August 9, 2023 • 21 mins
I’m flying solo this week and giving you a full breakdown of SummerSlam including some insights on where LA Knight would’ve been more impactful, the turn of events with the Bloodline, and Brock Lesnar’s endorsement of Cody Rhodes.
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Now your Mate event introducing Ghosts Wrestling with Freddy, jef
Die and Freddy Bread's Junior Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to
a brand new episode of Wrestling with Freddie. I'm here solo. Sorry,
not me, but Freddie. Here's solo today for Jeff d
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has booked a fantastic job and is in the lovely
city of Atlanta, Georgia, where wonderful wrestling was was born
and bred and still thrives. Today today's episode we focus
on Summer Slam Wrestling with Freddy. Starts now, what's up everybody?
(00:49):
How are you? I don't know why I did that
little jingle thing. That's a horrible way to start the show,
and I apologize, but SummerSlam was not horrible and that's
what we're here to discuss today. You're stuck with Uncle Freddie.
Hope you enjoy today's episode and if you don't, you know,
to hit Jeff up on social media let him know
that the show sucked because he wasn't here. But we're
gonna start with a man that a lot of people
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don't like, man named Logan paul In. Regardless or should
I say irrespective of the way you feel about him.
His work in WWE has been better than average, I
think is the conservative way to say it, and pretty
damn good, I think is the more liberal way to
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say it. Right, if we're throwing compliments around, I don't
think he's as good as a heel when he's trying
to be a heel as he is when he's just
trying to be himself and be a babyface and get over.
He leaned into it too much. It feels a little
bit forced. So that's why I'm saying like his stuff
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hasn't been perfect. I think he should just be himself.
And if he wants to react to like, ah, man,
you guys don't like me, that sucks, then he can
lean that direction. But what he's doing is going the
opos away, which is ha, ha, you don't like me.
And that's a little a little not pushy, but just
a little forced pushy forced same thing. So anyway, he's
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wrestling everyone's favorite pretty boy, Ricochet, pretty ricky himself. This dude.
For those who aren't familiar with his work, he can do.
He can fly. Basically, the guy does twenty seven flips
off the top rope with eighteen hundred twists and then
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land something crazy, and he does something insane every single week.
May not be new every week, but he does bring
in new things as well, or probably old things for
him that he's just now getting allowed to use, but
new to our rides. And he's had this interesting thing.
I guess feud is it been going on long enough
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to be a feud. But it all started at the
Royal Rumble. I feel like when they both jumped off
opposite ring sides and smacked each other in the chest.
It all sort of started there. And then at the
last show, which was Money in the Bank, they had
that spot that was almost a blown spot, but Ricochet
saved it. I think it was a sliced bread off
the off the ring apron onto a table or off
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the ropes the middle rope onto a table. I think
maybe not sliced bread, but it was something. It was
a flip. If Ricochet is doing it, it's a flip.
But I'll say this Logan Paul's work out of all
the celebrities, has been the best work so far. To
my eyes, it's been better than bad Bunny. It's been
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better than who else has been in there trying to
work better than me. I just took. I just took
what I didn't get to give any but better than me,
better than better. I don't want to say maybe he's
the best. I don't know. I don't care. I don't
think celebrity should be interesting period, but maybe he's the
best one out of out of everyone that's that's gone
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in there and tried to do this. The crowd did
not like Logan and they they bowed the hell out
of him. Man then let him know. And I had
friends who were actually there and they said it was
way like hotter there than what we saw on TV.
That they were like really not feeling him, and it
ended up being the perfect vibe because he ends on
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some shady stuff. I will say this. Corey Graves was
killing me on commentary. He was so frigging funny talking
about Ricky's fiance wife dressing like Logan Paul, who's she
really back in cal Oh my gosh, look at that.
I was. I was going hard for that stuff. I
like Corey Graves a lot, and when he does like
outside the box stuff like that, it works nine times
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out of ten. He swings hard, whether it's a home
run or a strikeout, he swings hard and I always
respect that and he gets the hit more than he doesn't.
But Logan Paul, we got some shadiness the big assist
because he had to get to his brother's fight, so
we had to get out of there early. And he
grabbed some brass knuckles and he clocked her a cachet
right in the head with him, got the pin, hit
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him down his pants, jumped up on the turnbuckle, and
then you saw him like shimmy and looked down and
he thought that they fell down all the way down
his pants and out his boot. And then he's like, no, no,
it's still okay. It's right by my nuts. We're good okay.
