see his body horror if you're
into bodyhoror if you're into like Cronenberg movies or Branda
Palmer movies, things like that. Anyway, onto professional wrestling. Oh,
be on the lookout on our Instagram, the handle is
Wrestling with Freddy Super Creative. There we're gonna post how
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you guys can send in your questions. We'll do. We're
gonna answer questions from you guys on our final episode
and Jeff will be here too and it would be
awesome and you guys can ask whatever you want. You
can ask them my federation. If you've missed episodes, I've
if you have, If you don't know what's up with it,
listening because I've given all the updates I can so far.
If you don't want to catch up, that's fine too.
You can just ask and we'll get in all your questions.
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To have some funny questions for Jeff two and yeah,
we'll do that. Let's just get into the damn show.
Here we go, the Women's Royal Rumble match. Took some
notes to watch it downstairs with the kids. Here we go.
So we got the Women's Royal Rumble and Unlucky Number
one EO Sky and Unlucky Number two Live Morgan because
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those numbers hardly ever win. You know that they were
the first two win. And this was a really good rumble.
You guys, I'm not gonna do highlights. We don't do
highlights anymore. We used to do highlights. And I'm sure
you guys were like, what, bro, you never wrestled, can't
do highlights. I took one. I took one bump, not
like a drug, like a like a stunt fall from
Randy Orton, so you could suck on that. But anyway,
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this was a good rumble. Bailey came in. I thought
we were gonna get a little Bailey versus EO and
they did the little teas where they're gonna fight, They're
gonna fight, gonna fight, Bam, who bam, they both get kicked,
They're not gonna fight. They teased a couple of those.
I think one in the women's and one of the
men's as well. I think Broun was in the men's one.
I can't remember who. He was almost gonna fight, and
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then they didn't get to. We got some Maxine in there.
She came in and had a good happy moment, and
then she got her ass kicked and thrown out too,
So it was one of those yeah, oh, shout out
to Maxine. She's working hard and doing her thing. Chelsea
came in. She's always does comedy shit. I mean, I
remember when I worked there, Santino Morella did a lot
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of comedy wrestlings. That's not some people's thing, but it
really grew on me when I was there, and I
learned to love it. She does a very similar thing.
She's got a very sort of comedic wrestling and she
can go too, which is wild. So good Santino, but
she's taken some huge falls off ladders. I don't know
if you guys saw the one in Toronto, the paper
view in Toronto. But she took a huge friggin fall
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off that I know. She did it in TNA two.
I got educated on that by some of our Instagram
followers who wrote in, So keep doing that because sometimes
I get to read them, and if I don't, our
producer says, hey, check this out. This is pretty cool,
and then I read it. But yeah, so she was
in there, she did her thing, and Alexa Bliss is back,
Ladies and gentlemen, Alexa Bliss everybody's little miniature favorite wrestler ever.
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She's so tiny, and she came out and she looked awesome.
She brought her doll. I think the doll's name's Lily.
Some merch sales are about to go up, ladies and gentlemen,
because everybody buys that doll. And all her moves came
off super crystal clean, and she looked great in there,
and then that got a huge pop. And then all
of a sudden, here comes at number twenty five, trish friggin' stratus,
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another huge pop. She came out. She looks better than
she did when she was in her friggin twenties. She
came out and she looked pretty damn good in there too,
got her moves off. All of a sudden, out came
We're Cal Rodriguez and everybody goes, oh shit. And because
she's gonna kill everybody, and she's teammates with liv Morgan
or best bros with Live Morgan, and so they started
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beating everybody's ass and you're like, okay, here we go.
This is the two man thing that they do, or
you know, someone's tagting partner comes in and all of
a sudden they have an advantage, but that person rarely wins.
And then the pop of all pops, ladies and gentlemen,
The Queen has returned. Long Live the Queen. Charlotte Flair
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was back with the knee brace. My daughter popped hard.
She's fifteen. She was like, yes, she's back. Where the
hell is she? She was yelling. Charlotte Flair came back
in beat up everybody, kicked everybody's ass, and then all
of a sudden, Nya Jackson comes in and takes out
like seventeen people in one like giant moo kills everybody
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and it comes down to the final three, which was
Nya jacks Roxanne Perez, who I'm just getting him too.
She's only been on the main shows a couple times.
I don't watch an XT, but I hear it's getting cool.
