August 23, 2023 • 27 mins
This week I discuss the problems that Judgement Day is facing within its group, the beat down that Eddie Kingston is going to put on the BCC, and the potential of Edge having 3 more matches in him.
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And now your made event. Introducing the hosts are Wrestling
with Freddy, Jeff Die hand, Fredys, Junior, Ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to a brand new episode of Wrestling with Freddy.
Jackpot Die is on location in the great state of
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Idaho and will not be joining us today. This is
the news of the week. Aw all in is this
Sunday and we will go over the card on unsanctioned
Thursday's Edge had his last match this post Friday night
against Seamus or did he? And California got hit by
a hurricane and earthquake, But Wrestling with Freddy is still here,
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giving you our audience our weekly love for wrestling. Stay safe, everyone,
Let's start the damn show. All right, everybody, how are you?
It rained a lot here, but let me tell you
this right now. Granted, there were a couple places that
got hammered pretty good by rain, but in La where
I live, it was just rain and a little bit
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of wind for about forty five minutes, and the news
made it sound like it was back in nineteen thirty one.
One hundred people died. Yeah, they were looking like, oo,
what is that out there? And got caught in that
bullshit they weren't just chilling in the valley. It was
nothing in La in the in Palm Desert, Palm Springs.
They get like I said, they got hammered pretty good.
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I got a buddy that lives out there. But here
it was nothing. Me and my wife just chilled out
and watched a movie here at the crib, watched Happy
Death Day. Suckers anyway, wrestling time, money and iraw. We
got a lot to discuss. They're focusing on a new character,
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on potential potential member of the Judgment Day, mister j D. McDonough,
and we're going to get to him in a second.
The show started with Damian Priest, Dirty Dominic, Mystereo and
the champ, the one and only Rhea Ripley, but no
Finn Balor, and they discussed this. You know, Finn, Finn
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should be out there. He's a part of the Judgment Day,
but he's been having beef lately, a bunch of beef
with Damian Priest. They got that priest beef and that
didn't suck right. Sorry, he does not have he does
not have the priest beef. I did not. I did not.
I mean that sound the way it did. But they got.
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You know, they got a problem with one another. But
it's not beef. It's just an is they've got. They've
taken issue with one another. Outcomes the friend of Finn
balor a friend of Finn a fuff, mister J D
McDonough himself. There's an old Hollywood adage and back in
the day, tons of Hollywood stars have this. I want
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everyone to google this. When you hear me say it,
what's the best way to phrase it for a Google search?
Stars that have big heads? No, stars that have large heads.
I think that's the best way to do it. So
back in the day there was this old adage that
on camera, men with larger heads projected better visibly physically
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on screen. So that was a trait that was actively
searched for and looked for. And if you look in
a lot of stuff. The best example for my generation,
even though he was older than me, I was this dude.
I did a movie with him called Tajillian on her
thirty seventh birthday. And his name's Peter Gallagher. Peter Gallagher,
they would say, has a movie star head. But if
we were in like sixth grade, we'd go many head.
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It is just big as hell. And it wouldn't have
been this compliment. But that's something that it was like
necessary back in the day and probably is still looked
forward to some degree. Right, I'm sure someone will old
school executive somewhere will say, oh, he's got a big hit. Mean,
that's why I only made it so far. My skull
wasn't large enough. Although I got this like weird lump,
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like this unicorn horn that grows from the front, that
they always had the powder and shine down. That's right, y'all,
I'm a unicorn, deal with it. But anyway, JD McDonough
has the movie star head. Look at that. I'm telling you,
it's the movie star. It's perfectly shaped, it's perfectly large,
he's got a perfect head of hair. Good looking kid.
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And he comes out and he says, sorry to interrupt,
and Damian Briest is looking at him like, what the
what the hell are you doing out here? Get your
punk ass and your big old head and get the
hell out of here. And JD McDonough's like, yo, man,
no disrespect. He's got an Irish berg. No disrespect there.
I don't mean to upset to anyone. And he just
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explains why Finn's not there, but they've introduced this character
and then eventually everybody else comes out and we're going
to get a fight between sammy's ay and JD McDonough.
But the key here is the McDonough character, right, And
we see him later come up again and try to
apologize and Damian Priest is like, dude, if you'll get
away from me right now, beat your little ass. Finn
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Balor comes up and it's like, yo, chill out, man,
we all know you're six foot four whatever. Just cool,
cool your jets, and it's all calm. But the theory
out to here that I'm hearing, it's not I didn't
come up with this theory. It's just the one that's
out there in the streets, in these streets, is that
JD McDonough's gonna become a member of the Judgment Day
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and turn on his confidant, Finn Balor. He'll no longer
be a friend of Finn. He'll no longer be a fof. No,
he will be a fof He'll be a foe of
Finn and turn on his brother, not brother, but you
know what I'm saying, And that'll bring him into the
fold of the Judgment Day. And Lee Finn on the
outs and then they can do something different with Finn
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and hopefully they have a cool plan for him, because
everybody loves Finn Balor. Good looking dude, super shredded, I mean,
like Bruce Lee, more shredded than shit. Bruce Lee wishes
he was as shredded as Finn Balor. He's gotten so
much better on the mic, especially over the last say
two years, the entire rest of his time, pretty much
ever since they brought him back from NXT's, his skills
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on the mic have really really improved. Do you think?
