August 20, 2025 • 33 mins
What's up everybody? This week on I am riding solo, Jeff Dye's on the road, so it's just me, diving deep into all things wrestling. We'll cover everything from the crazy Fatal Four Way standoff between Seth Rollins, CM Punk, LA Knight, and Jay Uso, to the epic storylines developing at WWE Raw and SmackDown, and AEW who's on its way to Forbidden Door. I also discuss the latest wrestling drama, my thoughts on Sammy Zayn and Drew McIntyre, and much more. So grab your popcorn and let's get into it!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of
Wrestling with Freddy. Jeff Dye is traveling because he's a
comedian who travels a country and that's what they do.
So you're stuck with me today. We're going to get
into everything from Fatal four Ways to why am I
wearing Don Kallis the sunglasses? To Forbidden Door on Thursday.
Let's start the show and now your main event introducing
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theosts are Wrestling Win Freddy, Jef DoD Hana, Fredy Friends June.
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All Right, you guys, it's true. I'm wearing Evil Managers sunglasses.
You might be going like, why, that's kind of that's
kind of stupid. Well, there's a crazy glare. It's kind
of going away. I could probably take them off them
like ten more minutes. There's a crazy glare that shoots
in and it's almost like one of those earth ships.
You know. Have you ever heard of those kind of
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houses where they like build them in New Mexico and
there's no electric, no gas, no heat, no nothing, like
you just get everything from the earth and they actually work.
I don't know if they actually work. They say they
actually work and people live in them. I think they
might have like electric solar heaters in there. Something else
is going on, But anyway, this is like that it
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faces the sun, and I have like the ceiling to
floor windows up here where we record, and so the
sun comes in and it heats this bad boy up.
And if I don't open it up and get fresh
air in here, I will cook like a microwave. So
I'm wearing Don Kallis The's sunglasses. He was nice enough
to loan them to me. Sometimes you just dm a
wrestler or a manager. You're like, yo, can I borrow
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some of your stuff? And they're like yeah, I'll send
it your way. And that's pretty much what happened, all right,
Ladies and gentlemen, us on assignment, or he's in on
an airplane coming back from New York City, I think,
so we'll see him next week. So you got me today,
you got me tomorrow or whenever you guys, listen, you
get me two days in a row. And I hope
everyone is well and healthy and happy. Let's let's just
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get into wrestling. Okay. Monday Night Raw Raw was about
one thing, Ladies and gentlemen. It was about Adam Pierce
getting even with Seth Rollins because Seth pulled a shady
move with a fake injury and then he cashed in
on Cmpunk, who only got to hold the title for
mere moments before it was taken from him with a
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stomp to the head. So we got a fatal four
way in Powrie. You like that accent. We're going to
get into the storylines right now. So first off, Cmpunk
in La Night don't have a problem with each other,
but they do have a problem with each other. But
they don't want to have a problem with each other,
but they're willing to have a problem with each other.
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If one guy wants to have a problem with the
other guy, then there's a problem. That's sort of the
catch up. So Punkin and Knight had a match. They
had a match against bron Breaker and Bronson Reid and
Bronson Reid is humongous and bron Breaker did some sweet
Steiner math. It was awesome. Just type in bron Breaker
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Steiner math. That'll come up. He does it better than
I can impersonate it. But punk and Knight, even though
they're not likely to tag team partners, even though they're
not likely to be friends anytime soon, they were good
tag team partners, and they had the match well in
hand until seth Rollins blitzed them. We'll get a DQ,
we get chaos. Jay Husso comes in with a steel
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chair that's kind of his go to now. It's like, hey,
here's a steel chair, and I'm gonna save everybody's ass
because I'm the nicest guy in the roster. And then
Bang Adam Pierce comes out and he sanctions a fatal
four way. The champion seth Rawlins versus CM Punk, the
former champion versus l A. Knight, the could be would
be champion versus Jay Usso, another former champion, all at
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the clash in pairs a fatal four way. This is
awesome Fatal four ways rule. I don't know why I
like Fatal four Ways, but I'm not that into tag matches.
The same amount of dudes and the tags are dramatic.
I don't I don't know. I just I'm dumb and
can't follow them. But anyway, I love Fatal four Ways.
I love triple threats. You can tell multiple stories in here,
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and look at the dudes that they have in this
main event. I'm assuming this will be the main event.
The champ and Ciampunk who hate each other. Their characters
can't stand one another. All they do is screw the
other one over and laugh at the other's misfortune. Seth
Rollins is clearly in charge. We'll get into picks, but
you guys know who I'm picking. He's just dressed is
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so cool now. He doesn't wear the vests like La Knight.
La Knight's got the arms that work for the vest.
That's why you're never going to see your boy in
a vest because my arms next to La Knight's arms
look like someone else as the ankles. Anyway, I can't
wait for this match. I know if when we do picks,
Jeff's gonna pick La Night because that's this guy. I
thought La Knight and see him Punk had a weird
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chemistry in the ring. When they cut their promo before
they got interrupted, it was like you didn't think it
was gonna be good because they both were kind of
like feeling each other out, but it was really really good.
It was like when it like an improv exercise where
it starts off and everyone's like, oh man, is this
gonna suck. I don't know if these two know what
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they're doing, and all of a sudden, one of them
says something super funny and the other one just gets
it because it's their sense of humor, and then they're
off and running. Now, if you haven't done an improv class,
you're like, yo, what I can take these off? Now?
You're like, yo, what the heck is he talking about?
But if you have, or if you've ever seen the
show Barry or any other like meta Hollywood show, then
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you know what I'm talking about. I really like their promo.
I hope they get to do something again with each
other somewhere down the road. I don't know. I don't
see how organically you would have any plans for that, mate.
I mean they'll figure out a way. They're good at writing.
But yeah, I really liked what they did. Anyway. They
had this match, and here's here's what's weird. Like, of
all four people, everyone knows only two dudes can win,
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and we'll still watch this match, Like everyone knows jay
USO's not in there to win that match, and everyone
knows that when it's gonna be l A Knight's time,
there's gonna be a storyline behind it because he can
carry a storyline with his acting, right, And this had
this just was kind of like rushed and fast, so
he's not gonna win it. So it's either gonna be
Ceampunk wins it back, which I don't think is likely.
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I guess I'm giving you my pick now. Yes, I'm
picking against him again every time. I promise, I'm not
kinda but I don't care. Damn it. Seth Rollin's a win.
He's established this faction and needs to stand strong for
a little while. Hasn't been a little while yet, so
I think Seth Seth will win that all this all
the attack is is to like weaken your opponent, right,
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We're gonna beat them down, stomp them out, and hopefully
give him a concussion so that he's weaker when I
meet him in the fatal four way because I don't
even have to get pained to lose my match. So
now we have to rebalance the scale. So that's why
he's got these heavy hitters with him and jay Us.
So again, he was just there to help out, right,
because that's his guy and is returning the favor eternally
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for Punk and he likes La and that I guess
he likes him, but he came out there to help out.
But I don't see. There's no again, there's no story,
so that it wouldn't even be a cool, shocking victory
if Jay one because there was nothing behind it. So
I think that's kind of how I think the match
is gonna go down, and who's gonna win and the
reasons why we got? What have we got next? What
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do we got next? We got? Oh, I'm so mad
at our producer because he said some mean things about
one of my favorite wrestlers, the ultimate babyface, Dominic, Mystadio
and Al Grande Americano, one of the greatest locators ever.
They defeated aj Styles and Dragon Lee and write in
a parenthetical or in parentheses, my producer writes loaded mask finish.
