October 9, 2025 • 19 mins
Welcome to Unsanctioned Thursday! Today we dive into WWE's upcoming Crown Jewel, the first one held outside Saudi Arabia. We discuss my prediction about the Saudis potentially buying WWE from TKO. We'll analyze all five matches, including two champion vs. champion battles, legends on their final runs, and everything in between. Jeff and I also debate the potential outcomes and stories behind each match.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready shops up about to
hit the fan?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to on sanctioned Thursday's in Wrestling with Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What's up? Everybody? Welcome to unsanctioned Thursday Quick Show today.
Because ww is doing five match plees, I wish they
did eight match pay per views like AW does sometimes
even more. But we're gonna go over the Crown Jewel,
the first Crown Jewel ever held outside Saudi Arabia. I
wonder how they feel about. We talked last week about
(00:42):
my prediction of the Saudi's eventually buying WWE from TKO,
So if you haven't heard that episode that's at the
top of the show, you can get into that. Let
me know what you think. I'm pretty good at predicting
these things, and yeah, we'll see. But anyway, we're gonna
go over all of the matches, all five of them.
We got a champion versus champion twice. We've got legends
(01:03):
making final runs in betrayals. But underneath it all, this
isn't just another card. It's WWE showing us what they
think the future should look like, and we might disagree vehemently.
So we're gonna give you our predictions, stories behind them
and where all this shit's gonna go. Let's start the
damn show. Mister Jeff, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Feeling good?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I was in my own brain going, isn't Crown Jewel
supposed to be in Saudi Arabia? I thought that was
the whole thing. I thought that's why it was called
Crown Jewel. I thought I was crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You're not crazy. I think they just got some permission
from their bosses.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I was like, Perth, Well, I thought the Crown Jewel
meant Saudi r I don't know, it's just what I thought.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, they're on their way to Perth. Whoever pays that's
where they're gonna go. And Perth pays a lot for
UFC to come there. And that saw this interview where
they were pissed because he took down this art installation.
The guy who's in charge of all that that money
that goes to bringing things to the city and he's like,
you think I'm going to put four million dollars or
whatever the number is into an art installation that nobody
(02:08):
in Australia gives a damn about. Or the UFC which
sells out every time we bring him in. I'm bringing
in the UFC and they were like no boo and
he's like, blow you want. It was Australia, so they
can take heat. They don't. They don't get sensitive like
we do here in America. He's like, you bowl you want?
This is the way it goes, this business, deal with it.
So they paid a pretty penny to get WW to
go there. That number will be public, I'm sure very soon.
(02:30):
And if you can't already find out what that number is,
I just haven't done it because I'm lazy, sir. All right,
let's get into these matches. Jeff. Oh, Also, where are
you going to be this weekend where you performing?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well this weekend, I will be in Canada, Winnipeg, Bay
Manitoba and Onto. But then I was just gonna say
that I kind of looked down on my phone when
you were talking about Perth, Australia, because I'll be on
Australia at the end of no way Yep, Brisbane, Melbourne,
Sydney and Perth.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Remember nineteenth to the twenty sixth.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
They're gonna love you down there. They're gonna love your set,
they're gonna love your materials. They're old school down there, man,
there's and they've got a great sense of humor. The
Australians always have. And you can make fun of them
too without them getting all upset and heard about it
like they have. They just they have good sense of humor.
I love it down there. I've made two movies down there,
How to Blast both times. The people are awesome, the
food's really good, it's beautiful, go outside, get to the
(03:25):
beach whenever you can. You're good at traveling though and
learning about the cities you go to already. All right, dude,
enjoy that. I remember when I was filming I know
you did last summer. I think I facetimed you and
I was like, dude, you have to do your comedy
out here in Australia. They're gonna freaking go crazy for you,
like they just because I was seeing some of their
local comedy on like TV and stuff, and I was like, Oh,
they're gonna go crazy for Jeff, They'll go crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, the every time people have asked me about going
to Australia next month.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I keep bringing you up.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Ago, my boy Freddy was out there and there was
all these giant spiders and I don't I'm not excited
about that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The guy just to that part. All the spiders, Oh,
forget that thing, man, That spider can rotten hell. By
the way, how does the sp How does a spider
that big get into a house? There's no hole that
big for him to get in a dog door. He
had a key. He's just fucking drove there. Yeah, fuck that. Okay,
(04:18):
I'm not talking about spiders anymore.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
That's a good name for a wrestler, The Huntsman.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
The Huntsman. Vince would love that name. And like nineteen
eighty seven The Huntsman, we got Ria Ripley and her
homie EO Sky formerly known as EO Sharai. No need
to change her name, but they did it anyway. They're bros,
and they all used to be bros with Oscar and
with Kyrie Sane, but they're not bros anymore. Now they're
(04:43):
mortal enemies because Oscar's getting jealous, man jealous. See Kyrie
Sayane's kind of torn, but she's gonna follow what the
big dog says, and the big dog's Oscar. She was
the first one over here in WWE, so she's kind
of like top dog. Even though EO's everyone's favorite she
was here first. She was a dominant NXT champion, Royal
(05:04):
Rumble winner, former women's World champion, like, Oscar is the shit,
and She's like, Yo, why are you talking to Ria Ripley.
