October 15, 2025 • 37 mins
This week we dive into WWE Crown Jewel's results and predictions, including Roman Reigns and Bronson Reed's match. We give a heartfelt shoutout to the Hardy Boys on their retirement and discuss Stephanie Vaquer's big win and John Cena’s tribute matches. Finally, we preview AEW WrestleDream 2025 with exciting match-ups featuring Hangman Adam Page and Samoa Joe. Don’t miss our hot takes, predictions, and fun banter. Enjoy the show and hit the comments with your thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up everyone? Welcome back to Wrestling with Freddy in
our fifth season, coming to you from Sonny. Although a
little cloudy today Los Angeles, but it's still beautiful. The
windows are open, the fresh air's coming in. We're still
rocking T shirts and we still love wrestling even on
the West Coast. We got a pack show today, a
long show today, which means even more commercials. That's right,
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So get ready because they're coming and you're gonna be
pissed off and you're gonna hit us up in the
comments and be like Freddie, I'm sick of his commercials. Man,
what the hell? You made the episodes longer? And now
they just think there's even more commercials and I'm gonna
chuckle in the background. I'm gonna go, hey, man, such
as life. They gotta pay me somehow. The commercials are
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What does it all right to you? Guys? Let's start
that damn show.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And now you're made event introducing the Wrestling with Freddy,
Jeff Die and of Furredy Friends.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Soon, okay, jokes are over, We're going over all the
results of Crown Jewel. We'll talk about what happened and
where I think things are going no, Jeff today, he's
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living he's well. First of all, he's living the life
of a Seattle Mariners fan. And if you're following baseball,
they're pretty damn good. So I think he might have
been watching late last night. No, just kidding. He's on
that comedy tour and doing this thing and he will
be back next week. We hope, we hope, we hope.
All right, guys, so what do we have here? What
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did we have here? We had John Cena. First of all,
it's weird like Roman Reigns has to open shows or
close shows. He's too big a star to be anywhere
in the middle, which is weird to me, Like when
you're that big a star that you can you can't
be placed in certain places on the pay per view
because you're too awesome. And that's Roman rates. But anyway,
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we're going to see how we did with our predictions.
A sick prediction from our producer Alex by the way,
just unreal. And we'll get to that later. But here
we go. Also a little bit of news, and this
is a bittersweet news, but sweet just to just because
they were wrestlers that I love TNA's pay per view
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bound for glory, the Hardy Boys had to match against
Bubba and Devon Dudley the Dudley Boys for our young listeners.
These guys, along with edgend Christian, revolutionized tag team wrestling
and made it so much cooler than it had ever
been before and created matches that had never been seen
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before and stunts that were guys are jumping off ladders
into people, hanging on briefcases titles like some of the
coolest matches I've ever seen. Anyway. They wrestled in the
Hardy's they beat there, They beat the Dudley Boys' asses,
they got their asses beat two, but they won. Bubba
and Devon hung up the Boots man they retired. They
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had some incredible matches in the early two thousands. Will
just never be forgotten, and they won't be forgotten. Devon
still does a lot with the company. I got to
work with him on a show on A and E
where all we did was talk wrestling. Bubba's always out there.
He has a great podcast that people love, and so
they'll always be involved. Like Jeff says, they never leave,
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they never leave. But they hung up the Boots their
final match. Congrats to those guys and keep partying on
to the Hardy Boys, Keep Rocking and WW Crown Jewel
twenty twenty five. Here we go the first match. We
open the show with Roman reigns because his match and
his story isn't the most important in WWE right now,
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so he doesn't get to close the show. But he's
Roman Race, so he opens the show and the crowd
does their cheer, their chant, Roman, Roman Rains Roman. I
wish they'd do something where like they had to bleep
it out, where they'd be like Roman fucking reads. They
have to bleep it out every single time because they
freak out with language. All the violence and blood is fine,
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but no naughty words, you guys, No naughty words. They
can smooch, they can do all kinds of stuff, but
you can't drop f bombs. Another conversation for another day. Anyway,
it was an Australian street foight. Bronson Reid came in
there looking great. That's one of Jeff's favorites, favorites, favorites.
He sees big things for him. This show sees big
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things for him, and apparently the company sees big things
for him because the winner was Bronson Reid. Here's how
it went down that son of a bitch. Bronc Breaker
came out and interfered in the match because you know
how the vision operates, and Roman Rains was gonna spear
Bronson Reid and he did the whole ooh, and then
he sees Bronson Reed climb up on the ring apron
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and he jumps up Superman punch and then Bronson Reed
like recovers. He's like, Okay, my big ass head just
shook off the concussion that I got. Pick your ass
up on my shoulders. I'm gona put you through this
table and I turn around, and all of a sudden,
here comes jay Uso to save the day. Thosos came
out to help because of brown Breakers cheating ass. Then
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they came out there fighting. Jayuso goes to spear Bronronsrie
Ducks out of the way, oh shit, and he hits
Roman Reins, his cousin, his tribal or former tribal chief
now just his cousin, and he puts him through a table.
Then he gets beat down and Bronson Reed wins the
match with his big old typhoon. It's called the No
the Tsunami, not the Typhoon. The Tsunami and he wins
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this damn match, and he beats Roman Rings, and nobody
beats Roman Rings maybe in a tag match, and he's
not the one that takes the fall, but his team loses,
but he barely ever loses matches. So this is a
huge freaking win for the Vision. Seth Rawlins, bron Breaker,
Bronson Reed Paul Hayman, but even bigger for Bronson. Reed
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to go over a top dude like this means he's
ready to go after a top dude, of which there
are only two, one being coded Cody Roads and the
other being Seth. Freaking Oh, maybe that's where we drop
the F bomb. We'll get to the Seth match. He
cut a promo after the match. By the way, postmatch
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promos are always the best promos because they're out of gas,
they're winded, they're not thinking as much about what they're
going to say because they're so freaking tired, and it
just comes out naturally and awesome, And the whole crowd
said his name, And if you guys said Seth F
bomb Rollins, that would be pretty sweet. I'm just saying
I'd be I'd be very grateful, I'd shout you out,
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I'd sacrifice of goat in your family's name to bring
you wealth and health and anything else that rhymes with that. Yeah,
so you guys should you guys should curse take over
the show? Anyway, after the match was the coolest part,
and this was just for the TV audience. Nobody in
Perth got to enjoy this. They just saw Roman, Jimmy
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and Jay in the middle of the ring talking, but
unless you were a ringside you can't really hear what's
going on. So all of us in the rest of
the world got it. Haha, international show, that's what you get.
We all got to enjoy this amazing moment where Roman
goes full on babyface because he literally is saying things like, yo,
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people don't think I can accomplish shit without you. I
have to do this on my own. I told you
that I'm doing this by myself. Why did you come
out here? Man? We got your back. I know you've
got my back. I love you. Look at me, Jay,
I love you. But y'all fucked up and the crowd
starts growing. You fucked up. You fucked up. I don't
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want to see you guys till Christmas. I love you,
but I don't want to see your ass till Christmas.
And he rolls out of the ring and he's coughing
during it because he's still selling the spear that his
cousin hit him with. Jay and he's walking out of
the ring and the brothers are kind of pissed. The
twins are pissed. They're like, yo, man, we're just trying
to help, and he's like, I told you, man, this
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only works one way. One way, meaning I'm assuming when
he was a tribal chief with Hayman and they were all,
you know, following the orders and following the plan, but
they had this wasn't an organized thing. They just came
out to save him, And so I think he's talking
about organization, not just we're following our emotions, like no,
we have to have a plan, And the twins are
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kind of pissed, and I'm the whole time, I'm siding
with Roman. I'm like, yeah, man, you guys fucked up.
