August 28, 2025 • 16 mins
We're diving into the massive changes in where you can find WWE Premium live events moving forward as WWE just signed a $1.6 billion deal over five years with ESPN. Plus, we discuss upcoming matches for Clash in Paris, and a heartfelt note about dealing with personal loss, as I share that I lost my mom over the weekend. Sending love and reminding everyone to cherish their loved ones.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready? Shops about to hit
the fan?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to on sanctioned Thursdays in wrestling with ready, what's up?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Welcome to unsanctioned Thursdays the shows that you deserve. So
you got it, you earned it. You didn't deserve it,
you earned it, and that's why you got it. So
first news, there's gonna be a big shift where you
can find WWE premium live events moving forward, because the
WWE just signed a one point six billion dollar deal
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over five years with ESPN. Because TKO's and a lot
of debt, and they have a lot of bonuses of
fifty million dollars plus that they like paying out instead
of them taking cuts, they want everyone else to. And
they're gonna sell everything they can sell under the sun
and have as many TV shows on the air as
possible so they can regenerate as much money as quickly
as possible. Six all the major shows, WrestleMania, Royal, Rumbo, SummerSlam,
(01:03):
and so on. We'll stream on ESPN's new app, ESPN Plus,
not on Peacock, no longer on the Cock. But here's
the kicker. It's gonna start early. The first ESPN streamed
event is Wrestle Palooza. Peacock's getting the boot because they
hit all their events quota early and fans are pissed.
Some don't care, but the vocal minority, maybe they call
(01:26):
it online. They're pissed and they're talking about it, about
using a VPN or just a streaming site.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And the reason why, and I kind of.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Get it, is because it's going to cost nearly three
times more on ESPN than it did on Peacock, which
was just thirty dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Now there's some good news.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
You can initially get access to the ESPN Plus app
without having to pay thirty dollars a month if you
have a supporting cable subscription. If you have that, so
anyone that pays for cable or satellite, I believe, but
I'm not one hundred percent on satellite. You can log
into the app and you can use your cable or
satellite credentials. I know you can do satellite on a
(02:05):
lot of other stuff. So I would assume they would
give you the opportunity because they want your money, baby,
they want your money. So to watch WWE programming, here's
what you need. You need Netflix if you want to
watch Monday Night Raw, and sometimes it's kind of tricky
if you're a couple of minutes late to find it
on there and actually get it to access, so it's
paining the ass beerly. Second, you need Cabler Satellite for
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Friday Night SmackDown. Third, you need ESPN Plus for the
premium live events, and you also need Peacock for any
of the Saturday night main event shows, which you know
they're going to try to make big and do title
changes on because they want people to pay for those
subscriptions so they can show how valuable they are to
other people when they negotiate new deals. That's going to
be four times a year, all streamed only on Peacock.
(02:47):
No longer simulcasting on NBCTV as well. Everything is streaming,
streaming is f and everything up. I have nothing to
do with it, but I'm sorry it's happening to y'all. Jeff,
how do you feel about all that bad news that
I am?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Bad news? Bear it?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, here's the thing, wrestling. Little message to the wrestlers.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
If anyone in WWE is listening to our podcast, which
I suspect that they might, someone.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Might be listening over there.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Listen, stop making wrestling so hard to watch, all right,
Like it shouldn't be hard to find. I know that
you're in a weird crisis right now with television being
in the state that it's in, but let us be
able to just watch it. We just want to watch
your product. It's so annoying. We're not all real tech
nerds like our producer who knows how to find some
(03:36):
sort of like weird link website VPN thing.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Most of us are regular people who go I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I just wanted to see what's going on with the product,
but I don't have seventy five thousand things. And then
the time, dude, you know how hard it is to
watch SmackDown. It's on Friday, which everyone's busy on Fridays.