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He just right away Santas, is she a cheap finished?
First of all, it's a protective plate. It's to protect
both both wrestlers. It's a it's there to protect, not
to harm, not to hurt. You don't know what he
put in there. You're just assuming it's a piece of steel.
Could be padding, But you don't think about that, do you, Alex?
Do you producer Alex? Anyway, he continues to write, Dominic
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goes full super villain. What we're talking Dominic mysteria. If
first of all, if he did anything bad, he was
manipulated into someone told him or tricked him into doing it.
This is a handsome man. This is a man with
a good, pure heart who's in a dirty business, the
wrestling business, and he's been twisted and turned and squished
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and squeezed and he's still come out on top with
gold around his waist. But every week I have to
come on here and defend this man's good name, good name,
all the things he went through coming up in the
wrestling business. Come on, that's a tough business. That's like
coming up in Hollywood. You guys feel sorry for me, right,
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So Dominic deserves a little bit more love in the
note section of this podcast, and I'm gonna leave it
at that. Anyway, Dominic got the win. This story continued
over into their acquisition of Triple A, which is actually
really cool because AJ Styles is like, oh, you're gonna
hit headbut me with a piece of steel in your
masm of fu over against VI Kingo and make sure
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he retains and you don't get to have his titles.
So now they can bring that storyline under raw and
they're I think what they're trying to do. Obviously, what
they're trying to do is capture more of the Latino
audience because there's a ton of analytics out there that
let people know that Latinos in this country are a
great number, and they spend billions. They spend billions of
dollars and they were spending that back in the day,
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so it's I don't know how many billsllions it is now,
but they spend a lot of money, and so they
want to market to this audience. You'll see a lot
of Spanish commercials I think in the next ten minutes,
even on like English broadcasts if they do commercials. Some
of the streaming services do now, which is just like
regular TV. So why do we have streaming services? That
doesn't make sense to me. But whatever party on, it's
gonna end up costing more than just have regular freaking
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cable TV. I just don't I don't get it anyway.
So yeah, so they get to continue their storyline. WW
does a good job with this, and we'll get into
aw storytelling too. And Tony Kahn had some a response
to some people criticizing and we'll get into that. We'll
get into that too, because he's right, but he's but
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he's not right about the thing people are critiquing them on.
So we'll get into that one. Sammy Zing. Sammy Sammy
Zing the star of this Week and Wrestling. He got
to be on both shows. Everybody got to fall in
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love with him, so he was this week's leading man
of wrestling. He was about to close it out on
Russev and if he did, then he gets to be
on the path for a world title shot. That's what
Sammy wants. He wants a shot at the world title.
That's his dream. That's what he's always wanted. I've always said,
I believe he's gonna win it one day, if Daniel
Brian could win it. When the people got behind him,
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Sammy's ain't con sure us I'll win it to the
match gets interrupted by the MFTs and it's a DQ,
so he doesn't get the victory and he doesn't get
to be on that path, but it does protect him
and make him look good. Nobody had to lose the match.
Seamus got in there just so we could see some meat.
Meat on meat. WW doesn't do the meat chant except
maybe once. I think Aw's like begging for a meat match.
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So after that, Seamus came out, got some almost said
something that I shouldn't have got some meat beaten what
and then the segment was over. We get into Becky
Lynch in Maxim Dupre. Becky Lynch faked out like she
was going to challenge last week and she was like, nope, psych,
I want Maxine, the tall skinny one. She beat up
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Maxine clean finish. She looked good as the champ. Becky,
I don't. It's hard to rate wrestlers win there wrestling
because they're constantly evolving, so it's a fluid number. It's
like when everyone would put those ducks in the river
and you see which duck wins, Like, you don't know
which one's gonna win. It's just because the river's constantly
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flowing and there's rocks and sticks in the way, and
sometimes one wrestler gets a clear path and one runs
into a rock and flips over, and that's your number
and you get bummed because you thought you were going
to win because you're eight years old. That's what it
is to like compare them. But Becky is top last,
right top the top last kicker, so she's top last.
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I know it's not the top belt or no, I
guess Rhea's top last if we're talking lasses, so you
see what I mean. It's hard. It's hard to say
like this one is because they're both good on the mic,
they're both great in the ring, they both want different things,
they both approach their goals differently and effectively, so it's tough.
But they're two at the top, and then Charlotte and
Lexi are probably the other two. So they got like
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four top dogs that can all talk on the mic
and can all and can all wrestle. But she gets
the win, Becky, This really just helps establish the intercontinental
title more than anything else. Simple, easy victory for her. Nobody.
If you were betting on DraftKings, you already knew who
was gonna win. In the odds you're betting a dollar
to win a penny. That's how easy that one was
to predict. And once we identify who that next contender is,
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then we get into our predictions and all that good stuff.
Sometimes you don't always have to take down the champ
to get made. You can still get made because your
match is so good and your mic works so good.
Sometimes you need a belt to get over and that's
when they write the story for Becky to drop the title.
So it all just depends on the talent coming up.
Let's move on to smack Down Baby. The show opened
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up and Solosukoa came out and he was like, Yo,
what's up, everybody, I'm freaking Solo Soca and you hate
me and the whole crowd goes, yeah, we hate you.
He's like, I got the gold, I got the MFTs,
this city sucks and you hate me and they're like yeah,
that's right, we hate you. And then all of a sudden,
here comes Sammy. Then he comes out and he says, okay,
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can we talk, And Solo and all the MFTs are like, yeah,
come in here, dude, we'll bust your ass. And He's like,
come on, man, tell these big mother truckers to get
out of the ring and let's just chat. I want
to have a chat, dude. I'm not even trying to fight.
And Sola's like, all right, fine, you all get out
of here. Let me talk to this little dude and
i'ma smash him, hit him with this Simon Spie. No,
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he didn't do that. They're going to talk and Sammy
thanks Solo Soca for freeing him from his world title aspirations,
and he says, I don't want I don't want it anymore.
I don't need it anymore. I just want to be
the best I can be, and I want to find
what motivates me. Those are the matches I want to
be in. And it's not the world title anymore because you, Solo,
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you big son of a bitch. He didn't say that,
he doesn't curse, he's a good boy, and he says,
you motivated me. Not only do I want to take
that title. I want to bust your ass and take
away everything that's important to you the way you took
away everything that was important to me, And then we're
gonna have something in common. Week might even be bros
after I kick your ass. And Solo's not having that.
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He's like, bro, you're not even on this show man,
So go back to RAW. I don't want to ever
see your punk ass again. And Sammy says, oh, contrere monfrere.
Because he speaks French, probably because he's from Montreal, Quebec.
I don't know what contrere monfrere means, except I think
it means like on the contrary, my friend. I think
that's what it means. But I never took French in
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high school, so my bad if I messed it up
to my French brothers and sisters. But he says, no, dude,
I talked to the man Nick Altis and Adam Pierce,
and since I'm such a good guy, I'm not an
a hole like you. When I ask for a meeting,
they take it and they listen to me. And now
I'm on the Blue Brand, I'm on SmackDown, and I'm
wrestling you for that chance US Championship and Solo super
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pissed instantly, Sammy's Ain becomes everyone on SmackDown's favorite wrestler
because that's how over he is, and that's how easy
it is to write a babyface storyline for Sammy's Ain
over the last like four years, since he got his
ass whooped by the Bloodline for so long until they
were like a, all right, you can hang with us,
and then he was the little dog with the big
bite after that. So he goes over there. He becomes
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the lead babyface, especially while Cody is out of commission
and recovering from his match and all and all that
good stuff. But Cody will be the man when he
comes back. But as far as like the people, the
people's champion or the people's favorite, I think that'll be
Sammy's Ain. I mean, he has the personality for it.
