May 1, 2020 • 65 mins
Spencer and Marty highlight the best moments from this past week's NXT show and look ahead to a title-heavy episode next week. Plus, AEW's TNT Championship Tournament rolls along with our own bracket's first round coming to a close.
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Welcome back to another edition of Stickto the Gimmick. What's up Guys,
Your Boys? Spencer Davis, MartyHarmon bringing you episode one oh four of
STTG. Got a lot to talkabout n XT with a jam packed card
next Wednesday, when I believe theyare going live. Holy Wrestling has their
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final set for the TNT Championship Tournamenttaking place at Double or Nothing on May
twenty third, but they are alsogoing live next Wednesday, so we have
two wrestling shows that are going live. I don't know if Ron SmackDown are
they probably are considering that. Ithink it's a week from Sunday we'll be
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money in the bank, so it'salready coming up that fast. Yeah,
it's May tenth. It's May tenth, so yeah, it's it's how it's
all happening. It's all happening aswe continue to be quarantine here in the
great State of Ohio. Our lockdownorder has been extended through May twenty ninth,
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so we will continue to be doingthis as we fight against this awful,
awful pandemic. But we're staying positive. We're here, we're talking to
you, hopefully entertaining you. Maybewe're annoying you, but you're listening to
us, so jokes on you.So with that said, Marty, what's
going on? Nothing? Man?There's nothing that can possibly be new,
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nothing possibly new? How is howis life at home? What have you
been doing to pass the time?I mean, I feel like we should
be asking these question questions because it'smay. It's not gonna be may.
It is my um. I havebeen playing video games and watching TV and
movies. All right, all right, I saw that you you wrote something
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there over on what culture you got? You got an article up? Yeah,
I did. I figured i'd getback into that. How did that
go? That's good? It's up. Go ahead, like last night checked
like thirty thousand views. Took mea while to write. It was like
a baby thousand words or something likethat. All right, good to hear,
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Good to hear. I've been justdoing some you know, just keeping
the old fingertips ready to go.Been doing some articles for Basketball Insiders like
I always do. That's my otherthing, you know, I write about
basketball in the NBA. So I'vebeen doing weekly articles for them. I've
been also playing video games, mostrecently been into Watchdogs. And I've also
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been scanning about the network, andI'm watching the Monday Night War series,
which for some reason, I don'tknow whether it's because it came out in
like twenty fourteen or twenty fifteen orjust I don't recall having watched them,
but a lot of them are likenew to me. When I'm watching them,
I'm like, I can't remember thethings that we're going on there.
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And I didn't realize they were goingsuperstar by superstar, not just in a
timely, you know, a timelinemanner. It's almost like The Last Dance
the way that they've set it up. But it's good. I've been meaning
to watch that too, I haven'tgot around to it yet. Last Dance
or that, Yes, the LastDance. Oh yeah, no, it's
good. It's really good so far. Sunday they're coming out with episodes five
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and six. Okay, I Ithought it was over. Oh no,
no, no, it's a tenepisode thing and they released two every Sunday.
Oh all right, yeah, definitelythought it was over. Nope,
not over. Yeah, yeah,okay, So that's what three and a
half minut it's of rambling. Let'sget into what happened at an xt um.
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Let's start with, Oh, doyou want to start with the main
event, because I mean I feellike that was the biggest thing here.
Uh, Keith Lee versus Damien Priestfor the North American Championship. Sure,
I thought it was good. Thatwas good. Uh. I'm actually I'm
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really starting to see the ability inthe the confidence of Damien Priest here,
just by the way that he's he'smoving in the ring. You know,
like he's getting a little bit less. Uh, he's loose, He's not
as stiff as he was when hewas first into the promotion. Um,
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just watching you know, even hislike backstage problem was like the you know,
the badass, cool guy with thesunglasses on. Like I got that
vibe from him, and like he'she's just like you know, thinks he's
such a hard ass, and Ithink it works for him. Um,
but in the ring, I thoughtthat he was really good. Um that
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move that he does over the thecorner, when he does the tope to
the outside and goes over the turnbuckle, that's a really nice That's that's hell
athleticism for a guy that size.Um, the the kicks were on point.
He had one insecurity that was reallyreally connected um he uh the sup
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plex on Lee at the UH whenhe when he failed the first two times,
uh distributed distributed a lot of powerthere. Um. I just I'm
starting to come around on him.I mean I know that I don't know
where his place on the card is. Is he a mid carter? Is
he you know, upper mid carter. I don't know, but I can
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see the potential they have with him, and he's definitely starting to feel like
a character that's believable to me.Ask for Keith, Um, Wow,
this dude's got a lot of Imean, let's just come out with it
right here and now. When they'reon the outside by the barricade and he
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tossed his priest onto the apron fromwhere they are, I was like,
god, damn, Like that wasthe spot of the match for me,
because Damian Priest is not a smallguy, and he threw him like a
sack of potatoes, like it wasnothing right under the right side of the
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apron, and I was like,hole, crap, Um, Keith,
you never have to even go intospecifics with him in the matches anymore.
He's just money. He's just sogood. His timing is fantastic. The
athleticism is out of this world.He did. He did a little little
bit. He missed the mark alittle bit um on his toepey. It
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was like over the rope and hedid like a corkscrew thing. But it
still hurts because it's a freaking threehundred plus pounder landing on you with that
speed and that agility. But Iwill say this, um, the finish
was a little hokey for me.The little hokey just because Damian Priest.
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He goes out, he tricks theref. He brings out the title and
he brings out the nightstick. He'slike, oh, you better have somebody
looking after this. So the stupidref obviously goes, oh, I gotta
put the title back. Priest comesinto the ring with his nightstick, tries
to do what he did to Leelast week. Keith catches it and this
is this is where it got alittle cheesy for me. Keith catches his
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arm, he raises it up.Priest goes impossible. He did He's like
an exactly. He goes impossible andKeith goes no, no, I am
limitless. He puts the damn thingdown, ends up hitting him with one
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power bomb, picks him up andthen does it does a double power bomb
pins him for the one, twothree. Keith wins. I mean Keith,
he didn't do the normal spirit bomb, he did two power bombs.
But the impossible No, I amlimitless. It's a little corny for me.
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Little corny, especially because it wasa really good match. It was
a lot. I mean, Ithought that those two were going at it.