But instead, you know, we're supposed to stay and watch
watch SmackDown, which I'll do.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I'll do it. I'll watch SmackDown on Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And then it's not available right away on YouTube TV,
or it's not available right away.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
On stupid as delay, so.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I gotta wait twenty four hours to find out what
happened on SmackDown. Now I'm watching it on a Saturday evening,
which is frustrating. And then also sometimes it's hard to
find raw on Netflix, like like right after it's already aired,
or if it's only been an hour after it aired,
or like sometimes in the middle of it.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So it's like, listen.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Also, I don't understand how I've got to buy the
ESPN package now for thirty bucks a month. I don't
really if you understand how that happens. I'll come to
that problem when when it happens, like it when.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
It's sooner to the date. But it's the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
If you're gonna make WrestleMania seventy thousand dollars, just sit
in the front row. You're gonna make Summer Slam thirty
grand to sit in the front row you want. And
people are complaining about ticket prices. My argument is always like, well,
then just don't go watch it on TV. If you
can't afford it, don't go. But it's the thing. Now
you're riceing us out of even watching it. So it's like,
(05:03):
now that's where I'll defend the people. Don't make it
so hard and expensive to watch.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
If you don't have the brand to go sit and
see brock lesseners get sweat on you.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
From the front row. Then that's just something we all
don't get to do because it's for rich guys.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
But help us watch the product easily and cheap, you selfish,
greedy bastards.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
A second, that emotion, it was a lot of emotion.
I totally agree. That's all. Let's start the show.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
All right, first up, And this match is gonna piss
me off when the result comes in more than any
other match in a long time. But it's John Cena
versus Logan Paul, a generational dream match.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Is what it's being billed as.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Sina is on a farewell tour and Paul is positioning
himself for greater credibility within the wrestling community. Look, if
John Cena loses this fucking match, I will riot. I'll
be the first wrestling fan to actually riot in a
John Cena match. And granted I'll be at my house
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and there won't be anybody to like riot too, because
nobody will care except me. But if he loses, and
he's gonna lose, he's gonna put Logan Paul over his
wrestling career. He's got like nine dates left, ten dates left.
Like he's he's acting on TV shows and movies he's happy,
he's doing his thing, he's doing really well.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It doesn't matter to him if he wins or loses.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
It's that last match that matters, right, these other ones
in the middle, he can like, yeah, I'll put a
guy over, Yeah, I'll put Logan over. Don't don't, don't listen.
The John Cena character was hated. I get that, but
he is beloved now, he is beloved, and if he
loses to someone who is hated for the wrong reasons,
the wrong kind of heat, right, the kind of heat
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where it's like, I don't want to watch this, I'm
gonna change the channel because I don't think he should
he should be here, which is still a lart arch
portion of the audience does not like Logan Paul if
he If he beats John Cena, who is beloved and
was the face of the company, that's great, I guess
for Logan Paul, unless the people get so pissed and
they feel like that win was forced down our throat
the way you forced John on us and the PG
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era and the way you forced Roman on us after
the John Cena era. If they feel it's forced upon him,
they're gonna hate it and reject it and turn on
it even more than they already have. So I want
to pick Sena to win. I know Logan Paul is
gonna win, but I can't say those words. So I'm
picking John Cena after all that bullshit I just said, Sorry, sorry,
(07:40):
what about it?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I'm picking Sena too, that's freaking cool.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, and I love Logan. I don't know, I don't
like all that he do. Yeah, best big Logan guy.
I love John Cena. Uh and I think I've already
said it on this podcast, but just again, shout out
to Wrestling for noticing that they made a mistake and
switching John Cena, so we get good Judd Cena for
the rest of his you.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Know, nine months or however long we've got him. Still,
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They recognized the error and they've corrected it, and it's
been awesome and this will be a very fun farewell.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, when someone Nils Iceberg dead ahead listen and they didn't.
(08:45):
Seth rawlins the champ. This is an easy, easy pick
for your Boyfreddie versus CM Punk versus Jay Usso versus
l A Knight in a fatal four way for the
World Heavyweight Championship. Seth Rawlins stole the title from c
I'm Punk just a little while ago, and now he
has to defend it in a high stakes fatal four way.
Let me tell you something right now, told you guys
(09:07):
a lot then in a championship match. I'm not gonna
pick against the impunk ever again. Well I've I've lied before,
and I'm gonna lie again because I'm picking against him.