Do you think I'm crazy? No? You don't you agree?
We also had Becky versus Trish, not the best match.
I don't know how much time they had, but it
felt a little it felt a little rush. But it
did end with a cool promise, the promise of a
steel cage match, which hopefully these two women can tear
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the cage down, tear the house down, burn the house down,
whatever the saying is. And I love Trish, I love
lead him more. I gotta say I love lead him more.
But you gotta love Trish Stratus in there still kicking ass.
I love the broken nose gimmick and then finally she
just said, f it. It's like this mask because 'red
having me nuts. We're just going to fight. But yeah,
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so steel cage match coming up. That'll be awesome or
it should be. It better be. And in the main
event we had Cody versus Finn Balor, and they have
I'm not going to say they've struggled to keep Cody
busy and away from the World Championship, because I think
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they've done it really well. They've always kept him busy.
The judgment day was super smart. The brock Lessner thing
was even smarter. I thought they storied that out the
right way, and Brock put him over big time at
the end, which was pretty cool to see. It's cool
to see Brock doing that here at the end of
his career because he could easily be like, nah, man,
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I'm not brocklest kiss my ass, and what could you do.
It's not like you're gonna whoop him. You're not going
to put someone in the ring that can actually beat
brock Lesner, so you just got to take it. So
it's cool to see him do the doc business like that,
especially on Cody, because this history could get stale real quick.
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You can't just end the bloodline story and let Cody
be the focal point again. You got to save that now.
Although I really wanted Cody to win last WrestleMania, and
now it looks like they're clearly saving that for this
coming WrestleMania, which means uh Roman will have that belt
for quite some time, suckers. So yeah, So it was
Cody versus Finn, and both these dudes are top of
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their game. Both guys are in their physical prime. They're
in their wrestling prime as far as like mentally and
their ability to tell a story, their ability to listen
to the crowd but also dictate to the crowd what
the pace of the match is going to be. There's
a lot of listening and answering going on when you
have when you have wrestlers at that at that level,
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this was a great match. Even if you're you're not
a fan of wrestling, I recommend you checking it out.
Just record it on your on your DVR whatever. I
watch it on YouTube three hours after it airs because
I'm on the West Coast and I just ask it
to record it. I'm pretty sure you have like a
bazillion and hours of space on YouTube TV both guys
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are just top top shelf, and even if you're just
looking to see a couple of good looking dudes, that
they're both super good looking dudes. So they go, ladies.
Moving on to aew Dynamite, the show started with the
single poof Firework Master, the squosen one freshly squeezed Orange Cassidy.
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I will say it again, I did not get it
for a very long time, and then one day I
watched him just take an absolute beating and then somehow
managed to turn it around and everything clicked. And I
love him, dude. He I freaking love Orange Cassidy. I
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think his opening is awesome, the unfinished kind of art work.
Here's one little firework, one little bit of pyro for you, poof.
That's it. And he's just kind of out there like, yeah,
here I am. Let's wrestle. I don't really care about
all this fancy stuff. My son and I do his
little soft little kicks to the ship. We do that
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back and forth to each other. So I really like
what Orange Cassidy's been bringing to the table. It's been good.
My kids like watching him wrestle too. He wrestled Wheeler
Dah Wheeler from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dah from the Blackpool Combat Club,
Wheeler Judah, and we all know that Cassidy was going
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to win this match, but both dudes A w just no,
that's not true, because Goonther and them do too. But
wrestling right now, within this year has been in the mainstream,
has been very much let's beat the shit out of
each other on both sides, women and mince patches, especially
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at AEW and a handful of the wrestlers at WWE,
the ones that are tough enough, like Gunther and Shams
deal with it. Everybody else who's not tough enough talking
to you, Xavier Woods, not just kidding, but aaw, they
all are this it's gonna be. Every match has twenty
seven chops and that's only the first time they do
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their chop sequence. Then they had forty seven on the second,
and then they cut it down on the third sequence
to nineteen. There's a lot of chops, is what I'm
trying to say. But I love them. It's what wrestling
is right now, and it's cool to see what can
be best described and I think only described as a
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physical sacrifice to entertain someone. They are legit getting hit
super friggin hard right to their chest and if there's
no meat on that chest ouch. So some of these
young wrestlers that aw brings up, I don't know how
they're taking these chops because they got bird cages for chests.
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And not that I'm Lex Luger or anything like that,
but damn I'm not trying to take those chops. These
dudes beat the hell out of each other, and at
the end of the match, Orange Cassidy wins, Thank you
very much. No pyro necessary, no celebration afterwards necessary because
look after Blackpool Combat Club, they assault him and all
of a sudden, the best Friends have to rush in
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to defend him, and the Lutra Brothers suddenly hit the
scene to save the best Friends, and then Eddie Kingston returns.
We love Eddie Kingston, former guest of the show, friend
of the Show, awesome on the microphone. He's been gone
for a while, man, I think he's been in Japan wrestling.