They love the way he wrestles. He's got one hell
of a finish. So yeah, we get all that. What
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else the MFTs that's going to cause a bunch of hell,
But Sammy's got his own boys. Oh. This all built
into a match, by the way, with Sammy Zain, Jimmy
Usso and Jacob Fatu coming out to get his back
against Solo and the MFTs, and that was going to
be the main event for that night. The question is,
and this was posed by our awesome producer Alex, do
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we really think that Sammy has a legit chance at
a world title? Or is the US title the IC title?
Is that kind of where he's going to live in
the mid card. I've said this for a long time.
I think he's going to be a world champion. I
think it's just a matter of time, barring injury. He's
really good on the MIC. He's incredibly relatable as a
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human being, Like he's easy to root for. He's John McClain.
But Canadian right like John McClain for those who don't know,
is the lead guy in Diehard, all the Diehard movies.
He was played by Bruce Willis, and he played this
blue collar, working class New York cop who's fair but firm,
and his superpower is he can just he doesn't have
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a superpower. He's just he's tough, like he can take
more of an ass kick in than you. At the
end of the day, you might hit harder, but he'll
do more damage to you before you do it to him.
Like you can't hurt him more than he can hurt you.
You could punch him ten times for every one time
he hits, but eventually you're gonna fall down and not
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get up. And he's the kind of guy that always
gets up. That's Sammy's ay. He's he's the French Canadian
John McLean will we and that's why we love him
because we all believe that if you know a dude
like Sammy can do it, we can do it. He's
he's relatable. I said that already, you get what I'm saying.
We got Alexa Bliss, who has successfully done what the
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WWE has not been able to do, which has helped
her in Charlotte Babyface, so good as to Lexa Bliss,
Now Charlotte's getting love and you deserve a chance. Perfect
timing for her to turn on Lexi and put it
back in the crowd's face and be like, no, screw
you on me heal again. I don't think they're gonna
do that. I think if any one turns eventually to
be Alexa on Charlotte. She had a match against Piper
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Nivet and the Secret Hervist came in. At the end
of the match, Alexa Bliss got the win, beat her ass.
I feel like the secret Hervist. It's tricky, man, because
Chelsea's what makes the boat go down the river, right,
Chelsea Green makes the boat go. And it's I think
it's hard because what they're playing is so fictional that
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you have to suspend your disbelief to be like, yeah,
all right, they're taking this security service seriously and they're
professional wrestlers wrestling in matches too, So that's where the
disconnect is, right, So you got to kind of give
it some creative latitude if you want to accept the storyline,
and if you do, then you see that Chelsea makes
the boat go. So she needs to be more involved
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or fully involved in all these segments, I feel like
in order to make them, in order to make them
truly work. You could tell Chelsea is game for whatever,
and she commits one hundred percent. And if you see
the people committing one hundred percent, I think it's easier
for us to commit one hundred percent too. And now
we get to my favorite promo of the week. That's right,
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even better than Hangman and MJFS because I've seen that
promo once before and I've seen this before too, but
Drew does it in a unique way. We're talking about
Dri MacIntyre and he came out and he defended himself.
He said, Yo, whoa, whoa, whoa. I didn't attack Cody.
I didn't attap Cody. Cody attack to me. And he's right.
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He didn't show doctored footage. He showed actual footage. The
match was over, Cody Road smashed his head because he's still,
you know, hiked up from the match, smashed his head
in a turnbuckle and was getting ready to do more
damage to him before the tables were turned and his
head got kicked into the bottom of the table. So
I'm kind of even though Drew's the a hole, I'm
kind of Withdrew on this one, not kinda. I mean,
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he's right, he's just being a jerk about it and
and rubbing everyone's face. And then we love Cody, so
we're like, no, if you Drew, but you know, if
you don't swing first, it's kind of on the other dude,
you know, you know, And I think I'm gonna I know,
I like dirty Dom too, and you guys all booing,
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but I'm maybe I just like the back guys. But
I'm totally Withdrew on this, not totally. I think he
went a little too far. He could have given him,
you know, a body slam or something instead of a concussion.
But yeah, he his sort of heue justification, which he is.
This is his mo o, right, is he's always the
wronged party. He would still be world champion and wouldn't
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have lost a match. It's just somebody's always wronging him.
The ref's wronging him, there's interference that's wronging him. Management's
wronging him. Somebody's always wronging him. Not this show, Drew.
This show when Jeff's not here, has your back, But
when Jeff is here, it's you know, it's just chaos.
It's just chaos anyway, Drew versus Cody will be awesome.
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I don't. I used to say that Cody was gonna
have this like John Cena type run, but even John
Cena lost the title a few times to Randy Orton.
Otherwise Randy Orton wouldn't have like, what is it, fourteen
World Championship something like that. So I don't I don't know. Yeah,
we're not gonna do our picks just yet, but I
wouldn't be so quick to just say, hey, Cody's got
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the dub. Let's see what the odds are. Let's see
what the numbers are. It might be might be a
nice money bet to go Andrew McIntyre and watch them
shake shit up a little bit. The main event was
Sammy's Ain Jimmy Usso Jacob Fatu versus the MFTs and Zane.
Sammy's ain gets the pin on Solo Sokoa, which makes
me think he's not gonna get the win when they
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wrestle for the championship, and somebody's gonna do something shady
interfere in his match and cost him the victory, and
then he's gonna have to climb them out in a
little longer in order to get it, which means I
don't think Jacob Fatu is going to be in the
US title picture anymore, and that means they've got something
bigger planned for him. Maybe a Royal Rumble victory for
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Jacob Fatu, big ass dude who could just throw everybody
out of the ring, clothesline everybody out of the ring,
super kick everybody out of the ring. He could do
backflips into the ring. Could be bigger and better things
because he didn't lose the title because he sucks. That
wasn't the reason why people seem to really dig him.
And he's even embracing Sammy's ain, and Sammy's ain is
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going to be the one on the title run, so
he's embracing his opportunity at the US title. I don't
know bigger and better things or Jacob Fatu aew dynamite,
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all right. So first off, Tony Kahan, who's response comes
to criticism a lot more than I would like to
see him respond to criticism. I don't think there's a
need from a creative perspective to apologize for your art
unless your art was meant to be offensive. And you
may say, well, I'm offended by his style of wrestling.
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That's the bunch line. You what, That's fine, But he's
just trying to make art. He's just trying to make
cool wrestling, the kind of wrestling he likes, and tell
the stories that he likes to tell. But he said
he was responding to people saying, and we've questioned and
criticized some of the storytelling on aaw but when they
tell stories, I don't say that they're bad. If I
like them, I talk about them. What we say is
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there's not enough and it's not consistent enough. His response was,
we tell our stories, but we tell them in the ring.
And on that note, he's one hundred percent correct. I
think their wrestlers tell awesome stories in the ring. My
thing is always I just want to have a cool reason.
Why why are they telling this awesome story in the ring.
Because the wrestlers are top shelf man from top to bottom.
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They're all top. There is no they got top shelf
dudes that can really move that put their body at
risk every single week and somehow continue to do it
every single week. And I respect that and I appreciate that.