The crowd's siding with Roman. They're saying it you blew it, Jay,
you blew it. And he told you not to come
out there. He told you that if you told him
not to come out, you'd expect him to listen. So
they're pissed off at him, and I'm like, Yo, who
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you pissed at? Bro? Be pissed at you? You cost
him the match? So where does this go? I don't
see a match between Roman and Jay, at least not yet,
because I don't think it's there yet. I don't think
he wants to fight him, and I don't think they
want to fight him, and I don't know how much
an audience wants to see that fight yet. But I
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do think it offers an opportunity for Jay to start
thinking more for himself, thinking a bit more selfishly, a
bit more hulish, which is good and bad. I don't
know what you do with the yeat, because the crowd
loves it and loves Jimmy's or loves Jay so much.
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But Jay's in a tough spot right now emotionally, I
don't mean like professionally, he's doing freaking great. He's killing
it as we called it on this show a long
ass time ago. But now he's like, yo, dude, I'm
pissing this guy off when I'm just trying to help him.
I can go two ways. I can self punish and
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be like, ah, I'm so freaking stupid. Man, why not
screw up? Or I can push that off on him
and be like, Yo, screw you, man, I've tried to help.
You're not the tribal chief anymore. You're Roman Reigns. You're
my cousin. And if I see my family in trouble,
that's your ass. I don't know which way he's gonna go,
but he seems to be the one with the most,
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with the most story. The wrestler with the most to
lose in this situation is, of course Roman. Because Roman
wrestles for world championships, and because of all the distractions
going on right now with the Vision and now with
his own family, he can't get back on track. He
can't go after that title. There's no room for him
up there right now. There's other people there. He has
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to deal with this. He has to deal with Bronson,
He's probably gonna have to deal with Braun. He doesn't
even get to deal with Seth because he's dealing with
these assholes. And what if he does have to deal
with with his family, What if he does have to
deal with with jay Uso. There's no room for him
at the top right now, and he's not used to
being at the top, but he damn well wants to
do it the right way, and he wants to show
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people that he can stand on his own two feet,
that he's a man, and he doesn't need a Paul Hayman,
and he doesn't need a Jay Usso or a Jimmy
Husso or a Solo Socoa or anybody. He doesn't need
to be the tribal chief. He just needs to be
Roman Reigns and that's his story. Pretty good match. By
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the way, we didn't even get to talk about it.
Here are the predictions. Jeff picked Bronson Reid and a
lot of you I think did too. I think a
lot of you guys saw it. Alex and I didn't
see it because Roman Rains never loses. But he damned
sure lost tonight, but not his fault. Not his fault,
but he lost when we got it wrong, and I
lost you guys a lot of money and for that
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I apologize. But next step, we made you money on
this one. I feel like this was the easiest match
of the night to call. And by the way, w
y'all ain't doing very many matches, man, With the amount
of wrestling you're putting on TV, you could afford at
least one more pay per view match on there and
add a little bit of time to it. It's not
like you're on a time restraint or anything like that.
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You give us another ten minute match, like a mid
card match could squeeze in more than five. I think
we only got five matches. Man Tiffany Stratton, one of
the women's champions, and Stephanie Vauquerre, the other women's champion,
wrestled for the ugliest championship in professional wrestling, and that's
the Crown Jewel Championship, you guys, the biggest belt ever made.
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It's a belt so big it would look big on
George Foreman, it would look big on John Jones, it
would look big on whatever big dude, you know. It
would look big on Bronson Reed like that. It would
actually fit around his waist. The ring is dope. It's
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grow well, it's grown on me. I didn't like it
the first year, but it's kind of cool now. Look
good on Vicaire anyway. Thecaer wins the match. We all
picked her to win, and we said on this show,
she's gonna have a rocket ship, and we explained why
wrestling is smart wants to get into the Latino market more.
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They've invested a lot of resources television, time, storyline and
now championships on latinos to try and capture that market
the same way the NFL is trying to do it
this year with Friggin Bad Bunny. Everybody knows there's over
a billion dollars there spent on consumer products, like just
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people buying shit. Over a billion dollars a year from
I think it's way more than that, by the way,
from the Latino community, and they want a piece of that.
They want advertisers to be like, oh, yeah, yeah, we
want our logo in your ring, and yeah we want this,
we want that because we want a piece of that
market too, because they all want money. The good news
is Stephanie Veacre happens to be one of the baddest
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wrestlers on earth right now. She's awesome. She's awesome in
the ring. It's not like it doesn't feel like a
forced push, it doesn't feel false. It's not someone where
we're like, you're gonna ever hear a you can't wrestle
chant like. She's unique in her look, she's unique in
her presentation. Rather, she's unique in her wrestling set and
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the skill set that she uses. Everything about her is cool.
She's not a Barbie doll. She's just cool. Like her
style is cool. Her energy and vibe is just cool.
And you want, I just want to have a beer
with her, like I just think she's a badass chick
and her finish is amazing. It's not a good name.
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I don't know what. It's just generic. It's called like
a here's a corkscrew moon salt. It should have some
awesome name to it. But I'm the asshole that can't
think of one either, so screw me. But anyway, Tiffany
Stratton went for the pretty moon Salt. Ever, Stephanie wasn't there.
She climbed up the turnbuckle and she did the same
move that she'd beat EO. Sky with and it looks
so cool and it hits so nice. She wins and
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triple H comes out and he puts that big ass
belt around her ways that she's like holding in one
hand while he's raising her other because it's so it
probably weighs like sixty pounds and uh And Stephanie Vakera
is the is the Crown Jewel Champ and the Women's
World Chapel one of two women's world champions. It will
be a disputed championship. Don't forget because Naomi didn't lose
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the belt. When she comes back from having her bedbit,
she'll have a right full claim to be the number
one contender because she wasn't pinned in the ring, and
she didn't and she didn't give up in the ring.
So disputed, but still awesome, awesome, awesome for Stephanie Vakeire.
I know Booker t is happier than everybody. Shout out
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to Booker t O. We all picked Stephanie to win.
If I didn't say that already. Match three, maybe this
was the easiest one to pick. Yeah, because there's a
lot of Stratton love out there, so this was the
easiest one to pick. Here we go, Rio Ripley and
Eo Sky versus the Kabuki Warriors, Osca and Kyrie saying
in a tag team match in Australia, you think Ria
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Ripley's gonna lose a tag match in Australia, Maybe a
championship after she's you know, won at like two or
three more times and then she could lose there. But no,
she's not gonna lose a tag match in Australia. That
was the crowd would be so bummed for no reason
for a match that doesn't mean shit, Like the crowd
would literally just be like, uh, what all right? Thanks
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for this match anyway. This was a match about friendships,
new friendships and friendships that have been destroyed between the
Kabuki Warriors and this new friendship and respect between Rhea
and Ilo. They kept Ria out of the match forever.
She finally came in on a double tag and the
crowd goes fame bananas. The post show Australian crowd was
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rowdy too when Rio was doing her interview. I won't
get into it, but you should watch it because they
were rowdy. Why of course EO and Ripley win Io
with the Blind Moon Salt, which was awesome. That's who
we picked. So we made you money. So we're two
for three. Don't forget it. Here comes match number four,
John Cena versus aj Styles. The winner was John Cena
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submission victory with the STFU or whatever he calls it,
the STF. I guess you can't say STFU because that
implies something else an F word again. We gotta bring
F words back. We gotta bring them back anyway. John
Cena one. The opening of this match was awesome. The introductions,
rather John Cena had had like a little a note
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of respect and honor for aj styles where he was.
He basically says, quote the definition of total NonStop action,
the ace and total boss of the Bullet Club. It
is my honor as an opponent to see if he
can you get it. He loves the guy and they
had a great match. It was another tribute match from Sina.
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I don't know if this is going to be the
theme throughout. He did everyone's finisher in this one, so
I think he might be all out of tribute matches
to do. But it was really cool man. It hit
him with everything from an RKO to a skull crushing
finale to bray Wyatt's sister Abigail, and he smooched him.