I don't watch every wrestling show in the world, but
he came into the fold cleared shopper and I guess
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they're just going to beat the living crap out of
each other. I'll watch them do that because John Moxley
and Eddie Kingston are going to just punch each other
in the face and just say, yeah, man, give the
people what they want. Just a bunch of me as
hard as you can. Yeah, say it's same to you,
all right? Cool? These dudes are both crazy. They do
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not care if they get hurt so long as they're
they agree to it. Right. John Moxley bleeds every single night,
and Eddie Kingston is built like a California redwood tree
that is not going to care if you punch you.
Maybe he does, and after the match they fight again,
but I know that's what they're gonna do. So if
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you want to see two dudes actually squab out, that's
what's gonna happen. Squab out. What is it? Nineteen ninety two?
All right, we had a little Chris Jericho letting us
know whether or not he was going to join Don
Kallas's familia. He takes that Chris Jericho pause, and the
answer is it's long, right, it's Chris Jericho. He does
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the Jericho pause. It's longer than William Shantner's where he'd
be like, there's something on the wing, some thing. No,
Jericho's is longer but he says yes to the surprise
of Don Kallas. Don Kallas had a painting out there
that was covered and we've already established he's been trying
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to to not bribe, but impress upon Chris his desire
to represent him and bring him into the fold through artwork.
This isn't the best storyline that Chris has been it.
I'm trying to sell it better than it is, but
it's all right. He's trying to get every single professional
wrestler in the world over and it doesn't always work.
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Callus is a manager in this case, and Chris goes, well,
what's under the curtain? And Don Kallis is like, I
don't worry about what's under the curtain. He's like, no,
what's undo the curt what's in the box? And he
really wants to know and Callus is like, no, no, no, no.
I honestly I thought you were going to say no.
And he's like, well, wait a minute, what he thought then?
Now I really want to know what's under there and
he's like, nah, you don't want to. Danny uncovers it
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and it's Don Kallas holding the severed head like the Medusa.
The Medusa head has severed, only in this case it's
the head of Chris Jericho, and Chris Jericho's like, what
the hell? And then everybody comes in and beats the
shit out of Chris Jericho to Keshia and then will
Ospray the Ozzie who everybody loves U n JPW and
they just whipped his ass. So that was the end
of that segment. And then we get to Adam Cole,
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Baybey and MJF, the world champion they're gonna go against.
They're really trying to put over a lot of the
Ring of Honor stuff before the show, like early in
the show, and there's a tag team that they have
that represents their championship called Ozzie Open, and to get
them over, they handled them. Their two top baby faces
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right now even though they're going against each other in
Adam Cole and MJF. And Adam Cole a week or
two before said hey man, let's let's go for let's
go for broke before we wrestle, let's have a tag team.
And I've said already, I think Adam Cole is going
to turn on MJI in the middle of this match
and let MJF get beat up and then go after
that world title in a very hulish type of way.
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Of course, I say that now to be MJF. That
leaves Adam Cole haangen and I'll be dead wrong, but
that's just what I think. But they are taking on
Aussie Open and in order to study them, this is
one of their comedy bits, and every single one of
these have been absolute gold. Max takes them to the
Albach Steakhouse to study their Australian opponents for zero hour,
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and he's very worried about the wrestling because of AUSSI Open.
Because it looks it looks pretty good. They go in
there and they get the awesome blossom. They get inspired
by Australian culture they watch. They watch Australian movies with
crocodile Dundee and then Max wants to adopt an animal
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form like kung fu and do the kangaroo style and
kangaroo kick these assholes, and Adam's like, no, that's the
worst idea ever. But the best idea is double close, Linine.
It closes on another port bastard for no reason whatsoever,
which is awesome. And then they take a break and
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from being super bros, and they start talking about their match,
and it was a pretty darn good promo. Adam Cole
talks about how he's been the top dude in every
company and this journey's not complete until he's the top
dude here, and Max takes it back and gives him
a history lesson of his own life and talks about
his first all in and the things he had to
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do and scratch and claw his way just to get
into that show. And now he's going to headline that
same show in Wembley in front of eighty six plus
thousand people, and what a big deal of the match
is going to be. I'm super excited to see this.
There's an interruption in some drama and Adam Cole plays
like he's going to superkick Max. But none of that's important.
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The match and the story they tell and the tag
match is going to be the most important thing in
this But it's been a fun story. It's cool that
it's coming to a conclusion. It has not gone on
too long. There was a really cool what I thought
was just going to be a break with that tag
team tournament, the blind tag tournament, and they really turned
it into a a fun eighties Buddy cop story like
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forty eight Hours or Beverly Hills Cop things like that. Anyway, Yeah,
I'm really excited to watch the match. I got to
figure out how to watch the pay per view because
I don't have direct TV anymore, so I got to
figure that out. I know there's websites I can go on,
like Bleacher Report and things like that. I just got
to figure it out. Bredda Night SmackDown Grayson Waller effect
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Grayson Waller, the outstanding Australian from NXT who has his
own version of Miss TV. Again, Miss TV is the
superior product in this case despite the corny set. Grayson
himself is really good at this back and forth and
the interview stuff. In a similar manner. Tomms is more polished,
but you can't blame Grayson for that. He's been doing
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it much much longer, and he's got Santos Escobar and
Rey Misterio the new United States Champion. Austin Theory comes
out and interrupts this segment after Grayson tries to start
drama between the LWO and the only way this can
go is there's two ways. Either it's respect respect and
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Santos becomes the champ, or Santos goes evil and becomes
the champ, but I think Santos has to win the belt.