I just don't. I don't have time to throw an
extra hour of wrestling in there right now. And so
it was Roxanna or Roxanne Perez, Charlotte Flair and Nya Jackson,
And of course you know it, I know it, we
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all knew it. It was actually I believe it was
my prediction for the winner with Charlotte Flair. She kicked ass,
and I believe she's gonna pick Tiffany Stratton. That'll be
her WrestleMania match. That'll give Tiffany time to still develop
and learn on the microphone in a promo battle against
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Charlotte Flair, who owns her character, I mean owns that character.
She has like an aura about her, like Charlie Murphy's
talked about Rick James. I saw his aura. You can
feel her energy out there, So that'll help her develop
and grow. That's the hope anyway. And then I think
Charlotte will probably win the championship and that's when you'll
see Becky Lynch come back and ohoa and everyone will
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go ye us Charlotte and then they can have like
a little John Cena Randy Orton beef back and forth,
and or Tiffany wins. Let's say she develops quickly on
the microphone and starts kicking ass, and then Charlotte does
the job not just for Ria Ripley at WrestleMania Los Angeles,
but does it again for Tiffany Stratton to try to
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put her into the next to try to raise her
into the next level or stratosphere stratisfaction. Now, I'm just
trying to think of things that raym with Stratton. Anyway,
So Charlotte is back, she won. Alexa Bliss came in,
We talked about her looking cool. Nicki Bella came back
after a three year hiatus, and I don't think I
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don't think they were doing one offs like I think
nick I think Nikki wants to wrestle, and I think
she's gonna wrestle. I think this was just a welcome back.
I don't think it was just a one off for sure,
Not with Alexa and Charlotte. They're they're regulars. But you
might I'd see way more Nicki, which would be cool man.
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Nicki Bella is badass. So Nicky was back what else?
What else? What else? Jordan Grace from TNA then to NXT,
put Piper up on her shoulders and just smashed her.
The girl as strong as hell. That looked badass, trying
to think what else happened? That was it and Charlotte won.
It was a feel good royal rumble. The ladies did
a great job. They opened the show so everybody had
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to follow that. The crowd liked the winner, so it
was a win. The Tag Team Championship was when I
started cooking dinner. They haven't put a lot into this story.
I know what happened. I do watch the product. I
know Johnny hit him in the balls. I saw the
sweet video package. It was all scenes that I had
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already seen. They wrestled a two out of three. They
did a smooth tag no tag to get the first ball,
which was kind of cool. I watched while I cooked.
I should have posted the steak made this yummy? My
wife picked up these steaks, man, they were looking so good.
They were like the wagyu beef with all the fat
in it. Ready, that's bad for your heart. Shut up.
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It tasted delicious. I should have posted it. It looks so
good when it was sizzling. If I can find the
I delete a lot of my videos so my phone
doesn't fill up because I got an old phone. If
I can find it, I texted it too. I'll resave
it and I'll post that steak and it'd be as
delicious as Charlotte Flair win in the match. So yeah,
So MotorCity Machine Guns, I'll almost mess up their name
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every single time. If it wasn't written in front of me,
I would have called them the mat the Motor City
Marauders or something. I don't know, but anyway, DIY, Johnny Gargano,
Tomaso Champa. They retain as they should. They're the superior
microphone performers. They should be the champs. And it's good
to have bad guy champs. We got a lot of
good guy champs, and we need bad guy champs too
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out there in the world of wrestling because it gives
people an opportunity to chase them multiple people, and multiple
people can get over. When it's the good guy champ
wants the guy wins, then they become the chaste. But
if they lose, then what do we build them up
for in the first place. So that's why it's it's
better to do it the other way anyway. The undisputed
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WWE Championship Cody friggin Roads. Oh no, it's not. You
can't say that, Freddy. That's someone else's gimmick. That's gimmick infringement.
I was gonna say the F word, but I didn't
want to cuss, and instead of gimmick infringed. Sorry, Cody
efing Rhads versus Kevin fing Owens in a grueling ladder match.
That's what the notes say. This match was so old
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school and so sick, and both guys took huge bumps,
and I mean huge bumps. Kevin took the biggest one
and the coolest one threw a ladder at the end
and he got smashed. I think Jeff picked him to
win because his promos were so good that he thought
there might be a little back and forth between the
two guys. But oh for not, mister Die, you were
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wrong and I was all right again. If you guys
are betting, you know, to roll with Freddy not Jeff,
and you'll make your money. I think I've had one
bad pay per view since we started doing this. Also,
Cody Rhodes is all might if you don't know who
all Might is, tap in type in my hero academia
all Might and to find a new show that you
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can watch with your kids. It's pretty cool, and that's
even cool for grown ups to. It's very well written,
and you can watch the subtitle if you're cool like
me and you want to hear the Japanese actors do
it the ogs, but I hear the dubs just as good,
So you might want just the English dub because you're like, man,
I don't do subtitles, and it takes my attention away
from the screen. That's why I don't like when they
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do that for Shinsake. Well you'll get used to it,
is what I'll say. Or just do the dub. No
dub with Shinske though anyway. Oh no, Jeff, oh wait,
I picked Kevin Owens. I just looked at the notes.