But it was a good match, man, and I got
to give it up to him. I'm not I'm not
the biggest fan of all his life choices, but they're
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his choices, they're not they're not mine, and I'm just
a man. It's not my place to criticize as long
as he's not hurting people. And I feel like the
handful of times he has done something hurtful, if it
was a topic that we discussed, I was always very
honest with how I felt. But his work in WWE,
in the ring has been really really good, and his
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promo work has been okay, not good, not bad, just
in the middle. So that was the first match, and
it was a good way to start the show because
it got the crowd pretty hot. They were pissed off,
and then they got to see Cody versus Brock, which
was felt like the match that we were supposed to get.
I feel like that episode where I talked to you
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about my buddy's who's in this my business, not the
wrestling business, but my business told me it was going
to be Cody's hard time story. I feel like that's
been partially confirmed. Cody even said it in a promo,
having his own hard times. So our show got that storyline.
First suckers, nobody cares ready, Okay, whatever, sorry, but we
got the match that we wanted. I believe things will
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be over between the two men, or at least somewhat over.
And yeah, it was. It was a good It was
a good match. I know Brock kind of endorses Cody
there at the end, and people have been critical of it,
but Brock can kind of do whatever he wants. He's
putting guys over now, he's getting ready to retire, and
let him do what he wants, don't don't trip on
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that kind of crap. And it's a good step for
Cody while they were finishing this bloodline storyline to keep
him away from Roman. So is anything that's keeping him
away from that and getting people excited for that because
you want to do it next WrestleMania, right, That's what
everybody's starting to prognosticate now. So yeah, it's been it's
been a good distraction for him, a very good distraction.
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And then we get to the Battle Royal and I
have a different take on this than probably everyone else,
I think so anyway, but everybody wanted La Night to
win the slim Gym Battle Royal just kind of like
a Royal rumble but not nearly as significant. And shout
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out to slim Gym's Macaulay Culkin. Still eat you to
these to this day, but I do not, and you
don't pay me to say nice things about you. And
I think it's kind of corny that it's promoting a
Battle Royal. La Knight wins the Battle Royal and he
goes bananas is a big it's a big win for him,
at least that's what he's selling. But to me, he's
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bigger than this, he's better than this. Yeah, yeah, she
should have won it, and it shouldn't have been a surprise,
but he should have been in a better storyline period.
I don't know. I just it was a cool match,
like they told they were able to tell like three
or four storylines. So don't get me wrong, I liked
all the stuff in there. I just I didn't think
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l A. Knight needed this win. It's a slim GM
battle royal man say it without laughing the first time.
It's tough. So yeah, this wasn't as a big as
big a deal to me as as I had hoped,
or as maybe maybe you hoped. But yeah, shout out
to him, he won. I just I would rather see
him beating up Austin Theory for the United States Championship.
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Then we get to the MMA rules match with SHANEA.
Basler and round arouse. I try to just talk about
the stuff I like and enjoy on this show. I
don't like criticizing other artists when they're making live art.
That's hardcore. It's like saying that Jackson Pollock painting looks chaotic,
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like yeah, man, it's supposed to. That's the that's the
effing point. So it's it's tricky. And I had dudes over.
My son was having a sleepover. I was going to
go to this party. I was going to go to
a cool, like Hollywood viewing party of Summer Slam, but
my son had this sleepover set up because I thought
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Summer Slam was on a Sunday, and so I had
the boys over, but I made them watch while I
was making dinner for these homies. We made pizza from scratch.
We made the dough from scratch, this cool recipe I
got when my family was in Italy and it was ball.
But they're all having to sit and watch and they're
liking the matches that we've seen so far. And this
came on and both boys are watching. Say who's this?
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Who's the Oh? Yeah, Ronda Rouse avert or her? Who's that?
Oh that's Shane and Basler that's you know, that's her friend.
Why aren't they friends anymore? Shut up? Just watch the promo.