I know I said last time.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I knew a certain Gunther was gonna win. It's Seth Rollins,
you guys. Seth Rollins is retaining this championship. You didn't
build all this up to throw it away that quick.
You didn't build all this up with him and Bron
and Bronson and Paul Hayman. You're gonna give him Paul
Hayman so he can lose, So he can lose. Hell
to the no, he's winning this match. It'll be awesome.
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But this is my pick of the week. Put all
your dough on this one. This is the This is
the easiest one. And I don't know if there's odds
out there on any sites, but if they're good, take them.
The odds suck, then it's always better to not take
the risk because you're only winning a little bit of money.
Always to just hang on to your money and buy
self some sushi or something. But if there's decent odds,
go after this one. Seth Rawlins all day long. Our
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producer picked seth Rawlins because he's a reasonable man. Jeff,
Just how reasonable are you?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You know who I want to win and who I
think are There are always two different.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Things, And I know who you want to win.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Beeth Rowlins has got a rockets strapped on his ass.
I mean he's literally this isn't basketball, you know where
you can go out and prove how great you are
by just dropping fifty points and everyone going on, maybe
that's the new guy.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
This is wrestling, it's written it is.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
They decide, and they have decided that Seth is their guy.
They have put the belt on him. They have, like
you just said, gave Paul Hayman. They gave him two
incredible like cronies. Those two guys, the bron Boys. The
both of those guys, bron Breaker and Bronson Reed, I
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thought are stars on their own. I think that they're
way more talented than Jay Husso and they're just back
up lackeys for Seth Rawlins.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I mean they're given Seth everything.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
To think that they would take the strap off Seth
for this match is absolutely asinine. So while I would
like Jane, or while I would like La Knight to
win or see him Punk to win, it's gonna be
Seth Rawlins.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You damn right.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Next up, Roman Reigns versus Bronson Reid. Bronson Reid has
been targeting Roman Rains. He even stole to man's shoes.
You don't do that to someone over the age of
twelve years old. Or you fight and they're gonna the
tribal thief versus the tribal chief in Paris. We that
means yes, yes. By the way, I predict, Roman Reigns
isn't flying all the way to Paris to friggin lose
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a match. He flies out there to win. And I
don't care who tries to interfere, because he'll have back
up if he needs back up. Roman Reigns wins this match.
Our producer picks Roman Reigns as well. Jeff, how about
you drinking a soda pop bro Okay, alright, you guys.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Roman Rains is gonna win, but there's gonna be nanigans.
I think it's gonna be a win by DQ. I
think that there's gonna be some sort of melee, a
little scrape with all the all the crew that Bronson
Reid has, uh, and then that'll make guys come out
and defend Roman Reins. We'll get a nice little surprise
(12:28):
pop in there. But I think that that's I think
that's what's gonna happen. I think that Roman Rains will
still win, but it'll be kind of one of these no.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Big deal, not just a prediction, but the finish, the finish,
which he gets mad when Alex does it, but it's
okay when he does it because.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I'm so often wrong and Alex is so often correct
that when when Alex.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Tells you to finish, it's a spoiler.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, finish. That comedian guy thinks that's on the Freddie podcast.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That's funny, dude.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
All right, next step And this is our last one
because we booked this before Monday Night Raw airs tonight,
so we're gonna be missing a couple matches and I'm
sorry for that. But this one I think is pretty
easy to pick.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Two. This might be the Actually, no, this is gonna
be a trickier one.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Seamus versus Russev in a good old fashioned Donnie Brook match.
They don't get them a lot in Paris. In Paris
they are called done Brooke match. That's how they say
it there, and they don't do them often because it's
an Irish thing. But they're gonna go off and a
no holds barred brawl, which is set up after all
the backstage cast on raw for which they fought for
(13:37):
I guess an hour maybe when they started cutting back
and forth, they were still fighting like an hour later.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I didn't know that that much. Cass in the tank.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Our producer Alex picks Russev, who's been the one winning
these matches, and he's been looking pretty dominant. But this
is an Irish match. This is a Donnybrook match, and
the Irishman's not losing his own match. Not this week, Jeff,
Not this week, Alex, Not any week. It's gonna be
my man, Seamus, the workout master, the old crafty veteran
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versus the other veteran, but not as veterans as the
crafty one. I'm picking Seamus all day long. What do
you have, sir?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
This is tough.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I could see this going either way. I also like this.