There were so many shout outs, man, and he shouted
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out edge and the last one like it's it's kind
of it's kind of cool man. I could get it
if people were like, man, I'm super seeing that. I
get that. I get that. But I'm older, I'm almost fifty,
so it's really nostalgic and it's all the dudes that
I came up going like, man, these guys are pretty cool.
So for me, I dig it, but I get it
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if people are like, come on, man, if you do
one more guys finisher, we riot that would be a
funny sign. By the way, So anyway Styles to lose anything, man,
this is this match was about John and Styles will
have his final run whenever he decides enough is enough
and can get a cool storyline in there, and they
can easily boost him up with a couple of good
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wins to have him like in a title picture for
one last you know story if that's the way they
want to do it, or there's plenty of wrestlers that
are like, yeah, I'll lose to AJ Styles to prop
him up for his final story like you'll basically everyone
on the roster would line up for that because they
respect him and love him. And oh maybe not everyone.
I don't know if there's if there's bad blue, but
everything I've ever heard is he's super respected in the
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locker room. And I could see people going like, yeah, bro,
I got you. Anyway, Jeff picked AJ Styles. He's not
trying to because he's not trying to make you money
and I'd say that to his face if he was here.
He's trying to take your money. Alex and I are
trying to make you money. And that's why we picked
John Cena because we know what's up. We knew he
was due for a win, and Alex produced, our producer
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not only predicted the fit, he predicted post finish antics.
He predicted the big hug and the handshake and the
raising of the arm and then the other raising of
the arm. He predicted what they were gonna eat for
dinner after the match, which was prime rib with mashed
potatoes and gravy, and John Cena had a salmon salad.
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I don't know how he predicted all this, but he did.
They posted it online later their dinners. They're both big foodies.
That's all they post really, So you guys should follow
them both online if you guys believe any of that,
your suckers. All right? Final final match, Seth Rollins, Seth
Freaking Rollins versus Cody Rhodes, Koda Coda. Sorry for the
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Men's Crown Jewel Championship. Once again the ugliest belt in
professional wrestling. Could God in heaven? Sorry, this match was
all some Seth Rawlins wins the match. He finally finally
gets a win over Cody Rose. Cody whipped your ass
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with a torn pectoral muscle, buddy, he whipped you with
one arm and one titty and you still lost. You
know how bad that would hurt your pride, your ego,
especially if you're a bad guy. So he needed this win,
and he gave the old double stompy stomped. He stomped
him once. That wasn't enough, so he climbed up on
the second turnbuckle, jumped off of there and stomped Cody's
ass again. And he got to that point by punching
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Cody in the face with the very watch that Cody
gave him for being such a good dude. He's like, yeah,
here's your present, you son of a bitch. Bow busted
him right in the head. It was awesome. This match
was awesome. I don't know what's next for these guys.
I can tell you what I hope happens with Seth.
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Cody's gonna be harder. Let's talk Seth first. It's not
going to be dominic mysterio. He hasn't lost the icy
belt yet. La Knight's got a lot of beef and
good a good reason to have beef. So he could
be a potential next challenger. But how cool would it
be because we've already seen dissension in the vision, but
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in a weird alpha way because it's three alphas right,
Like early on they had a promo where they're you know,
bron Breaker straight took the mic from Seth and was
like I got something to say, like you better listen,
and Seth didn't even get hurt about it. He was
just like, yo, all right, talk your shit. Could we
see bron Breaker go after Seth? I don't know, man,
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Well we'll find out because Monday night raw happened while
we were recording this show, and yeah, we'll find out.
We'll find out together. I don't know. I was gonna
say maybe bron but our Bronson, but I don't know.
I don't believe it now, that's Crown Jewel. I don't
think Seth Rawlins loses before WrestleMania. I think he's just
going to steam roll these pay per views CM punk again.
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Everybody loves cmpunk, well, all the fans do that. All
the fans love smpunk, So maybe he's in the mix.
I don't know. But now it's time not for a commercial,
but for a smooth transition. Nah, this is a great
time for a commercial, and we'll be right back, all right, guys.
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Now the WWE's Crown Jewelers in the books, we shift
to All Elite Wrestling Tony Kahn's Toy Box, and we
go to Wressell Dream twenty twenty five. It's gonna be
on Saturday, October eighteenth in Saint Louis, Missouri, the same
city that Randy Orton hit me with a modified backbreaker. You've, bastard,
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Never forgive. You don't forgive and forget either. Never forgive,
never forget unless you hit your head, you know you
might forget some shit. All right, there's the card we
know so far, how he got there, and what it
all means. First up, great freaking match. We're going to
talk about the best match first and it's going to
be Hangman Adam Paige versus Samoa Joe for the AEW
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World Championship. And the promo the last or there'll be
another one maybe, But the last promo, the one building
up to it, was fucking awesome. And Hangman has changed
his presentation or his promo presentation from when I first
started watching aew and it's getting much more natural, and
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he's not just yelling the whole time, because when you yell,
your voice gets high, you get out of breath. Now
he's much more deliberate, with a lot, with a lot
of what he's saying, and then he gives himself And
this is good advice for all wrestlers in a promo.
Give yourself somewhere to go, because if you start too
high or too hot, you can't top it without it
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starting to sound weaker. Your voice will get too high
and tight, and it doesn't sound like a tough guy,
like a tough I mean, it could sound like a
whiny heel if that's who your character is, and by
all means do that. But if you're just a badass
heel or you're a baby face, like, give yourself somewhere
to go. And he totally did that, and Samoa Joe
listens to this whole pro money He's like, look, man,
I don't give a fuck about anything you just said,
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whether it's true, but here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna
bust your ass, I'm gonna torture you, I'm gonna kill
your ass in there that old speech. Do you hear
the crowd chant all the time, Joe is gonna kill you? Yeah,
that's real. I'm gonna kill your ass and take the championship.
You've never beaten me, and Hangman Page isn't having it,
and they're gonna go at it. I don't think the
Ops is gonna interfere at all. I think it's gonna
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be one on one. The Ops aren't really like that.
They come at you if if you come at them.
They very rarely shoot first. But this match is gonna
be friggin awesome. Our producer picks Hangman Page to retain
his championship, and so do I. I think I think this
is gonna be a great match. I think Adam Hangman
Page is going to get the shit kicked out of him,
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but I think at the very end he'll pull it
out and he'll get him with the buckshot and he's
going to get the w And a big ass hawk
just flew by my window, like we have redtail hawks
in southern California, and it was so close that I
could see the red feathers on the tail man. That
was crazy. Anyway, biggest match for aw on the pay
per view, highest stakes, biggest title, two of their biggest stars,
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one of their best mic workers in Joe and Hangman's
a really good champion, so awesome match. I look forward
to it. Jef's not here, so he doesn't get to
pick ha ha, which means you save money. Just save money, baby,
because Jeff's not here to get it wrong. I just
saved you all money. Even when you lose, you win
next match. Chris Statlander the champ versus Tony Storm for
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the ae W Women's World Championship. Statlander won this title
at all out in a four way match, but she
did pin the champion, which rarely happens. Usually the champ
loses it because someone else got pinned in a triple
threat or a four way, but in this case, they
flipped the script on us and Tony actually took the
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loss and was like, yo, I just took an l
like what the fuck, and was like really tripping her out,
and she's kind of changed her persona. It's been evolving
over the last couple of pay per views from into
different incantations of like famous old school actresses and old
school Hollywood. I miss old school Hollywood, news school Hollywood
kind of sucks. I don't mean to pitch and moan.
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I'm just throwing that out there for you guys. Anyway,
moving on, so Storm Challenger afterwards to a singles match
to truly see who the better woman is. I feel
like Jeff would pick Tony Storm on this one. Our
producer picks Chris Statlander to retain. It would be so weird,
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The booking would be so weird. If Tony lost in
a four way and then just took it right back
in a one on one doesn't really give Tony anywhere
to go, and you're kind of just fucking over Statlander, right,
Whereas if Tony loses, it's yo, I have to evolve.