There's no reason for Ray to be the US champion
except to give it to someone, and I ninety nine
percent sure that Santos. The cool story here was when
Austin Theory interrupts and he was looking great. He had
the baby Harry chest going on where it's like, not
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magnum p I Harry, but it's like twenty two year
old Harry, right, and he's looking smooth, and he was
good on the mic. He was good on the mic
on Friday. And then out comes out and Pierce to
be like, nah, dude, you're not getting another shot after
what you did, and before he can finish the real
interruption with everybody saying, eh, hey night, Yeah, and here
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he comes, everybody's new favorite, the darling of wrestling. L
A Night so much better than Max Dupree survived that terrible,
terrible gimmick, got the old one back. Isn't Eli Drake,
but we love l A Night and he cuts a
sweet ass promo that was old school as hell on
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Austin Theory. Austin Theory chirp back did a great job
chirpping back. L A Knight says, Doug, let me just
challenge you right now, and the winner is the number
one content four the United States Championship. Austin Theory's like
hell no, and that appears is like, oh well, yes,
let's get it on right now. Boom the mis comes
out because, as we all know, the Mizz and La
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Night a couple of weeks ago on Monday Night Raw
had a problem with one another where Miss said you're
not on my level and La Knight established that he
is on the misses level and then introduced himself a
second time. The miss came out on commentary and to
heckle and be eight La Knight and let us know
that La Knight once again is just a flash in
the pan and a bum soon to be bum. During
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the match, he tries to interfere, gets beat down for
his trouble. That's what you get, Miss punked punk ass.
But in the melee, Austin Theory rolls him up and
looked like he grabs some trunks and we had another
referee failure failure if I'm wrong, sorry for being so belligerent,
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and Austin Theory gets the win over La Night. And
then Edge twenty fifth anniversary versus Seamus, and he promoed
this match by telling a story of when he retired.
Seamus does these workout videos called the Celtic Warrior Workouts
on YouTube. They're actually really quiet. Followed Seamus on Instagram
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for years. I really liked the guy and I love
the way he works. I love how hard he works,
and he's just to know him is to really love him.
He's just a good human being, solid citizen. And he
did one of his workouts with Edge and at the time,
Edge was doing a lot of mountain biking. He's out
there in the country where you can do that without
worry about cars running you over. And on the bike ride,
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Edge just takes a gnarly, just gnarly fall, just has
to bail out, and he's a pro wrestler, so he
just rolls all smooth and gets up, has some road
rash and he's like, oh, well, hell, if I can
do that, I could probably still wrestle. And that was
the impetus that sort of brought him back to the
ring to see if he could continue to do this,
and of course he could, and he's had some great matches,
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good great matches since then Edge is the freaking man
and they have their final match which goes back and forth,
and the way he presents himself now is like this
old grizzled Viking who is still the king, but all
these young urale, strong, testosterone fueled, younger Vikings are there
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trying to kill him so they can be king, and
he's sitting there like my man from the Viking show,
who wants to be king? They keep climbing. A great
story with Vinn ballor great story with in the ring
story with vin ballor in the ring story with Damian Priest,
and his victories would be so desperate at the end,
you know, just like one arm over and you know
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you get the win and just be looking off camera
just like, oh I barely got it, Oh man, I
barely got it. Meanwhile, it goes backstage and they're probably like,
thank you so much for that match, and he's like, yo, bro,
you were so great, and that the kind of match
he had here, it was two warriors that you know,
he's he's conquered everything, so he doesn't fight for land
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or gold or women anymore. He fights for glory, and
so does Seamus. And they had a great, sort of
like Warrior against warrior. When you add that extra syllable
to warrior, it sounds cooler warrior. And it was just
a really fun match to watch. I love these guys
were they were absolutely awesome. This was my match of
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the week. I know he's not done. He can't be done.
That was the end of his contract. And he's an
older dude, and at forty seven years old, I think
he's just a year older than me. I know what
it feels like to get out of bed, and I
don't take bumps for a living. I don't take those beatdowns.
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But he's not done. There's no way he's just done
with that contract. But there's there's gonna be more matches.
There's probably gonna be Let's let's play here three more
over the next three years, one a year. Come on, man,
I'll take that any day of the week. And who
knows who his opponents will be. But I will say this,
I've heard some talk of like, oh, he could go
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to AEW and do like a final thing with Christian.
I can't in a million years see that happening. Edge
is wwe born and friggin bred. I can't see him
wrestling anywhere else. Ever, I just can't. I can't, can you.
There's no right, there's no way he is. And I
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died in the wool WWE, and I mean that in
a good way, Like he's one of the best things
that WWE has ever brought to television, and for him
to go somewhere else would just feel so friggin weird.