I don't even like that bitch. You should just be
hanging with us. And EO's like, what the hell, man,
she's cool, and and Oscar's like what did I just say?
And you're laughing? This is real shit. Now I'm giving
the drama. And Kyrie's like, oh, okay, you know, I'm
(05:26):
sorry about Oscar, And then Oscar every week we'll go
Kyrie and Kyr's like, gos shit, I gotta go. Jeff
hates that part, and Real Ripley's like, look, I wasn't
trying to start any shit. I'm just trying to be cool.
Oh God, you spin in my face? What the hell?
And now EO's gotten spit in her face with the
mooda mist everyone's gotten missed. So now we have a
tag team match. We have Real Ripley and Eosky versus
(05:48):
Oscar and Kyrie sane and there's no more damage control.
That's pretty much gone. Sky's in the middle of this thing. Scott,
what if Sky turned on her in the middle of
the match. Oh god, and that's how they won. That
could happen. We never know anyway. Our producer says, Ria,
Ria and EO are gonna win this match. Jeff, who
do you say is going to win the match?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Let me make a quick opinion before I predict this.
No more English second language, no more like, No more
Stephanie Vacar, Stephanie Vaquierre coming out and doing like the
three sentences she practiced over and over and has no
idea what she's saying.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Just let them.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Speak their native tongue whatever that is. Wrestling is global, baby,
Netflix is global. Everybody's watching from all over the world.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Just let them.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Speak whatever they speak and then I'll read it in
my language at the bottom of the screen. Wrestling is
far too international. We should be celebrating these languages and
celebrating the stories and like, let them cook. Let these
let Osca and Kyrie sing and Eo Scott, let them
(07:03):
let them actually dialogue, well so it's just rambling and
then we'll read it. Let them Asian wrestlers speak in
whatever you know, Japanese or create whatever they are. Let
the Mexican wrestlers speak in Spanish. You know what I mean, like,
let them cook, we'll read it. I don't understand why
they're doing this. It's so hard to listen to them struggle.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Through the promos.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Well, let me try to explain it. So in boxing,
a promoter would demand that his fighters learn English because
it was easier to sell tickets to a fighter that's
communicating the same language that the people who are buying
the tickets want to see. So guys like Julio says
ar Chavez constantly frustrated Don King because he wouldn't learn
(07:51):
the language, and he would always use a translator, and
Don would say, well, that kills anybody's chance to kind
of love you and connect with you. You got to learn.
So that's why the fighters that have always been able
to speak English in boxing and in the UFC, you
tend to see them get a bigger push. You tend
to see them get a championship opportunity when they may
not deserve it, because they can represent the Latino culture
(08:15):
or whatever culture they're in and connect to the American
culture at the same time. WW is no different in
that fact. In that sense, they want you to be
able to communicate in English. So that the stories you're
telling can be in English. Now they've loosened that up
a lot, that grip's not as tight. Like Stephanie Vaquire,
she does her SmackDown segments now, and she'll say a
(08:38):
couple things in Spanish and then say them in English
so that everybody knows what she said. But she wants
to speak to her people first, so she'll be like, Hey,
what's up to my people in Chile? You guys are awesome,
and then in English they'll say, Hey, man, I'm just
saying what's up to my friends in Chile because they're awesome.
And then she'll say, I'm gonna beat you for that
title a just so you know I'm gonna beat you
like you know what I mean. So she's giving you
the translation there because when it's live, it's gonna be
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harder for them to get subtitles up there unless it's
fully scripted, right. But if they go off script all
of a sudden, the subtitle is not going to match
what they're saying and that's going to come off weird.