I have to make a change because I just lost
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straight up in a fair fight to this girl. No interference.
I don't think there's going to be any interference. What
the hell? What do I have to do? If there
is interference, then that will be what Tony has to
deal with next. But I predict Statlander wins as well,
and they give the girl a chance to run with
it and see if anybody can can pull more out
of her, and if she can pull more out of
someone else worthy enough to beat her we'll see match three,
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Darby Allen versus John Moxley in an I quit match.
Holy shit, could you imagine John Moxley saying I quit
to Darby Allen. Just think about that. Think about it seriously,
Like how over would Darby Allen be? I'll tell you
right now, Darby Allen's not saying I quit. He's not.
So the match is either a draw or they are
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gonna somehow figure out how to make John Moxley quit.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Like maybe he's afraid of spiders or snakes, and Darby's like, yo,
I got a book instricter from my man Jake to
snake and I know you're terrified it will wrap him
around your neck or or I don't know, maybe he's
you know, afraid of the dark or some shit.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But there's no Darby Allen's crazy. Didn't he climb Mount Everest?
Didn't he climb a mountain or some shit? Climb Mount Fuji?
Or Yo Tie Yo tay? How do you say it?
What's that new video game The Samurai one Ghosts of
Yo Te or is it your tie? I wish I
spoke Japanese. I don't think Darby's losing this match. I
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really don't. Here's what our producer thinks. First of all,
he described the match as legal murder, which will look
like I agree with that, but he picks Darby at
the end of the day, he thinks he's gonna just
not reading his prediction. He's gonna hang him upside down
from the Saint Louis arch. That will be the only
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possible way to make Moxley quit is if he hangs
him from their their state monument or cities monument. I
don't know. It's a monument and it's a great one,
and I've seen it. That's hysterical to me, So yeah,
I have Darby winning as well. Jeff's gonna go with
Jeff's gonna go with Derby. We're gonna give Jeff a dubb.
He always gets the l's next up Okata and takeshaa
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the new By the way, New Japan, I think IWGP
new heavyweight champion. I think I saw that online. A
new heavyweight champion over in Japan. He just won another title.
So congratulations to Ta Keshada versus Brodido. That's Brodie King
and Bandido for those of you who don't know. Brodido
in a tag match eliminator tag matches. Do tag matches
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need stories or can you just kind of party? I
mean this has a little bit of one. They want
what they called a double Jeopardy eliminator match versus Burtino,
but the story was in the ring more than there.
I don't feel like tag matches need stories as much.
When they do, it's gravy. I don't know why. I
wish I knew why. I don't think that I can't.
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I shouldn't just say stuff without giving you a reason.
But yeah, that's that's what you get today. Anyway, if
they win, could lead to an AEW Tag Team Championship opportunity.
But there's a lot of tension between Okada and Takeshita,
and eventually these two have to beef, and they have
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to beef for Okada's titles, which I'm now convinced he's
not dropping to anyone but to ta KESHAA. Try saying
that five times fast, say it two times fast, I
dare you. But that's gonna be. That's gonna be who
he loses the title to, and when they put on
that match, that will be the match of that pay
per view period. End of story. Nobody else will come close,
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that will be insane. But it's not time for that yet,
I don't think so. I think there's still gonna be tension.
Maybe somebody makes a mistake or something that's deemed a mistake,
even if it's not by the other partner. Don Kallas
is gonna have a lot to deal with because right
now he's like, hey, man, the two studs man sometimes
studs butt heads, but eventually it's gonna blow up, Kesha.
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It can be a great babyface, I think in wrestling,
and I think he will end up being the babyface
in this because Okada is too good a heal. So yeah,
so I've got I've got Broddo. I've got Brodido winning
next match the Jurassic Express. They're back, baby, They're back
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versus the Young Bucks, and this is for five hundred grand.
The Young Bucks need this bad because my man lost
all their money in the casino the last time that
they had any cash on them. They need the money bad.
But their story has been sissyphus since they lost that
match and lost their executive vice almost ad vice principle,
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since they almost lost their EVPs. I like vice principle more. Anyway, Sissyphus.
If you don't know, the story is Greek mythology. You
can look it up if you want. It's sis he
was cursed to roll this giant boulder up this mountain,
and if he gets it to the top, the curse
is broken. But the curse is no matter at what
point on the mountain. At some point on the mountain,
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he's gonna stumble and the boulder rolls all the way
back to the bottom for eternity. Don't piss off the
Greek gods. They've got a sixth sense of humor and
Greek mythology rules. By the way, you guys should check
it out anyway. I think that's what they're destined for
for a little while longer. And I've got the Jurassic
Express win. In five hundred K. You can get my
(33:49):
man some new Lucasaurus gear. If you want. With five
hundred K, you get Jack a sweet leather jacket. If
you want a two for five hundred K, I mean
a real sweet one. They only get two hundred and
fifty k apiece. Remember that, and don't forget Uncle Sam
agents managers. At the end of the day, that's about
forty eight percent of all that money gone, so they're
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only gonna get about one hundred and twenty five k each,
so it's not that much downer movie on Ricochet and
the Gates of Agony versus Bobby Lashley, Shelton, Benjamin An MVP.
Here's the build up. They've been getting story. They've been
getting a story on aew and this started a long
ass time ago when MVP handed Ricochet at card and
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was like, yo, you might want to be a part
of the Hurt Syndicate and Rick Shee was like, man,
I don't know, I'm kind of a babyface maybe, and
then like a week later he's like, I rescind my offer. Boom,
you're out, bitch, and Rick say is like, you know what,
are you gonna call me a bitch? And he's like,
cause I did. And they've had beef ever since. And
that beef expanded to the point where Ricochet got some
backup in the Gates of Agony and they cost They
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cost the Hurt Syndicate the tag team titles, and now
they got serious beef. It's revenge on both sides. Who's right,
who's wrong? We don't know, we don't care, but they're
gonna wrestle. It's a grudge match. Might be tensioned in
one of the two groups. I don't think so, but
there's got to be a winner eventually in this they
can't just fight forever, and our producer picks the Hurt
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Syndicate to get payback. As much as I love you, Ricochet,
thank you for doing the show, I gotta go with
my man Alex on this one. Bobby Lastly is gonna
bust your ass. Normally I always root for the guests,
but I gotta make people money. This is a pick,
so I'm rooting for you, but I'm picking against you
because we're here to make the people money, and I'm
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picking the Hurt Syndicate as well. Next up, Jamie Hayter
versus Techla spelled Feckla. Sound like Mike Tyson trying to
say Techla, don't beat me up, Mike. So, Jamie Hayter
hasn't gotten a ton of story since she's gotten back.
Before she got hurt, she was in a great story
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for the Women's Championship for a match that led up
I think in Wembley Stadium. I think it was or
the Oh, some one of those. This is a couple
of years ago. So this match is more about establishing
top dogs in the in the division, getting someone ready
to make a title run, much more than it is
about anything else. It's I'm better than you. No, I'm
(36:17):
better than you. Let's see who's better, bitch. All right,
I'm gonna whip your ass and here we go. It's
Jamie Hayter. That's who's winning this match. She's gonna hit
her with the big clothes line, she's gonna put her down,
and she's gonna move on to bigger and better things
and Tekla show. She shall get her opportunity when it comes,
but it's not going to be in this match. There
could be some more matches there usually are. Aw gives
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bigger pay per views than WWE, but we record this
before Wednesday, so I don't know if there's gonna be anymore.
So bet safely, Bet securely. Don't bet more than you're
willing to spend on dinner and a good night out.
That's the truth. By the way, I'm not even trying
to be funny. Never bet more than you're willing to
spend on a good night out, or you'll hate yourself
and then you'll try to double up and turns into
(37:00):
a six cycle and that's addiction, my friends. All Right, guys,
I love y'all. I hope you guys have a great week.