I didn't see anything that was youknow, wonky or or like forced,
like they just had a good naturalchemistry like him and Daijakovic. But
the finished impossible. No, comeon, So that was your main event
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and that's how the show ended.Um, what did you think of the
match? Uh? And that finished? Because you really haven't said much on
it. Um, it was nothingspecial compared to like matches they've had in
the past. And yeah, Iagree, the finish was very like anime
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like just cheesiness. Um. Thesilver lining for me is that hopefully,
hopefully this is fucking done. Hopefullyyou never know, but god damn it,
please, Well, where do youwant Damien to go? Where you
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want Keith to go? So weknow we know where Djovic is going,
So let's let's go. Let's goto that Djakovich is well. It started
on the social media platforms but endedup on NXTI Television this week just in
promo outside and basically called out JohnnyGargano because he was complaining about what he
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what he wanted and didn't get it, and you know, paraphrasing obviously,
but challenging Johnny because he doesn't know, you know, what it means to
you know, be at the topor something rather like that. So him
and Johnny are gonna go at itnext week. Let's talk about um Candice,
because Candice was outstanding. First off, she came out with some banging
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new theme music, banging new thememusic. Loved it, the Titan tron,
the new font, the pint sizepoison. She's no longer the potent
size Pixie, She's pipe size poison. Say that five times fast. I
couldn't do it. Wow. Sheshe was fantastic. And you know what
I liked about this? Okay,So one Johnny came out as the oversupportive
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manager slash boyfriend and he was almostdoing like personal ring anouncing for him,
like I don't know if they're goingto continue that that, Like Ricardo Rodriguez,
Albert till type thing. I don'tknow if they're going to continue that,
but like overly happy to support hiswife, Johnny. I liked it.
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Uh. Secondly, you know shecomes out with you know the look
that she she showed on the vignettelast week, with the you know,
the pink streaks and the hair andthe well not pink, it's like magenta
but um, and then the blacklipstick. What I liked about this though,
was her opponent. She was facingCasey Katon's arrow um perfect opponent to
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start her heel running gets because Casey'seven smaller than Candice. Is that Candice
was wrestling like her old self atlike the beginning of the match, like
there was nothing healy about her,and then like when Casey like kicked out
or got like the upper hand onher, she just increasingly got more and
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more pissed and finally got her toa point like where she started to go
like she was like questioning, Shewas like what do I have to do?
What I have to do? Shewas looking back at Johny blah blah
blah. Eventually, you know,like she started showing this side of her
that we haven't seen yet, startedlike holding on it you know, using
the whole five count on the ropes, and then eventually I think my favorite
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part of the match was when shefaked putting Cat and Zero into the Gargano
escape. It was either that orCata and zero escape, that can't remember.
But then she debuted a brand newfinisher which is just beautiful looking.
She you basically do the stretch themthe monkey stretch, and then she put
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her foot on top of her headand then just caved her head into the
mat and then one. So firstoff, beautiful new funit finisher for Candice.
Secondly, after the match is over, Candice is walking back on the
ramp with Johnny. Candice stops midramp, says no, that's not enough,
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goes back into the ring, andthen puts the Gargano escape onto Cat
and zero. And then of coursesomething we forgot to mention was Maron Allo
Bethy Knicks were back on commentary withTom Phillips. So you just heard Morrow
go no, no, what yourdoing? You know, and that typical
like overselling Morrow. It was goodto hear though, yes, no,
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it was great to hear it.It's like, what is shr doing?
But that whole Candice thing, Ithink they knocked that out of the fricking
park. What did you think?I mean, I felt like it was
kind of a boring match, butthat finish that she has now is fantastic.
Also, the fact that I knowit was an accident, but that
she like fell backwards and tripped aftershe did it made it look more devastating,
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even though it was like her momentumcarried her back. Yeah, okay,
yeah, I feel it. Ifeel it. Um Okay, we
had uh Charlotte and Mia yim.That was another match that was built to
be a big one this week.Um thought Mia looked actually a little bit
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better, Um, not quite asyou know, as a slow paced as
she usually is. Maybe Charlotte hadsomething to do with that, I mean,
just because I have Yeah, Ialso think it was pretty boring,
but better than what she's usually putout is what I'm saying. Yeah,
you can think it's boring, butum, I I think it did the
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job. It was a good,you know, ten minute match accomplished what
it was supposed to accomplish. Mialooked a lot better than the last time
she faced Charlotte. Obviously, Charlotte'sa completely different in a completely different stratosphere
than where she was when she firstfaced me a UM five years ago.
Oh absolutely, I think it accomplishedwhat I need to accomplish. Um.
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Mia hit the eat defeat and Charlottedidn't even fall. I thought that was
an interesting point of it. Miaalso hit the Cold Blue, which is
the Canadian destroyer type thing, andCharlotte kicked out of that. That was
more like a sunset power bomb.Yeah, I don't know, it's a
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oh yeah, you're right. You'reright, You're right. That one's a
sunset power of them. I getthem mixed up. They're all they're all
used. Nothing's original anymore. U. But Charlotte ended up winning with the
figure eight and uh, you knowwas our first and then EO came out
after and just started screaming at herin Japanese. Yeah a la Oscar.
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But wow, I mean Charlotte andOscar are gonna go at it. I
mean, not Charlotte Oscar, Charlotteand EO are gonna go at it next
week for the Women's Championship. Sobuckle up for that one. Okay.
Uh. We also had another randommatch here. Your boy Dexter loomis h
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forgot who he faced. I don'tknow. I'm glad it was him time.
Oh we faced Shane Thorne. That'sright, So Loomis faced Shane Thorne.
Thorne actually had you know, anupper hand here, and I think
that they're starting to showcase him alittle bit more because he's on main event
television now. I don't know ifyou saw, but him and Brendan Vank
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are being managed by MVP now onRAW. Oh really, Yeah, so
Shane looked a lot stronger than heusually as here, even though he I
don't want to say he did ajob, but you know, he lost,
but he did a good job.Like, um, he's a he's
a good he's a good wrestler.Yeah, Loomis, Uh, he is
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just such an enigma. I amso enthralled, Like I I need more
of this guy every week. AndI don't want him to say a word
for a year. I know,I don't. I still don't. I
don't know what he's doing. AndI think that's the most you know part,
that's the part that wants me towatch even more because I don't know
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what he's doing. He's literally he'sbeen booked in every part of the show.