They'll tell you why they hate each other. Oh okay, sorry,
so they're watching, Well, I'm needing the or not needing
the dough had already been needed since the way they
were been netted netified, grabbing it out the fridge, rolling
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everything out, getting it ready, and within two minutes both
boys said, Dad, we're going upstairs, call us with the
next calls for the next match. These are ten year
old boys. They both like wrestling well. Rocky likes wrestling
a lot, and his buddy knew like who seth Rollins
was and knew who all these guys were. They walked
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out of this match, and you know, all I'm going
to say is I don't blame them. I don't know
how this match was on the pay per view card
instead of Becky and Trish, or instead of Rhea versus someone.
This is not a storyline that I don't feel many
I don't think many fans had an interest in. But
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I guess they felt they owed rond to one more,
one more pay per view, or maybe they legally did.
But this was never a story that I felt was
gonna get over. And that's nothing to take away from SHANEA. Basler.
I thought she did her best selling at that backstage
promo interview type thing. She did a really good job
with it. But the fans are done with Ronda Rousey.
They're done with her. They know she doesn't care, or
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at least she didn't. So this match just it was
what it was, and and then it was over. Gunther
versus Drew. They beat the living hell out of each
other for about seventeen minutes and it was brutal. But
I love Gunther, so I'm a Drew McIntyre fan. I
knew Drew when I worked there back in the day,
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and the only notes they would give him is losuer accent.
I kept tell that he might even remember this. I
kept telling him f that you speak in your natural voice,
that's going to be your most authentic voice. And eventually
they'll wake up and figure it out. And they did,
and so did everybody else. And he's awesome. But Gunther
or Gunther has made the Intercontinental Championship mean something, and
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I don't remember the last time it meant something. I
genuinely am interested in who pursues it. I'm genuine And
a lot of this is due to their creative too.
It's not just all it's all on Gunther to get
the promos over, to get the segments over, and to
get the matches over. But creative has to have something
for him, and they have been creative in the way
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that they've they've had him get his championship and maintain
his championship run, so they deserve some credit too, But
it really does feel like it means something again, and
for that he deserves love. I can't break down their
match outside if they beat the living hell out of
each other, and if you like seeing as big he
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would say, meaty men slapping meat, then that's your mattch
traight there. I really liked it, Seth versus Finn. This
was the two ten year olds, my son and his
buddy's favorite match of the night. They were yelling, screaming, cheering.
It's a good gauge for me as to what's working.
Seth came out dressed up in something that if Jeff
was here, we would have spent the first ten minutes
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talking about and then there would have been no show left.
But it didn't matter because he's Seth freaking Rollins, and
it doesn't matter how bad he dresses his work so clean.
I will never be mean, mister Rollins. That was an
awesome match two ten year olds. You had big time fans. Honestly,
I wouldn't have even been mad if Finn won it.
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Outside of its too short a rain and you have
to give Seth time to make that belt mean what
it can mean if you give him a long competitive rain,
and I think it will mean something if it doesn't already.
But they love this match. I really loved the match too.
It is a ton of fun. The watch you McCall it.
The Damien Priest element was really good. It's really good.
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He's like, yo, man, I tried to help you want Oh,
now you want it, fine, let me help you out.
And then he just screws himself and gets curb stomped
on top of the money in the bank briefcase. So
more fire within the house of the Judgment Day. They've
been having tention for a few months now, yeah, two
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three months now, like here and there, and then they
keep patching it up. But it's coming to a head.
We may see someone from the Judgment Day get expunged,
expelled from the group. But still a really good match
and a ton of fun. And then we got Osaka
versus Bianca Bellair versus Charlotte Flair, and I worry about
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triple threat matches. I don't like trios tag matches for
the most part. I would have rather seen this be
a clean one on one. But the story they put
in there, which was Bianca wants her rematch and Charlotte
doesn't wait in line, she is. The line was a
believable storyline because that's honestly how it happened. And they
just forced Charlotte into the story. But she would force herself,
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that's the character, so it worked. I was really nervous
I wouldn't like the match. I was nervous that the
boys wouldn't like the match, and everybody's eyes were on
the screen. The ladies did a great job. The Bianca
bel air injury fooled both boys. They both thought it
was real. For a second. I thought it was real too,
until she looked back to the ring. I was like, ah, nah,
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she's good. And then she did the second look. I
was like, she's about to bolt, and then she bolted
to the ring. But yeah, it was a really good match.