Was I the only one that was fooled? Oh? Man,
I lost? You got so much money. I just looked
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at the notes. I'm like, there's no way that's right.
I wouldn't have picked Kevin Owens, but I did, and
Jeff and Alex pick Cody, So I was wrong. They
were right, and they've taken the lead we all picked
Di why to retain crap Man. I don't want to
lose hold on a second producer. Alex thought Becky would
return and win, but he was wrong and Jeff and
Freddie picture damn it now behind and I didn't get
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the Royal Rumble right, son of a bit. Oh. I
hate losing, God, I hate losing. We gotta get Jeff
off this podcast once and for all. That's how bad
I hate losing. He's gone, He's out the Men's Royal Rumble.
Jay Usso, I love this dude a lot. I did
Bully Ray's podcast like a year ago and he said,
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who do you think the most the guy who's going
to be most over or the guy who's like got
a rock. I don't remember how the question was phrased,
but like who's going to be the hottest wrestler? And
I said Jay Usso on the podcast and everybody was like,
wait what. And we had talked about him and his
brother during the Bloodline and how a lot of he
had a lot of emotion that he was successfully kind
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of putting out there on screen when the Bloodline was
having a lot of drama, when he didn't trust Sammy's
ay and all kinds of shit when everything was going down.
I've really respected this guy's work for a long time
on the mic, and this is all pre yeaked. This
is this is pe why pre yeaked p Y also
stands for post sheat. But you guys know I'm talking
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about pre heat because you guys listened to the show.
His acting was really really good and then he found
this this thing right because the audience likes to what
the audience likes to be involved even if they even
if they know it might screw the wrestler up, they
can't help it. They really want to throw the wood
in there, and a lot of the crowd doesn't know
that it that it's bad to do to the wrestlers
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and can have a negative impact on their careers and
things like that. So they're just doing it because they
want to be a part of the show. And I
used to get mad at it, but I've changed in
my my old age. I've evolved and I get it.
They want to be involved and there's nothing wrong with that,
and it's actually a really special and cool thing when
the wrestlers can handle it. When they can't, it's hard
to see a wrestler's dreams kind of die in front
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of me. But I get why you do it. What
Jay Uso did was replace the what with a word.
He prefers with the word yeat. Because Jay likes to
work a promo moment to moment, which is how most
actors audition for jobs. By the way, moment to moment,
because you're looking down, you're gathering your thought, you're coming
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up from the script, you execute the line. Me, I
would just memorize everything and still do that, so they
would think that wasn't like the best the performance was
going to be. But I would just use it to
play the game. I knew all my shit. I was
too nervous to do it the other way. No freaking wait.
Jay works very moment to moment, which is it has
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this It's like a it's the opposite of jazz. It
would be like a hip hop beat, right like jazz
is kind of all over the place and you find
the rhythm, whereas when hip hop starts in the club,
everybody starts dancing right away. Jazz you have to kind
of find yourself. Hip Hop tells you what it is
and it's very deliberate. It's to the point and you
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hear I'm already stopping on a beat because that's when
I want you to do your heat, which would normally
be the word what. And it's such a genius, genius
gimmick that almost never came to fruition because of legal
copyright stuff where we can't say words anymore, we can't
sing happy birthday anymore, we can't do anything anymore. But
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the wwe really fought for that, and I'm sure Jimmy's
counting as lucky stars that they did, or or Jay
rather sorry, because it's it's one of the smartest techniques
I've ever seen anyone use in any format of public speaking,
whether it be professional wrestling, stand of comedy, theater, motivational speaking,
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like at anything. It's so friggin smart and I can't
believe he pulled it off. And I know there's some
people that are like, no, Yeaked, that's fine. You don't
have to like the yeat, but you can't deny that
the yeat has worked and worked at an incredibly high level.
It's on a bunch of shirts that people really like
to buy. And now the dude has won the frigging
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Royal Rumble and moves on to WrestleMania, and I guess
he's I don't even know who he's going after. I mean,
he's a Monday Night raw guy, which puts him in
line with Gunther, but he has history with Cody. But
Cody and him would be good guy versus a good guy,
Whereas even though I think Gunther's a good guy, he's
probably really nice guy in real life. That would at
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least be a heel versus Babyface match. So I think
that's the direction he's gonna go, but I'm not sure.