He's been booked in like angles.He's been booked in random matches and
they haven't explained a day thing.It's fantastic. And he doesn't say a
words, and I continued, Idon't want him to say a word because
I just want to keep trying tofigure it out. So I don't know,
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but I want more, all right. Uh. Cruiserweight Championship Tournament had
two matches, both I thought werereally good. We had Isaiah Swerve Scott
versus l Eho del Fantasma. Bythe way, Morrow called him Heo del
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phantasma, and I wanted to punchmy screen every time because you don't pronounce
the h in Spanish. It's eho, not heo. But still h good
have Marrow back. Were you surprisedthat they gave Swerve the win here?
No? Why not? Because otherthan him, he's been the one that's
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been like booked the strongest. Yeah, but he I mean he loses,
you know, week one to Zawahand you don't know, you know.
I think the best part of thiswhole thing, uh was his h post
match promo. It was just reallyimpassioned. I don't like want to paraphrase
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it because I'm not gonna do itjustice. But like it was the first
time we really heard Swerve on themic, you know, yeah, but
it was very impassioned, um,basically talking about how much he needs the
you know, everyone needs it,everyone needs it. But and then they
did that cheesy ass promo that wasoutside between Atlas and Drake Maverick sounded like
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please please delphin Well he was like, I believe in you. We all
believe in you. You can dothis. And I was like, shut
the fuck up. It was justincredibly lame. That seems incredibly forced.
You can do it all right.Other Cruiserweight match Drake Maverick Tony nice and
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this one was this is a dandy. What was the best about this was
Tony was beating the ever living hellout of him. This whole match,
like the first ten minutes was justTony trash talking and stomping the hell out
of him. And finally Drake gotpissed enough to the point where he started
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coming back on the offensive and onthe offensive. Um. The I think
the storytelling in this match was reallygood. Drake's um, you know,
the the finish was beautiful. Uh. I had no idea how adaptable he
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was because Tony's not your you know, your typical cre your weight size,
No, not at all. Ithought Drake killed it. I thought he
did a hell of a job andhe got the win, and you know
they caught up with him, youknow, post match, and he's continuing
this. You know, I cando it mindset. I thought the line
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about Wolf of Wall Street was great, so that you'd call me the Wolf
of NXE because I'm not freaking goinganywhere. That was really cool. Whether
it's truthful or not, I don'tknow, but in this case, I
thought that was really cool. Andhe's one and one now Tony Nie is
eliminated from advancing, but he inhis one of his online videos that he
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can play spoiler or something against Kushita. So those were the matches. I
don't think I missed a match.I know there were a couple other segments.
Let's get this one out of theway. Well, the Newly Bros.
Show, Will you missed the maskedassailants coming after what's his face?
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Phantasma or whatever? Oh yeah,that's right, that's right. And guess
what they didn't get him again?Yea, my theory stands true. Yeah,
it's definitely literally only it revolved aroundhim at this point now, like
that's his thing, and you saidthat that would be the biggest storyline out
of this entire tournament. Yeah,unless they make Strake Maverick things something ridiculous.
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Yeah, they could. Are youin agreement with me now that he's
behind all this and he's staging it? Not yet really? Yeah, guess
we'll have to tune in and findout. All right, we've prolonged it
long enough. The Newly Bros.Show. I told you last week,
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but there is nobody in the companythat could portray Matt Riddle's character the way
Matt Ridle portrays his character. Ithink this one took it to another level.
This was kind of like a huhfor me. So NXT does its
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best raw impression by putting Matt Riddleand Timothy Thatcher out there on a game
show. It's like the Newlyweds game. They called it the Newly Bros.
Show. Byron Saxton is hosting,doing his best Carlton Carlton Banks oppression.
Yeah, just being Byron as wellas he can be. Byron's great.
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I love that guy. I'm sorry. But still, so they were doing
they did like literally like five orsix straight minutes of it, and you
know, it was comedy stuff,you know, typical. I think the
best parts about the actual Newly Bros. Show was the ding buzzer when you
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got something right, that Diddy hittingit's a brow. Yeah, that was
freaking terrible. The whole thing wasjust a was just a joke about how
much Matt Riddles into drugs. Itreally was, and it was also trying
to introduce you to who Timothy Thatcherwas. And Timothy Thatcher is just standing
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or sitting there just like what thehell is going on? And he's giving
his honest answers and Riddle has thissharpie or this you know, this erase
marker pen with his pad and writingall the answers and stuff like that,
and it was just it was oneof those things where you loved it or
hate it, but I'm in themiddle. I was like, I don't
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know what I'm watching right now,but I am laughing at Matt Riddle saying
that he's not into speed. Yeah. I mean I thought it was funny.
Definitely could see why someone would hateit, but I didn't think it
was bad. I still don't knowwho Timothy Thatcher really is as a person
yet. But I did have aproblem with the sec with though, is
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when he was talking, it wasway too quiet and I couldn't or anything.
Well, maybe that's him, he'sjust talking. You need you just
he's not loud. I literally couldn'thear him of it. And I wasn't
going to turn up my TV becauseeverything else was already so loud. I
didn't want to have the problem thatall movies have where one things too loud
and one thing's too quiet, andI'm constantly turning up and down the volume.
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So I just I just didn't hearanything he said because I wasn't turning
my TV up to hear him.Well, it wasn't really that important obviously,
I mean I figured it wasn't thatimportant. But yeah, I literally
I couldn't hear anything that he saidbecause the volume was so low on it,
like he didn't have the mic closeenough or he just wasn't talking loud
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enough. I'm not sure, buteither way, it was pretty annoying.
They literally talked about the craziest placethat they've done it, Timmy said in
the ring or something. Oh no, oh no. But the segment comes
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to a sad end when Imperium comesout and attacks them from behind, So
right now they're done with fim Balorclearly, m Fabian and Marcel come out
and attack Matt Riddle and Timothy Thatcher. They then get into the ring do
their finishing move. So looks likethey're looking for a tag team title shot.
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Okay. We also had Carrie andCross and Scarlett Bordeaux do their final
promo apparently their debuting next week.Good is that is? That? Is
that? What it is? Thatwhat it was about? Because they said
the clock stops TikTok? Is thereanother part of this rhyme that I'm not
getting here? Well, I mean, let's think about what's next week.