And the finish, the creative finish, is what made it
special in my mind. Osca does the moda mist and
she sprays the mist right in Charlotte's eyes while Charlotte's
in her like arched bridge backbridge figure or super figure
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eight leg lock, Beyonca's knees already jacked up. Beyonce ends
up rolling Osaka after Osca misses kicking her head off
and while her legs are still tied up, which would
basically be like getting leverage off the ropes, she gets
the easy roll up pin on Osaka one two three,
which if her legs weren't like that, then maybe that
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doesn't go off. So Charlotte accidentally helps her get the
win after Osaka accidentally helped her get the win. So
it was a really cool story for the finish of
a pretty good match, And I thought the I have
them in the biggest bell aer fan lately because her
promo work kind of plateaued, But I felt like with
the story they were telling the right person one and
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Charlotte can either stay in this story or go on
another awesome vacation with her man somewhere exotic. She like,
comes in, gets the championship real quick, does a job,
and then takes a month off, goes to Italy, comes back,
does it again, takes a month off, goes to Asia. Whatever,
No big deal, I'm sure lock Clair. We'll finish today's
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episode of Roman versus Jay in the Tribal Combat match,
and let me tell you this and I don't say
this lightly. Tribal combat was a loe, a total farce,
a complete fallacy, and I'm pissed off about it. What
the hell is a tribal combat? I thought these dudes
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were going to come out like Wakanda style with like
a kendo stick, and I don't know if Samoans have shields,
but if they do, a Samoans shield and they whip
each other's ass until the kendo sticks broke, and then
bash each other with a shield until that breaks, and
then when there's nothing left, they're just fighting. No one's
allowed to interfere. Two people interfered. I didn't feel a
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lot of Samoan culture within within the match, which was
just kind of weird to me. And I'm not like
trying to say it in a woke way. I'm just
basically it was a DQ. It was just a DQ match.
At least give me a Viking ship around it and
make it a sweet Viking match. Still don't know the
Viking matches, by the way, we're four weeks away from it.
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But yeah, man, they lied. Solo interfered, so I guess
that makes him out of the family because the elders
aren't going to tolerate that the elders were the ones
that have so much power. They were the ones that
made this match, because otherwise Roman wouldn't have given Jay
a title shot, he wouldn't have given him in anything.
So I assume that he's going to be out of
the family, and I assume Jimmy's going to be out
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of the family. Otherwise, what power do the elders really have?
You can't paint yourself into a corner story wise through
unfulfilled promises. Man, you can't say these people are all powerful.
And then it's like the atheist argument against God, Right,
if God's all powerful, then why does X happen, I happen,
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Z heapen? Why do kids get cancer? Like all those things? Like,
if the elders have no power, how are they all powerful?
If they're all powerful, then Roman reigns has to follow
those rules because he had to take that match. So
now he doesn't have to follow the rules within the match.
How is he not kicked out of the family. So
I just don't understand what story they were trying to tell.
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The match itself was really good, man. The dudes went
back and forth, super creative match. Finally Jay gets up
to the top hits him with the big time splash.
We know the match is over. One duo no interference
from a hooded masked individual pulls him off, and who's
the hooded individual? He takes the hood off, still has
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the mask on, and then he pulls the mask down
and gives this beautiful side eye and the twin brother
has finally betrayed his younger brother by whatever eight seconds
jay ou so Jimmy has betrayed j and without it
being a tribal combat match, this is really awesome story.
I'm with it one hundred percent, like betrayal. You know,
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after what was a certain victory, the only guy who
has roman reigns his number legit is Jay Uso unless
you count the one when that Xavier Woods had back
in the day, which still counts. I think it's a
DQ but it still counts. But yeah, Jay has his number.
And so the match itself was beautiful, but they didn't
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follow any of their rules. It was all just sort
of like, hey, here's we're just getting you to this
DQ match and we're going to call it tribal combat.
There was nothing tribal about it, and the combat was there,
but it wasn't tribally. You see what I'm saying. That's
a word it is today. Don't forget to check us
out on unsanctioned Thursdays. We'll get into a little bit
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Now your Mate event introducing Ghosts Wrestling with Freddy, jef
Die and Freddy Bread's Junior Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to
a brand new episode of Wrestling with Freddie. I'm here solo. Sorry,
not me, but Freddie. Here's solo today for Jeff d
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has booked a fantastic job and is in the lovely
city of Atlanta, Georgia, where wonderful wrestling was was born
and bred and still thrives. Today today's episode we focus
on Summer Slam Wrestling with Freddy. Starts now, what's up everybody?