It would feel so it'd be like when Joe Namath
played quarterback one year for the La Rams. It was
just like, wait, what your name is Broadway Joe, not
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drive Joe. It sounds stupid. Yeah, I just don't. I
couldn't see him there, and I like aw, I like both.
I've always said that I'm a fan of professional wrestling,
So yeah, I think he only I think he can
only go there. I think he can only go there.
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Let's start the damn show. All right, everybody, how are you?
It rained a lot here, but let me tell you
this right now. Granted, there were a couple places that
got hammered pretty good by rain, but in La where
I live, it was just rain and a little bit
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of wind for about forty five minutes, and the news
made it sound like it was back in nineteen thirty one.
One hundred people died. Yeah, they were looking like, oo,
what is that out there? And got caught in that
bullshit they weren't just chilling in the valley. It was
nothing in La in the in Palm Desert, Palm Springs.
They get like I said, they got hammered pretty good.
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I got a buddy that lives out there. But here
it was nothing. Me and my wife just chilled out
and watched a movie here at the crib, watched Happy
Death Day. Suckers anyway, wrestling time, money and iraw. We
got a lot to discuss. They're focusing on a new character,
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on potential potential member of the Judgment Day, mister j D. McDonough,
and we're going to get to him in a second.
The show started with Damian Priest, Dirty Dominic, Mystereo and
the champ, the one and only Rhea Ripley, but no
Finn Balor, and they discussed this. You know, Finn, Finn
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should be out there. He's a part of the Judgment Day,
but he's been having beef lately, a bunch of beef
with Damian Priest. They got that priest beef and that
didn't suck right. Sorry, he does not have he does
not have the priest beef. I did not. I did not.
I mean that sound the way it did. But they got.
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You know, they got a problem with one another. But
it's not beef. It's just an is they've got. They've
taken issue with one another. Outcomes the friend of Finn
balor a friend of Finn a fuff, mister J D
McDonough himself. There's an old Hollywood adage and back in
the day, tons of Hollywood stars have this. I want
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everyone to google this. When you hear me say it,
what's the best way to phrase it for a Google search?
Stars that have big heads? No, stars that have large heads.
I think that's the best way to do it. So
back in the day there was this old adage that
on camera, men with larger heads projected better visibly physically
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on screen. So that was a trait that was actively
searched for and looked for. And if you look in
a lot of stuff. The best example for my generation,
even though he was older than me, I was this dude.
I did a movie with him called Tajillian on her
thirty seventh birthday. And his name's Peter Gallagher. Peter Gallagher,
they would say, has a movie star head. But if
we were in like sixth grade, we'd go many head.
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It is just big as hell. And it wouldn't have
been this compliment. But that's something that it was like
necessary back in the day and probably is still looked
forward to some degree. Right, I'm sure someone will old
school executive somewhere will say, oh, he's got a big hit. Mean,
that's why I only made it so far. My skull
wasn't large enough. Although I got this like weird lump,
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like this unicorn horn that grows from the front, that
they always had the powder and shine down. That's right, y'all,
I'm a unicorn, deal with it. But anyway, JD McDonough
has the movie star head. Look at that. I'm telling you,
it's the movie star. It's perfectly shaped, it's perfectly large,
he's got a perfect head of hair. Good looking kid.
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And he comes out and he says, sorry to interrupt,
and Damian Briest is looking at him like, what the
what the hell are you doing out here? Get your
punk ass and your big old head and get the
hell out of here. And JD McDonough's like, yo, man,
no disrespect. He's got an Irish berg. No disrespect there.
I don't mean to upset to anyone. And he just
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explains why Finn's not there, but they've introduced this character
and then eventually everybody else comes out and we're going
to get a fight between sammy's ay and JD McDonough.
But the key here is the McDonough character, right, And
we see him later come up again and try to
apologize and Damian Priest is like, dude, if you'll get
away from me right now, beat your little ass. Finn
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Balor comes up and it's like, yo, chill out, man,
we all know you're six foot four whatever. Just cool,
cool your jets, and it's all calm. But the theory
out to here that I'm hearing, it's not I didn't
come up with this theory. It's just the one that's
out there in the streets, in these streets, is that
JD McDonough's gonna become a member of the Judgment Day
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and turn on his confidant, Finn Balor. He'll no longer
be a friend of Finn. He'll no longer be a fof. No,
he will be a fof He'll be a foe of
Finn and turn on his brother, not brother, but you
know what I'm saying, And that'll bring him into the
fold of the Judgment Day. And Lee Finn on the
outs and then they can do something different with Finn
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and hopefully they have a cool plan for him, because
everybody loves Finn Balor. Good looking dude, super shredded, I mean,
like Bruce Lee, more shredded than shit. Bruce Lee wishes
he was as shredded as Finn Balor. He's gotten so
much better on the mic, especially over the last say
two years, the entire rest of his time, pretty much
ever since they brought him back from NXT's, his skills
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on the mic have really really improved. Do you think?
Do you think I'm crazy? No? You don't you agree?
We also had Becky versus Trish, not the best match.
I don't know how much time they had, but it
felt a little it felt a little rush. But it
did end with a cool promise, the promise of a
steel cage match, which hopefully these two women can tear
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the cage down, tear the house down, burn the house down,
whatever the saying is. And I love Trish, I love
lead him more. I gotta say I love lead him more.