It's the reason it's the reason why. And when they
have a good reason why, I talk about it, Jeff
talks about it, everybody talks about it because it's tons
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of fun and we're gonna get into a couple of
those stories, right freaking now. So a love you, ww
love you. And if that makes any of you guys upset, sorry,
you gotta just deal. All right. Here we go Hangman,
Page and MJF face to face. Here's what happened, people.
MJF hit them with the Sea Biscuit forgetting once again,
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the Sea Biscuit won the race. MJF should have watched
the movie. Should have watched the movie. Anyway, Hangman called
him a coward. He said, you don't think you think
I don't know what you're trying to do. Bro, you
gonna do you think you're gonna god me into just
offering you a championship so you don't have to use
your contract. Stupid, stupid, That's how my cousin would say
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it in New York. Stupid, what are you stoopid? Anyway,
MJF has been goaded into this type of response before.
When Will Osprey was on the scene and they had
their run and Osprey got in his face and MJF.
He kind of challenged mjf's guts and MJF was like, well,
they used to cheer for me before you got here.
And that's how you break him, right. You kind of
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insult him the way he's insulting you, and you you
match that energy, right, and you don't let him know
that it's hurting you, like you don't let it affect you.
You just give it right back to him. Will Osprey
did it. Hang Man did it, and he tricked MJF.
And it's it once again and he goes, oh, yeah,
well I will catch in my contract forbidden door in
your face. What oh shit? What did I do? And
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now he knows he's aft. He wasted his contract and
Hangman's got him, called him a dumbass and walked out
of the ring. Good promo between the two. Not my
promo of the week. That was dre and my segment
of the week was actually I think I said it
was Sam earlier, but I think or see him and
and La Knight, but I think it was Drew. Drew
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was the segment of the week or the promo the week.
So anyway, we got our main event, MJF. The Devil
versus the flawed babyface Adam Hangman Page. MJF brought up
a bunch of like I don't know if it was real,
but like personal stuff. I don't know much about Hangman
Page as the past, but he brought up like alcoholism
and shit like that, which humanizes Hangman and makes him
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even more of a babyface. Based on his response, He's like, yo, man,
I know I've fed up and I'm not perfect, but
here I am bro I'm vulnerable and I'm the champion
and you can suck it. And MJF wasn't having any
of that, and then he got talked into the match.
But it was really good promo. Both guys kick, but
it gets me excited to see the match. Next up,
we got John Moxley versus Kevin Knight. Kevin knightke can
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fly a dude as standing jump kicks that are like
above people's heads with no momentum whatsoever. But he wasn't
beating my man, John Moxley. John Moxley got him technical submission.
I think he choked him out. Yeah, he choked him out.
Here's the most important thing. They start beating the crap
out a night and all of a sudden, here comes
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Darby Allen. Darby Allen's been starting beef with the Death Riders.
That's Moxley and well, you guys know who the Death
Riders are. Moxley, Claudio, Wheeler and Marina right, who, by
the way, has gotten a lot better. Darby Allen's got
beef with him. He comes out, he makes a save.
He comes out with a skateboard and a body bag,
tries to pull Wheeler. You in the body bag, gets
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him in there. This was a tough gimmick because if
you don't know where the zipper is, you struggle, and
that happened in this segment, but they still I thought
power through. Jeff would have loved it because there were
so many gimmicks in the match. He would have been like,
this is my match of the week. Oh my god.
So then Darby gets Wheeler in there and he's gonna
beat him up, and Coffin drop him, and Cloudy was like, nope,
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got you boomed, gets Wheeler out and puts Darby in there,
beats up Darby in the body will Ospray comes out.
He's like, oh, we thought he was hurt, but he's
not hurt. Yeah, and he's like, Oh, I'm still hurt
a bit, but I'm gonna fight anyway. And he comes
out and chases everybody out and he challenges Mox to
a lights out steel cage match, which prompted me to
text my wrestling chain and say, hey, what is the
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lights out steel cage match? The response was, it's a
no holds barred steel cage match, which I thought all
steel cage matches were, But I digress. Anyway, it's a
forbidden door, just forbidden. So none of you guys can
watch it. That's on Sunday at ten am on the
West coast. What is that one pm on the East coast,
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so be there or b square. Look, neck injuries don't
get better that quick. So everybody, if you believe in God's,
pray to your God and pray that he protects mister Osprey.
He probably won't see too much crazy stuff. I hope
you don't. There's enough wrestlers in the match that in
the main event that they that they put I'll give
you the names in a second that you can really
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protect him and he can just maybe go on once
or twice and not take too much of a beating
because I don't want to see. I want to see
him in thirty minute matches and I want his body
to hold up, so hopefully he's all good. Although with
Seth Rollins fake and his knee injury, maybe you know
it's an ankle and he's just saying it's his neck
because that was what he was selling in a match
like you never know anymore, which is kind of cool.
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Will Ospray, Darby, Allen Tanahashi, Omega and Aboushi versus Max Claudio,
Gabe Kid and the Young Oh I should say it
the way they do it. And these two guys in
this tag called the Young Bucks or something like that.
The names are like Nate and Mick. Yeah, but they're
real good. See see we're doing it in character. I
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should have put my glasses back on. Anyway. Is that
the pay per view Steeler? I don't think so. I
think the Steeler's going to be Nigel versus Zach Saber.
That's going to steal the show. But I like me
some submissions anyway. Adam Copeland defeated Stokely Hathaway in a
match where a lot of people were nervous for mister Copeland.
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They didn't know, you know, he's getting older. He's getting
up there. Stokely's no joke. You didn't know what was
going to happen, you know, with Stokely's size and speed,
his agility, the side to side quickness, the raw power,
the brute strength. A lot of people were nervous. But
he barely eked out a win, you guys, he barely
did you know he took He took two spears from Stokely.
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Stokely hit him so hard that Stokely I think might
have hurt his own shoulder. The ladies weren't feeling Stokely though.
They weren't going to give him any love. Copeland kind
of threw it in his face, not very nice, but
he eked out of win. No, Stokely got the shit
kicked out of him. The spear was amazing. Hurting himself
and bouncing off him was awesome. Shout out to Stokely
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for taking a whooping and for having no no girls
that night. Sorry dude. Lonely Team, Team Lonely Heart. That's
the team Stokely's on, Team Lonely Heart. Anyway, AFDR came
out there weren't supposed to. There's a straining order in place,
but they said it all of a sudden, there's a
fight everywhere. He's gonna get beat up. Christian Cage comes out,
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the patriarch, and he comes out and he saves Adam,
and then later Adam saves Christian and then they look
at each other and Copeland gives him a big hug.
I didn't say edge once, by the way, that's pretty professional.
I might say, gives Christian a big old hug, and
Christian doesn't reciprocate. He's still thinking about it. But he's
not gonna let these a holes Nick, Wayne and Kip
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and FTR. He's not gonna let these a holes all
go after him. But it gives us a little tease.
Wait a minute, these two could go on a tag
team run if they could get on the same page.
And a tag team of Christian and Adam Copeland eventually
leads to a TLC match, which of course would have
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to be against FTR. And we'll get into how that'll
happen later. All right, Well, we'll get into it on
the Thursday show because we're running out of time over here.
What that wasn't long enough, I'm sorry, but it's true.
But we're gonna talk for Bidden Door and what's going
to happen there, and how some of these aw stories
are going to bleed into that see that AW stories.
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You thought I wouldn't say it, and I did. Check
out for Bidden Door. It's Sunday, August twenty fourth, this year,
not next year, this year at the O two Arena
in London, England. You guys, thanks for tuning in. We
appreciate you. Tune in tomorrow, Tune in every week. Jeff
will be back next week, I hope. Until then, peace,
What's up, everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of
Wrestling with Freddy. Jeff Dye is traveling because he's a
comedian who travels a country and that's what they do.