(00:49):
How are you? I don't know why I did that
little jingle thing. That's a horrible way to start the show,
and I apologize, but SummerSlam was not horrible and that's
what we're here to discuss today. You're stuck with Uncle Freddie.
Hope you enjoy today's episode and if you don't, you know,
to hit Jeff up on social media let him know
that the show sucked because he wasn't here. But we're
gonna start with a man that a lot of people
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don't like, man named Logan paul In. Regardless or should
I say irrespective of the way you feel about him.
His work in WWE has been better than average, I
think is the conservative way to say it, and pretty
damn good, I think is the more liberal way to
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say it. Right, if we're throwing compliments around, I don't
think he's as good as a heel when he's trying
to be a heel as he is when he's just
trying to be himself and be a babyface and get over.
He leaned into it too much. It feels a little
bit forced. So that's why I'm saying like his stuff
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hasn't been perfect. I think he should just be himself.
And if he wants to react to like, ah, man,
you guys don't like me, that sucks, then he can
lean that direction. But what he's doing is going the
opos away, which is ha, ha, you don't like me.
And that's a little a little not pushy, but just
a little forced pushy forced same thing. So anyway, he's
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wrestling everyone's favorite pretty boy, Ricochet, pretty ricky himself. This dude.
For those who aren't familiar with his work, he can do.
He can fly. Basically, the guy does twenty seven flips
off the top rope with eighteen hundred twists and then
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land something crazy, and he does something insane every single week.
May not be new every week, but he does bring
in new things as well, or probably old things for
him that he's just now getting allowed to use, but
new to our rides. And he's had this interesting thing.
I guess feud is it been going on long enough
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to be a feud. But it all started at the
Royal Rumble. I feel like when they both jumped off
opposite ring sides and smacked each other in the chest.
It all sort of started there. And then at the
last show, which was Money in the Bank, they had
that spot that was almost a blown spot, but Ricochet
saved it. I think it was a sliced bread off
the off the ring apron onto a table or off
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the ropes the middle rope onto a table. I think
maybe not sliced bread, but it was something. It was
a flip. If Ricochet is doing it, it's a flip.
But I'll say this Logan Paul's work out of all
the celebrities, has been the best work so far. To
my eyes, it's been better than bad Bunny. It's been
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better than who else has been in there trying to
work better than me. I just took. I just took
what I didn't get to give any but better than me,
better than better. I don't want to say maybe he's
the best. I don't know. I don't care. I don't
think celebrity should be interesting period, but maybe he's the
best one out of out of everyone that's that's gone
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in there and tried to do this. The crowd did
not like Logan and they they bowed the hell out
of him. Man then let him know. And I had
friends who were actually there and they said it was
way like hotter there than what we saw on TV.
That they were like really not feeling him, and it
ended up being the perfect vibe because he ends on
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some shady stuff. I will say this. Corey Graves was
killing me on commentary. He was so frigging funny talking
about Ricky's fiance wife dressing like Logan Paul, who's she
really back in cal Oh my gosh, look at that.
I was. I was going hard for that stuff. I
like Corey Graves a lot, and when he does like
outside the box stuff like that, it works nine times
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out of ten. He swings hard, whether it's a home
run or a strikeout, he swings hard and I always
respect that and he gets the hit more than he doesn't.
But Logan Paul, we got some shadiness the big assist
because he had to get to his brother's fight, so
we had to get out of there early. And he
grabbed some brass knuckles and he clocked her a cachet
right in the head with him, got the pin, hit
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him down his pants, jumped up on the turnbuckle, and
then you saw him like shimmy and looked down and
he thought that they fell down all the way down
his pants and out his boot. And then he's like, no, no,
it's still okay. It's right by my nuts. We're good okay.