I like this feud that they got. I like Russif
versus Seamus. I know that they're kind of doing the
same thing with them running around fighting each other by
the thing, Like, there's just this strange, kind of like
story that feels a little dated with what they're doing
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with these two guys, but it's fine.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I like it, and I like both of these guys.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I think that since Rusive is new and as far
as like he's kind of returned, you don't want to
squash that too soon.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
So I'm gonna pick Rusive.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, I think you're probably right. I think I'm probably
wrong on this one. I'm just taking the match type
into effect, but I think you're probably right. I think
you guys should go with Jeff. That one. Our producer
also also picks Russev, so they're probably going to catch
me there. But I think the rest of our picks
are pretty dead on. Thank you for listening to you
guys again. You can always leave us a review, give
us your rating, message us on social media if you
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have questions things like that. Stay tuned there each and
every week. We're here almost every week of the year,
almost every week of the year, all over forty weeks
a year. We're here to talk wrestling with you, guys
because we love it and we got a lot of
love for you. One final note that I just wanted
to share with everybody. I lost my mom over the weekend.
She passed away. She had been fighting an illness, and
(15:35):
I just want you guys to know, if you're out
there and you've lost someone, allow yourself to go through
what you got to go through. Know that you're not alone.
I feel your pain. I'm feeling it right now. If
you cry, you cry. If you don't, you don't, but
don't fight whatever feelings you have. It's a normal thing
to go through. You got people there for you. And
if you don't have anyone with you, just know that
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Jeff and I are here. We got big love for you, man,
big hearts and they're open, and we know you're out
there listening somewhere. So lots of love to you, guys,
lots of love to your families. If this makes you
want to just call your mama and tell you that
you love her, that's an awesome thing too. So do that,
all right, y'all, take care. I'm baff with Jeff. I'm
not on Batha Jeff. I'll let him say peace, but
I'm saying, Poots, peace, we out.
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready? Shops about to hit
the fan?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to on sanctioned Thursdays in wrestling with ready, what's up?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Welcome to unsanctioned Thursdays the shows that you deserve. So
you got it, you earned it. You didn't deserve it,
you earned it, and that's why you got it. So
first news, there's gonna be a big shift where you
can find WWE premium live events moving forward, because the
WWE just signed a one point six billion dollar deal
(00:39):
over five years with ESPN. Because TKO's and a lot
of debt, and they have a lot of bonuses of
fifty million dollars plus that they like paying out instead
of them taking cuts, they want everyone else to. And
they're gonna sell everything they can sell under the sun
and have as many TV shows on the air as
possible so they can regenerate as much money as quickly
as possible. Six all the major shows, WrestleMania, Royal, Rumbo, SummerSlam,
(01:03):
and so on. We'll stream on ESPN's new app, ESPN Plus,
not on Peacock, no longer on the Cock. But here's
the kicker. It's gonna start early. The first ESPN streamed
event is Wrestle Palooza. Peacock's getting the boot because they
hit all their events quota early and fans are pissed.
Some don't care, but the vocal minority, maybe they call
(01:26):
it online. They're pissed and they're talking about it, about
using a VPN or just a streaming site.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And the reason why, and I kind of.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Get it, is because it's going to cost nearly three
times more on ESPN than it did on Peacock, which
was just thirty dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Now there's some good news.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
You can initially get access to the ESPN Plus app
without having to pay thirty dollars a month if you
have a supporting cable subscription. If you have that, so
anyone that pays for cable or satellite, I believe, but
I'm not one hundred percent on satellite. You can log
into the app and you can use your cable or
satellite credentials. I know you can do satellite on a
(02:05):
lot of other stuff. So I would assume they would
give you the opportunity because they want your money, baby,
they want your money. So to watch WWE programming, here's
what you need. You need Netflix if you want to
watch Monday Night Raw, and sometimes it's kind of tricky
if you're a couple of minutes late to find it
on there and actually get it to access, so it's
paining the ass beerly. Second, you need Cabler Satellite for
(02:26):
Friday Night SmackDown. Third, you need ESPN Plus for the
premium live events, and you also need Peacock for any
of the Saturday night main event shows, which you know
they're going to try to make big and do title
changes on because they want people to pay for those
subscriptions so they can show how valuable they are to
other people when they negotiate new deals. That's going to
be four times a year, all streamed only on Peacock.