But you gotta love Trish Stratus in there still kicking ass.
I love the broken nose gimmick and then finally she
just said, f it. It's like this mask because 'red
having me nuts. We're just going to fight. But yeah,
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so steel cage match coming up. That'll be awesome or
it should be. It better be. And in the main
event we had Cody versus Finn Balor, and they have
I'm not going to say they've struggled to keep Cody
busy and away from the World Championship, because I think
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they've done it really well. They've always kept him busy.
The judgment day was super smart. The brock Lessner thing
was even smarter. I thought they storied that out the
right way, and Brock put him over big time at
the end, which was pretty cool to see. It's cool
to see Brock doing that here at the end of
his career because he could easily be like, nah, man,
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I'm not brocklest kiss my ass, and what could you do.
It's not like you're gonna whoop him. You're not going
to put someone in the ring that can actually beat
brock Lesner, so you just got to take it. So
it's cool to see him do the doc business like that,
especially on Cody, because this history could get stale real quick.
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You can't just end the bloodline story and let Cody
be the focal point again. You got to save that now.
Although I really wanted Cody to win last WrestleMania, and
now it looks like they're clearly saving that for this
coming WrestleMania, which means uh Roman will have that belt
for quite some time, suckers. So yeah, So it was
Cody versus Finn, and both these dudes are top of
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their game. Both guys are in their physical prime. They're
in their wrestling prime as far as like mentally and
their ability to tell a story, their ability to listen
to the crowd but also dictate to the crowd what
the pace of the match is going to be. There's
a lot of listening and answering going on when you
have when you have wrestlers at that at that level,
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this was a great match. Even if you're you're not
a fan of wrestling, I recommend you checking it out.
Just record it on your on your DVR whatever. I
watch it on YouTube three hours after it airs because
I'm on the West Coast and I just ask it
to record it. I'm pretty sure you have like a
bazillion and hours of space on YouTube TV both guys
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are just top top shelf, and even if you're just
looking to see a couple of good looking dudes, that
they're both super good looking dudes. So they go, ladies.
Moving on to aew Dynamite, the show started with the
single poof Firework Master, the squosen one freshly squeezed Orange Cassidy.
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I will say it again, I did not get it
for a very long time, and then one day I
watched him just take an absolute beating and then somehow
managed to turn it around and everything clicked. And I
love him, dude. He I freaking love Orange Cassidy. I
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think his opening is awesome, the unfinished kind of art work.
Here's one little firework, one little bit of pyro for you, poof.
That's it. And he's just kind of out there like, yeah,
here I am. Let's wrestle. I don't really care about
all this fancy stuff. My son and I do his
little soft little kicks to the ship. We do that
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back and forth to each other. So I really like
what Orange Cassidy's been bringing to the table. It's been good.
My kids like watching him wrestle too. He wrestled Wheeler
Dah Wheeler from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dah from the Blackpool Combat Club,
Wheeler Judah, and we all know that Cassidy was going
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to win this match, but both dudes A w just no,
that's not true, because Goonther and them do too. But
wrestling right now, within this year has been in the mainstream,
has been very much let's beat the shit out of
each other on both sides, women and mince patches, especially
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at AEW and a handful of the wrestlers at WWE,
the ones that are tough enough, like Gunther and Shams
deal with it. Everybody else who's not tough enough talking
to you, Xavier Woods, not just kidding, but aaw, they
all are this it's gonna be. Every match has twenty
seven chops and that's only the first time they do
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their chop sequence. Then they had forty seven on the second,
and then they cut it down on the third sequence
to nineteen. There's a lot of chops, is what I'm
trying to say. But I love them. It's what wrestling
is right now, and it's cool to see what can
be best described and I think only described as a
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physical sacrifice to entertain someone. They are legit getting hit
super friggin hard right to their chest and if there's
no meat on that chest ouch. So some of these
young wrestlers that aw brings up, I don't know how
they're taking these chops because they got bird cages for chests.
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And not that I'm Lex Luger or anything like that,
but damn I'm not trying to take those chops. These
dudes beat the hell out of each other, and at
the end of the match, Orange Cassidy wins, Thank you
very much. No pyro necessary, no celebration afterwards necessary because
look after Blackpool Combat Club, they assault him and all
of a sudden, the best Friends have to rush in
(12:24):
to defend him, and the Lutra Brothers suddenly hit the
scene to save the best Friends, and then Eddie Kingston returns.
We love Eddie Kingston, former guest of the show, friend
of the Show, awesome on the microphone. He's been gone
for a while, man, I think he's been in Japan wrestling.
I don't watch every wrestling show in the world, but
he came into the fold cleared shopper and I guess
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they're just going to beat the living crap out of
each other. I'll watch them do that because John Moxley
and Eddie Kingston are going to just punch each other
in the face and just say, yeah, man, give the
people what they want. Just a bunch of me as
hard as you can. Yeah, say it's same to you,
all right? Cool? These dudes are both crazy. They do
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not care if they get hurt so long as they're
they agree to it. Right. John Moxley bleeds every single night,
and Eddie Kingston is built like a California redwood tree
that is not going to care if you punch you.