So I think that's the main reason why they do it.
I don't mind when they speak in their native tongue
like I watch anime and I watch the Japanese dub.
I don't watch the American dub. I watched the Japanese
dove and read subtitles, and I've never been distracted or
(09:21):
missed a scene once because of it, because your brain
can pick it up pretty quick after like the first
two minutes. It's like, yeah, okay, we're good. I'm locked in,
So I get you on that. But that's I think
where their philosophy comes from is the old school don
King promoter philosophy, which is.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The wrestler or gives the boxer an advantage for ticket
sales and all those different things. But I'm making the
argument that, you know, when it comes to these wrestlers,
it gives them a disadvantage.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I think the promo sucks.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
When it's you know, very you know basic center here
is because you know, I think it's just putting them
into a terrible disadvantage.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
In my opinion, it's definitely not an environment that's conducive
to success. It's it's just it's just not, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You're definite care and you're putting people out there to
stroke guys like they are way too good for us
to be like going like this when they when they're
doing their promo and like just let them cook.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I hear you, dude, all right.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Uh Ria Ripley and Eo Sky, Yeah, I think I
gotta go with you on this, although my gut's telling
me to flip it up and to make them look
strong somehow.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I don't know, dude. I think now I'm flipping it up.
You guys are both going Rio and EO, Rio in EO,
Ria in EO, and I'm going with Oscar and Kyrie Sane.
That's my final thing. Next up, John Cena versus aj Styles.
(11:14):
Here's a little story context for you, Jeff. John Cena's
on his farewell tour. This match feels like one of
his last big Marque matchups. Styles has a history with
John Cena, and the build up has largely been via
social media, so that sucks. Sena has limited TV times,
so we're not able to get a whole lot of
story here, But there's some emotional weight because Styles wants
(11:36):
to prove he belongs among the legends and Sina wants
to go out with a classic banger. As our friend
Seamus would say. Our producer says, John Cena's gonna win
and he's gonna He even says he's gonna get a
hug and a handshake from AJ Styles after Do you
have the guts to not only predict the finish, but
what's gonna happen after the finish? Jeff, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I don't think I know what the finish is gonna be,
and I hope there ain't no hugs and handshakes. But
I'd be a fool to predict AJ Styles, But I think.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
AJ Styles will defeat John Cena, and then John Cena
will raise his hand.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And hug and shake.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, they're probably shake.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Actually, all right, I'm going with Alex on this one.
I say, seen against the win. He just lost to
Brock Lesner. I don't see him getting two losses in
a row. It would be kind of cool, though, if
he was on a losing streak heading out. I don't know,
but I gotta go with a win on this one
from Big Bad John Cena. Next up, tough match to call,
Stephanie vakere versus Tiffany Stratton the Women's Crown Jewel Championship.
(12:43):
Here's where we're at. They cut a weird promo on
Friday Night SmackDown that Nick Aldis should have had most
of the verbage for and for some reason he just
did introductions. So it's hard to get like story wise
excited because it just didn't It just didn't click. But
the match is going to be sicky. Stratton is one
of the more athletic women on the roster. Her gymnastics
(13:05):
are wild. She uses them all in the ring. Her
finish is awesome. But as great as her finishes the
prettiest Moonsalt, ever, it's not as pretty as that twisting
one that Stephanie Vakaire does off the top rope. That
shit is gangster. It's better than Eosky's blind one eel
Sky for those of you who don't know, she never
looks back from the moment you're in position. She climbs
(13:26):
up the turnbuckle, looks to the crowd and just backflips
on you. And it's blind and that's ballsy as hell.
But Keres is that with like a four to fifty
twist on it too, and she lands it perfectly. It's
the coolest. It's my favorite finisher right now. I think
it's so awesome because of that. I think the Care
wins and also Tiffany hasn't lost a big match in
(13:47):
a long ass time. She doesn't lose the title. If
she loses this match, you can even get someone else
involved if you want. I hope they don't do that.
I hope there's no Nia Jack siding in this match.