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No longer simulcasting on NBCTV as well. Everything is streaming,
streaming is f and everything up. I have nothing to
do with it, but I'm sorry it's happening to y'all. Jeff,
how do you feel about all that bad news that
I am?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Bad news? Bear it?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, here's the thing, wrestling. Little message to the wrestlers.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
If anyone in WWE is listening to our podcast, which
I suspect that they might, someone.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Might be listening over there.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Listen, stop making wrestling so hard to watch, all right,
Like it shouldn't be hard to find. I know that
you're in a weird crisis right now with television being
in the state that it's in, but let us be
able to just watch it. We just want to watch
your product. It's so annoying. We're not all real tech
nerds like our producer who knows how to find some
(03:36):
sort of like weird link website VPN thing.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Most of us are regular people who go I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I just wanted to see what's going on with the product,
but I don't have seventy five thousand things. And then
the time, dude, you know how hard it is to
watch SmackDown. It's on Friday, which everyone's busy on Fridays.
But instead, you know, we're supposed to stay and watch
watch SmackDown, which I'll do.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I'll do it. I'll watch SmackDown on Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And then it's not available right away on YouTube TV,
or it's not available right away.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
On stupid as delay, so.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I gotta wait twenty four hours to find out what
happened on SmackDown. Now I'm watching it on a Saturday evening,
which is frustrating. And then also sometimes it's hard to
find raw on Netflix, like like right after it's already aired,
or if it's only been an hour after it aired,
or like sometimes in the middle of it.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So it's like, listen.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Also, I don't understand how I've got to buy the
ESPN package now for thirty bucks a month. I don't
really if you understand how that happens. I'll come to
that problem when when it happens, like it when.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
It's sooner to the date. But it's the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
If you're gonna make WrestleMania seventy thousand dollars, just sit
in the front row. You're gonna make Summer Slam thirty
grand to sit in the front row you want. And
people are complaining about ticket prices. My argument is always like, well,
then just don't go watch it on TV. If you
can't afford it, don't go. But it's the thing. Now
you're riceing us out of even watching it. So it's like,
(05:03):
now that's where I'll defend the people. Don't make it
so hard and expensive to watch.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
If you don't have the brand to go sit and
see brock lesseners get sweat on you.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
From the front row. Then that's just something we all
don't get to do because it's for rich guys.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
But help us watch the product easily and cheap, you selfish,
greedy bastards.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
A second, that emotion, it was a lot of emotion.
I totally agree. That's all. Let's start the show.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
All right, first up, And this match is gonna piss
me off when the result comes in more than any
other match in a long time. But it's John Cena
versus Logan Paul, a generational dream match.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Is what it's being billed as.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Sina is on a farewell tour and Paul is positioning
himself for greater credibility within the wrestling community. Look, if
John Cena loses this fucking match, I will riot. I'll
be the first wrestling fan to actually riot in a
John Cena match. And granted I'll be at my house
(06:12):
and there won't be anybody to like riot too, because
nobody will care except me. But if he loses, and
he's gonna lose, he's gonna put Logan Paul over his
wrestling career. He's got like nine dates left, ten dates left.
Like he's he's acting on TV shows and movies he's happy,
he's doing his thing, he's doing really well.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It doesn't matter to him if he wins or loses.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
It's that last match that matters, right, these other ones
in the middle, he can like, yeah, I'll put a
guy over, Yeah, I'll put Logan over. Don't don't, don't listen.