Which leads us to John Cena's final.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Brud Quest for the seventeenth time.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
He was eliminated by Jay usso it was just the
two of them. This match even tricked my wife because
there was at one point where it looked like John
was gonna go, and he saved himself and she's like, wait,
hold on, she's not gonna lose. And she's like, oh,
I go No, he's not gonna lose, and she was like, okay,
all right. I was like, but they got you for
a second. She's like, for a second, they got me.
But it even got hurt, and then he actually does go.
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The next time he goes out and both my wife
and I were like, hold on what and my brain
goes right to Okay, So how do they get him
to WrestleMania? Okay, he could win the elimination chamber. Wait,
but Seampunk has to win the elimination chamber to get
his WrestleMania moment. So is the WrestleMania moment going to
actually be cmpunk versus John Cena at WrestleMania. It must
be because somebody else has to win the elimination chamber
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because you can't screw either one of them. So I
guess the Wrestlemanium and his punk sena right. Maybe I
don't know. I don't know, but John Cena right away,
John Cena had to win the elimination chamber in my
mind because his story is coming to a close more
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quickly than cmpunk's. But if you take that away from cmpunk,
how does sampunk get to his WrestleMania story? Or is
Cmpunk's story that he doesn't get his WrestleMania story and
have we been misjudging this all along and that he
wants more story than accolade at this point in his career?
Is the story that he can't quite get there? There's
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no way right that. This is just coming out off
my head right now. There's no way that would work.
I'm gonna leave that alone. Maybe I'll go back to
John Cena versus Cmpunk, which would be an awesome match,
two old dogs basing off one of their last matches
ever another one. Obviously, he'll get Sampunk, will get to win,
and then he can move on towards championship aspirations. But
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that would be a pretty cool match. I wouldn't be mad. Yes, No, agree, disagree, Jeff?
What do you think, Jeff? Jeff? All right, he's not here.
Men's elimination Chamber match. Here's going to be the speculated participants,
Cimpunk obviously, Seth Rollins obviously, Drew McIntyre, probably Damian Priest,
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probably bron Breaker's got to smash somebody through the plexiglass
or the entire cage, so yeah, he'll be in there,
and John Cena, who's got to be in there, right,
He's got to be in there, Punk and Sena have
to be in there. So somebody's got to take a seat,
and then it's who gets to go to WrestleMania forty one.
You know, Seth Rollins doesn't have to have a WrestleMania
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moment this year. Certainly, Drew McIntyre doesn't necessarily have to
have one. In fact, it would piss his character off
even more that he didn't, and then he could be
mad at somebody and take it out on them and
we'd all watch him like that. Damian Priest is establishing
himself on macdown, and I think that has to be
established before they're gonna give him like a serious title
run at Cody or something like that. So he doesn't
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necessarily need the WrestleMania moment. So the bron Breaker doesn't
need it yet. He's still a young gun man. He
doesn't are a young gunner man like he just doesn't.
He doesn't need that yet. So it has to be
Cmpunk or John Cena, which means one of them gets screwed,
which means neither of them, say I go back to now,
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neither of them can win it, and somebody else has to.
That's gonna trouble me this week. That's gonna trouble me
this week. We're gonna work it out this week and
then we're gonna make better predictions next week when I
have people to bounce my weirdo ideas off of yeah,
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Now you're made. Even introducing the hosts Wrestling Win, Freddy,
Jeff Died, and fready Friends, Junior. What's up? Everybody? Welcome
to a brand new episode of Wrestling with Freddy, and
it's just Freddy because there's no Jeff today and we're
(00:21):
sad about that, but we're happy because the Royal Rumble
my favorite pay per view. By the way, it's cold
as hell in the mornings in Los Angeles, So I
got my favorite hoodie on. You can't see it, but
it's a Dots in Dots in two eighty Z hoodie
because it's my favorite car in the world. Anyway, it
was the Royal Rumble, thirty man Rumble, which is what
we like, and not that forty man rumble stuff that
(00:44):
gets a little crazy, except when Titus slid underneath the ring.
That one that was super great. But yeah, so we'll
get into that. Also, next week is our final episode
of the season, just the season. We're coming back, y'all,
don't worry. So this is the second to the what
do they say the pen ultimate? This is the penultimate.
(01:05):
Anybody ever says penultimate anything? Do you just punch them
right in the face. Not me. I'm the one telling
you to do it. I'm not saying it. I'm using
it as an example of why you should punch someone
in the face if they say penultimate, But I'm not
saying it. I'm saying second to last episode because that's
a normal human way to say it. Also, watch the Substance.