I hope it's just straight up, and I hope Stephanie
va Kerre gets it's the win. Our producer also picks
for Care to win this time. Jeff's picking last. You
have all this information now at your fingertips, What are
you gonna do with it?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't think you're gonna hear me pick anybody to
beat Stephanie Vakire for Care.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Why is it so hard for me to say?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I mean, I'm like, I feel like like Karen ker Karen, Yeah,
Stephanie Vicaire. I'm never gonna pick anybody to beat Stephanie Vicaire.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
She's so good. She's she's so good, So I'm picking
her to win.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Match number four Cody Rhodes, the WWE Champion versus seth Rawlins,
the World Heavyweight Champion for the Men's Crown Jewel Championship
and a big fat ring that's ugly as hell, and
nobody wants to wear this is the big one. Champion
versus champion, Rhodes versus Rawlins. The feud has lasted a
long time man through a peck pectoral tear, which was
(14:56):
an awesome match. He wrestled anyway that was so sick
and Studeley by the way, all the way till now.
Now they're both champions. They're going at it. It's about pride,
it's about control. Seth or Seth has backup and Cody
really just has Randy. But I don't know if Randy's
even making the trip to Perth, so I don't know
if he's gonna have any backup. The winner gets bragging rights,
an ugly ring, and a belt that doesn't fit anyone,
(15:18):
the ugliest Championship. Eff So, our producer says. Our producer
Alex says Seth is gonna win, but it won't really
be a clean finish. He thinks there's gonna be some
shenanigans at Crown Jewel, which sucks. You're gonna mess up
the match, Jeff, what do you say I get to
pick last this time?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I think Cody Rhoades wins h. He is the good guy.
He is our hero, he's our fearless leader, and he
is the face of the company you don't put Seth
is a star.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
He's crushing it, but he's a bad.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Guy and he's a jerk, and he's I think that
I think Cody Rose has got this.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
This is the hardest pick for me, and I really
don't even want to make a pick, but I'm going to.
I just want to say this, don't trust me on
this one, and don't bet any money if you're going
off my picks on this one, because I don't I
don't know. I really don't know who's gonna win this.
You both went opposite directions, which I knew you were
freaking gunna, which leaves me the tiebreaker, and I have
(16:20):
no idea who can win. Here's the thing. Cody won
the last one against Goonther, so maybe he can lose one. Also,
the Saudis wanted him to win, so he won. And
the Saudis are their bosses. When they go to those shows.
They have no say who wrestles or who wins. It's
like Baseball now with the with the office telling the
(16:40):
manager who's who's in their lineup in betting win, So
I think this is an opportunity where he could lose
a match, but only with Shenanigans if Bronson Reid gets
in there, which he may or may not because he's
going to have a match against Roman. Maybe we record
these on Monday, so it hasn't been made yet, but
it might be made tonight. So I'm gonna say maybe
it's it's a brown breaker that interferes and costs him
(17:04):
to win, and Randy couldn't be there for him. So
I got set as well. Alex has seth. You have
Cody next up, and finally Roman Reigns versus We're guessing
Bronson Reid. Guys, this is a big time guess. I
can't think of who else he would wrestle Samoan versus
Samoan Big Bronson Reid in his hometown of Perth, Australia.
(17:25):
So that's why I think we're going with that, and
I've got Roman to win. Roman's not losing that match,
no way, no day. Alex also picks our Man, the
former champion, Roman Reigns to win. Who do you pick?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Well, I want Bronson Reid to win. I love Bronson Reid,
I love both the Brons. I loven Lebron James too.
I love all the Brons, but it's just so I've
said that I've learned my lesson about voting against Roman reigns.
He just always wins everything, even when he shouldn't, back when.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Vince was in charge.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
But actually, so I'm gonna go with my heart on
this just because you guys went with Rome and I'm
gonna pick Bronze and read.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Now, the old WWE model is that hometown guys going
back to their hometown never win. Jeff, I'm just throwing
that out there. I want to change you want all right.
He's sticking to it, y'all. He's sticking to it because
he believes. Do you believe Judson reads not from Perth?
Isn't he from Australia? I thought he's from like.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Adelaide, New Zealand guy, I think, Oh he's a New
Zealand boy.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I thought he was from like Adelaide, Australia. Oh well,
then never mind, he could be wrong, right, No, you
got it right? All right? That's all we got for
unt sanctioned enjoy. We're gonna be back next week and
every week except the weeks that we're off. Well, we
don't get many weeks off, you guys. We take a
very short break in between seasons, so stay tuned. We
next week we'll have predictions for ae W's wrestled Dream
(18:48):
pay per view slated for next Saturday. Saturday, it's not
Sunday because it's not the heavens on behalf of Jeff Die.