But it was a good match, man, and I got
to give it up to him. I'm not I'm not
the biggest fan of all his life choices, but they're
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his choices, they're not they're not mine, and I'm just
a man. It's not my place to criticize as long
as he's not hurting people. And I feel like the
handful of times he has done something hurtful, if it
was a topic that we discussed, I was always very
honest with how I felt. But his work in WWE,
in the ring has been really really good, and his
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promo work has been okay, not good, not bad, just
in the middle. So that was the first match, and
it was a good way to start the show because
it got the crowd pretty hot. They were pissed off,
and then they got to see Cody versus Brock, which
was felt like the match that we were supposed to get.
I feel like that episode where I talked to you
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about my buddy's who's in this my business, not the
wrestling business, but my business told me it was going
to be Cody's hard time story. I feel like that's
been partially confirmed. Cody even said it in a promo,
having his own hard times. So our show got that storyline.
First suckers, nobody cares ready, Okay, whatever, sorry, but we
got the match that we wanted. I believe things will
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be over between the two men, or at least somewhat over.
And yeah, it was. It was a good It was
a good match. I know Brock kind of endorses Cody
there at the end, and people have been critical of it,
but Brock can kind of do whatever he wants. He's
putting guys over now, he's getting ready to retire, and
let him do what he wants, don't don't trip on
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that kind of crap. And it's a good step for
Cody while they were finishing this bloodline storyline to keep
him away from Roman. So is anything that's keeping him
away from that and getting people excited for that because
you want to do it next WrestleMania, right, That's what
everybody's starting to prognosticate now. So yeah, it's been it's
been a good distraction for him, a very good distraction.
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And then we get to the Battle Royal and I
have a different take on this than probably everyone else,
I think so anyway, but everybody wanted La Night to
win the slim Gym Battle Royal just kind of like
a Royal rumble but not nearly as significant. And shout
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out to slim Gym's Macaulay Culkin. Still eat you to
these to this day, but I do not, and you
don't pay me to say nice things about you. And
I think it's kind of corny that it's promoting a
Battle Royal. La Knight wins the Battle Royal and he
goes bananas is a big it's a big win for him,
at least that's what he's selling. But to me, he's
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bigger than this, he's better than this. Yeah, yeah, she
should have won it, and it shouldn't have been a surprise,
but he should have been in a better storyline period.
I don't know. I just it was a cool match,
like they told they were able to tell like three
or four storylines. So don't get me wrong, I liked
all the stuff in there. I just I didn't think
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l A. Knight needed this win. It's a slim GM
battle royal man say it without laughing the first time.
It's tough. So yeah, this wasn't as a big as
big a deal to me as as I had hoped,
or as maybe maybe you hoped. But yeah, shout out
to him, he won. I just I would rather see
him beating up Austin Theory for the United States Championship.
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Then we get to the MMA rules match with SHANEA.
Basler and round arouse. I try to just talk about
the stuff I like and enjoy on this show. I
don't like criticizing other artists when they're making live art.
That's hardcore. It's like saying that Jackson Pollock painting looks chaotic,
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like yeah, man, it's supposed to. That's the that's the
effing point. So it's it's tricky. And I had dudes over.
My son was having a sleepover. I was going to
go to this party. I was going to go to
a cool, like Hollywood viewing party of Summer Slam, but
my son had this sleepover set up because I thought
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Summer Slam was on a Sunday, and so I had
the boys over, but I made them watch while I
was making dinner for these homies. We made pizza from scratch.
We made the dough from scratch, this cool recipe I
got when my family was in Italy and it was ball.
But they're all having to sit and watch and they're
liking the matches that we've seen so far. And this
came on and both boys are watching. Say who's this?
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Who's the Oh? Yeah, Ronda Rouse avert or her? Who's that?
Oh that's Shane and Basler that's you know, that's her friend.
Why aren't they friends anymore? Shut up? Just watch the promo.
They'll tell you why they hate each other. Oh okay, sorry,
so they're watching, Well, I'm needing the or not needing
the dough had already been needed since the way they
were been netted netified, grabbing it out the fridge, rolling
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everything out, getting it ready, and within two minutes both
boys said, Dad, we're going upstairs, call us with the
next calls for the next match. These are ten year
old boys. They both like wrestling well. Rocky likes wrestling
a lot, and his buddy knew like who seth Rollins
was and knew who all these guys were. They walked
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out of this match, and you know, all I'm going
to say is I don't blame them. I don't know
how this match was on the pay per view card
instead of Becky and Trish, or instead of Rhea versus someone.