Enjoy the wrestling, Enjoy a wrestled dream, Enjoy Dynamite, Enjoy
Friday Night SmackDown and enjoy or I hope you enjoyed
Monday Night Raw from Australia. I'll speak to you all
next week on Wrestling with Freddy and Unsanctioned Thursdays. Thanks
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that's it. Please
What's up everyone? Welcome back to Wrestling with Freddy in
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they just think there's even more commercials and I'm gonna
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as life. They gotta pay me somehow. The commercials are
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What does it all right to you? Guys? Let's start
that damn show.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And now you're made event introducing the Wrestling with Freddy,
Jeff Die and of Furredy Friends.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Soon, okay, jokes are over, We're going over all the
results of Crown Jewel. We'll talk about what happened and
where I think things are going no, Jeff today, he's
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living he's well. First of all, he's living the life
of a Seattle Mariners fan. And if you're following baseball,
they're pretty damn good. So I think he might have
been watching late last night. No, just kidding. He's on
that comedy tour and doing this thing and he will
be back next week. We hope, we hope, we hope.
All right, guys, so what do we have here? What
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did we have here? We had John Cena. First of all,
it's weird like Roman Reigns has to open shows or
close shows. He's too big a star to be anywhere
in the middle, which is weird to me, Like when
you're that big a star that you can you can't
be placed in certain places on the pay per view
because you're too awesome. And that's Roman rates. But anyway,
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we're going to see how we did with our predictions.
A sick prediction from our producer Alex by the way,
just unreal. And we'll get to that later. But here
we go. Also a little bit of news, and this
is a bittersweet news, but sweet just to just because
they were wrestlers that I love TNA's pay per view
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bound for glory, the Hardy Boys had to match against
Bubba and Devon Dudley the Dudley Boys for our young listeners.
These guys, along with edgend Christian, revolutionized tag team wrestling
and made it so much cooler than it had ever
been before and created matches that had never been seen
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before and stunts that were guys are jumping off ladders
into people, hanging on briefcases titles like some of the
coolest matches I've ever seen. Anyway. They wrestled in the
Hardy's they beat there, They beat the Dudley Boys' asses,
they got their asses beat two, but they won. Bubba
and Devon hung up the Boots man they retired. They
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had some incredible matches in the early two thousands. Will
just never be forgotten, and they won't be forgotten. Devon
still does a lot with the company. I got to
work with him on a show on A and E
where all we did was talk wrestling. Bubba's always out there.
He has a great podcast that people love, and so
they'll always be involved. Like Jeff says, they never leave,
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they never leave. But they hung up the Boots their
final match. Congrats to those guys and keep partying on
to the Hardy Boys, Keep Rocking and WW Crown Jewel
twenty twenty five. Here we go the first match. We
open the show with Roman reigns because his match and
his story isn't the most important in WWE right now,
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so he doesn't get to close the show. But he's
Roman Race, so he opens the show and the crowd
does their cheer, their chant, Roman, Roman Rains Roman. I
wish they'd do something where like they had to bleep
it out, where they'd be like Roman fucking reads. They
have to bleep it out every single time because they
freak out with language. All the violence and blood is fine,
(04:20):
but no naughty words, you guys, No naughty words. They
can smooch, they can do all kinds of stuff, but
you can't drop f bombs. Another conversation for another day. Anyway,
it was an Australian street foight. Bronson Reid came in
there looking great. That's one of Jeff's favorites, favorites, favorites.
He sees big things for him. This show sees big
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things for him, and apparently the company sees big things
for him because the winner was Bronson Reid. Here's how
it went down that son of a bitch. Bronc Breaker
came out and interfered in the match because you know
how the vision operates, and Roman Rains was gonna spear
Bronson Reid and he did the whole ooh, and then
he sees Bronson Reed climb up on the ring apron
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and he jumps up Superman punch and then Bronson Reed
like recovers. He's like, Okay, my big ass head just
shook off the concussion that I got. Pick your ass
up on my shoulders. I'm gona put you through this
table and I turn around, and all of a sudden,
here comes jay Uso to save the day. Thosos came
out to help because of brown Breakers cheating ass. Then
(05:22):
they came out there fighting. Jayuso goes to spear Bronronsrie
Ducks out of the way, oh shit, and he hits
Roman Reins, his cousin, his tribal or former tribal chief
now just his cousin, and he puts him through a table.
Then he gets beat down and Bronson Reed wins the
match with his big old typhoon. It's called the No
the Tsunami, not the Typhoon. The Tsunami and he wins
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this damn match, and he beats Roman Rings, and nobody
beats Roman Rings maybe in a tag match, and he's
not the one that takes the fall, but his team loses,
but he barely ever loses matches. So this is a
huge freaking win for the Vision. Seth Rawlins, bron Breaker,
Bronson Reed Paul Hayman, but even bigger for Bronson. Reed
(06:05):
to go over a top dude like this means he's
ready to go after a top dude, of which there
are only two, one being coded Cody Roads and the
other being Seth. Freaking Oh, maybe that's where we drop
the F bomb. We'll get to the Seth match. He
cut a promo after the match. By the way, postmatch
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promos are always the best promos because they're out of gas,
they're winded, they're not thinking as much about what they're
going to say because they're so freaking tired, and it
just comes out naturally and awesome, And the whole crowd
said his name, And if you guys said Seth F
bomb Rollins, that would be pretty sweet. I'm just saying
I'd be I'd be very grateful, I'd shout you out,
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I'd sacrifice of goat in your family's name to bring
you wealth and health and anything else that rhymes with that. Yeah,
so you guys should you guys should curse take over
the show? Anyway, after the match was the coolest part,
and this was just for the TV audience. Nobody in
Perth got to enjoy this. They just saw Roman, Jimmy
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and Jay in the middle of the ring talking, but
unless you were a ringside you can't really hear what's
going on. So all of us in the rest of
the world got it. Haha, international show, that's what you get.
We all got to enjoy this amazing moment where Roman
goes full on babyface because he literally is saying things like, yo,
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people don't think I can accomplish shit without you. I
have to do this on my own. I told you
that I'm doing this by myself. Why did you come
out here? Man? We got your back. I know you've
got my back. I love you. Look at me, Jay,
I love you. But y'all fucked up and the crowd
starts growing. You fucked up. You fucked up. I don't
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want to see you guys till Christmas. I love you,
but I don't want to see your ass till Christmas.
And he rolls out of the ring and he's coughing
during it because he's still selling the spear that his
cousin hit him with. Jay and he's walking out of
the ring and the brothers are kind of pissed. The
twins are pissed. They're like, yo, man, we're just trying
to help, and he's like, I told you, man, this
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only works one way. One way, meaning I'm assuming when
he was a tribal chief with Hayman and they were all,
you know, following the orders and following the plan, but
they had this wasn't an organized thing. They just came
out to save him, And so I think he's talking
about organization, not just we're following our emotions, like no,
we have to have a plan, And the twins are
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kind of pissed, and I'm the whole time, I'm siding
with Roman. I'm like, yeah, man, you guys fucked up.
The crowd's siding with Roman. They're saying it you blew it, Jay,
you blew it. And he told you not to come
out there. He told you that if you told him
not to come out, you'd expect him to listen. So
they're pissed off at him, and I'm like, Yo, who
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you pissed at? Bro? Be pissed at you? You cost
him the match? So where does this go? I don't
see a match between Roman and Jay, at least not yet,
because I don't think it's there yet. I don't think
he wants to fight him, and I don't think they
want to fight him, and I don't know how much
an audience wants to see that fight yet. But I
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do think it offers an opportunity for Jay to start
thinking more for himself, thinking a bit more selfishly, a
bit more hulish, which is good and bad. I don't
know what you do with the yeat, because the crowd
loves it and loves Jimmy's or loves Jay so much.
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But Jay's in a tough spot right now emotionally, I
don't mean like professionally, he's doing freaking great. He's killing
it as we called it on this show a long
ass time ago. But now he's like, yo, dude, I'm
pissing this guy off when I'm just trying to help him.