I'm pretty Prince
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready shops up about to
hit the fan?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to on sanctioned Thursday's in Wrestling with Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What's up? Everybody? Welcome to unsanctioned Thursday Quick Show today.
Because ww is doing five match plees, I wish they
did eight match pay per views like AW does sometimes
even more. But we're gonna go over the Crown Jewel,
the first Crown Jewel ever held outside Saudi Arabia. I
wonder how they feel about. We talked last week about
(00:42):
my prediction of the Saudi's eventually buying WWE from TKO,
So if you haven't heard that episode that's at the
top of the show, you can get into that. Let
me know what you think. I'm pretty good at predicting
these things, and yeah, we'll see. But anyway, we're gonna
go over all of the matches, all five of them.
We got a champion versus champion twice. We've got legends
(01:03):
making final runs in betrayals. But underneath it all, this
isn't just another card. It's WWE showing us what they
think the future should look like, and we might disagree vehemently.
So we're gonna give you our predictions, stories behind them
and where all this shit's gonna go. Let's start the
damn show. Mister Jeff, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Feeling good?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I was in my own brain going, isn't Crown Jewel
supposed to be in Saudi Arabia? I thought that was
the whole thing. I thought that's why it was called
Crown Jewel. I thought I was crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You're not crazy. I think they just got some permission
from their bosses.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I was like, Perth, Well, I thought the Crown Jewel
meant Saudi r I don't know, it's just what I thought.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, they're on their way to Perth. Whoever pays that's
where they're gonna go. And Perth pays a lot for
UFC to come there. And that saw this interview where
they were pissed because he took down this art installation.
The guy who's in charge of all that that money
that goes to bringing things to the city and he's like,
you think I'm going to put four million dollars or
whatever the number is into an art installation that nobody
(02:08):
in Australia gives a damn about. Or the UFC which
sells out every time we bring him in. I'm bringing
in the UFC and they were like no boo and
he's like, blow you want. It was Australia, so they
can take heat. They don't. They don't get sensitive like
we do here in America. He's like, you bowl you want?
This is the way it goes, this business, deal with it.
So they paid a pretty penny to get WW to
go there. That number will be public, I'm sure very soon.
(02:30):
And if you can't already find out what that number is,
I just haven't done it because I'm lazy, sir. All right,
let's get into these matches. Jeff. Oh, Also, where are
you going to be this weekend where you performing?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well this weekend, I will be in Canada, Winnipeg, Bay
Manitoba and Onto. But then I was just gonna say
that I kind of looked down on my phone when
you were talking about Perth, Australia, because I'll be on
Australia at the end of no way Yep, Brisbane, Melbourne,
Sydney and Perth.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Remember nineteenth to the twenty sixth.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
They're gonna love you down there. They're gonna love your set,
they're gonna love your materials. They're old school down there, man,
there's and they've got a great sense of humor. The
Australians always have. And you can make fun of them
too without them getting all upset and heard about it
like they have. They just they have good sense of humor.
I love it down there. I've made two movies down there,
How to Blast both times. The people are awesome, the
food's really good, it's beautiful, go outside, get to the
(03:25):
beach whenever you can. You're good at traveling though and
learning about the cities you go to already. All right, dude,
enjoy that. I remember when I was filming I know
you did last summer. I think I facetimed you and
I was like, dude, you have to do your comedy
out here in Australia. They're gonna freaking go crazy for you,
like they just because I was seeing some of their
local comedy on like TV and stuff, and I was like, Oh,
they're gonna go crazy for Jeff, They'll go crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, the every time people have asked me about going
to Australia next month.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I keep bringing you up.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Ago, my boy Freddy was out there and there was
all these giant spiders and I don't I'm not excited
about that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The guy just to that part. All the spiders, Oh,
forget that thing, man, That spider can rotten hell. By
the way, how does the sp How does a spider
that big get into a house? There's no hole that
big for him to get in a dog door. He
had a key. He's just fucking drove there. Yeah, fuck that. Okay,
(04:18):
I'm not talking about spiders anymore.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
That's a good name for a wrestler, The Huntsman.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
The Huntsman. Vince would love that name. And like nineteen
eighty seven The Huntsman, we got Ria Ripley and her
homie EO Sky formerly known as EO Sharai. No need
to change her name, but they did it anyway. They're bros,
and they all used to be bros with Oscar and
with Kyrie Sane, but they're not bros anymore. Now they're
(04:43):
mortal enemies because Oscar's getting jealous, man jealous. See Kyrie
Sayane's kind of torn, but she's gonna follow what the
big dog says, and the big dog's Oscar. She was
the first one over here in WWE, so she's kind
of like top dog. Even though EO's everyone's favorite she
was here first. She was a dominant NXT champion, Royal
(05:04):
Rumble winner, former women's World champion, like, Oscar is the shit,
and She's like, Yo, why are you talking to Ria Ripley.