So you're stuck with me today. We're going to get
into everything from Fatal four Ways to why am I
wearing Don Kallis the sunglasses? To Forbidden Door on Thursday.
Let's start the show and now your main event introducing
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theosts are Wrestling Win Freddy, Jef DoD Hana, Fredy Friends June.
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All Right, you guys, it's true. I'm wearing Evil Managers sunglasses.
You might be going like, why, that's kind of that's
kind of stupid. Well, there's a crazy glare. It's kind
of going away. I could probably take them off them
like ten more minutes. There's a crazy glare that shoots
in and it's almost like one of those earth ships.
You know. Have you ever heard of those kind of
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houses where they like build them in New Mexico and
there's no electric, no gas, no heat, no nothing, like
you just get everything from the earth and they actually work.
I don't know if they actually work. They say they
actually work and people live in them. I think they
might have like electric solar heaters in there. Something else
is going on, But anyway, this is like that it
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faces the sun, and I have like the ceiling to
floor windows up here where we record, and so the
sun comes in and it heats this bad boy up.
And if I don't open it up and get fresh
air in here, I will cook like a microwave. So
I'm wearing Don Kallis The's sunglasses. He was nice enough
to loan them to me. Sometimes you just dm a
wrestler or a manager. You're like, yo, can I borrow
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some of your stuff? And they're like yeah, I'll send
it your way. And that's pretty much what happened, all right,
Ladies and gentlemen, us on assignment, or he's in on
an airplane coming back from New York City, I think,
so we'll see him next week. So you got me today,
you got me tomorrow or whenever you guys, listen, you
get me two days in a row. And I hope
everyone is well and healthy and happy. Let's let's just
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get into wrestling. Okay. Monday Night Raw Raw was about
one thing, Ladies and gentlemen. It was about Adam Pierce
getting even with Seth Rollins because Seth pulled a shady
move with a fake injury and then he cashed in
on Cmpunk, who only got to hold the title for
mere moments before it was taken from him with a
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stomp to the head. So we got a fatal four
way in Powrie. You like that accent. We're going to
get into the storylines right now. So first off, Cmpunk
in La Night don't have a problem with each other,
but they do have a problem with each other. But
they don't want to have a problem with each other,
but they're willing to have a problem with each other.
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If one guy wants to have a problem with the
other guy, then there's a problem. That's sort of the
catch up. So Punkin and Knight had a match. They
had a match against bron Breaker and Bronson Reid and
Bronson Reid is humongous and bron Breaker did some sweet
Steiner math. It was awesome. Just type in bron Breaker
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Steiner math. That'll come up. He does it better than
I can impersonate it. But punk and Knight, even though
they're not likely to tag team partners, even though they're
not likely to be friends anytime soon, they were good
tag team partners, and they had the match well in
hand until seth Rollins blitzed them. We'll get a DQ,
we get chaos. Jay Husso comes in with a steel
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chair that's kind of his go to now. It's like, hey,
here's a steel chair, and I'm gonna save everybody's ass
because I'm the nicest guy in the roster. And then
Bang Adam Pierce comes out and he sanctions a fatal
four way. The champion seth Rawlins versus CM Punk, the
former champion versus l A. Knight, the could be would
be champion versus Jay Usso, another former champion, all at
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the clash in pairs a fatal four way. This is
awesome Fatal four ways rule. I don't know why I
like Fatal four Ways, but I'm not that into tag matches.
The same amount of dudes and the tags are dramatic.
I don't I don't know. I just I'm dumb and
can't follow them. But anyway, I love Fatal four Ways.
I love triple threats. You can tell multiple stories in here,
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and look at the dudes that they have in this
main event. I'm assuming this will be the main event.
The champ and Ciampunk who hate each other. Their characters
can't stand one another. All they do is screw the
other one over and laugh at the other's misfortune. Seth
Rollins is clearly in charge. We'll get into picks, but
you guys know who I'm picking. He's just dressed is
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so cool now. He doesn't wear the vests like La Knight.
La Knight's got the arms that work for the vest.
That's why you're never going to see your boy in
a vest because my arms next to La Knight's arms
look like someone else as the ankles. Anyway, I can't
wait for this match. I know if when we do picks,
Jeff's gonna pick La Night because that's this guy. I
thought La Knight and see him Punk had a weird
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chemistry in the ring. When they cut their promo before
they got interrupted, it was like you didn't think it
was gonna be good because they both were kind of
like feeling each other out, but it was really really good.
It was like when it like an improv exercise where
it starts off and everyone's like, oh man, is this
gonna suck. I don't know if these two know what
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they're doing, and all of a sudden, one of them
says something super funny and the other one just gets
it because it's their sense of humor, and then they're
off and running. Now, if you haven't done an improv class,
you're like, yo, what I can take these off? Now?
You're like, yo, what the heck is he talking about?
But if you have, or if you've ever seen the
show Barry or any other like meta Hollywood show, then
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you know what I'm talking about. I really like their promo.
I hope they get to do something again with each
other somewhere down the road. I don't know. I don't
see how organically you would have any plans for that, mate.
I mean they'll figure out a way. They're good at writing.
But yeah, I really liked what they did. Anyway. They
had this match, and here's here's what's weird. Like, of
all four people, everyone knows only two dudes can win,
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and we'll still watch this match, Like everyone knows jay
USO's not in there to win that match, and everyone
knows that when it's gonna be l A Knight's time,
there's gonna be a storyline behind it because he can
carry a storyline with his acting, right, And this had
this just was kind of like rushed and fast, so
he's not gonna win it. So it's either gonna be
Ceampunk wins it back, which I don't think is likely.
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I guess I'm giving you my pick now. Yes, I'm
picking against him again every time. I promise, I'm not
kinda but I don't care. Damn it. Seth Rollin's a win.
He's established this faction and needs to stand strong for
a little while. Hasn't been a little while yet, so
I think Seth Seth will win that all this all
the attack is is to like weaken your opponent, right,
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We're gonna beat them down, stomp them out, and hopefully
give him a concussion so that he's weaker when I
meet him in the fatal four way because I don't
even have to get pained to lose my match. So
now we have to rebalance the scale. So that's why
he's got these heavy hitters with him and jay Us.
So again, he was just there to help out, right,
because that's his guy and is returning the favor eternally
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for Punk and he likes La and that I guess
he likes him, but he came out there to help out.
But I don't see. There's no again, there's no story,
so that it wouldn't even be a cool, shocking victory
if Jay one because there was nothing behind it. So
I think that's kind of how I think the match
is gonna go down, and who's gonna win and the
reasons why we got? What have we got next? What
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do we got next? We got? Oh, I'm so mad
at our producer because he said some mean things about
one of my favorite wrestlers, the ultimate babyface, Dominic, Mystadio
and Al Grande Americano, one of the greatest locators ever.
They defeated aj Styles and Dragon Lee and write in
a parenthetical or in parentheses, my producer writes loaded mask finish.
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He just right away Santas, is she a cheap finished?
First of all, it's a protective plate. It's to protect
both both wrestlers. It's a it's there to protect, not
to harm, not to hurt. You don't know what he
put in there. You're just assuming it's a piece of steel.
Could be padding, But you don't think about that, do you, Alex?
