October 23, 2025 • 9 mins
In this edition of Fire or Fizzle, Wes tells you if certain freakish athletes are fire or fizzle.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
It's fire Fizzle Time, a staple on WESN. Walker, something
you can set your watch too.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Just like the J. C.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Horn hating from Wes Bryant, you also get the fire
Fizzle segment every Thursday.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Popular Sports Freaks.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Again, you won't hear Horn's name, but you get to
hear a lot of freaks in sports history.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Top five.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Number one Wilt Chamberlain because it looked like Wimby was
giving us some Wilt Chamberlain type of stuff last night.
I know you're not over it. We can talk about
it from afar and I apologize, but we'll start with
Wilt Chamberlain.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Fire Fizzle. Yeah, man, listen, Wilt Chamberlain. Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
And I know that some of the Texas would have
some fun with the fact that this is Popular Sports
Freaks and Wilt Chamberlain is on this list, So have
at it if you will. But seven to one weighed
three hundred pounds, nearly an eight foot one fan and
a vertically of fifty inches, okay, they said. Teammates and
opponents also said that Chamberlain could bench over five hundred
(01:10):
pounds and he allegedly outlifted professional bodybuilders. What were some
of the things he did on the court, an NBA
record one hundred point game, an NBA record fifty point
four points per game in the sixty one sixty two season,
and he held numerous other unbreakable records, like fifty five
rebounds in a single game. Well, can you think you
(01:32):
could get fifty five rebounds just out there by yourself?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
If I shot at one hundred times? I think in
four years of high school I didn't get fifty five wars.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And twenty one hundred and forty nine rebounds in a
single season. So let all that sink in as we
start off the popular sports Freaks list. Will Chamberlain, All
that off the court is absolutely straight fire, all right,
peat to the legend.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Will Chamberlain was sold little freaky in other ways as well.
Four show Hey, o Tani, popular sports freaks.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Pretty freaky right now?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
What you got? Twenty twenty three, the man hit forty
four home runs while getting ten wins as a starter,
and that got him seven hundred MILLI from the Dodgers. Okay,
twenty twenty four, unable to pitch with an elbow injury,
so he became the first player to hit fifty home
runs and still fifty bases in a single season as well.
(02:27):
He's been named an All Star as both the pitcher
and a hitter, winning multiple MVP Awards, and being the
first player, as I said, with a fifty to fifty
the home runs and the stolen bases. And we just
saw the freakish performance of all freakish performances with the
ten k's three for three, three home runs. Okay, when
(02:48):
we talk about the man it comes from the far East.
Show hey o, tiny pitcher, hitter seals the popcorn to
ber whatever you need him to do, but he is
going to to entertain you while he does it, and
so show hey O. Tani is absolutely straight fire two fires.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Number three.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I did not expect to see this man's on the list,
I said, this man's this man on the list, But
here he is brock Lesner. Yes, number three, all time
freak fire, fizzle, you tell me. He headlined UFC one hundred.
He was once the best collegiate heavyweight wrestler in the country.
He made himself a legend in the WWE. He almost
(03:31):
made the Minnesota Vikings football team, and he won the
UFC heavyweight title in just his fourth fight. He's a
seven time WWE Champion, as I said, UFC Heavyweight Champion,
NCAA Division One Heavyweight Champion. He's the only athlete to
have won the primary heavyweight championships in WWE, UFC, and
(03:54):
NCAA Division One wrestling simultaneously.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The man is a mountain of a man comes out
the crowd, pop is crazy. He's gonna put you in
that F five and absolutely destroy you. The man that
does it all in all of the combat sports. Barack
Lesners Paul Hayman says it, it's straight fizzle you already now, man,
just read the reports with the burnie Vince McMahon stuff.
(04:21):
Let's get you out of here, all right, good on,
read get you out of here man.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Right, Yeah, these guys, this could be interpreted in many
different ways. Popular sports freaks. Yeah again, I move on
next one. Bo Jackson, only one answer, Let him.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Know, all right, Bo Jackson.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He's the first athlete to make All Star teams in
both the NFL and the MLB, winning the Heisman Trophy
in nineteen eighty five, and he was the nineteen eighty
nine MLB All Star Game MVP. He holds the NFL
record for the highest career yards per carry average for
a running back, and it's famous for two ninety yard
rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
He had four.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Seasons with twenty or more home runs and one season
with thirty or more home runs. Now that four one
two forty that a lot of people like to talk
about the stuff of legend people say, but they also
say that if he had run this, because one scout
did have him running a four one two. They said,
had he run this, it might very well make Bo
(05:24):
Jackson the fastest person in human history.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So that means that that.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Four one two might have been fudged just a little bit.