You got the title match, theboth title matches, just title match and
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title match, NXT Championship and NXTWomen's Championship. Well I don't see them
getting inner interjected into the women's one. So I'm saying, like, what
if they don't have their own segment, what could they possibly be in?
You've got Finn Johnny and the titlematch? Or they have no right?
I have failed to mention that FinnBalor, Uh they advertised for next week
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but he was not there. Um, I don't think I missed anything else.
Uh they're doing. Yeah, likeyou said, So, next week's
show is Charlotte flairt Iosharai. Bythe way, I think that's main eventing
um an extra championship, Adam Coleand Velveteen Dream and then Johnny Gargano and
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Dominic did Jakovic And I'm gonna assumethat the Interim Cruiserweight Championship tournament continues right
next week. Yeah, yeah,I'm gonna assume. Yeah. So hitting
on all that, Uh, what'sthe craziest thing you see coming out of
next week? UM? I guessit just depends on where they have Cross
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interjected. You know, Well,we haven't seen Champa since that video or
whatever. We haven't seen him ontelevision. I mean excluding that small you
know, backstage camera thing. Wehaven't seen him on TV in like a
month now. I don't see ifthe winning so I don't think it'll be
there. I don't think EO isgonna beat Charlotte yet. I don't think
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that match has a conclusion. Yeah, so I don't know. It really
all relies on a where Cross isput into the show and what he does,
and that's what's gonna draw the viewers. I think that's the that's got
my most interest for next week isthat segment alone. I think that there's
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gonna be an advancement in that kidnappingangle. Still that that's those two things
right there. I think also aremine. Well, is he gonna have
a match next week? He alreadyhad a match this week, so they
might take a week off from that, right, but he doesn't have to
have a match to have they hada storyline advanced true to shape. Um,
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Johnnie Organa, Is he gonna havenew theme music? Yeah? I
think so. Yeah, I lookforward to it. I like new theme
music. I get all giddy aboutnew theme music. Wasn't wasn't Candice is
awesome. It was middle of theroad, middle of the road. It
reminded me of like I don't don't. I don't remember it, so that
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I think says enough I remember it. It's good and it just goes with
everything. Yeah, I don't rememberit, so I feel like that says
enough about it. Boom. Ithink Johnny, you'll have it new music,
though, that's gonna be weird becauseI'm just so used to rebel Heart
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okay, um, money in thebank. Things I always ask you this
every week. I'm going to continueto ask you. Did you read anything
on Reddit or scroll across anything onTwitter that negative? Okay, well,
I already named you the participants.So far, the only update I have
is that there is one missing now. Um, Apollo Cruz got written out
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of the money in the bank match, and he was like getting big time
momentum. I know what they're doinghere, but I still think it sucks
because the general opinion that I've atleast started to come across is that Apollo
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is gonna beat on Drata for theUS Championship, but on drawd A is
gonna get the money in the bank. Okay, what would you think of
that scenario? I wouldn't hate it. I'd loved Alister's in it, isn't
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he? Yeah, I'd love tosee him win it. Yeah, Alister's
in it. Um, let mepull it up. I watched raw um
the um. One of the spotsis going to Otis and Dolf. We're
recording on a Friday. That matchis gonna happen after this, so that
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result will happen. Um Stall,Marty Stall, I got I got noth
in the stall for you. Well, just continue to talk just ramble,
ramble, rouse, talk about what'son your mind. Nothing you know it
goes. You aren't the worst,you are the absolute worst. Oh man,
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Well, and Rod's not even inthe competition, But putting on Drade
in his spot would make sense.Um. There are a couple people thinking
that because Gender Mahall's back now,that General Mahall would take Apollos spot,
but that I don't. I thinkthat would be a little fast. I
could see him doing it though,because he's a former champion. By the
way, Gender looks in great shape. Um he dude, he's so much
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slimmer. Um. It was goodto see him back. It's been like
literally a year. Um. Soyeah, there's there's that um saying I'm
a lot this week. Yeah,so there's that. Uh, Ricochet and
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Alexander continue there. They're tag teaming. Um, I really like their tag
team. They're calling themselves a twofly crew. They're facing the Viking Raiders.
Wait, no, not them,Street Profits are facing facing the Ranking
Raiders. My bad, I'm allover the place. I'm gonna stop talking.
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Are you still talking about Marty inthe bank? Yes? Isn't it
in two weeks? Who cares?Yeah? You're right. It's a week
from it's a week from Sunday,week from Sunday. Did you see them
Drew Mcatyre and Seth segment. Ithought that was really good. No,
I told you I didn't see anythingfor it. Well, Drew claymore the
hell out of Murphy. It wasreally sweet. Seth came out with is
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Michael Jackson, glove and student tie. I said he looked like Minnie Wardlow.
You probably don't know, you don'tremember who Wardlow is. All Right,
all right, I'll stop boring you. I know it'll get you to
shut up. Give you an updateon the a w t NT Championship Tournament.
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Oh god, So we had anawesome match between Cody and Darby Allen
to open up the show. Codyone on a roll up after a coffin
drop. It was very subtle.I didn't notice it at first, and
then they put it on replay.I was like, oh, they did
that. Actually pretty solid. SoCody's in and then we had in the
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main event Dustin Rhodes versus Lance Archer. And when I tell you this,
Marty Archer's money dude. This dudeis he's badass, Like he's really good
and really you should have seen hehad a spot where he walked all the
way across the ropes and then dida moon salt off the top rope.
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And for somebody that's Archer size,that's just you know, how Undertaker does
old school like, he did thisto another level and then introduced athleticism to
it. It was outstanding. Buthe beat the everliving hell out of Dustin.
And so we have Cody versus Archerat double or Nothing on May twenty
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third for the TNT Championship. Sothere's there's an update on set. They
have the final set and it's itculminates May twenty third, ye m hm,
and they um, you know,I usually don't mention, you know,
like the smaller matches, but thisone, specifically between best friends against
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Jimmy Havoc and Kip Sabian was mymatch of the night. I'm telling you,
man, that was That was aridiculous match. And I know I'm
not much for Jimmy Havoc here,I'm not a big Jimmy Havoc guy,
but I mean they took the elementsof Jimmy and you know, the hardcore
stuff and who they just they wentto town. They went to work man,
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and you know, it was abrutal, like a brutal fifteen minutes.