That movie was super creepy and the final ten minutes
(01:28):
as wild as well. So I know a lot of
horror wrestling fans are horror fans as well, So that's
a fun one to see his body horror if you're
into bodyhoror if you're into like Cronenberg movies or Branda
Palmer movies, things like that. Anyway, onto professional wrestling. Oh,
be on the lookout on our Instagram, the handle is
Wrestling with Freddy Super Creative. There we're gonna post how
(01:51):
you guys can send in your questions. We'll do. We're
gonna answer questions from you guys on our final episode
and Jeff will be here too and it would be
awesome and you guys can ask whatever you want. You
can ask them my federation. If you've missed episodes, I've
if you have, If you don't know what's up with it,
listening because I've given all the updates I can so far.
If you don't want to catch up, that's fine too.
You can just ask and we'll get in all your questions.
(02:12):
To have some funny questions for Jeff two and yeah,
we'll do that. Let's just get into the damn show.
Here we go, the Women's Royal Rumble match. Took some
notes to watch it downstairs with the kids. Here we go.
So we got the Women's Royal Rumble and Unlucky Number
one EO Sky and Unlucky Number two Live Morgan because
(02:34):
those numbers hardly ever win. You know that they were
the first two win. And this was a really good rumble.
You guys, I'm not gonna do highlights. We don't do
highlights anymore. We used to do highlights. And I'm sure
you guys were like, what, bro, you never wrestled, can't
do highlights. I took one. I took one bump, not
like a drug, like a like a stunt fall from
Randy Orton, so you could suck on that. But anyway,
(02:57):
this was a good rumble. Bailey came in. I thought
we were gonna get a little Bailey versus EO and
they did the little teas where they're gonna fight, They're
gonna fight, gonna fight, Bam, who bam, they both get kicked,
They're not gonna fight. They teased a couple of those.
I think one in the women's and one of the
men's as well. I think Broun was in the men's one.
I can't remember who. He was almost gonna fight, and
(03:18):
then they didn't get to. We got some Maxine in there.
She came in and had a good happy moment, and
then she got her ass kicked and thrown out too,
So it was one of those yeah, oh, shout out
to Maxine. She's working hard and doing her thing. Chelsea
came in. She's always does comedy shit. I mean, I
remember when I worked there, Santino Morella did a lot
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of comedy wrestlings. That's not some people's thing, but it
really grew on me when I was there, and I
learned to love it. She does a very similar thing.
She's got a very sort of comedic wrestling and she
can go too, which is wild. So good Santino, but
she's taken some huge falls off ladders. I don't know
if you guys saw the one in Toronto, the paper
view in Toronto. But she took a huge friggin fall
(03:59):
off that I know. She did it in TNA two.
I got educated on that by some of our Instagram
followers who wrote in, So keep doing that because sometimes
I get to read them, and if I don't, our
producer says, hey, check this out. This is pretty cool,
and then I read it. But yeah, so she was
in there, she did her thing, and Alexa Bliss is back,
Ladies and gentlemen, Alexa Bliss everybody's little miniature favorite wrestler ever.
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She's so tiny, and she came out and she looked awesome.
She brought her doll. I think the doll's name's Lily.
Some merch sales are about to go up, ladies and gentlemen,
because everybody buys that doll. And all her moves came
off super crystal clean, and she looked great in there,
and then that got a huge pop. And then all
of a sudden, here comes at number twenty five, trish friggin' stratus,
(04:48):
another huge pop. She came out. She looks better than
she did when she was in her friggin twenties. She
came out and she looked pretty damn good in there too,
got her moves off. All of a sudden, out came
We're Cal Rodriguez and everybody goes, oh shit. And because
she's gonna kill everybody, and she's teammates with liv Morgan
or best bros with Live Morgan, and so they started
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beating everybody's ass and you're like, okay, here we go.
This is the two man thing that they do, or
you know, someone's tagting partner comes in and all of
a sudden they have an advantage, but that person rarely wins.
And then the pop of all pops, ladies and gentlemen,
The Queen has returned. Long Live the Queen. Charlotte Flair
(05:31):
was back with the knee brace. My daughter popped hard.
She's fifteen. She was like, yes, she's back. Where the
hell is she? She was yelling. Charlotte Flair came back
in beat up everybody, kicked everybody's ass, and then all
of a sudden, Nya Jackson comes in and takes out
like seventeen people in one like giant moo kills everybody
(05:53):
and it comes down to the final three, which was
Nya jacks Roxanne Perez, who I'm just getting him too.