Maybe he does, and after the match they fight again,
but I know that's what they're gonna do. So if
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you want to see two dudes actually squab out, that's
what's gonna happen. Squab out. What is it? Nineteen ninety two?
All right, we had a little Chris Jericho letting us
know whether or not he was going to join Don
Kallas's familia. He takes that Chris Jericho pause, and the
answer is it's long, right, it's Chris Jericho. He does
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the Jericho pause. It's longer than William Shantner's where he'd
be like, there's something on the wing, some thing. No,
Jericho's is longer but he says yes to the surprise
of Don Kallas. Don Kallas had a painting out there
that was covered and we've already established he's been trying
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to to not bribe, but impress upon Chris his desire
to represent him and bring him into the fold through artwork.
This isn't the best storyline that Chris has been it.
I'm trying to sell it better than it is, but
it's all right. He's trying to get every single professional
wrestler in the world over and it doesn't always work.
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Callus is a manager in this case, and Chris goes, well,
what's under the curtain? And Don Kallis is like, I
don't worry about what's under the curtain. He's like, no,
what's undo the curt what's in the box? And he
really wants to know and Callus is like, no, no, no, no.
I honestly I thought you were going to say no.
And he's like, well, wait a minute, what he thought then?
Now I really want to know what's under there and
he's like, nah, you don't want to. Danny uncovers it
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and it's Don Kallas holding the severed head like the Medusa.
The Medusa head has severed, only in this case it's
the head of Chris Jericho, and Chris Jericho's like, what
the hell? And then everybody comes in and beats the
shit out of Chris Jericho to Keshia and then will
Ospray the Ozzie who everybody loves U n JPW and
they just whipped his ass. So that was the end
of that segment. And then we get to Adam Cole,
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Baybey and MJF, the world champion they're gonna go against.
They're really trying to put over a lot of the
Ring of Honor stuff before the show, like early in
the show, and there's a tag team that they have
that represents their championship called Ozzie Open, and to get
them over, they handled them. Their two top baby faces
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right now even though they're going against each other in
Adam Cole and MJF. And Adam Cole a week or
two before said hey man, let's let's go for let's
go for broke before we wrestle, let's have a tag team.
And I've said already, I think Adam Cole is going
to turn on MJI in the middle of this match
and let MJF get beat up and then go after
that world title in a very hulish type of way.
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Of course, I say that now to be MJF. That
leaves Adam Cole haangen and I'll be dead wrong, but
that's just what I think. But they are taking on
Aussie Open and in order to study them, this is
one of their comedy bits, and every single one of
these have been absolute gold. Max takes them to the
Albach Steakhouse to study their Australian opponents for zero hour,
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and he's very worried about the wrestling because of AUSSI Open.
Because it looks it looks pretty good. They go in
there and they get the awesome blossom. They get inspired
by Australian culture they watch. They watch Australian movies with
crocodile Dundee and then Max wants to adopt an animal
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form like kung fu and do the kangaroo style and
kangaroo kick these assholes, and Adam's like, no, that's the
worst idea ever. But the best idea is double close, Linine.
It closes on another port bastard for no reason whatsoever,
which is awesome. And then they take a break and
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from being super bros, and they start talking about their match,
and it was a pretty darn good promo. Adam Cole
talks about how he's been the top dude in every
company and this journey's not complete until he's the top
dude here, and Max takes it back and gives him
a history lesson of his own life and talks about
his first all in and the things he had to
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do and scratch and claw his way just to get
into that show. And now he's going to headline that
same show in Wembley in front of eighty six plus
thousand people, and what a big deal of the match
is going to be. I'm super excited to see this.
There's an interruption in some drama and Adam Cole plays
like he's going to superkick Max. But none of that's important.
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The match and the story they tell and the tag
match is going to be the most important thing in
this But it's been a fun story. It's cool that
it's coming to a conclusion. It has not gone on
too long. There was a really cool what I thought
was just going to be a break with that tag
team tournament, the blind tag tournament, and they really turned
it into a a fun eighties Buddy cop story like
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forty eight Hours or Beverly Hills Cop things like that. Anyway, Yeah,
I'm really excited to watch the match. I got to
figure out how to watch the pay per view because
I don't have direct TV anymore, so I got to
figure that out. I know there's websites I can go on,
like Bleacher Report and things like that. I just got
to figure it out. Bredda Night SmackDown Grayson Waller effect
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Grayson Waller, the outstanding Australian from NXT who has his
own version of Miss TV. Again, Miss TV is the
superior product in this case despite the corny set. Grayson
himself is really good at this back and forth and
the interview stuff. In a similar manner. Tomms is more polished,
but you can't blame Grayson for that. He's been doing
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it much much longer, and he's got Santos Escobar and
Rey Misterio the new United States Champion. Austin Theory comes
out and interrupts this segment after Grayson tries to start
drama between the LWO and the only way this can
go is there's two ways. Either it's respect respect and
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Santos becomes the champ, or Santos goes evil and becomes
the champ, but I think Santos has to win the belt.