Best friends ended up getting a win, but it was just outstanding.
I felt like I had to mentionthat. I also felt like I have
to mention um Wardlow aka Mason Ryanslash Batista. Uh. He introduced a
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finisher that I've never seen before,and my god, it's devastating with somebody
when they connect. Did you seethis by chance? If anything from Raw
and Smacked, anything I saw anythingfrom a w Okay, go on your
phone. Look at the last thingI retweeted on my wrestling account. It's
that easy to find. It's it'snasty, dude, and it's like a
(36:34):
modified version of a Go to Sleep. But it's it's ugly looking. Man,
it's pretty dang dang rough. Okay, I see it. That's nice,
isn't it not bad? So hehangs him off the top of the
turnbuckle, you know, with hishand, and then he needs him right
in the jaw and that's his finishand he has a pretty nasty uh you
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know, gorilla press. He hasthe um he has a nice spinebuster where
he just picks people up. He'she's good. I've liked what I've seen
so far from him. Obviously youhaven't heard him cut promos or anything like
that, but you know, what'ssomebody that size? I don't know,
And I also feel like we haveto support him, dude. I mean
he's from Cleveland. I don't knowwhere he's from, but he's from Cleveland,
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so yep, I didn't know thatsure is mhm. So those were
the stick out moments of um awfor me. Do you have anything else
to add before we get back intoour bracket and then close this thing out?
You know, not really? Nextweek will be a big week for
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an XT, So yeah, thisweek is kind of Yeah, it's gonna
it's weird, it's gonna be liveagain. Still getting to get invested with
the current presentation formats it is.It is real mighty difference. It's getting
rougher and rougher for me on aweekly basis. Man, I feel like
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the money in the bank for justthe reasons if they're gonna be at headquarters
is going to be something they're like, oh this is different. Yeah,
I mean it'll be different, butwill it hold my attention? Is the
real question? Well, if you'retalking about are you multitasking while you're watching,
the answer is always yes. Areyou you know, singularly watching like
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you would maybe a show with agiant crowd. No, So I'm with
you there, see. But thething is, it's like, yeah,
if I'm multitasking, obviously I'm notgoing to pay much attention. But it's
not keeping me from multitasking, right, Like, I'll start not multitasking and
then eventually I'm like, oh,well, I'll do this while this is
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happening because I can't hold my focusto what's happening. M And there's no
reason, I mean, you shouldn't. Did you see? I mean,
as much as we love wrestling,did you see the numbers? The um
that the ratings? No I didboth shows? No I did not.
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It was it was it was ugly, really really ugly. They were very
low, very low. Do youknow what they were off the top of
your head. I think they saidthat both of them combined drew like one
point five. Isn't that normal?Not? They usually get like six eighty
each, is it? I don't, I don't know it. The way
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that Twitter made it sound made itseem like it was really bad. I
thought that normally for the past likemonth, they've been drawing like six eighty
each. That's wild. I meanthink about it though, I mean what's
the point of watching things like,Yeah, everybody has the time to watch
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stuff live right now, but everybodyelse has the time to watch things when
they want to right now. Soyeah, that's true. How do how
does it applied to ratings? Iwonder how that does? You know?
And also there's the people that don'twatch it on the network or don't watch
it on TNT and the USA appthat go out of their way and watch
it online via a third party.Well, everybody in England, anybody who's
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not in the United States can't watchit the next day in the United States
the USA app. So everybody who'snot in the United States is probably watching
it the next day or that nightbecause again they can't watch on USA,
they have to watch it on Sky. But also at you know, one
in the morning, so they're probablywatching it on a different site. Yeah,
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and if they are, that doesthat account into the ratings? That's
the you know, like Thursday,like for NXT to watch it on the
w w E app, you haveto wait until the next night, Like
you don't get to watch it thenext morning, you have to wait for
I think it airs like for thefirst time at like ten on Thursday nights
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or something like that. Yeah,I think that's just an agreement with the
network, because I don't know why. I'm obviously not in charge of television
station here. But there's probably itdoesn't come to the network for three weeks.
M it's you know, they havethe rights to stream it for probably
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I bet it's twenty four hours.I bet that's why it airs at ten.
M. Interesting. Okay. SoAW had six hundred and ninety three
thousand with a point to seven rating. I don't know what the rating means.
And then NXT had six hundred thirtyseven thousand with a point one six.
Yeah, I have no idea whatthat means. I don't. I
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don't know what that means either.Um oh, the partial numbers is what
was bad. H n XT didnot ring in the top fifty in the
demographic It was number fifty one comparedto aw's sixteen. So I don't.
Again, I don't know what thatmeans. I don't. I don't know
what that means. Obviously, there'speople try to try to slant things,
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but I don't know that. That'sjust what I read me. That means
literally nothing to me. Numbers.Okay, um, let's do the final
part of our first round in ourbracket, will do? Let me pull
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it up a pull up? Allright? Alrighty, you're ready? No
hold on, I got it,but I need to grab that. Do
this, do that all right?Okay? The playing matchup sixteen seeds,
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Mark Mark Henry versus Shane McMahon.I mean, I'm gonna take Mark Henry.
I am also gonna take Mark Henryjust because he's been a world champion
before Shane. He could win yourheart over with a lot of crazy spots,
and he was probably a better wrestlerthan some on the roster in the
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late nineties and early two thousands.But Mark was the world's strongest man,
for God's sake. But like Martysays, doesn't matter. He's facing off
against number one seed and I'm guessingnumber one overall seed, Stone Cold Steve
Boston. Did I say that?Did I say that with a Vince Vince?
(43:51):
I was I was looking for thatand not really, but go for
it. Stone Cold Steve Roston wasbetter I thought that was not too bad
either, But yeah, obviously takingStone Colt. How about this, And
I don't know if I've ever seenthese two go at it eighth Seed Okay,
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Scott Hall versus Diesel Okay, KevinNash, were you gonna? I
was waiting on you. That's athat's a tough one. I'm gonna take
Razor just I know somebody somewhere inhere's gonna be a quad joke from Marty
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Well, yeah, because you knowKevin as tours Quad on the way of
the Ring. But first of all, I'm taking it simply because of that
Razor ramone w w F time.Really like that's what it does for me.