This is not a storyline that I don't feel many
I don't think many fans had an interest in. But
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I guess they felt they owed rond to one more,
one more pay per view, or maybe they legally did.
But this was never a story that I felt was
gonna get over. And that's nothing to take away from SHANEA. Basler.
I thought she did her best selling at that backstage
promo interview type thing. She did a really good job
with it. But the fans are done with Ronda Rousey.
They're done with her. They know she doesn't care, or
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at least she didn't. So this match just it was
what it was, and and then it was over. Gunther
versus Drew. They beat the living hell out of each
other for about seventeen minutes and it was brutal. But
I love Gunther, so I'm a Drew McIntyre fan. I
knew Drew when I worked there back in the day,
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and the only notes they would give him is losuer accent.
I kept tell that he might even remember this. I
kept telling him f that you speak in your natural voice,
that's going to be your most authentic voice. And eventually
they'll wake up and figure it out. And they did,
and so did everybody else. And he's awesome. But Gunther
or Gunther has made the Intercontinental Championship mean something, and
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I don't remember the last time it meant something. I
genuinely am interested in who pursues it. I'm genuine And
a lot of this is due to their creative too.
It's not just all it's all on Gunther to get
the promos over, to get the segments over, and to
get the matches over. But creative has to have something
for him, and they have been creative in the way
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that they've they've had him get his championship and maintain
his championship run, so they deserve some credit too, But
it really does feel like it means something again, and
for that he deserves love. I can't break down their
match outside if they beat the living hell out of
each other, and if you like seeing as big he
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would say, meaty men slapping meat, then that's your mattch
traight there. I really liked it, Seth versus Finn. This
was the two ten year olds, my son and his
buddy's favorite match of the night. They were yelling, screaming, cheering.
It's a good gauge for me as to what's working.
Seth came out dressed up in something that if Jeff
was here, we would have spent the first ten minutes
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talking about and then there would have been no show left.
But it didn't matter because he's Seth freaking Rollins, and
it doesn't matter how bad he dresses his work so clean.
I will never be mean, mister Rollins. That was an
awesome match two ten year olds. You had big time fans. Honestly,
I wouldn't have even been mad if Finn won it.
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Outside of its too short a rain and you have
to give Seth time to make that belt mean what
it can mean if you give him a long competitive rain,
and I think it will mean something if it doesn't already.
But they love this match. I really loved the match too.
It is a ton of fun. The watch you McCall it.
The Damien Priest element was really good. It's really good.
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He's like, yo, man, I tried to help you want Oh,
now you want it, fine, let me help you out.
And then he just screws himself and gets curb stomped
on top of the money in the bank briefcase. So
more fire within the house of the Judgment Day. They've
been having tention for a few months now, yeah, two
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three months now, like here and there, and then they
keep patching it up. But it's coming to a head.
We may see someone from the Judgment Day get expunged,
expelled from the group. But still a really good match
and a ton of fun. And then we got Osaka
versus Bianca Bellair versus Charlotte Flair, and I worry about
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triple threat matches. I don't like trios tag matches for
the most part. I would have rather seen this be
a clean one on one. But the story they put
in there, which was Bianca wants her rematch and Charlotte
doesn't wait in line, she is. The line was a
believable storyline because that's honestly how it happened. And they
just forced Charlotte into the story. But she would force herself,
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that's the character, so it worked. I was really nervous
I wouldn't like the match. I was nervous that the
boys wouldn't like the match, and everybody's eyes were on
the screen. The ladies did a great job. The Bianca
bel air injury fooled both boys. They both thought it
was real. For a second. I thought it was real too,
until she looked back to the ring. I was like, ah, nah,
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she's good. And then she did the second look. I
was like, she's about to bolt, and then she bolted
to the ring. But yeah, it was a really good match.