There's no reason for Ray to be the US champion
except to give it to someone, and I ninety nine
percent sure that Santos. The cool story here was when
Austin Theory interrupts and he was looking great. He had
the baby Harry chest going on where it's like, not
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magnum p I Harry, but it's like twenty two year
old Harry, right, and he's looking smooth, and he was
good on the mic. He was good on the mic
on Friday. And then out comes out and Pierce to
be like, nah, dude, you're not getting another shot after
what you did, and before he can finish the real
interruption with everybody saying, eh, hey night, Yeah, and here
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he comes, everybody's new favorite, the darling of wrestling. L
A Night so much better than Max Dupree survived that terrible,
terrible gimmick, got the old one back. Isn't Eli Drake,
but we love l A Night and he cuts a
sweet ass promo that was old school as hell on
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Austin Theory. Austin Theory chirp back did a great job
chirpping back. L A Knight says, Doug, let me just
challenge you right now, and the winner is the number
one content four the United States Championship. Austin Theory's like
hell no, and that appears is like, oh well, yes,
let's get it on right now. Boom the mis comes
out because, as we all know, the Mizz and La
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Night a couple of weeks ago on Monday Night Raw
had a problem with one another where Miss said you're
not on my level and La Knight established that he
is on the misses level and then introduced himself a
second time. The miss came out on commentary and to
heckle and be eight La Knight and let us know
that La Knight once again is just a flash in
the pan and a bum soon to be bum. During
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the match, he tries to interfere, gets beat down for
his trouble. That's what you get, Miss punked punk ass.
But in the melee, Austin Theory rolls him up and
looked like he grabs some trunks and we had another
referee failure failure if I'm wrong, sorry for being so belligerent,
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and Austin Theory gets the win over La Night. And
then Edge twenty fifth anniversary versus Seamus, and he promoed
this match by telling a story of when he retired.
Seamus does these workout videos called the Celtic Warrior Workouts
on YouTube. They're actually really quiet. Followed Seamus on Instagram
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for years. I really liked the guy and I love
the way he works. I love how hard he works,
and he's just to know him is to really love him.
He's just a good human being, solid citizen. And he
did one of his workouts with Edge and at the time,
Edge was doing a lot of mountain biking. He's out
there in the country where you can do that without
worry about cars running you over. And on the bike ride,
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Edge just takes a gnarly, just gnarly fall, just has
to bail out, and he's a pro wrestler, so he
just rolls all smooth and gets up, has some road
rash and he's like, oh, well, hell, if I can
do that, I could probably still wrestle. And that was
the impetus that sort of brought him back to the
ring to see if he could continue to do this,
and of course he could, and he's had some great matches,
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good great matches since then Edge is the freaking man
and they have their final match which goes back and forth,
and the way he presents himself now is like this
old grizzled Viking who is still the king, but all
these young urale, strong, testosterone fueled, younger Vikings are there
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trying to kill him so they can be king, and
he's sitting there like my man from the Viking show,
who wants to be king? They keep climbing. A great
story with Vinn ballor great story with in the ring
story with vin ballor in the ring story with Damian Priest,
and his victories would be so desperate at the end,
you know, just like one arm over and you know
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you get the win and just be looking off camera
just like, oh I barely got it, Oh man, I
barely got it. Meanwhile, it goes backstage and they're probably like,
thank you so much for that match, and he's like, yo, bro,
you were so great, and that the kind of match
he had here, it was two warriors that you know,
he's he's conquered everything, so he doesn't fight for land
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or gold or women anymore. He fights for glory, and
so does Seamus. And they had a great, sort of
like Warrior against warrior. When you add that extra syllable
to warrior, it sounds cooler warrior. And it was just
a really fun match to watch. I love these guys
were they were absolutely awesome. This was my match of
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the week. I know he's not done. He can't be done.
That was the end of his contract. And he's an
older dude, and at forty seven years old, I think
he's just a year older than me. I know what
it feels like to get out of bed, and I
don't take bumps for a living. I don't take those beatdowns.
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But he's not done. There's no way he's just done
with that contract. But there's there's gonna be more matches.
There's probably gonna be Let's let's play here three more
over the next three years, one a year. Come on, man,
I'll take that any day of the week. And who
knows who his opponents will be. But I will say this,
I've heard some talk of like, oh, he could go
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to AEW and do like a final thing with Christian.
I can't in a million years see that happening. Edge
is wwe born and friggin bred. I can't see him
wrestling anywhere else. Ever, I just can't. I can't, can you.
There's no right, there's no way he is. And I
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died in the wool WWE, and I mean that in
a good way, Like he's one of the best things
that WWE has ever brought to television, and for him
to go somewhere else would just feel so friggin weird.
It would feel so it'd be like when Joe Namath
played quarterback one year for the La Rams. It was
just like, wait, what your name is Broadway Joe, not
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drive Joe. It sounds stupid. Yeah, I just don't. I
couldn't see him there, and I like aw, I like both.
I've always said that I'm a fan of professional wrestling,
So yeah, I think he only I think he can
only go there. I think he can only go there.
Check out Jeff d Comedy and Jeff Die on all
social media to find out where he's performing in a
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city near you. He's in Atlanta as well and performing
almost every night while he's shooting his game show out
there that he booked, and we're happy. So go out there,
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