Do you producer Alex? Anyway, he continues to write, Dominic
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goes full super villain. What we're talking Dominic mysteria. If
first of all, if he did anything bad, he was
manipulated into someone told him or tricked him into doing it.
This is a handsome man. This is a man with
a good, pure heart who's in a dirty business, the
wrestling business, and he's been twisted and turned and squished
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and squeezed and he's still come out on top with
gold around his waist. But every week I have to
come on here and defend this man's good name, good name,
all the things he went through coming up in the
wrestling business. Come on, that's a tough business. That's like
coming up in Hollywood. You guys feel sorry for me, right,
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So Dominic deserves a little bit more love in the
note section of this podcast, and I'm gonna leave it
at that. Anyway, Dominic got the win. This story continued
over into their acquisition of Triple A, which is actually
really cool because AJ Styles is like, oh, you're gonna
hit headbut me with a piece of steel in your
masm of fu over against VI Kingo and make sure
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he retains and you don't get to have his titles.
So now they can bring that storyline under raw and
they're I think what they're trying to do. Obviously, what
they're trying to do is capture more of the Latino
audience because there's a ton of analytics out there that
let people know that Latinos in this country are a
great number, and they spend billions. They spend billions of
dollars and they were spending that back in the day,
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so it's I don't know how many billsllions it is now,
but they spend a lot of money, and so they
want to market to this audience. You'll see a lot
of Spanish commercials I think in the next ten minutes,
even on like English broadcasts if they do commercials. Some
of the streaming services do now, which is just like
regular TV. So why do we have streaming services? That
doesn't make sense to me. But whatever party on, it's
gonna end up costing more than just have regular freaking
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cable TV. I just don't I don't get it anyway.
So yeah, so they get to continue their storyline. WW
does a good job with this, and we'll get into
aw storytelling too. And Tony Kahn had some a response
to some people criticizing and we'll get into that. We'll
get into that too, because he's right, but he's but
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he's not right about the thing people are critiquing them on.
So we'll get into that one. Sammy Zing. Sammy Sammy
Zing the star of this Week and Wrestling. He got
to be on both shows. Everybody got to fall in
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love with him, so he was this week's leading man
of wrestling. He was about to close it out on
Russev and if he did, then he gets to be
on the path for a world title shot. That's what
Sammy wants. He wants a shot at the world title.
That's his dream. That's what he's always wanted. I've always said,
I believe he's gonna win it one day, if Daniel
Brian could win it. When the people got behind him,
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Sammy's ain't con sure us I'll win it to the
match gets interrupted by the MFTs and it's a DQ,
so he doesn't get the victory and he doesn't get
to be on that path, but it does protect him
and make him look good. Nobody had to lose the match.
Seamus got in there just so we could see some meat.
Meat on meat. WW doesn't do the meat chant except
maybe once. I think Aw's like begging for a meat match.
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So after that, Seamus came out, got some almost said
something that I shouldn't have got some meat beaten what
and then the segment was over. We get into Becky
Lynch in Maxim Dupre. Becky Lynch faked out like she
was going to challenge last week and she was like, nope, psych,
I want Maxine, the tall skinny one. She beat up
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Maxine clean finish. She looked good as the champ. Becky,
I don't. It's hard to rate wrestlers win there wrestling
because they're constantly evolving, so it's a fluid number. It's
like when everyone would put those ducks in the river
and you see which duck wins, Like, you don't know
which one's gonna win. It's just because the river's constantly
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flowing and there's rocks and sticks in the way, and
sometimes one wrestler gets a clear path and one runs
into a rock and flips over, and that's your number
and you get bummed because you thought you were going
to win because you're eight years old. That's what it
is to like compare them. But Becky is top last,
right top the top last kicker, so she's top last.
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I know it's not the top belt or no, I
guess Rhea's top last if we're talking lasses, so you
see what I mean. It's hard. It's hard to say
like this one is because they're both good on the mic,
they're both great in the ring, they both want different things,
they both approach their goals differently and effectively, so it's tough.
But they're two at the top, and then Charlotte and
Lexi are probably the other two. So they got like
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four top dogs that can all talk on the mic
and can all and can all wrestle. But she gets
the win, Becky, This really just helps establish the intercontinental
title more than anything else. Simple, easy victory for her. Nobody.
If you were betting on DraftKings, you already knew who
was gonna win. In the odds you're betting a dollar
to win a penny. That's how easy that one was
to predict. And once we identify who that next contender is,
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then we get into our predictions and all that good stuff.
Sometimes you don't always have to take down the champ
to get made. You can still get made because your
match is so good and your mic works so good.
Sometimes you need a belt to get over and that's
when they write the story for Becky to drop the title.
So it all just depends on the talent coming up.
Let's move on to smack Down Baby. The show opened
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up and Solosukoa came out and he was like, Yo,
what's up, everybody, I'm freaking Solo Soca and you hate
me and the whole crowd goes, yeah, we hate you.
He's like, I got the gold, I got the MFTs,
this city sucks and you hate me and they're like yeah,
that's right, we hate you. And then all of a sudden,
here comes Sammy. Then he comes out and he says, okay,
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can we talk, And Solo and all the MFTs are like, yeah,
come in here, dude, we'll bust your ass. And He's like,
come on, man, tell these big mother truckers to get
out of the ring and let's just chat. I want
to have a chat, dude. I'm not even trying to fight.
And Sola's like, all right, fine, you all get out
of here. Let me talk to this little dude and
i'ma smash him, hit him with this Simon Spie. No,
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he didn't do that. They're going to talk and Sammy
thanks Solo Soca for freeing him from his world title aspirations,
and he says, I don't want I don't want it anymore.
I don't need it anymore. I just want to be
the best I can be, and I want to find
what motivates me. Those are the matches I want to
be in. And it's not the world title anymore because you, Solo,
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you big son of a bitch. He didn't say that,
he doesn't curse, he's a good boy, and he says,
you motivated me. Not only do I want to take
that title. I want to bust your ass and take
away everything that's important to you the way you took
away everything that was important to me, And then we're
gonna have something in common. Week might even be bros
after I kick your ass. And Solo's not having that.
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He's like, bro, you're not even on this show man,
So go back to RAW. I don't want to ever
see your punk ass again. And Sammy says, oh, contrere monfrere.
Because he speaks French, probably because he's from Montreal, Quebec.
I don't know what contrere monfrere means, except I think
it means like on the contrary, my friend. I think
that's what it means. But I never took French in
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high school, so my bad if I messed it up
to my French brothers and sisters. But he says, no, dude,
I talked to the man Nick Altis and Adam Pierce,
and since I'm such a good guy, I'm not an
a hole like you. When I ask for a meeting,
they take it and they listen to me. And now
I'm on the Blue Brand, I'm on SmackDown, and I'm
wrestling you for that chance US Championship and Solo super
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pissed instantly, Sammy's Ain becomes everyone on SmackDown's favorite wrestler
because that's how over he is, and that's how easy
it is to write a babyface storyline for Sammy's Ain
over the last like four years, since he got his
ass whooped by the Bloodline for so long until they
were like a, all right, you can hang with us,
and then he was the little dog with the big
bite after that. So he goes over there. He becomes
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the lead babyface, especially while Cody is out of commission
and recovering from his match and all and all that
good stuff. But Cody will be the man when he
comes back. But as far as like the people, the
people's champion or the people's favorite, I think that'll be
Sammy's Ain. I mean, he has the personality for it.