The John Cena character was hated. I get that, but
he is beloved now, he is beloved, and if he
loses to someone who is hated for the wrong reasons,
the wrong kind of heat, right, the kind of heat
(06:54):
where it's like, I don't want to watch this, I'm
gonna change the channel because I don't think he should
he should be here, which is still a lart arch
portion of the audience does not like Logan Paul if
he If he beats John Cena, who is beloved and
was the face of the company, that's great, I guess
for Logan Paul, unless the people get so pissed and
they feel like that win was forced down our throat
the way you forced John on us and the PG
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era and the way you forced Roman on us after
the John Cena era. If they feel it's forced upon him,
they're gonna hate it and reject it and turn on
it even more than they already have. So I want
to pick Sena to win. I know Logan Paul is
gonna win, but I can't say those words. So I'm
picking John Cena after all that bullshit I just said, Sorry, sorry,
(07:40):
what about it?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I'm picking Sena too, that's freaking cool.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, and I love Logan. I don't know, I don't
like all that he do. Yeah, best big Logan guy.
I love John Cena. Uh and I think I've already
said it on this podcast, but just again, shout out
to Wrestling for noticing that they made a mistake and
switching John Cena, so we get good Judd Cena for
the rest of his you.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Know, nine months or however long we've got him. Still,
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They recognized the error and they've corrected it, and it's
been awesome and this will be a very fun farewell.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, when someone Nils Iceberg dead ahead listen and they didn't.
(08:45):
Seth rawlins the champ. This is an easy, easy pick
for your Boyfreddie versus CM Punk versus Jay Usso versus
l A Knight in a fatal four way for the
World Heavyweight Championship. Seth Rawlins stole the title from c
I'm Punk just a little while ago, and now he
has to defend it in a high stakes fatal four way.
Let me tell you something right now, told you guys
(09:07):
a lot then in a championship match. I'm not gonna
pick against the impunk ever again. Well I've I've lied before,
and I'm gonna lie again because I'm picking against him.
I know I said last time.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I knew a certain Gunther was gonna win. It's Seth Rollins,
you guys. Seth Rollins is retaining this championship. You didn't
build all this up to throw it away that quick.
You didn't build all this up with him and Bron
and Bronson and Paul Hayman. You're gonna give him Paul
Hayman so he can lose, So he can lose. Hell
to the no, he's winning this match. It'll be awesome.
(09:43):
But this is my pick of the week. Put all
your dough on this one. This is the This is
the easiest one. And I don't know if there's odds
out there on any sites, but if they're good, take them.
The odds suck, then it's always better to not take
the risk because you're only winning a little bit of money.
Always to just hang on to your money and buy
self some sushi or something. But if there's decent odds,
go after this one. Seth Rawlins all day long. Our
(10:05):
producer picked seth Rawlins because he's a reasonable man. Jeff,
Just how reasonable are you?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You know who I want to win and who I
think are There are always two different.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Things, And I know who you want to win.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Beeth Rowlins has got a rockets strapped on his ass.
I mean he's literally this isn't basketball, you know where
you can go out and prove how great you are
by just dropping fifty points and everyone going on, maybe
that's the new guy.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
This is wrestling, it's written it is.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
They decide, and they have decided that Seth is their guy.
They have put the belt on him. They have, like
you just said, gave Paul Hayman. They gave him two
incredible like cronies. Those two guys, the bron Boys. The
both of those guys, bron Breaker and Bronson Reed, I
(10:58):
thought are stars on their own. I think that they're
way more talented than Jay Husso and they're just back
up lackeys for Seth Rawlins.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I mean they're given Seth everything.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
To think that they would take the strap off Seth
for this match is absolutely asinine. So while I would
like Jane, or while I would like La Knight to
win or see him Punk to win, it's gonna be
Seth Rawlins.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You damn right.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Next up, Roman Reigns versus Bronson Reid. Bronson Reid has
been targeting Roman Rains. He even stole to man's shoes.
You don't do that to someone over the age of
twelve years old. Or you fight and they're gonna the
tribal thief versus the tribal chief in Paris. We that
means yes, yes. By the way, I predict, Roman Reigns
isn't flying all the way to Paris to friggin lose
(11:48):
a match. He flies out there to win. And I
don't care who tries to interfere, because he'll have back
up if he needs back up. Roman Reigns wins this match.