I understand Kevin Nash was you knowthat was Diesel and was world champion
at some point. But I don'tknow that raise a ramon you know Sean
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Michael's kind of shit. Oh,it just kind of and it like cast
a shadow on Kevin Nash Like it'sit's higher up for me, Okay.
I just the total package that thepromos, the entering, uh versatility that
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he had. He also had waymore of a personality. Oh yeah,
even if it was a stolen personality, it was way more of a personality.
Yeah, okay, you want totalk about a miss seating here.
Four seed Andre the Giant, thirteenseed to super Fly Jimmy Snuka. Uh,
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Andre should be like a two.Yeah, Like so that's a no
contest. Andre wins, and Andrewould pancake the hell out of this terrible
person. Uh. Five seed Batista'stwelve seed Bob Backlan. This is actually
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probably closer than people would imagine becauseBob Backlin. I mean, we don't
want to have racency bias here.And Bob Backlin was a world champion and
heeded the you know, the chickenwing. Everyone knows the chicken wing,
and he was around for a longtime. Batista. The thing about Batista
is you had to have a veryspecific taste with him. I feel like
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he was not the best at likecutting promos and stuff like that, but
he was like he was monstrous,but in the in a way where he
was beatable, but he got hewas sucking his muscles and like his just
overall, like I don't know,to stop osterone is that's the word to
(47:00):
say, Like he was just andobviously the you know the theme song and
everything that accompanied it. Um healso has given us some very memorable moments,
uh in in the bad ways likebasketballs don't hold grudges. Yes,
and and you were supposed to bemy friend, Bautista, give me what
(47:22):
I want. Yeah, that wasthe most recent one. Um. God,
I don't want to disrespect Bob Backlandhere, but just from my obviously,
I don't know much more about BobBackland, and there's probably some you
know, old timers and wrestling historiansthat would disagree. But I'm gonna put
Batista in just because I know himbetter. Um, and I know that's
(47:45):
you know, obviously bias, butI don't know much else about Bob Backland.
I mean, I'm also gonna gowith Batista. Okay, Three seed
Macho Man, Randy Savage, fourteenseed Harley Race. Again, I feel
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like a miss seating. We didnot make the seedings. This is like
whose lines that done? Whose lines? In anyway? Games made up?
The points don't matter, but wow, fourteen seed Harley Race. Wow.
I mean I was gonna pick theMacho Man regardless. Yeah, but Harley
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and you know in the seventies,come on, Macho manch's nicotic wrestler though
he is, and you know,I watched a documentary on him recently,
and just it's wild to me thatWWE gave up on him in the early
nineties and put him on commentary whenhe still had so much more left in
(48:55):
him. Um, obviously, youknow, he jumped ship over to WCW
and was doing a thing there.But I wonder what would have happened if
he stayed and if Vince let letthat roll a little longer with him,
because he was a magnificent performer.He obviously, you know, was the
(49:15):
first one to like have I feellike, the first one to have like
an over the top, you knowcharacter that was pretty over the top.
Well, they mirrored each other.Remember you don't forget about the megapowers,
h but like, he was sogood and in ring ability and his just
(49:43):
his charisma and there was just nothingbetter than him at the time, and
that includes Hulk. Okay, uhoh, this is a good matchup.
I like this one. This isdebatable too, six seed staying eleven seed,
aj styles, Where are you goingwith this one? Because I'm I'm
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setting to think I have to thinkabout it. Okay, because Sting here's
the thing. You know, Stingwas doing his thing like early and then
you know, he had the shortblonde hair and the face paint then m
and he was having you know,incredible matches at that point. And then
(50:27):
you think about when he has thisfeud with the nWo, comes out from
the rafters, completely reinvents himself asyou know, the vigilante Sting with a
baseball bat, and that's the StingI remember most, obviously because that's when
I started to really watch and hewas just so he had this cool factor
(50:49):
about him. I I just Inever went as Halloween as him, but
like I had so many friends thatdid, and um, you know,
he's just so mysterious and he didn'ttalk like. It was so cool,
the reintroduction of Sting. And thenobviously you know WWE folds, he goes
(51:10):
to t NA, and then Iwatched him in TNA. I actually really
enjoyed his run in TNA. Ithought when he you know, the Dark
Knight came out and he turned himselfinto you know, a joker type of
character like from The Dark Knight,I thought that he killed it and that
and I was like I was watchingTNA like religiously at that point, and
he did a fantastic job there,and then you think about when he first
(51:35):
appeared on ww television at Survivor seriesand Dolf Ziegler was the lone survivor in
like two thousand. I'd want tosay it was like fifteen. That was
memorable. I think that Sting wasobviously an icon of our business. And
then you look at the flip sidewith aj Aj also reinvented himself. I'd
(51:57):
be at not with face paint.You know, he comes in as the
this, you know, generic lookingdo with a buzz cut, with really
good athleticism. First earliest memories Ihave him was in the X division in
TNA in the storyline actually remember mostearliest was when he was out of the
(52:19):
X division actually, and he wasfacing Christopher Daniels and they had Claire Lynch.
I don't know if you remember ClaireLynch. Claire Lynch was somebody who
he allegedly added an affair with andit had impregnated. This was TNA creative,
by the way, But I justremember the matches he had with Daniels
and they were just so outstanding.And then I stopped watching TNA and eventually,
(52:42):
you know, when I got,you know, all into Twitter,
and he came back. He hadlike a little bit of longer, Harry
had like a beard, and hewas like this mysterious character. And all
of a sudden he's over in NewJapan, and I'm like, what the
hell? I always knew who A. J. Styles was. I always
loved his finish the style class isone of the coolest finishers ever. M
(53:02):
Then they announced that he went intoWWE, and then that pop he had
at the Rumble when he first cameout, Oh God, Alice, that
was something. And he has youknow, theme music's perfect eight. He's
always he's had steale moments in WWE, but he's always been really good in
(53:22):
the ring. That said, Icannot allow a WW Hall of Famer to
lose to AJ Styles. So I'mpigging Sting. Really, I'm gonna go
with I'm gonna go with AJ.That was mine? Oh wow, yeah,
okay, all right, all rightthen any specific reasoning, just like
(53:47):
you know, he I know Stingwas able to invent himself outside of a
w WE, but I mean startedAJ and he not only did it in
one company, but he did itin two and then did it in three.