I can go two ways. I can self punish and
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be like, ah, I'm so freaking stupid. Man, why not
screw up? Or I can push that off on him
and be like, Yo, screw you, man, I've tried to help.
You're not the tribal chief anymore. You're Roman Reigns. You're
my cousin. And if I see my family in trouble,
that's your ass. I don't know which way he's gonna go,
but he seems to be the one with the most,
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with the most story. The wrestler with the most to
lose in this situation is, of course Roman. Because Roman
wrestles for world championships, and because of all the distractions
going on right now with the Vision and now with
his own family, he can't get back on track. He
can't go after that title. There's no room for him
up there right now. There's other people there. He has
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to deal with this. He has to deal with Bronson,
He's probably gonna have to deal with Braun. He doesn't
even get to deal with Seth because he's dealing with
these assholes. And what if he does have to deal
with with his family, What if he does have to
deal with with jay Uso. There's no room for him
at the top right now, and he's not used to
being at the top, but he damn well wants to
do it the right way, and he wants to show
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people that he can stand on his own two feet,
that he's a man, and he doesn't need a Paul Hayman,
and he doesn't need a Jay Usso or a Jimmy
Husso or a Solo Socoa or anybody. He doesn't need
to be the tribal chief. He just needs to be
Roman Reigns and that's his story. Pretty good match. By
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the way, we didn't even get to talk about it.
Here are the predictions. Jeff picked Bronson Reid and a
lot of you I think did too. I think a
lot of you guys saw it. Alex and I didn't
see it because Roman Rains never loses. But he damned
sure lost tonight, but not his fault. Not his fault,
but he lost when we got it wrong, and I
lost you guys a lot of money and for that
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I apologize. But next step, we made you money on
this one. I feel like this was the easiest match
of the night to call. And by the way, w
y'all ain't doing very many matches, man, With the amount
of wrestling you're putting on TV, you could afford at
least one more pay per view match on there and
add a little bit of time to it. It's not
like you're on a time restraint or anything like that.
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You give us another ten minute match, like a mid
card match could squeeze in more than five. I think
we only got five matches. Man Tiffany Stratton, one of
the women's champions, and Stephanie Vauquerre, the other women's champion,
wrestled for the ugliest championship in professional wrestling, and that's
the Crown Jewel Championship, you guys, the biggest belt ever made.
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It's a belt so big it would look big on
George Foreman, it would look big on John Jones, it
would look big on whatever big dude, you know. It
would look big on Bronson Reed like that. It would
actually fit around his waist. The ring is dope. It's
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grow well, it's grown on me. I didn't like it
the first year, but it's kind of cool now. Look
good on Vicaire anyway. Thecaer wins the match. We all
picked her to win, and we said on this show,
she's gonna have a rocket ship, and we explained why
wrestling is smart wants to get into the Latino market more.
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They've invested a lot of resources television, time, storyline and
now championships on latinos to try and capture that market
the same way the NFL is trying to do it
this year with Friggin Bad Bunny. Everybody knows there's over
a billion dollars there spent on consumer products, like just
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people buying shit. Over a billion dollars a year from
I think it's way more than that, by the way,
from the Latino community, and they want a piece of that.
They want advertisers to be like, oh, yeah, yeah, we
want our logo in your ring, and yeah we want this,
we want that because we want a piece of that
market too, because they all want money. The good news
is Stephanie Veacre happens to be one of the baddest
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wrestlers on earth right now. She's awesome. She's awesome in
the ring. It's not like it doesn't feel like a
forced push, it doesn't feel false. It's not someone where
we're like, you're gonna ever hear a you can't wrestle
chant like. She's unique in her look, she's unique in
her presentation. Rather, she's unique in her wrestling set and
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the skill set that she uses. Everything about her is cool.
She's not a Barbie doll. She's just cool. Like her
style is cool. Her energy and vibe is just cool.
And you want, I just want to have a beer
with her, like I just think she's a badass chick
and her finish is amazing. It's not a good name.
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I don't know what. It's just generic. It's called like
a here's a corkscrew moon salt. It should have some
awesome name to it. But I'm the asshole that can't
think of one either, so screw me. But anyway, Tiffany
Stratton went for the pretty moon Salt. Ever, Stephanie wasn't there.
She climbed up the turnbuckle and she did the same
move that she'd beat EO. Sky with and it looks
so cool and it hits so nice. She wins and
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triple H comes out and he puts that big ass
belt around her ways that she's like holding in one
hand while he's raising her other because it's so it
probably weighs like sixty pounds and uh And Stephanie Vakera
is the is the Crown Jewel Champ and the Women's
World Chapel one of two women's world champions. It will
be a disputed championship. Don't forget because Naomi didn't lose
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the belt. When she comes back from having her bedbit,
she'll have a right full claim to be the number
one contender because she wasn't pinned in the ring, and
she didn't and she didn't give up in the ring.
So disputed, but still awesome, awesome, awesome for Stephanie Vakeire.
I know Booker t is happier than everybody. Shout out
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to Booker t O. We all picked Stephanie to win.
If I didn't say that already. Match three, maybe this
was the easiest one to pick. Yeah, because there's a
lot of Stratton love out there, so this was the
easiest one to pick. Here we go, Rio Ripley and
Eo Sky versus the Kabuki Warriors, Osca and Kyrie saying
in a tag team match in Australia, you think Ria
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Ripley's gonna lose a tag match in Australia, Maybe a
championship after she's you know, won at like two or
three more times and then she could lose there. But no,
she's not gonna lose a tag match in Australia. That
was the crowd would be so bummed for no reason
for a match that doesn't mean shit, Like the crowd
would literally just be like, uh, what all right? Thanks
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for this match anyway. This was a match about friendships,
new friendships and friendships that have been destroyed between the
Kabuki Warriors and this new friendship and respect between Rhea
and Ilo. They kept Ria out of the match forever.
She finally came in on a double tag and the
crowd goes fame bananas. The post show Australian crowd was
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rowdy too when Rio was doing her interview. I won't
get into it, but you should watch it because they
were rowdy. Why of course EO and Ripley win Io
with the Blind Moon Salt, which was awesome. That's who
we picked. So we made you money. So we're two
for three. Don't forget it. Here comes match number four,
John Cena versus aj Styles. The winner was John Cena
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submission victory with the STFU or whatever he calls it,
the STF. I guess you can't say STFU because that
implies something else an F word again. We gotta bring
F words back. We gotta bring them back anyway. John
Cena one. The opening of this match was awesome. The introductions,
rather John Cena had had like a little a note
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of respect and honor for aj styles where he was.
He basically says, quote the definition of total NonStop action,
the ace and total boss of the Bullet Club. It
is my honor as an opponent to see if he
can you get it. He loves the guy and they
had a great match. It was another tribute match from Sina.
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I don't know if this is going to be the
theme throughout. He did everyone's finisher in this one, so
I think he might be all out of tribute matches
to do. But it was really cool man. It hit
him with everything from an RKO to a skull crushing
finale to bray Wyatt's sister Abigail, and he smooched him.
There were so many shout outs, man, and he shouted
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out edge and the last one like it's it's kind
of it's kind of cool man. I could get it
if people were like, man, I'm super seeing that. I
get that. I get that. But I'm older, I'm almost fifty,
so it's really nostalgic and it's all the dudes that
I came up going like, man, these guys are pretty cool.
So for me, I dig it, but I get it
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if people are like, come on, man, if you do
one more guys finisher, we riot that would be a
funny sign. By the way, So anyway Styles to lose anything, man,
this is this match was about John and Styles will
have his final run whenever he decides enough is enough
and can get a cool storyline in there, and they
can easily boost him up with a couple of good
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wins to have him like in a title picture for
one last you know story if that's the way they
want to do it, or there's plenty of wrestlers that
are like, yeah, I'll lose to AJ Styles to prop
him up for his final story like you'll basically everyone
on the roster would line up for that because they
respect him and love him. And oh maybe not everyone.
