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July 25, 2025 12 mins
The A-Team Friday Draft is BACK! Wex, AC and Cole discuss their Mount Rushmore of wrestlers following the passing of Hulk Hogan. Does Wex win his first battle? Will AC show off his knowledge in the ring? Can Cole even keep up? 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
With hul Kogan passing and what the icon that he
is and how big he was, Maybe we should maybe
we should draft some things.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
With the first pick, and with the second pick, with
the third pick, with.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
The second pick, with the first pick Friday draft like
the greatest wrestlers of all time?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yep, opening pick, I've got and I'll take a while.
Who McDaniel, go.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Are you serious right now?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
No?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
I do have the first pick, followed by you, followed
by Cole huh, And I do think there is enough
star power throughout the draft that there's no well you
took him, you win. We'll find out. We'll make four selections.
We'll turn it into a little bit of a so
called Mount Rushmore. But there are a lot of things
you can choose to decide how you're evaluating this greatest showman, entertainer,

(00:56):
good for the sport, all those things that go into
being a great eight pro wrestler that would get you know,
the mizz or Jimmy Snook into the conversation if we
were drafting like a forty man roster something like that,
We'll draft a four wrestler roster, me Mount Rushmore, if
you will, you Cole so Cole will get two of

(01:17):
the first four selections.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
I'll get one of the first five, going first, lucky dog.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
But it would have been my selection even if he
were much more happily still alive today.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
I would I talked.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
About it yesterday, for the magnitude of his impact on
the sport and its success and staying power.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
It for me has to be the Holkster. The Holkster,
I get it. It's a good pick.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's a good first pick, and I actually would have expected.
I don't know if I had expected all three of
us to do it, but under the circumstances, it's a
sentimental favorite to maybe push you over the top of
this draft.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
We don't know, ye the timing of it.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Certainly it wouldn't have been yours. I don't think it's
an It was obvious what I said yesterday should have
made it. Obviously, that's what if I had the pick
would have made. But I don't disagree with Cole at all.
I just happened to feel that way. I think there
are not even one other possible first pick.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, he's he is, Okay, well let's go, But there
is another one and he's my favorite. Man.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Gee, who are you taking.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Steve Williams, oh death stone called Steve Austin. Yeah, that's
that's a no brainer. That would have been my pick
no matter what, unless I was drafting third, because I'm
guessing he would have been taken in the first two picks.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
You can have Stone Cold Steve Austin. I will all right,
Cole two for you.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah, I was not gonna take either one of them
with my first pick. I was gonna take the one
that they made fun of on South Park, that they
make fun of every single time that they ever have.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, they do all the time.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
I will go with the man, the myth, the legend,
the one that acts.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
I watched just some highlights. Macho man. Randy Savage is
my first overall pick. Wow, that's a little bit of
a dark horse pick. I did not expect that. But
you have two picks and then number two.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
Gonna go with the man who came back from the
dead on multiple occasions, the gift that keeps on giving.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Give me the Undertaker. Man. I do not like how
this is going, and not for Cole. Go ahead with
your pick, Rick Flair.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, I mean seriously, dude, all right, we can continue
if you want.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
I mean, it's over now. You let Rick Flair go fifth?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
What are you doing? He even said I'm gonna take
the man, and he didn't even take the man. He said,
I want to take the man because if you want
to beat the man, you gotta let the man go.
With the fifth pick to the guy who took stole gold,
Steve aust.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
There are still many good picks for you to take.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
You.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, I don't even have any thought. I thought when
it came back to me, i'd actually have to think
about it. I wanna take no thought. We're gonna get
This is gonna be the fastest eighteen draft ever, even
though we're making sixteen picks. I'm taking the Rock and
I'm taking John Cena, and it couldn't be any easier
to make those picks. I mean, is there anyone else
even under consideration?

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, of the ones that are left, that's everybody but
these five.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
But these yeah, there's he listen.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I would say it's a two horse race right now,
But look, it's all subjective, and at the end of
the day it comes it comes down to the voters.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
I think the next pick, in light of the fact
that Macho Man was taken decidedly too early is rather
easy for Yeah, I got two names, but okay, much
more highly of one. But let's see what you got.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
I'm actually gonna take the hit man Brett Hart.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, so I mean, I know.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Can you give a little background on why Brett Hart
is thought of the way he is, because it's pretty
consistent that most people would say, at worst he's top twelve.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, yeah, no he's well, first of all, he's the
best there is, the best there was, and the best
there ever will be.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Good showman, so he could have been number one.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yes, technical wrestler, super super like family is legendary.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Like from to this day, big time personality. He seems
like he's not to know that. So to get echelon
of wrestlers, you've got to be real good at what
you actually do. Okay, and it's not fake that regards.
You got Brett Hart, and you got Stone Cold and
Rick Flair, and don't forget Rick Flair. I tried to
try to pretend like that didn't happen just just a

(05:18):
few minutes ago.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
I like, I like my threesome so far, I'm looking
for a foursome.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
All right, you got to wrap things up here, for
your four person Greatest Wrestlers after taking Randy Savage and
I I can't what is the Undertaker's name?