I don't even like that bitch. You should just be
hanging with us. And EO's like, what the hell, man,
she's cool, and and Oscar's like what did I just say?
And you're laughing? This is real shit. Now I'm giving
the drama. And Kyrie's like, oh, okay, you know, I'm
(05:26):
sorry about Oscar, And then Oscar every week we'll go
Kyrie and Kyr's like, gos shit, I gotta go. Jeff
hates that part, and Real Ripley's like, look, I wasn't
trying to start any shit. I'm just trying to be cool.
Oh God, you spin in my face? What the hell?
And now EO's gotten spit in her face with the
mooda mist everyone's gotten missed. So now we have a
tag team match. We have Real Ripley and Eosky versus
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Oscar and Kyrie sane and there's no more damage control.
That's pretty much gone. Sky's in the middle of this thing. Scott,
what if Sky turned on her in the middle of
the match. Oh god, and that's how they won. That
could happen. We never know anyway. Our producer says, Ria,
Ria and EO are gonna win this match. Jeff, who
do you say is going to win the match?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Let me make a quick opinion before I predict this.
No more English second language, no more like, No more
Stephanie Vacar, Stephanie Vaquierre coming out and doing like the
three sentences she practiced over and over and has no
idea what she's saying.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Just let them.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Speak their native tongue whatever that is. Wrestling is global, baby,
Netflix is global. Everybody's watching from all over the world.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Just let them.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Speak whatever they speak and then I'll read it in
my language at the bottom of the screen. Wrestling is
far too international. We should be celebrating these languages and
celebrating the stories and like, let them cook. Let these
let Osca and Kyrie sing and Eo Scott, let them
(07:03):
let them actually dialogue, well so it's just rambling and
then we'll read it. Let them Asian wrestlers speak in
whatever you know, Japanese or create whatever they are. Let
the Mexican wrestlers speak in Spanish. You know what I mean, like,
let them cook, we'll read it. I don't understand why
they're doing this. It's so hard to listen to them struggle.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Through the promos.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Well, let me try to explain it. So in boxing,
a promoter would demand that his fighters learn English because
it was easier to sell tickets to a fighter that's
communicating the same language that the people who are buying
the tickets want to see. So guys like Julio says
ar Chavez constantly frustrated Don King because he wouldn't learn
(07:51):
the language, and he would always use a translator, and
Don would say, well, that kills anybody's chance to kind
of love you and connect with you. You got to learn.
So that's why the fighters that have always been able
to speak English in boxing and in the UFC, you
tend to see them get a bigger push. You tend
to see them get a championship opportunity when they may
not deserve it, because they can represent the Latino culture
(08:15):
or whatever culture they're in and connect to the American
culture at the same time. WW is no different in
that fact. In that sense, they want you to be
able to communicate in English. So that the stories you're
telling can be in English. Now they've loosened that up
a lot, that grip's not as tight. Like Stephanie Vaquire,
she does her SmackDown segments now, and she'll say a
(08:38):
couple things in Spanish and then say them in English
so that everybody knows what she said. But she wants
to speak to her people first, so she'll be like, Hey,
what's up to my people in Chile? You guys are awesome,
and then in English they'll say, Hey, man, I'm just
saying what's up to my friends in Chile because they're awesome.
And then she'll say, I'm gonna beat you for that
title a just so you know I'm gonna beat you
like you know what I mean. So she's giving you
the translation there because when it's live, it's gonna be
(08:59):
harder for them to get subtitles up there unless it's
fully scripted, right. But if they go off script all
of a sudden, the subtitle is not going to match
what they're saying and that's going to come off weird.
So I think that's the main reason why they do it.