I don't know if there's if there's bad blue, but
everything I've ever heard is he's super respected in the
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locker room. And I could see people going like, yeah, bro,
I got you. Anyway, Jeff picked AJ Styles. He's not
trying to because he's not trying to make you money
and I'd say that to his face if he was here.
He's trying to take your money. Alex and I are
trying to make you money. And that's why we picked
John Cena because we know what's up. We knew he
was due for a win, and Alex produced, our producer
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not only predicted the fit, he predicted post finish antics.
He predicted the big hug and the handshake and the
raising of the arm and then the other raising of
the arm. He predicted what they were gonna eat for
dinner after the match, which was prime rib with mashed
potatoes and gravy, and John Cena had a salmon salad.
(20:22):
I don't know how he predicted all this, but he did.
They posted it online later their dinners. They're both big foodies.
That's all they post really, So you guys should follow
them both online if you guys believe any of that,
your suckers. All right? Final final match, Seth Rollins, Seth
Freaking Rollins versus Cody Rhodes, Koda Coda. Sorry for the
(20:47):
Men's Crown Jewel Championship. Once again the ugliest belt in
professional wrestling. Could God in heaven? Sorry, this match was
all some Seth Rawlins wins the match. He finally finally
gets a win over Cody Rose. Cody whipped your ass
(21:08):
with a torn pectoral muscle, buddy, he whipped you with
one arm and one titty and you still lost. You
know how bad that would hurt your pride, your ego,
especially if you're a bad guy. So he needed this win,
and he gave the old double stompy stomped. He stomped
him once. That wasn't enough, so he climbed up on
the second turnbuckle, jumped off of there and stomped Cody's
ass again. And he got to that point by punching
(21:32):
Cody in the face with the very watch that Cody
gave him for being such a good dude. He's like, yeah,
here's your present, you son of a bitch. Bow busted
him right in the head. It was awesome. This match
was awesome. I don't know what's next for these guys.
I can tell you what I hope happens with Seth.
(21:52):
Cody's gonna be harder. Let's talk Seth first. It's not
going to be dominic mysterio. He hasn't lost the icy
belt yet. La Knight's got a lot of beef and
good a good reason to have beef. So he could
be a potential next challenger. But how cool would it
be because we've already seen dissension in the vision, but
(22:14):
in a weird alpha way because it's three alphas right,
Like early on they had a promo where they're you know,
bron Breaker straight took the mic from Seth and was
like I got something to say, like you better listen,
and Seth didn't even get hurt about it. He was
just like, yo, all right, talk your shit. Could we
see bron Breaker go after Seth? I don't know, man,
(22:39):
Well we'll find out because Monday night raw happened while
we were recording this show, and yeah, we'll find out.
We'll find out together. I don't know. I was gonna
say maybe bron but our Bronson, but I don't know.
I don't believe it now, that's Crown Jewel. I don't
think Seth Rawlins loses before WrestleMania. I think he's just
going to steam roll these pay per views CM punk again.
(23:03):
Everybody loves cmpunk, well, all the fans do that. All
the fans love smpunk, So maybe he's in the mix.
I don't know. But now it's time not for a commercial,
but for a smooth transition. Nah, this is a great
time for a commercial, and we'll be right back, all right, guys.
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Now the WWE's Crown Jewelers in the books, we shift
to All Elite Wrestling Tony Kahn's Toy Box, and we
go to Wressell Dream twenty twenty five. It's gonna be
on Saturday, October eighteenth in Saint Louis, Missouri, the same
city that Randy Orton hit me with a modified backbreaker. You've, bastard,
(23:50):
Never forgive. You don't forgive and forget either. Never forgive,
never forget unless you hit your head, you know you
might forget some shit. All right, there's the card we
know so far, how he got there, and what it
all means. First up, great freaking match. We're going to
talk about the best match first and it's going to
be Hangman Adam Paige versus Samoa Joe for the AEW
(24:13):
World Championship. And the promo the last or there'll be
another one maybe, But the last promo, the one building
up to it, was fucking awesome. And Hangman has changed
his presentation or his promo presentation from when I first
started watching aew and it's getting much more natural, and
(24:36):
he's not just yelling the whole time, because when you yell,
your voice gets high, you get out of breath. Now
he's much more deliberate, with a lot, with a lot
of what he's saying, and then he gives himself And
this is good advice for all wrestlers in a promo.
Give yourself somewhere to go, because if you start too
high or too hot, you can't top it without it
(24:56):
starting to sound weaker. Your voice will get too high
and tight, and it doesn't sound like a tough guy,
like a tough I mean, it could sound like a
whiny heel if that's who your character is, and by
all means do that. But if you're just a badass
heel or you're a baby face, like, give yourself somewhere
to go. And he totally did that, and Samoa Joe
listens to this whole pro money He's like, look, man,
I don't give a fuck about anything you just said,
(25:19):
whether it's true, but here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna
bust your ass, I'm gonna torture you, I'm gonna kill
your ass in there that old speech. Do you hear
the crowd chant all the time, Joe is gonna kill you? Yeah,
that's real. I'm gonna kill your ass and take the championship.
You've never beaten me, and Hangman Page isn't having it,
and they're gonna go at it. I don't think the
Ops is gonna interfere at all. I think it's gonna
(25:40):
be one on one. The Ops aren't really like that.
They come at you if if you come at them.
They very rarely shoot first. But this match is gonna
be friggin awesome. Our producer picks Hangman Page to retain
his championship, and so do I. I think I think this
is gonna be a great match. I think Adam Hangman
Page is going to get the shit kicked out of him,
(26:02):
but I think at the very end he'll pull it
out and he'll get him with the buckshot and he's
going to get the w And a big ass hawk
just flew by my window, like we have redtail hawks
in southern California, and it was so close that I
could see the red feathers on the tail man. That
was crazy. Anyway, biggest match for aw on the pay
per view, highest stakes, biggest title, two of their biggest stars,
(26:26):
one of their best mic workers in Joe and Hangman's
a really good champion, so awesome match. I look forward
to it. Jef's not here, so he doesn't get to
pick ha ha, which means you save money. Just save money, baby,
because Jeff's not here to get it wrong. I just
saved you all money. Even when you lose, you win
next match. Chris Statlander the champ versus Tony Storm for
(26:49):
the ae W Women's World Championship. Statlander won this title
at all out in a four way match, but she
did pin the champion, which rarely happens. Usually the champ
loses it because someone else got pinned in a triple
threat or a four way, but in this case, they
flipped the script on us and Tony actually took the
(27:10):
loss and was like, yo, I just took an l
like what the fuck, and was like really tripping her out,
and she's kind of changed her persona. It's been evolving
over the last couple of pay per views from into
different incantations of like famous old school actresses and old
school Hollywood. I miss old school Hollywood, news school Hollywood
kind of sucks. I don't mean to pitch and moan.
(27:31):
I'm just throwing that out there for you guys. Anyway,
moving on, so Storm Challenger afterwards to a singles match
to truly see who the better woman is. I feel
like Jeff would pick Tony Storm on this one. Our
producer picks Chris Statlander to retain. It would be so weird,
(27:53):
The booking would be so weird. If Tony lost in
a four way and then just took it right back
in a one on one doesn't really give Tony anywhere
to go, and you're kind of just fucking over Statlander, right,
Whereas if Tony loses, it's yo, I have to evolve.
I have to make a change because I just lost
(28:16):
straight up in a fair fight to this girl. No interference.
I don't think there's going to be any interference. What
the hell? What do I have to do? If there
is interference, then that will be what Tony has to
deal with next. But I predict Statlander wins as well,
and they give the girl a chance to run with
it and see if anybody can can pull more out
of her, and if she can pull more out of
someone else worthy enough to beat her we'll see match three,
(28:42):
Darby Allen versus John Moxley in an I quit match.