Our producer picks Roman Reigns as well. Jeff, how about
you drinking a soda pop bro Okay, alright, you guys.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Roman Rains is gonna win, but there's gonna be nanigans.
I think it's gonna be a win by DQ. I
think that there's gonna be some sort of melee, a
little scrape with all the all the crew that Bronson
Reid has, uh, and then that'll make guys come out
and defend Roman Reins. We'll get a nice little surprise
(12:28):
pop in there. But I think that that's I think
that's what's gonna happen. I think that Roman Rains will
still win, but it'll be kind of one of these no.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Big deal, not just a prediction, but the finish, the finish,
which he gets mad when Alex does it, but it's
okay when he does it because.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I'm so often wrong and Alex is so often correct
that when when Alex.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Tells you to finish, it's a spoiler.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, finish. That comedian guy thinks that's on the Freddie podcast.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That's funny, dude.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
All right, next step And this is our last one
because we booked this before Monday Night Raw airs tonight,
so we're gonna be missing a couple matches and I'm
sorry for that. But this one I think is pretty
easy to pick.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Two. This might be the Actually, no, this is gonna
be a trickier one.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Seamus versus Russev in a good old fashioned Donnie Brook match.
They don't get them a lot in Paris. In Paris
they are called done Brooke match. That's how they say
it there, and they don't do them often because it's
an Irish thing. But they're gonna go off and a
no holds barred brawl, which is set up after all
the backstage cast on raw for which they fought for
(13:37):
I guess an hour maybe when they started cutting back
and forth, they were still fighting like an hour later.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I didn't know that that much. Cass in the tank.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Our producer Alex picks Russev, who's been the one winning
these matches, and he's been looking pretty dominant. But this
is an Irish match. This is a Donnybrook match, and
the Irishman's not losing his own match. Not this week, Jeff,
Not this week, Alex, Not any week. It's gonna be
my man, Seamus, the workout master, the old crafty veteran
(14:06):
versus the other veteran, but not as veterans as the
crafty one. I'm picking Seamus all day long. What do
you have, sir?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
This is tough.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I could see this going either way. I also like this.
I like this feud that they got. I like Russif
versus Seamus. I know that they're kind of doing the
same thing with them running around fighting each other by
the thing, Like, there's just this strange, kind of like
story that feels a little dated with what they're doing
(14:36):
with these two guys, but it's fine.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I like it, and I like both of these guys.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I think that since Rusive is new and as far
as like he's kind of returned, you don't want to
squash that too soon.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
So I'm gonna pick Rusive.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, I think you're probably right. I think I'm probably
wrong on this one. I'm just taking the match type
into effect, but I think you're probably right. I think
you guys should go with Jeff. That one. Our producer
also also picks Russev, so they're probably going to catch
me there. But I think the rest of our picks
are pretty dead on. Thank you for listening to you
guys again. You can always leave us a review, give
us your rating, message us on social media if you
(15:15):
have questions things like that. Stay tuned there each and
every week. We're here almost every week of the year,
almost every week of the year, all over forty weeks
a year. We're here to talk wrestling with you, guys
because we love it and we got a lot of
love for you. One final note that I just wanted
to share with everybody. I lost my mom over the weekend.
She passed away. She had been fighting an illness, and
(15:35):
I just want you guys to know, if you're out
there and you've lost someone, allow yourself to go through
what you got to go through. Know that you're not alone.
I feel your pain. I'm feeling it right now. If
you cry, you cry. If you don't, you don't, but
don't fight whatever feelings you have. It's a normal thing
to go through. You got people there for you. And
if you don't have anyone with you, just know that
(15:57):
Jeff and I are here. We got big love for you, man,
big hearts and they're open, and we know you're out
there listening somewhere. So lots of love to you, guys,
lots of love to your families. If this makes you
want to just call your mama and tell you that
you love her, that's an awesome thing too. So do that,
all right, y'all, take care. I'm baff with Jeff. I'm
not on Batha Jeff. I'll let him say peace, but
I'm saying, Poots, peace, we out.
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