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Mark?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Mark Callaway? You can mean Mark Kallus. If you're nasty
in the WCW era, you got two more pick skull.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
Yeah, listen, guys, I don't pay attention to wrestling. I
just go based off of names that I've actually heard before,
and the man that kilt is one that I absolutely
will always go after.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Give me Rowdy Roddy Piper.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
Absolutely love the man, absolutely love the fact that he
wore a kilt on stage. Great flair, great fanatics, great ambiance,
and let's go with.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
The wild card again.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
He ended up becoming a very fa famous actor on
one television show, and he had a television had so
serial brand, he had an action figure, and he was
able to go ahead and.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Kill Apollo in the ring. Give me mister T.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Wow, mister T who highlighted not one but two WrestleMania's career.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Maxiz participated in for mister T. What's the number at
it's got under ten, under five.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well as far as pay per views, it's a single digits. Okay,
I'm sure he did some house shows we don't know
about in the mid eighties.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Uh, if I was asking you five minutes ago, if
mister T gets selected, how many picks do you think
it would take for us to get there? If we
have an unlimited series of picks fifty fifty.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
I accept this game, It's okay.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Well, I think if I say this with my max
is correct. Yes, And I think he was the ninth pick,
the tenth pick, tenth pick, Rowdy was Roddy was ninth,
so he's tenth. Roddy's a good pick. Roddy is a
good pick. I knew we'll take taking sixteen wrestlers. I
thought there was a chance he I thought there, even
though he's probably not top twenty to a lot of people,

(07:10):
I figured he would go.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
For a guy who Now You're not you're not coal,
You're not.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Completely There was an era where I was totally locked in.
It's just was not a long period of time. But
I was like, it was a while ago.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
You took the three biggest box office draws in the
history of the company.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
That's a solid draft.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
And truthfully, when I said there was a time where
I was really locked I probably saw more watch more
matches that featured. Steve Williams mentioned his name earlier, Doctor Death.
Ted Dbassi, before he came into some money, became the
real life gimmick of Vince McMahon. Absolutely, I mean long
before he was associated with Virgil, he was just a

(07:51):
He was just Ted Dbasse, a wrestler, made a very
good one in a different outfit. I was in levon Erics,
et cetera. That's where it all began for me. And
as it continued into the massive production and money making
machine that it was.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Fence decided to light the place. What a concept. Now
it doesn't look like a smoky old gym.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
So you put together Stone Cold, Steve, Austin, Rick Flair,
Brett Hart.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
And well it's I don't know that I'm going to
be able to overcome the the trio that you've already selected.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Just take the best available player, don't take don't take Needy.
But he doesn't know what that is. He also doesn't
know what the next step would be for this year.
We haven't played that sound bite yet from Wednesday. Boy,
can people talk about the next step?

Speaker 4 (08:35):
I don't know what that is?

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Winning a second playoff game, advancing to the conference title game.
That is so quite clearly in black is advancing past
where you've been. That is the next step this team
needs to make. I'll make mention of that to him.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Well, I didn't intend on picking both participants in the
Montreal screw job. Oh no, but that's how it turned
out with my fire. Well it was true. Well a
whole documentary on it. But yeah, the guy out, Sam Martino,
that was not He was not there that night. I
don't even think he was talking to Vince. Did I
say that wrong? Does it pronounce George the animal Steel?

Speaker 4 (09:14):
That's also not the guy? All right, ravishing starts right,
I thought about taking him. Really, Rick, who is it
really gonna be?

Speaker 1 (09:22):
By the way, Rick Rude a genuine badass, like outside
of the ring. You didn't want to mess with him,
kind of like HEROB talked about Trevor Riza when he
was with the Rockets.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
I don't want to see him outside of the ring.
I mean, I know that you know a lot more
than I do about this.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
He did strike me because if he was so ravishing
and he played to that, uh huh, pretty boy, now I.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Know, not even talking like not just fight you? He
had things all right? So who is it gonna be uh,
mister WrestleMania himself.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Break cad Shan Michael's That's how Vince would have said.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
It.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Probably a very good outside the top ten pick for
a widely regard to top ten wrestler.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
And if you had told me when I was.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Eleven in that range, when he was becoming a solo act,
you know, after he kicked literally Marty Jeannetti to the side. Yeah,
and he took him out with the barbershop window, that
he would age the way he has and look the
way he does. We're talking all the stereotypical dad aging
type things. It's just it's humble because he was the

(10:25):
epitome of what you just said. He was a pretty
boy back in the day. Not so much now.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
The names to consider for me now that I have
the last pick Snitter, irrelevant, Sting, triple h McK foley
a little reluctantly, but a little more current. And since
he's kind of a friend of the show because of
his because of Paul Hayman, Roman Reigns and the person,

(10:52):
I think I'm just gonna go ahead and select Pretty Star,
Pretty Large, Princess Bride, the Star of Princess Bride, documentary
on him is elite, My so good.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
It's produced one gift for sure that we all use. Now.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Wrestling does involve a lot of time in front of
the microphone.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Not what he did, not his aga for sixteen complete
seconds in a row?

Speaker 2 (11:17):
What exactly did he just say? What is he even
trying to say? Cutting a promo with him involved almost impossible. Yeah,
but I'm gonna take Andre the Giant. That's a strong draft. Like,
I don't see any way you don't win this with
like eighty percent of the vote.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
And I'm not even kidding, Like, they'll look at mine,
they'll laugh at Cole. They'll look at my list and
then they'll see yours and be like, geez, So, I mean,
maybe I'm not giving my list enough credit.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Well, I don't.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
I think you're selling selling a Cole's list short, if
I'm reading it correctly.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
He took no, no selling. He took the term here
that we're gonna use.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
He took a minor league baseball player, right, he took
a baseball player. He took a dead guy, he took
a guy that wears a kilt, and he took an actor.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
Like the only pick.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
And again I say this with all due respect, your
only solid pick was the Undertaker, and I called.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Him a dead guy only in the fact that man
his name is the Undertaker.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Really so Matra Man not a really solid pick on
this little little early for the fourth for the third
overall thing.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
You know what, that is a solid pick. I take
that back.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
I want to I don't want to insult Randy Poffo
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