I don't mind when they speak in their native tongue
like I watch anime and I watch the Japanese dub.
I don't watch the American dub. I watched the Japanese
dove and read subtitles, and I've never been distracted or
(09:21):
missed a scene once because of it, because your brain
can pick it up pretty quick after like the first
two minutes. It's like, yeah, okay, we're good. I'm locked in,
So I get you on that. But that's I think
where their philosophy comes from is the old school don
King promoter philosophy, which is.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The wrestler or gives the boxer an advantage for ticket
sales and all those different things. But I'm making the
argument that, you know, when it comes to these wrestlers,
it gives them a disadvantage.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I think the promo sucks.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
When it's you know, very you know basic center here
is because you know, I think it's just putting them
into a terrible disadvantage.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
In my opinion, it's definitely not an environment that's conducive
to success. It's it's just it's just not, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You're definite care and you're putting people out there to
stroke guys like they are way too good for us
to be like going like this when they when they're
doing their promo and like just let them cook.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I hear you, dude, all right.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Uh Ria Ripley and Eo Sky, Yeah, I think I
gotta go with you on this, although my gut's telling
me to flip it up and to make them look
strong somehow.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I don't know, dude. I think now I'm flipping it up.
You guys are both going Rio and EO, Rio in EO,
Ria in EO, and I'm going with Oscar and Kyrie Sane.
That's my final thing. Next up, John Cena versus aj Styles.
(11:14):
Here's a little story context for you, Jeff. John Cena's
on his farewell tour. This match feels like one of
his last big Marque matchups. Styles has a history with
John Cena, and the build up has largely been via
social media, so that sucks. Sena has limited TV times,
so we're not able to get a whole lot of
story here, But there's some emotional weight because Styles wants
(11:36):
to prove he belongs among the legends and Sina wants
to go out with a classic banger. As our friend
Seamus would say. Our producer says, John Cena's gonna win
and he's gonna He even says he's gonna get a
hug and a handshake from AJ Styles after Do you
have the guts to not only predict the finish, but
what's gonna happen after the finish? Jeff, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I don't think I know what the finish is gonna be,
and I hope there ain't no hugs and handshakes. But
I'd be a fool to predict AJ Styles, But I think.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
AJ Styles will defeat John Cena, and then John Cena
will raise his hand.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And hug and shake.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, they're probably shake.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Actually, all right, I'm going with Alex on this one.
I say, seen against the win. He just lost to
Brock Lesner. I don't see him getting two losses in
a row. It would be kind of cool, though, if
he was on a losing streak heading out. I don't know,
but I gotta go with a win on this one
from Big Bad John Cena. Next up, tough match to call,
Stephanie vakere versus Tiffany Stratton the Women's Crown Jewel Championship.
(12:43):
Here's where we're at. They cut a weird promo on
Friday Night SmackDown that Nick Aldis should have had most
of the verbage for and for some reason he just
did introductions. So it's hard to get like story wise
excited because it just didn't It just didn't click. But
the match is going to be sicky. Stratton is one
of the more athletic women on the roster. Her gymnastics
(13:05):
are wild. She uses them all in the ring. Her
finish is awesome. But as great as her finishes the
prettiest Moonsalt, ever, it's not as pretty as that twisting
one that Stephanie Vakaire does off the top rope. That
shit is gangster. It's better than Eosky's blind one eel
Sky for those of you who don't know, she never
looks back from the moment you're in position. She climbs
(13:26):
up the turnbuckle, looks to the crowd and just backflips
on you. And it's blind and that's ballsy as hell.
But Keres is that with like a four to fifty
twist on it too, and she lands it perfectly. It's
the coolest. It's my favorite finisher right now. I think
it's so awesome because of that. I think the Care
wins and also Tiffany hasn't lost a big match in
(13:47):
a long ass time. She doesn't lose the title. If
she loses this match, you can even get someone else
involved if you want. I hope they don't do that.
I hope there's no Nia Jack siding in this match.