To Shay, I just think ifif WWE and Sting would have been
(54:09):
able to come to terms earlier thatit had been a lot closer than you
think. Yeah, oh absolutely thatthat's just I feel like Sting's abilities were,
especially at the time, just aheadof his time. You know,
Stinger splash and he had the theSharpshooter Scorpion deathlock. It's it's a different,
(54:32):
a little bit different modified version theStinger Splash. I'm sure that his
athleticism could definitely compete, even thoughthe moveset isn't quite as eye opening as
AJ's. Okay, uh seven seedDaniel Bryan, ten seed, Iron Chic
(54:55):
Daniel Bryan, What the fuck?Unfortunately that's my memory of Iron Cheek.
I know Iron Cheek was a hellof a heel back in his day,
especially the feud against m Hulk Hogan. I mean, unforgettable when you go
(55:15):
back and watch those tapes. MDaniel for me as somebody I latched onto
really early when he was just Greenis Green Day, you know, like
Green is Green Day, there's ournext title. M Daniel. When he
(55:38):
won that money in the bank,I was like, I'm looking forward to
this. I remember watching that atbea Dubs. That was our hangout guys
went to be dubs to watch thesepay per views, and he won the
Money in the Bank that year andI was like, he's got something and
it's it's you know, he didn'tquite show the charisma and the audience of
(56:00):
drawing power that he has now andit just sent him on this just rocket
ship going forward, you know.And the Yes movement started very shortly after
that, even though it wasn't amovement yet. It was between yes and
no. And then he had thestuff going on with AJ and then he
had the matches with Punk. Iactually was on the network that they were
(56:23):
showing the Money in the Bank matchbetween him and Punk for the ww title.
That was a really good match.The one it over the limit was
outstanding. I mean, and thiswas all WWE. Daniel Bran. We're
not even talking about Ring of HonorDaniel Bryan or Brian Danielson. I should
say, you know, that's justsomebody who at his size was able to
(56:47):
break through that glass ceiling and forciblydo so. We all remember the reaction
that ray Masterio got at number thirtyat the Royal Rumbolt twenty fourteen, as
that I was supposed to be Daniel. Daniel was stuck in a program with
Bray Wyatt at the time, whichby the way, it was a really
good product and and it ended upreally getting him over. I remember that
(57:10):
that cage match like yesterday when hehad the Wyatt gear on and ended up
taking it off and doing the theyes chance that was out. That was
awesome, and then that set thethe whole stage for WrestleMania thirty. But
I mean since then to be ableto come back, he's he's even did
a little bit of heel work.So good, so good, iron chic.
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I mean, I can't say thatI know all that much about him.
I know he's entertaining, but likehe had that he was dubbed the
you know, the the foreign heelthat worked back in the day. You
know, I don't know what elsehe was able to do. And that's
not trying to take away from hisability, because he obviously drew so much
(57:59):
heat and he has so much respectnow and he's in the Hall of Fame
for a reason. But Daniel's gonnabe in the Hall of Fame too,
So I'm gonna take Daniel here.I agreed final first round matchup before our
brackets changed next week. Two seedundertaker, fifteen seed. Mister Perfect doesn't
(58:24):
even need to be said dead manwalking. I would like to say this
though. I wish I would havebeen my age now to watch mister Perfect,
because he was he was so cool, Like when you look at those
(58:44):
vignettes that he would do, likehe would do them with real life professional
athletes, and like he just hadso much swagger about him, like the
thing with the basketball when he's lookingin the camera and he flips it over
his head and it goes in,or when he's at the plate with the
bat and he hits a home run, Like these were so outstanding, and
(59:06):
it's such a good, good,you know, character to have, like
I'm perfect at everything I do.And every time he tossed that damn towel
behind his back, he caught itand he just did it so fluidly.
He's just I wish he would havebeen been able to wrestle longer than you
(59:28):
know he was able to do.Obviously pass away at very young age,
but I wish I would have beenable to see him at that time too.
I mean I do remember seeing himin two thousand and two when he
came back. I do remember that. I remember watching brock lesnar beat the
living crap out of him. Iremember seeing him at the Royal Rumble,
(59:49):
you know, but like that earlythe you know, early to mid nineties,
Kurt hen Egg. I would haveloved to see that. And speaking
of which, his son just gotuh let go by w w E.
Actual Mania has officially run out oftime with WWE UM wondering where. Um,
(01:00:14):
I don't know what they're gonna what'shis actual name, Mike, I
don't remember. Well, I hopethat I'm just gonna refer to him as
Curtis Axtell. Curtis Axtell finds hisway. Uh. He had a really
you know, obviously this is aside but before we get into an undertaker.
But UM, hope that he youknow, finds his way. I
(01:00:36):
thought that his you know, intercontinentalyou know run went really well when he
was aligned with Hayman. Uh.And then he obviously had the tag team
with Sandow. Uh. He wasa part of the miss Security stuff.
He always kind of got fed crapwith with his his storylines. Always thought
(01:00:57):
he had the ability. I mean, there's a lot of talent that has
the ability, but he was apart of some really funny segments too.
We're never gonna forget the genesis ofmcgilla cutty, whether it was good or
bad, We're never gonna forget that. And we're never gonna forget Axleomania.
Axlomania was great, still running,still never got eliminated. So God speed
(01:01:21):
to him. Over to the Undertaker. I mean, it's self explanatory.
The dude's got undergone so many changesand stayed the same character for ever,
and it's just the longevity and themystique that he brings and the ability,
(01:01:43):
you know, the ability to bethis badass that beats the crap out of
people and then be this walking zombiethat can set an arena on fire like
just such a cool, cool,unique and there will never be another type
of character like that. So that'swhy Undertaker wins that one. So we
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have our second round set and we'lldo one by one with that too as
well. As we go on.Marty and I are gonna have our differences
though, as we've talked about them, so we'll just continue to track our
own and you can track along athome as well. Yeah, so there's
(01:02:31):
our bracket conversation and we've reached theabout hour or so mark, so we're
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I'm gonna leave it off to myco host to tell you what's going on
for episode one oh five. So, yeah, alright, Episode one oh
five next week. We almost madeit two an hour and five minutes thanks
(01:03:35):
to Spencer and his ramblings that henever ever seems to never have. So
episode one oh five next week it'llbe a packed one. Hopefully we can
contain Spencer two under an hour nextweek. Doubtful but possible. So two
(01:03:57):
title matches, the Gargano match,all that shit, and then obviously the
Money in the Bank that happens thenext couple of days after this comes out,
not this one, but the nextepisode. Yeah, you know how
it goes. But one oh fivewe'll be talking about next week's episode those
title matches, Cross as well.Forgot about him, and then the preview
(01:04:19):
of Money in the Bank, andthen you know, Spencer can go on
his tirades about whatever goes on ina w that's about it. Nothing new
gonna happen before then, So oneoh five with us, And of course
he thought I forgot, but Ididn't. Jonahill, He'll be here again
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one hundred and five times. Dude'skilling it. I mean, no one's
that consistent except for him. SoI mean, what are you gonna do?