They love the way he wrestles. He's got one hell
of a finish. So yeah, we get all that. What
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else the MFTs that's going to cause a bunch of hell,
But Sammy's got his own boys. Oh. This all built
into a match, by the way, with Sammy Zain, Jimmy
Usso and Jacob Fatu coming out to get his back
against Solo and the MFTs, and that was going to
be the main event for that night. The question is,
and this was posed by our awesome producer Alex, do
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we really think that Sammy has a legit chance at
a world title? Or is the US title the IC title?
Is that kind of where he's going to live in
the mid card. I've said this for a long time.
I think he's going to be a world champion. I
think it's just a matter of time, barring injury. He's
really good on the MIC. He's incredibly relatable as a
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human being, Like he's easy to root for. He's John McClain.
But Canadian right like John McClain for those who don't know,
is the lead guy in Diehard, all the Diehard movies.
He was played by Bruce Willis, and he played this
blue collar, working class New York cop who's fair but firm,
and his superpower is he can just he doesn't have
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a superpower. He's just he's tough, like he can take
more of an ass kick in than you. At the
end of the day, you might hit harder, but he'll
do more damage to you before you do it to him.
Like you can't hurt him more than he can hurt you.
You could punch him ten times for every one time
he hits, but eventually you're gonna fall down and not
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get up. And he's the kind of guy that always
gets up. That's Sammy's ay. He's he's the French Canadian
John McLean will we and that's why we love him
because we all believe that if you know a dude
like Sammy can do it, we can do it. He's
he's relatable. I said that already, you get what I'm saying.
We got Alexa Bliss, who has successfully done what the
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WWE has not been able to do, which has helped
her in Charlotte Babyface, so good as to Lexa Bliss,
Now Charlotte's getting love and you deserve a chance. Perfect
timing for her to turn on Lexi and put it
back in the crowd's face and be like, no, screw
you on me heal again. I don't think they're gonna
do that. I think if any one turns eventually to
be Alexa on Charlotte. She had a match against Piper
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Nivet and the Secret Hervist came in. At the end
of the match, Alexa Bliss got the win, beat her ass.
I feel like the secret Hervist. It's tricky, man, because
Chelsea's what makes the boat go down the river, right,
Chelsea Green makes the boat go. And it's I think
it's hard because what they're playing is so fictional that
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you have to suspend your disbelief to be like, yeah,
all right, they're taking this security service seriously and they're
professional wrestlers wrestling in matches too, So that's where the
disconnect is, right, So you got to kind of give
it some creative latitude if you want to accept the storyline,
and if you do, then you see that Chelsea makes
the boat go. So she needs to be more involved
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or fully involved in all these segments, I feel like
in order to make them, in order to make them
truly work. You could tell Chelsea is game for whatever,
and she commits one hundred percent. And if you see
the people committing one hundred percent, I think it's easier
for us to commit one hundred percent too. And now
we get to my favorite promo of the week. That's right,
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even better than Hangman and MJFS because I've seen that
promo once before and I've seen this before too, but
Drew does it in a unique way. We're talking about
Dri MacIntyre and he came out and he defended himself.
He said, Yo, whoa, whoa, whoa. I didn't attack Cody.
I didn't attap Cody. Cody attack to me. And he's right.
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He didn't show doctored footage. He showed actual footage. The
match was over, Cody Road smashed his head because he's still,
you know, hiked up from the match, smashed his head
in a turnbuckle and was getting ready to do more
damage to him before the tables were turned and his
head got kicked into the bottom of the table. So
I'm kind of even though Drew's the a hole, I'm
kind of Withdrew on this one, not kinda. I mean,
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he's right, he's just being a jerk about it and
and rubbing everyone's face. And then we love Cody, so
we're like, no, if you Drew, but you know, if
you don't swing first, it's kind of on the other dude,
you know, you know, And I think I'm gonna I know,
I like dirty Dom too, and you guys all booing,
(21:17):
but I'm maybe I just like the back guys. But
I'm totally Withdrew on this, not totally. I think he
went a little too far. He could have given him,
you know, a body slam or something instead of a concussion.
But yeah, he his sort of heue justification, which he is.
This is his mo o, right, is he's always the
wronged party. He would still be world champion and wouldn't
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have lost a match. It's just somebody's always wronging him.
The ref's wronging him, there's interference that's wronging him. Management's
wronging him. Somebody's always wronging him. Not this show, Drew.
This show when Jeff's not here, has your back, But
when Jeff is here, it's you know, it's just chaos.
It's just chaos anyway, Drew versus Cody will be awesome.
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I don't. I used to say that Cody was gonna
have this like John Cena type run, but even John
Cena lost the title a few times to Randy Orton.
Otherwise Randy Orton wouldn't have like, what is it, fourteen
World Championship something like that. So I don't I don't know. Yeah,
we're not gonna do our picks just yet, but I
wouldn't be so quick to just say, hey, Cody's got
(22:21):
the dub. Let's see what the odds are. Let's see
what the numbers are. It might be might be a
nice money bet to go Andrew McIntyre and watch them
shake shit up a little bit. The main event was
Sammy's Ain Jimmy Usso Jacob Fatu versus the MFTs and Zane.
Sammy's ain gets the pin on Solo Sokoa, which makes
me think he's not gonna get the win when they
(22:41):
wrestle for the championship, and somebody's gonna do something shady
interfere in his match and cost him the victory, and
then he's gonna have to climb them out in a
little longer in order to get it, which means I
don't think Jacob Fatu is going to be in the
US title picture anymore, and that means they've got something
bigger planned for him. Maybe a Royal Rumble victory for
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Jacob Fatu, big ass dude who could just throw everybody
out of the ring, clothesline everybody out of the ring,
super kick everybody out of the ring. He could do
backflips into the ring. Could be bigger and better things
because he didn't lose the title because he sucks. That
wasn't the reason why people seem to really dig him.
And he's even embracing Sammy's ain, and Sammy's ain is
(23:26):
going to be the one on the title run, so
he's embracing his opportunity at the US title. I don't
know bigger and better things or Jacob Fatu aew dynamite,
(23:55):
all right. So first off, Tony Kahan, who's response comes
to criticism a lot more than I would like to
see him respond to criticism. I don't think there's a
need from a creative perspective to apologize for your art
unless your art was meant to be offensive. And you
may say, well, I'm offended by his style of wrestling.
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That's the bunch line. You what, That's fine, But he's
just trying to make art. He's just trying to make
cool wrestling, the kind of wrestling he likes, and tell
the stories that he likes to tell. But he said
he was responding to people saying, and we've questioned and
criticized some of the storytelling on aaw but when they
tell stories, I don't say that they're bad. If I
like them, I talk about them. What we say is
(24:37):
there's not enough and it's not consistent enough. His response was,
we tell our stories, but we tell them in the ring.
And on that note, he's one hundred percent correct. I
think their wrestlers tell awesome stories in the ring. My
thing is always I just want to have a cool reason.
Why why are they telling this awesome story in the ring.
Because the wrestlers are top shelf man from top to bottom.
(24:58):
They're all top. There is no they got top shelf
dudes that can really move that put their body at
risk every single week and somehow continue to do it
every single week. And I respect that and I appreciate that.
It's the reason it's the reason why. And when they
have a good reason why, I talk about it, Jeff
talks about it, everybody talks about it because it's tons
(25:19):
of fun and we're gonna get into a couple of
those stories, right freaking now. So a love you, ww
love you. And if that makes any of you guys upset, sorry,
you gotta just deal. All right. Here we go Hangman,
Page and MJF face to face. Here's what happened, people.