And I'm not gonna lie walking out. I believed it
just a little bit. And how can we forget the
iconic Bownose advertising. Okay, the Bownose commercials, the shoes, all
of those things, the Auburn legend Bo Jackson.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
What heard do you think that this is going? Maybe
the freak of all freaks.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
And he's not like brock lesnar or Well Chamberlain, none
of that going on off the field, Bo Jackson strait
by you. And I can't forget the pro stars God too.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I think there's only one way that Bo Jackson would
not have been last on this list, because usually you
like to save the grand finale, the guy that's worthy
of the grand finale for last on this list. Bo Jackson,
I think most people would consider to be the yes
all time after what we saw last night. But after
what we saw last night, he's not last. Yeah, Wimby,
(06:24):
I mean not even really saying his full name. And
you know who I'm talking about, Wimby, Victor wimbin Yama.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
What you got up there with?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I mean, what's the young man? He came into the league?
What seven four seven five? Now, what's he seven six
seven seven, Okay? Last season twenty four points, eleven rebounds.
Odds on favor to win Defensive Player of the Year.
He won it, twenty twenty four, NBA Rookie of the Year,
(06:54):
twenty twenty four, NBA All Defensive First Team, NBA All
Star in twenty twenty five. Also led the league in
blocks for the twenty twenty four and twenty five seasons.
Earned a silver medal with the French national team at
the twenty twenty four Olympics. Also, the young Man enjoys
yoga at his amazing height as well. There are few
(07:16):
people on the planet who can touch their toes or
get into some of the stretches that constitute a great
yoga practice, and Wemby is one of them, which makes
him more of a free Okay, now that we got
all that out the way, now I can just talk
that talk, Okay. I mean, you saw it last night,
the reverse dunk in the file, the blocks, then he
(07:38):
comes down and puts a dribbled combo on Derek Lively
that looked like something Kyrie Irving would do. Last night, Folks,
you didn't just watch a basketball game. You watched a
passing of the torch. You watched the next face of
the NBA. You watched the guy that's going to be
(07:59):
selling those tickets when he comes to your town, that
your kid's gonna want his jersey. When the shoe drops,
the shoe is gonna be fire and everybody's gonna want it.
This is the guy that you're gonna look at and say,
how can we beat him? And we could have had
him in the Queen City. We were one pickaway. I
can't get rid of it, walk.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I can't. Yeah, it's tough, but either way it goes.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Victor wimbin Yama ushered in a new era basketball last night,
and yeah, we've been seeing it, we've been getting the flashes.
But last night the man said, I wanted to make
a statement to the team. I wanted to make a
statement to the league that I'm here and I'm not playing.
I'm taking hearts out like Shane two sung in Mortal Combat,
I want your soul. And so for that reason we
(08:44):
close out fire Fizzle. Victor wimbin Yama could have been
Charlotte Hornet.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's absolutely straight fire. He looks like.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Dawson from Straight Fighter when he stretches.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Out those limbs.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
That's all right, though we got him in the miller
cut the music off.
It's fire Fizzle Time, a staple on WESN. Walker, something
you can set your watch too.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Just like the J. C.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Horn hating from Wes Bryant, you also get the fire
Fizzle segment every Thursday.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Popular Sports Freaks.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Again, you won't hear Horn's name, but you get to
hear a lot of freaks in sports history.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Top five.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Number one Wilt Chamberlain because it looked like Wimby was
giving us some Wilt Chamberlain type of stuff last night.
I know you're not over it. We can talk about
it from afar and I apologize, but we'll start with
Wilt Chamberlain.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Fire Fizzle. Yeah, man, listen, Wilt Chamberlain. Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
And I know that some of the Texas would have
some fun with the fact that this is Popular Sports
Freaks and Wilt Chamberlain is on this list, So have
at it if you will. But seven to one weighed
three hundred pounds, nearly an eight foot one fan and
a vertically of fifty inches, okay, they said. Teammates and
opponents also said that Chamberlain could bench over five hundred
(01:10):
pounds and he allegedly outlifted professional bodybuilders. What were some
of the things he did on the court, an NBA
record one hundred point game, an NBA record fifty point
four points per game in the sixty one sixty two season,
and he held numerous other unbreakable records, like fifty five
rebounds in a single game. Well, can you think you
(01:32):
could get fifty five rebounds just out there by yourself?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
If I shot at one hundred times? I think in
four years of high school I didn't get fifty five wars.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And twenty one hundred and forty nine rebounds in a
single season. So let all that sink in as we
start off the popular sports Freaks list. Will Chamberlain, All
that off the court is absolutely straight fire, all right,
peat to the legend.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Will Chamberlain was sold little freaky in other ways as well.
Four show Hey, o Tani, popular sports freaks.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Pretty freaky right now?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
What you got? Twenty twenty three, the man hit forty
four home runs while getting ten wins as a starter,
and that got him seven hundred MILLI from the Dodgers. Okay,
twenty twenty four, unable to pitch with an elbow injury,
so he became the first player to hit fifty home
runs and still fifty bases in a single season as well.
(02:27):
He's been named an All Star as both the pitcher
and a hitter, winning multiple MVP Awards, and being the
first player, as I said, with a fifty to fifty
the home runs and the stolen bases. And we just
saw the freakish performance of all freakish performances with the
ten k's three for three, three home runs. Okay, when
(02:48):
we talk about the man it comes from the far East.