She's only been on the main shows a couple times.
I don't watch an XT, but I hear it's getting cool.
I just don't. I don't have time to throw an
extra hour of wrestling in there right now. And so
it was Roxanna or Roxanne Perez, Charlotte Flair and Nya Jackson,
And of course you know it, I know it, we
(06:14):
all knew it. It was actually I believe it was
my prediction for the winner with Charlotte Flair. She kicked ass,
and I believe she's gonna pick Tiffany Stratton. That'll be
her WrestleMania match. That'll give Tiffany time to still develop
and learn on the microphone in a promo battle against
(06:36):
Charlotte Flair, who owns her character, I mean owns that character.
She has like an aura about her, like Charlie Murphy's
talked about Rick James. I saw his aura. You can
feel her energy out there, So that'll help her develop
and grow. That's the hope anyway. And then I think
Charlotte will probably win the championship and that's when you'll
see Becky Lynch come back and ohoa and everyone will
(06:58):
go ye us Charlotte and then they can have like
a little John Cena Randy Orton beef back and forth,
and or Tiffany wins. Let's say she develops quickly on
the microphone and starts kicking ass, and then Charlotte does
the job not just for Ria Ripley at WrestleMania Los Angeles,
but does it again for Tiffany Stratton to try to
(07:19):
put her into the next to try to raise her
into the next level or stratosphere stratisfaction. Now, I'm just
trying to think of things that raym with Stratton. Anyway,
So Charlotte is back, she won. Alexa Bliss came in,
We talked about her looking cool. Nicki Bella came back
after a three year hiatus, and I don't think I
(07:41):
don't think they were doing one offs like I think
nick I think Nikki wants to wrestle, and I think
she's gonna wrestle. I think this was just a welcome back.
I don't think it was just a one off for sure,
Not with Alexa and Charlotte. They're they're regulars. But you
might I'd see way more Nicki, which would be cool man.
(08:02):
Nicki Bella is badass. So Nicky was back what else?
What else? What else? Jordan Grace from TNA then to NXT,
put Piper up on her shoulders and just smashed her.
The girl as strong as hell. That looked badass, trying
to think what else happened? That was it and Charlotte won.
It was a feel good royal rumble. The ladies did
a great job. They opened the show so everybody had
(08:24):
to follow that. The crowd liked the winner, so it
was a win. The Tag Team Championship was when I
started cooking dinner. They haven't put a lot into this story.
I know what happened. I do watch the product. I
know Johnny hit him in the balls. I saw the
sweet video package. It was all scenes that I had
(08:46):
already seen. They wrestled a two out of three. They
did a smooth tag no tag to get the first ball,
which was kind of cool. I watched while I cooked.
I should have posted the steak made this yummy? My
wife picked up these steaks, man, they were looking so good.
They were like the wagyu beef with all the fat
in it. Ready, that's bad for your heart. Shut up.
(09:07):
It tasted delicious. I should have posted it. It looks so
good when it was sizzling. If I can find the
I delete a lot of my videos so my phone
doesn't fill up because I got an old phone. If
I can find it, I texted it too. I'll resave
it and I'll post that steak and it'd be as
delicious as Charlotte Flair win in the match. So yeah,
So MotorCity Machine Guns, I'll almost mess up their name
(09:29):
every single time. If it wasn't written in front of me,
I would have called them the mat the Motor City
Marauders or something. I don't know, but anyway, DIY, Johnny Gargano,
Tomaso Champa. They retain as they should. They're the superior
microphone performers. They should be the champs. And it's good
to have bad guy champs. We got a lot of
good guy champs, and we need bad guy champs too
(09:50):
out there in the world of wrestling because it gives
people an opportunity to chase them multiple people, and multiple
people can get over. When it's the good guy champ
wants the guy wins, then they become the chaste. But
if they lose, then what do we build them up
for in the first place. So that's why it's it's
better to do it the other way anyway. The undisputed
(10:13):
WWE Championship Cody friggin Roads. Oh no, it's not. You
can't say that, Freddy. That's someone else's gimmick. That's gimmick infringement.
I was gonna say the F word, but I didn't
want to cuss, and instead of gimmick infringed. Sorry, Cody
efing Rhads versus Kevin fing Owens in a grueling ladder match.