MJF hit them with the Sea Biscuit forgetting once again,
(25:40):
the Sea Biscuit won the race. MJF should have watched
the movie. Should have watched the movie. Anyway, Hangman called
him a coward. He said, you don't think you think
I don't know what you're trying to do. Bro, you
gonna do you think you're gonna god me into just
offering you a championship so you don't have to use
your contract. Stupid, stupid, That's how my cousin would say
(26:01):
it in New York. Stupid, what are you stoopid? Anyway,
MJF has been goaded into this type of response before.
When Will Osprey was on the scene and they had
their run and Osprey got in his face and MJF.
He kind of challenged mjf's guts and MJF was like, well,
they used to cheer for me before you got here.
And that's how you break him, right. You kind of
(26:23):
insult him the way he's insulting you, and you you
match that energy, right, and you don't let him know
that it's hurting you, like you don't let it affect you.
You just give it right back to him. Will Osprey
did it. Hang Man did it, and he tricked MJF.
And it's it once again and he goes, oh, yeah,
well I will catch in my contract forbidden door in
your face. What oh shit? What did I do? And
(26:44):
now he knows he's aft. He wasted his contract and
Hangman's got him, called him a dumbass and walked out
of the ring. Good promo between the two. Not my
promo of the week. That was dre and my segment
of the week was actually I think I said it
was Sam earlier, but I think or see him and
and La Knight, but I think it was Drew. Drew
(27:05):
was the segment of the week or the promo the week.
So anyway, we got our main event, MJF. The Devil
versus the flawed babyface Adam Hangman Page. MJF brought up
a bunch of like I don't know if it was real,
but like personal stuff. I don't know much about Hangman
Page as the past, but he brought up like alcoholism
and shit like that, which humanizes Hangman and makes him
(27:29):
even more of a babyface. Based on his response, He's like, yo, man,
I know I've fed up and I'm not perfect, but
here I am bro I'm vulnerable and I'm the champion
and you can suck it. And MJF wasn't having any
of that, and then he got talked into the match.
But it was really good promo. Both guys kick, but
it gets me excited to see the match. Next up,
we got John Moxley versus Kevin Knight. Kevin knightke can
(27:52):
fly a dude as standing jump kicks that are like
above people's heads with no momentum whatsoever. But he wasn't
beating my man, John Moxley. John Moxley got him technical submission.
I think he choked him out. Yeah, he choked him out.
Here's the most important thing. They start beating the crap
out a night and all of a sudden, here comes
(28:13):
Darby Allen. Darby Allen's been starting beef with the Death Riders.
That's Moxley and well, you guys know who the Death
Riders are. Moxley, Claudio, Wheeler and Marina right, who, by
the way, has gotten a lot better. Darby Allen's got
beef with him. He comes out, he makes a save.
He comes out with a skateboard and a body bag,
tries to pull Wheeler. You in the body bag, gets
(28:34):
him in there. This was a tough gimmick because if
you don't know where the zipper is, you struggle, and
that happened in this segment, but they still I thought
power through. Jeff would have loved it because there were
so many gimmicks in the match. He would have been like,
this is my match of the week. Oh my god.
So then Darby gets Wheeler in there and he's gonna
beat him up, and Coffin drop him, and Cloudy was like, nope,
(28:55):
got you boomed, gets Wheeler out and puts Darby in there,
beats up Darby in the body will Ospray comes out.
He's like, oh, we thought he was hurt, but he's
not hurt. Yeah, and he's like, Oh, I'm still hurt
a bit, but I'm gonna fight anyway. And he comes
out and chases everybody out and he challenges Mox to
a lights out steel cage match, which prompted me to
text my wrestling chain and say, hey, what is the
(29:17):
lights out steel cage match? The response was, it's a
no holds barred steel cage match, which I thought all
steel cage matches were, But I digress. Anyway, it's a
forbidden door, just forbidden. So none of you guys can
watch it. That's on Sunday at ten am on the
West coast. What is that one pm on the East coast,
(29:37):
so be there or b square. Look, neck injuries don't
get better that quick. So everybody, if you believe in God's,
pray to your God and pray that he protects mister Osprey.
He probably won't see too much crazy stuff. I hope
you don't. There's enough wrestlers in the match that in
the main event that they that they put I'll give
you the names in a second that you can really
(29:58):
protect him and he can just maybe go on once
or twice and not take too much of a beating
because I don't want to see. I want to see
him in thirty minute matches and I want his body
to hold up, so hopefully he's all good. Although with
Seth Rollins fake and his knee injury, maybe you know
it's an ankle and he's just saying it's his neck
because that was what he was selling in a match
like you never know anymore, which is kind of cool.
(30:19):
Will Ospray, Darby, Allen Tanahashi, Omega and Aboushi versus Max Claudio,
Gabe Kid and the Young Oh I should say it
the way they do it. And these two guys in
this tag called the Young Bucks or something like that.
The names are like Nate and Mick. Yeah, but they're
real good. See see we're doing it in character. I
(30:39):
should have put my glasses back on. Anyway. Is that
the pay per view Steeler? I don't think so. I
think the Steeler's going to be Nigel versus Zach Saber.
That's going to steal the show. But I like me
some submissions anyway. Adam Copeland defeated Stokely Hathaway in a
match where a lot of people were nervous for mister Copeland.
(31:01):
They didn't know, you know, he's getting older. He's getting
up there. Stokely's no joke. You didn't know what was
going to happen, you know, with Stokely's size and speed,
his agility, the side to side quickness, the raw power,
the brute strength. A lot of people were nervous. But
he barely eked out a win, you guys, he barely
did you know he took He took two spears from Stokely.
(31:24):
Stokely hit him so hard that Stokely I think might
have hurt his own shoulder. The ladies weren't feeling Stokely though.
They weren't going to give him any love. Copeland kind
of threw it in his face, not very nice, but
he eked out of win. No, Stokely got the shit
kicked out of him. The spear was amazing. Hurting himself
and bouncing off him was awesome. Shout out to Stokely
(31:45):
for taking a whooping and for having no no girls
that night. Sorry dude. Lonely Team, Team Lonely Heart. That's
the team Stokely's on, Team Lonely Heart. Anyway, AFDR came
out there weren't supposed to. There's a straining order in place,
but they said it all of a sudden, there's a
fight everywhere. He's gonna get beat up. Christian Cage comes out,
(32:07):
the patriarch, and he comes out and he saves Adam,
and then later Adam saves Christian and then they look
at each other and Copeland gives him a big hug.
I didn't say edge once, by the way, that's pretty professional.
I might say, gives Christian a big old hug, and
Christian doesn't reciprocate. He's still thinking about it. But he's
not gonna let these a holes Nick, Wayne and Kip
(32:29):
and FTR. He's not gonna let these a holes all
go after him. But it gives us a little tease.
Wait a minute, these two could go on a tag
team run if they could get on the same page.
And a tag team of Christian and Adam Copeland eventually
leads to a TLC match, which of course would have
(32:51):
to be against FTR. And we'll get into how that'll
happen later. All right, Well, we'll get into it on
the Thursday show because we're running out of time over here.
What that wasn't long enough, I'm sorry, but it's true.
But we're gonna talk for Bidden Door and what's going
to happen there, and how some of these aw stories
are going to bleed into that see that AW stories.
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You thought I wouldn't say it, and I did. Check
out for Bidden Door. It's Sunday, August twenty fourth, this year,
not next year, this year at the O two Arena
in London, England. You guys, thanks for tuning in. We
appreciate you. Tune in tomorrow, Tune in every week. Jeff
will be back next week, I hope. Until then, peace,
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