Show hey o, tiny pitcher, hitter seals the popcorn to
ber whatever you need him to do, but he is
going to to entertain you while he does it, and
so show hey O. Tani is absolutely straight fire two fires.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Number three.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I did not expect to see this man's on the list,
I said, this man's this man on the list, But
here he is brock Lesner. Yes, number three, all time
freak fire, fizzle, you tell me. He headlined UFC one hundred.
He was once the best collegiate heavyweight wrestler in the country.
He made himself a legend in the WWE. He almost
(03:31):
made the Minnesota Vikings football team, and he won the
UFC heavyweight title in just his fourth fight. He's a
seven time WWE Champion, as I said, UFC Heavyweight Champion,
NCAA Division One Heavyweight Champion. He's the only athlete to
have won the primary heavyweight championships in WWE, UFC, and
(03:54):
NCAA Division One wrestling simultaneously.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The man is a mountain of a man comes out
the crowd, pop is crazy. He's gonna put you in
that F five and absolutely destroy you. The man that
does it all in all of the combat sports. Barack
Lesners Paul Hayman says it, it's straight fizzle you already now, man,
just read the reports with the burnie Vince McMahon stuff.
(04:21):
Let's get you out of here, all right, good on,
read get you out of here man.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Right, Yeah, these guys, this could be interpreted in many
different ways. Popular sports freaks. Yeah again, I move on
next one. Bo Jackson, only one answer, Let him.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Know, all right, Bo Jackson.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He's the first athlete to make All Star teams in
both the NFL and the MLB, winning the Heisman Trophy
in nineteen eighty five, and he was the nineteen eighty
nine MLB All Star Game MVP. He holds the NFL
record for the highest career yards per carry average for
a running back, and it's famous for two ninety yard
rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
He had four.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Seasons with twenty or more home runs and one season
with thirty or more home runs. Now that four one
two forty that a lot of people like to talk
about the stuff of legend people say, but they also
say that if he had run this, because one scout
did have him running a four one two. They said,
had he run this, it might very well make Bo
(05:24):
Jackson the fastest person in human history.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So that means that that.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Four one two might have been fudged just a little bit.
And I'm not gonna lie walking out. I believed it
just a little bit. And how can we forget the
iconic Bownose advertising. Okay, the Bownose commercials, the shoes, all
of those things, the Auburn legend Bo Jackson.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
What heard do you think that this is going? Maybe
the freak of all freaks.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
And he's not like brock lesnar or Well Chamberlain, none
of that going on off the field, Bo Jackson strait
by you. And I can't forget the pro stars God too.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I think there's only one way that Bo Jackson would
not have been last on this list, because usually you
like to save the grand finale, the guy that's worthy
of the grand finale for last on this list. Bo Jackson,
I think most people would consider to be the yes
all time after what we saw last night. But after
what we saw last night, he's not last. Yeah, Wimby,
(06:24):
I mean not even really saying his full name. And
you know who I'm talking about, Wimby, Victor wimbin Yama.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
What you got up there with?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I mean, what's the young man? He came into the league?
What seven four seven five? Now, what's he seven six
seven seven, Okay? Last season twenty four points, eleven rebounds.
Odds on favor to win Defensive Player of the Year.
He won it, twenty twenty four, NBA Rookie of the Year,
(06:54):
twenty twenty four, NBA All Defensive First Team, NBA All
Star in twenty twenty five. Also led the league in
blocks for the twenty twenty four and twenty five seasons.
Earned a silver medal with the French national team at
the twenty twenty four Olympics. Also, the young Man enjoys
yoga at his amazing height as well. There are few
(07:16):
people on the planet who can touch their toes or
get into some of the stretches that constitute a great
yoga practice, and Wemby is one of them, which makes
him more of a free Okay, now that we got
all that out the way, now I can just talk
that talk, Okay. I mean, you saw it last night,
the reverse dunk in the file, the blocks, then he
(07:38):
comes down and puts a dribbled combo on Derek Lively
that looked like something Kyrie Irving would do. Last night, Folks,
you didn't just watch a basketball game. You watched a
passing of the torch. You watched the next face of
the NBA. You watched the guy that's going to be
(07:59):
selling those tickets when he comes to your town, that
your kid's gonna want his jersey. When the shoe drops,
the shoe is gonna be fire and everybody's gonna want it.
This is the guy that you're gonna look at and say,
how can we beat him? And we could have had
him in the Queen City. We were one pickaway. I
can't get rid of it, walk.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I can't. Yeah, it's tough, but either way it goes.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Victor wimbin Yama ushered in a new era basketball last night,
and yeah, we've been seeing it, we've been getting the flashes.
But last night the man said, I wanted to make
a statement to the team. I wanted to make a
statement to the league that I'm here and I'm not playing.
I'm taking hearts out like Shane two sung in Mortal Combat,
I want your soul. And so for that reason we
(08:44):
close out fire Fizzle. Victor wimbin Yama could have been
Charlotte Hornet.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's absolutely straight fire. He looks like.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Dawson from Straight Fighter when he stretches.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Out those limbs.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
That's all right, though we got him in the miller
cut the music off.
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