And the finish, the creative finish, is what made it
special in my mind. Osca does the moda mist and
she sprays the mist right in Charlotte's eyes while Charlotte's
in her like arched bridge backbridge figure or super figure
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eight leg lock, Beyonca's knees already jacked up. Beyonce ends
up rolling Osaka after Osca misses kicking her head off
and while her legs are still tied up, which would
basically be like getting leverage off the ropes, she gets
the easy roll up pin on Osaka one two three,
which if her legs weren't like that, then maybe that
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doesn't go off. So Charlotte accidentally helps her get the
win after Osaka accidentally helped her get the win. So
it was a really cool story for the finish of
a pretty good match, And I thought the I have
them in the biggest bell aer fan lately because her
promo work kind of plateaued, But I felt like with
the story they were telling the right person one and
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Charlotte can either stay in this story or go on
another awesome vacation with her man somewhere exotic. She like,
comes in, gets the championship real quick, does a job,
and then takes a month off, goes to Italy, comes back,
does it again, takes a month off, goes to Asia. Whatever,
No big deal, I'm sure lock Clair. We'll finish today's
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episode of Roman versus Jay in the Tribal Combat match,
and let me tell you this and I don't say
this lightly. Tribal combat was a loe, a total farce,
a complete fallacy, and I'm pissed off about it. What
the hell is a tribal combat? I thought these dudes
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were going to come out like Wakanda style with like
a kendo stick, and I don't know if Samoans have shields,
but if they do, a Samoans shield and they whip
each other's ass until the kendo sticks broke, and then
bash each other with a shield until that breaks, and
then when there's nothing left, they're just fighting. No one's
allowed to interfere. Two people interfered. I didn't feel a
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lot of Samoan culture within within the match, which was
just kind of weird to me. And I'm not like
trying to say it in a woke way. I'm just
basically it was a DQ. It was just a DQ match.
At least give me a Viking ship around it and
make it a sweet Viking match. Still don't know the
Viking matches, by the way, we're four weeks away from it.
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But yeah, man, they lied. Solo interfered, so I guess
that makes him out of the family because the elders
aren't going to tolerate that the elders were the ones
that have so much power. They were the ones that
made this match, because otherwise Roman wouldn't have given Jay
a title shot, he wouldn't have given him in anything.
So I assume that he's going to be out of
the family, and I assume Jimmy's going to be out
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of the family. Otherwise, what power do the elders really have?
You can't paint yourself into a corner story wise through
unfulfilled promises. Man, you can't say these people are all powerful.
And then it's like the atheist argument against God, Right,
if God's all powerful, then why does X happen, I happen,
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Z heapen? Why do kids get cancer? Like all those things? Like,
if the elders have no power, how are they all powerful?
If they're all powerful, then Roman reigns has to follow
those rules because he had to take that match. So
now he doesn't have to follow the rules within the match.
How is he not kicked out of the family. So
I just don't understand what story they were trying to tell.
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The match itself was really good, man. The dudes went
back and forth, super creative match. Finally Jay gets up
to the top hits him with the big time splash.
We know the match is over. One duo no interference
from a hooded masked individual pulls him off, and who's
the hooded individual? He takes the hood off, still has
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the mask on, and then he pulls the mask down
and gives this beautiful side eye and the twin brother
has finally betrayed his younger brother by whatever eight seconds
jay ou so Jimmy has betrayed j and without it
being a tribal combat match, this is really awesome story.
I'm with it one hundred percent, like betrayal. You know,
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after what was a certain victory, the only guy who
has roman reigns his number legit is Jay Uso unless
you count the one when that Xavier Woods had back
in the day, which still counts. I think it's a
DQ but it still counts. But yeah, Jay has his number.
And so the match itself was beautiful, but they didn't
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follow any of their rules. It was all just sort
of like, hey, here's we're just getting you to this
DQ match and we're going to call it tribal combat.
There was nothing tribal about it, and the combat was there,
but it wasn't tribally. You see what I'm saying. That's
a word it is today. Don't forget to check us
out on unsanctioned Thursdays. We'll get into a little bit
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of collision. We'll probably get sidetracked as usual, but we
record those for you as always, because you guys gave
us those downloads, those reviews. My bosses that I hearts
see that. My boss is at Michael Toura. I see that,
so we appreciate it. Keep it going, keep spreading the word.
I'll get Jeff back here, I promise. I know you
miss him. I miss him too. He's in Atlanta, So
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check out your local comedy clubs, all my Atlantans. I'll
talk to you guys on Thursday and again next week.
As always, this is your host, Uncle Freddie with another
episode of Wrestling with Freddie Pearce. This has been a
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