That's what the notes say. This match was so old
(10:36):
school and so sick, and both guys took huge bumps,
and I mean huge bumps. Kevin took the biggest one
and the coolest one threw a ladder at the end
and he got smashed. I think Jeff picked him to
win because his promos were so good that he thought
there might be a little back and forth between the
two guys. But oh for not, mister Die, you were
(10:58):
wrong and I was all right again. If you guys
are betting, you know, to roll with Freddy not Jeff,
and you'll make your money. I think I've had one
bad pay per view since we started doing this. Also,
Cody Rhodes is all might if you don't know who
all Might is, tap in type in my hero academia
all Might and to find a new show that you
(11:21):
can watch with your kids. It's pretty cool, and that's
even cool for grown ups to. It's very well written,
and you can watch the subtitle if you're cool like
me and you want to hear the Japanese actors do
it the ogs, but I hear the dubs just as good,
So you might want just the English dub because you're like, man,
I don't do subtitles, and it takes my attention away
from the screen. That's why I don't like when they
(11:42):
do that for Shinsake. Well you'll get used to it,
is what I'll say. Or just do the dub. No
dub with Shinske though anyway. Oh no, Jeff, oh wait,
I picked Kevin Owens. I just looked at the notes.
Was I the only one that was fooled? Oh? Man,
I lost? You got so much money. I just looked
(12:03):
at the notes. I'm like, there's no way that's right.
I wouldn't have picked Kevin Owens, but I did, and
Jeff and Alex pick Cody, So I was wrong. They
were right, and they've taken the lead we all picked
Di why to retain crap Man. I don't want to
lose hold on a second producer. Alex thought Becky would
return and win, but he was wrong and Jeff and
Freddie picture damn it now behind and I didn't get
(12:25):
the Royal Rumble right, son of a bit. Oh. I
hate losing, God, I hate losing. We gotta get Jeff
off this podcast once and for all. That's how bad
I hate losing. He's gone, He's out the Men's Royal Rumble.
Jay Usso, I love this dude a lot. I did
Bully Ray's podcast like a year ago and he said,
(12:46):
who do you think the most the guy who's going
to be most over or the guy who's like got
a rock. I don't remember how the question was phrased,
but like who's going to be the hottest wrestler? And
I said Jay Usso on the podcast and everybody was like,
wait what. And we had talked about him and his
brother during the Bloodline and how a lot of he
had a lot of emotion that he was successfully kind
(13:08):
of putting out there on screen when the Bloodline was
having a lot of drama, when he didn't trust Sammy's
ay and all kinds of shit when everything was going down.
I've really respected this guy's work for a long time
on the mic, and this is all pre yeaked. This
is this is pe why pre yeaked p Y also
stands for post sheat. But you guys know I'm talking
(13:29):
about pre heat because you guys listened to the show.
His acting was really really good and then he found
this this thing right because the audience likes to what
the audience likes to be involved even if they even
if they know it might screw the wrestler up, they
can't help it. They really want to throw the wood
in there, and a lot of the crowd doesn't know
that it that it's bad to do to the wrestlers
(13:51):
and can have a negative impact on their careers and
things like that. So they're just doing it because they
want to be a part of the show. And I
used to get mad at it, but I've changed in
my my old age. I've evolved and I get it.
They want to be involved and there's nothing wrong with that,
and it's actually a really special and cool thing when
the wrestlers can handle it. When they can't, it's hard
to see a wrestler's dreams kind of die in front
(14:13):
of me. But I get why you do it. What
Jay Uso did was replace the what with a word.
He prefers with the word yeat. Because Jay likes to
work a promo moment to moment, which is how most
actors audition for jobs. By the way, moment to moment,
because you're looking down, you're gathering your thought, you're coming
(14:34):
up from the script, you execute the line. Me, I
would just memorize everything and still do that, so they
would think that wasn't like the best the performance was
going to be. But I would just use it to
play the game. I knew all my shit. I was
too nervous to do it the other way. No freaking wait.
Jay works very moment to moment, which is it has
(14:55):
this It's like a it's the opposite of jazz. It
would be like a hip hop beat, right like jazz
is kind of all over the place and you find
the rhythm, whereas when hip hop starts in the club,
everybody starts dancing right away. Jazz you have to kind
of find yourself. Hip Hop tells you what it is
and it's very deliberate. It's to the point and you
(15:18):
hear I'm already stopping on a beat because that's when
I want you to do your heat, which would normally
be the word what. And it's such a genius, genius
gimmick that almost never came to fruition because of legal
copyright stuff where we can't say words anymore, we can't
sing happy birthday anymore, we can't do anything anymore. But
(15:39):
the wwe really fought for that, and I'm sure Jimmy's
counting as lucky stars that they did, or or Jay
rather sorry, because it's it's one of the smartest techniques
I've ever seen anyone use in any format of public speaking,
whether it be professional wrestling, stand of comedy, theater, motivational speaking,
(16:03):
like at anything. It's so friggin smart and I can't
believe he pulled it off. And I know there's some
people that are like, no, Yeaked, that's fine. You don't
have to like the yeat, but you can't deny that
the yeat has worked and worked at an incredibly high level.