Holy shit, could you imagine John Moxley saying I quit
to Darby Allen. Just think about that. Think about it seriously,
Like how over would Darby Allen be? I'll tell you
right now, Darby Allen's not saying I quit. He's not.
So the match is either a draw or they are
(29:03):
gonna somehow figure out how to make John Moxley quit.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Like maybe he's afraid of spiders or snakes, and Darby's like, yo,
I got a book instricter from my man Jake to
snake and I know you're terrified it will wrap him
around your neck or or I don't know, maybe he's
you know, afraid of the dark or some shit.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But there's no Darby Allen's crazy. Didn't he climb Mount Everest?
Didn't he climb a mountain or some shit? Climb Mount Fuji?
Or Yo Tie Yo tay? How do you say it?
What's that new video game The Samurai one Ghosts of
Yo Te or is it your tie? I wish I
spoke Japanese. I don't think Darby's losing this match. I
(29:42):
really don't. Here's what our producer thinks. First of all,
he described the match as legal murder, which will look
like I agree with that, but he picks Darby at
the end of the day, he thinks he's gonna just
not reading his prediction. He's gonna hang him upside down
from the Saint Louis arch. That will be the only
(30:03):
possible way to make Moxley quit is if he hangs
him from their their state monument or cities monument. I
don't know. It's a monument and it's a great one,
and I've seen it. That's hysterical to me, So yeah,
I have Darby winning as well. Jeff's gonna go with
Jeff's gonna go with Derby. We're gonna give Jeff a dubb.
He always gets the l's next up Okata and takeshaa
(30:28):
the new By the way, New Japan, I think IWGP
new heavyweight champion. I think I saw that online. A
new heavyweight champion over in Japan. He just won another title.
So congratulations to Ta Keshada versus Brodido. That's Brodie King
and Bandido for those of you who don't know. Brodido
in a tag match eliminator tag matches. Do tag matches
(30:53):
need stories or can you just kind of party? I
mean this has a little bit of one. They want
what they called a double Jeopardy eliminator match versus Burtino,
but the story was in the ring more than there.
I don't feel like tag matches need stories as much.
When they do, it's gravy. I don't know why. I
wish I knew why. I don't think that I can't.
(31:14):
I shouldn't just say stuff without giving you a reason.
But yeah, that's that's what you get today. Anyway, if
they win, could lead to an AEW Tag Team Championship opportunity.
But there's a lot of tension between Okada and Takeshita,
and eventually these two have to beef, and they have
(31:36):
to beef for Okada's titles, which I'm now convinced he's
not dropping to anyone but to ta KESHAA. Try saying
that five times fast, say it two times fast, I
dare you. But that's gonna be. That's gonna be who
he loses the title to, and when they put on
that match, that will be the match of that pay
per view period. End of story. Nobody else will come close,
(31:58):
that will be insane. But it's not time for that yet,
I don't think so. I think there's still gonna be tension.
Maybe somebody makes a mistake or something that's deemed a mistake,
even if it's not by the other partner. Don Kallas
is gonna have a lot to deal with because right
now he's like, hey, man, the two studs man sometimes
studs butt heads, but eventually it's gonna blow up, Kesha.
(32:22):
It can be a great babyface, I think in wrestling,
and I think he will end up being the babyface
in this because Okada is too good a heal. So yeah,
so I've got I've got Broddo. I've got Brodido winning
next match the Jurassic Express. They're back, baby, They're back
(32:44):
versus the Young Bucks, and this is for five hundred grand.
The Young Bucks need this bad because my man lost
all their money in the casino the last time that
they had any cash on them. They need the money bad.
But their story has been sissyphus since they lost that
match and lost their executive vice almost ad vice principle,
(33:06):
since they almost lost their EVPs. I like vice principle more. Anyway, Sissyphus.
If you don't know, the story is Greek mythology. You
can look it up if you want. It's sis he
was cursed to roll this giant boulder up this mountain,
and if he gets it to the top, the curse
is broken. But the curse is no matter at what
point on the mountain. At some point on the mountain,
(33:28):
he's gonna stumble and the boulder rolls all the way
back to the bottom for eternity. Don't piss off the
Greek gods. They've got a sixth sense of humor and
Greek mythology rules. By the way, you guys should check
it out anyway. I think that's what they're destined for
for a little while longer. And I've got the Jurassic
Express win. In five hundred K. You can get my
(33:49):
man some new Lucasaurus gear. If you want. With five
hundred K, you get Jack a sweet leather jacket. If
you want a two for five hundred K, I mean
a real sweet one. They only get two hundred and
fifty k apiece. Remember that, and don't forget Uncle Sam
agents managers. At the end of the day, that's about
forty eight percent of all that money gone, so they're
(34:10):
only gonna get about one hundred and twenty five k each,
so it's not that much downer movie on Ricochet and
the Gates of Agony versus Bobby Lashley, Shelton, Benjamin An MVP.
Here's the build up. They've been getting story. They've been
getting a story on aew and this started a long
ass time ago when MVP handed Ricochet at card and
(34:30):
was like, yo, you might want to be a part
of the Hurt Syndicate and Rick Shee was like, man,
I don't know, I'm kind of a babyface maybe, and
then like a week later he's like, I rescind my offer. Boom,
you're out, bitch, and Rick say is like, you know what,
are you gonna call me a bitch? And he's like,
cause I did. And they've had beef ever since. And
that beef expanded to the point where Ricochet got some
backup in the Gates of Agony and they cost They
(34:51):
cost the Hurt Syndicate the tag team titles, and now
they got serious beef. It's revenge on both sides. Who's right,
who's wrong? We don't know, we don't care, but they're
gonna wrestle. It's a grudge match. Might be tensioned in
one of the two groups. I don't think so, but
there's got to be a winner eventually in this they
can't just fight forever, and our producer picks the Hurt
(35:14):
Syndicate to get payback. As much as I love you, Ricochet,
thank you for doing the show, I gotta go with
my man Alex on this one. Bobby Lastly is gonna
bust your ass. Normally I always root for the guests,
but I gotta make people money. This is a pick,
so I'm rooting for you, but I'm picking against you
because we're here to make the people money, and I'm
(35:34):
picking the Hurt Syndicate as well. Next up, Jamie Hayter
versus Techla spelled Feckla. Sound like Mike Tyson trying to
say Techla, don't beat me up, Mike. So, Jamie Hayter
hasn't gotten a ton of story since she's gotten back.
Before she got hurt, she was in a great story
(35:55):
for the Women's Championship for a match that led up
I think in Wembley Stadium. I think it was or
the Oh, some one of those. This is a couple
of years ago. So this match is more about establishing
top dogs in the in the division, getting someone ready
to make a title run, much more than it is
about anything else. It's I'm better than you. No, I'm
(36:17):
better than you. Let's see who's better, bitch. All right,
I'm gonna whip your ass and here we go. It's
Jamie Hayter. That's who's winning this match. She's gonna hit
her with the big clothes line, she's gonna put her down,
and she's gonna move on to bigger and better things
and Tekla show. She shall get her opportunity when it comes,
but it's not going to be in this match. There
could be some more matches there usually are. Aw gives
(36:39):
bigger pay per views than WWE, but we record this
before Wednesday, so I don't know if there's gonna be anymore.
So bet safely, Bet securely. Don't bet more than you're
willing to spend on dinner and a good night out.
That's the truth. By the way, I'm not even trying
to be funny. Never bet more than you're willing to
spend on a good night out, or you'll hate yourself
and then you'll try to double up and turns into
(37:00):
a six cycle and that's addiction, my friends. All Right, guys,
I love y'all. I hope you guys have a great week.
Enjoy the wrestling, Enjoy a wrestled dream, Enjoy Dynamite, Enjoy
Friday Night SmackDown and enjoy or I hope you enjoyed
Monday Night Raw from Australia. I'll speak to you all
next week on Wrestling with Freddy and Unsanctioned Thursdays. Thanks
(37:21):
for listening. Leave us your comments, leave us reviews, and
that's it. Please
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