I hope it's just straight up, and I hope Stephanie
va Kerre gets it's the win. Our producer also picks
for Care to win this time. Jeff's picking last. You
have all this information now at your fingertips, What are
you gonna do with it?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't think you're gonna hear me pick anybody to
beat Stephanie Vakire for Care.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Why is it so hard for me to say?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I mean, I'm like, I feel like like Karen ker Karen, Yeah,
Stephanie Vicaire. I'm never gonna pick anybody to beat Stephanie Vicaire.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
She's so good. She's she's so good, So I'm picking
her to win.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Match number four Cody Rhodes, the WWE Champion versus seth Rawlins,
the World Heavyweight Champion for the Men's Crown Jewel Championship
and a big fat ring that's ugly as hell, and
nobody wants to wear this is the big one. Champion
versus champion, Rhodes versus Rawlins. The feud has lasted a
long time man through a peck pectoral tear, which was
(14:56):
an awesome match. He wrestled anyway that was so sick
and Studeley by the way, all the way till now.
Now they're both champions. They're going at it. It's about pride,
it's about control. Seth or Seth has backup and Cody
really just has Randy. But I don't know if Randy's
even making the trip to Perth, so I don't know
if he's gonna have any backup. The winner gets bragging rights,
an ugly ring, and a belt that doesn't fit anyone,
(15:18):
the ugliest Championship. Eff So, our producer says. Our producer
Alex says Seth is gonna win, but it won't really
be a clean finish. He thinks there's gonna be some
shenanigans at Crown Jewel, which sucks. You're gonna mess up
the match, Jeff, what do you say I get to
pick last this time?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I think Cody Rhoades wins h. He is the good guy.
He is our hero, he's our fearless leader, and he
is the face of the company you don't put Seth
is a star.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
He's crushing it, but he's a bad.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Guy and he's a jerk, and he's I think that
I think Cody Rose has got this.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
This is the hardest pick for me, and I really
don't even want to make a pick, but I'm going to.
I just want to say this, don't trust me on
this one, and don't bet any money if you're going
off my picks on this one, because I don't I
don't know. I really don't know who's gonna win this.
You both went opposite directions, which I knew you were
freaking gunna, which leaves me the tiebreaker, and I have
(16:20):
no idea who can win. Here's the thing. Cody won
the last one against Goonther, so maybe he can lose one. Also,
the Saudis wanted him to win, so he won. And
the Saudis are their bosses. When they go to those shows.
They have no say who wrestles or who wins. It's
like Baseball now with the with the office telling the
(16:40):
manager who's who's in their lineup in betting win, So
I think this is an opportunity where he could lose
a match, but only with Shenanigans if Bronson Reid gets
in there, which he may or may not because he's
going to have a match against Roman. Maybe we record
these on Monday, so it hasn't been made yet, but
it might be made tonight. So I'm gonna say maybe
it's it's a brown breaker that interferes and costs him
(17:04):
to win, and Randy couldn't be there for him. So
I got set as well. Alex has seth. You have
Cody next up, and finally Roman Reigns versus We're guessing
Bronson Reid. Guys, this is a big time guess. I
can't think of who else he would wrestle Samoan versus
Samoan Big Bronson Reid in his hometown of Perth, Australia.
(17:25):
So that's why I think we're going with that, and
I've got Roman to win. Roman's not losing that match,
no way, no day. Alex also picks our Man, the
former champion, Roman Reigns to win. Who do you pick?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Well, I want Bronson Reid to win. I love Bronson Reid,
I love both the Brons. I loven Lebron James too.
I love all the Brons, but it's just so I've
said that I've learned my lesson about voting against Roman reigns.
He just always wins everything, even when he shouldn't, back when.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Vince was in charge.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
But actually, so I'm gonna go with my heart on
this just because you guys went with Rome and I'm
gonna pick Bronze and read.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Now, the old WWE model is that hometown guys going
back to their hometown never win. Jeff, I'm just throwing
that out there. I want to change you want all right.
He's sticking to it, y'all. He's sticking to it because
he believes. Do you believe Judson reads not from Perth?
Isn't he from Australia? I thought he's from like.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Adelaide, New Zealand guy, I think, Oh he's a New
Zealand boy.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I thought he was from like Adelaide, Australia. Oh well,
then never mind, he could be wrong, right, No, you
got it right? All right? That's all we got for
unt sanctioned enjoy. We're gonna be back next week and
every week except the weeks that we're off. Well, we
don't get many weeks off, you guys. We take a
very short break in between seasons, so stay tuned. We
next week we'll have predictions for ae W's wrestled Dream
(18:48):
pay per view slated for next Saturday. Saturday, it's not
Sunday because it's not the heavens on behalf of Jeff Die.
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