It's on a bunch of shirts that people really like
to buy. And now the dude has won the frigging
(16:25):
Royal Rumble and moves on to WrestleMania, and I guess
he's I don't even know who he's going after. I mean,
he's a Monday Night raw guy, which puts him in
line with Gunther, but he has history with Cody. But
Cody and him would be good guy versus a good guy,
Whereas even though I think Gunther's a good guy, he's
probably really nice guy in real life. That would at
(16:47):
least be a heel versus Babyface match. So I think
that's the direction he's gonna go, but I'm not sure.
Which leads us to John Cena's final.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Brud Quest for the seventeenth time.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
He was eliminated by Jay usso it was just the
two of them. This match even tricked my wife because
there was at one point where it looked like John
was gonna go, and he saved himself and she's like, wait,
hold on, she's not gonna lose. And she's like, oh,
I go No, he's not gonna lose, and she was like, okay,
all right. I was like, but they got you for
a second. She's like, for a second, they got me.
But it even got hurt, and then he actually does go.
(17:31):
The next time he goes out and both my wife
and I were like, hold on what and my brain
goes right to Okay, So how do they get him
to WrestleMania? Okay, he could win the elimination chamber. Wait,
but Seampunk has to win the elimination chamber to get
his WrestleMania moment. So is the WrestleMania moment going to
actually be cmpunk versus John Cena at WrestleMania. It must
be because somebody else has to win the elimination chamber
(17:52):
because you can't screw either one of them. So I
guess the Wrestlemanium and his punk sena right. Maybe I
don't know. I don't know, but John Cena right away,
John Cena had to win the elimination chamber in my
mind because his story is coming to a close more
(18:14):
quickly than cmpunk's. But if you take that away from cmpunk,
how does sampunk get to his WrestleMania story? Or is
Cmpunk's story that he doesn't get his WrestleMania story and
have we been misjudging this all along and that he
wants more story than accolade at this point in his career?
Is the story that he can't quite get there? There's
(18:34):
no way right that. This is just coming out off
my head right now. There's no way that would work.
I'm gonna leave that alone. Maybe I'll go back to
John Cena versus Cmpunk, which would be an awesome match,
two old dogs basing off one of their last matches
ever another one. Obviously, he'll get Sampunk, will get to win,
and then he can move on towards championship aspirations. But
(18:56):
that would be a pretty cool match. I wouldn't be mad. Yes, No, agree, disagree, Jeff?
What do you think, Jeff? Jeff? All right, he's not here.
Men's elimination Chamber match. Here's going to be the speculated participants,
Cimpunk obviously, Seth Rollins obviously, Drew McIntyre, probably Damian Priest,
(19:23):
probably bron Breaker's got to smash somebody through the plexiglass
or the entire cage, so yeah, he'll be in there,
and John Cena, who's got to be in there, right,
He's got to be in there, Punk and Sena have
to be in there. So somebody's got to take a seat,
and then it's who gets to go to WrestleMania forty one.
You know, Seth Rollins doesn't have to have a WrestleMania
(19:45):
moment this year. Certainly, Drew McIntyre doesn't necessarily have to
have one. In fact, it would piss his character off
even more that he didn't, and then he could be
mad at somebody and take it out on them and
we'd all watch him like that. Damian Priest is establishing
himself on macdown, and I think that has to be
established before they're gonna give him like a serious title
run at Cody or something like that. So he doesn't
(20:07):
necessarily need the WrestleMania moment. So the bron Breaker doesn't
need it yet. He's still a young gun man. He
doesn't are a young gunner man like he just doesn't.
He doesn't need that yet. So it has to be
Cmpunk or John Cena, which means one of them gets screwed,
which means neither of them, say I go back to now,
(20:27):
neither of them can win it, and somebody else has to.
That's gonna trouble me this week. That's gonna trouble me
this week. We're gonna work it out this week and
then we're gonna make better predictions next week when I
have people to bounce my weirdo ideas off of yeah,
all right, you guys, let's see do we have any
listener reviews? No listener reviews. You guys gotta do listener reviews,
(20:48):
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You could write mean stuff, I'll read it on the air.
I'll shout you out. You can put any name you
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It can be your grandma eats corn sideways, it can
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(21:10):
gonna have to wait a while because we're gonna be
on hiatus. But it does help the show out if
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know what? You didn't hear a lick of today? Ae,
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