Nothing? Nothing's what you're gonna do. But one oh five next week
us jonah Hill, NXT, youknow, do all the things go read
my article. It's up. Idon't care who hairs one oh five hour
(01:05:02):
five. Oh I got good bym hm.
Welcome back to another edition of Stickto the Gimmick. What's up Guys,
Your Boys? Spencer Davis, MartyHarmon bringing you episode one oh four of
STTG. Got a lot to talkabout n XT with a jam packed card
next Wednesday, when I believe theyare going live. Holy Wrestling has their
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final set for the TNT Championship Tournamenttaking place at Double or Nothing on May
twenty third, but they are alsogoing live next Wednesday, so we have
two wrestling shows that are going live. I don't know if Ron SmackDown are
they probably are considering that. Ithink it's a week from Sunday we'll be
(01:03):
money in the bank, so it'salready coming up that fast. Yeah,
it's May tenth. It's May tenth, so yeah, it's it's how it's
all happening. It's all happening aswe continue to be quarantine here in the
great State of Ohio. Our lockdownorder has been extended through May twenty ninth,
(01:25):
so we will continue to be doingthis as we fight against this awful,
awful pandemic. But we're staying positive. We're here, we're talking to
you, hopefully entertaining you. Maybewe're annoying you, but you're listening to
us, so jokes on you.So with that said, Marty, what's
going on? Nothing? Man?There's nothing that can possibly be new,
(01:51):
nothing possibly new? How is howis life at home? What have you
been doing to pass the time?I mean, I feel like we should
be asking these question questions because it'smay. It's not gonna be may.
It is my um. I havebeen playing video games and watching TV and
movies. All right, all right, I saw that you you wrote something
(02:15):
there over on what culture you got? You got an article up? Yeah,
I did. I figured i'd getback into that. How did that
go? That's good? It's up. Go ahead, like last night checked
like thirty thousand views. Took mea while to write. It was like
a baby thousand words or something likethat. All right, good to hear,
(02:36):
Good to hear. I've been justdoing some you know, just keeping
the old fingertips ready to go.Been doing some articles for Basketball Insiders like
I always do. That's my otherthing, you know, I write about
basketball in the NBA. So I'vebeen doing weekly articles for them. I've
been also playing video games, mostrecently been into Watchdogs. And I've also
(02:59):
been scanning about the network, andI'm watching the Monday Night War series,
which for some reason, I don'tknow whether it's because it came out in
like twenty fourteen or twenty fifteen orjust I don't recall having watched them,
but a lot of them are likenew to me. When I'm watching them,
I'm like, I can't remember thethings that we're going on there.
(03:19):
And I didn't realize they were goingsuperstar by superstar, not just in a
timely, you know, a timelinemanner. It's almost like The Last Dance
the way that they've set it up. But it's good. I've been meaning
to watch that too, I haven'tgot around to it yet. Last Dance
or that, Yes, the LastDance. Oh yeah, no, it's
good. It's really good so far. Sunday they're coming out with episodes five
(03:40):
and six. Okay, I Ithought it was over. Oh no,
no, no, it's a tenepisode thing and they released two every Sunday.
Oh all right, yeah, definitelythought it was over. Nope,
not over. Yeah, yeah,okay, So that's what three and a
half minut it's of rambling. Let'sget into what happened at an xt um.
(04:05):
Let's start with, Oh, doyou want to start with the main
event, because I mean I feellike that was the biggest thing here.
Uh, Keith Lee versus Damien Priestfor the North American Championship. Sure,
I thought it was good. Thatwas good. Uh. I'm actually I'm
(04:27):
really starting to see the ability inthe the confidence of Damien Priest here,
just by the way that he's he'smoving in the ring. You know,
like he's getting a little bit less. Uh, he's loose, He's not
as stiff as he was when hewas first into the promotion. Um,
(04:48):
just watching you know, even hislike backstage problem was like the you know,
the badass, cool guy with thesunglasses on. Like I got that
vibe from him, and like he'she's just like you know, thinks he's
such a hard ass, and Ithink it works for him. Um,
but in the ring, I thoughtthat he was really good. Um that
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move that he does over the thecorner, when he does the tope to
the outside and goes over the turnbuckle, that's a really nice That's that's hell
athleticism for a guy that size.Um, the the kicks were on point.
He had one insecurity that was reallyreally connected um he uh the sup
(05:30):
plex on Lee at the UH whenhe when he failed the first two times,
uh distributed distributed a lot of powerthere. Um. I just I'm
starting to come around on him.I mean I know that I don't know
where his place on the card is. Is he a mid carter? Is
he you know, upper mid carter. I don't know, but I can
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see the potential they have with him, and he's definitely starting to feel like
a character that's believable to me.Ask for Keith, Um, Wow,
this dude's got a lot of Imean, let's just come out with it
right here and now. When they'reon the outside by the barricade and he
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tossed his priest onto the apron fromwhere they are, I was like,
god, damn, Like that wasthe spot of the match for me,
because Damian Priest is not a smallguy, and he threw him like a
sack of potatoes, like it wasnothing right under the right side of the
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apron, and I was like,hole, crap, Um, Keith,
you never have to even go intospecifics with him in the matches anymore.
He's just money. He's just sogood. His timing is fantastic. The
athleticism is out of this world.He did. He did a little little
bit. He missed the mark alittle bit um on his toepey. It
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was like over the rope and hedid like a corkscrew thing. But it
still hurts because it's a freaking threehundred plus pounder landing on you with that
speed and that agility. But Iwill say this, um, the finish
was a little hokey for me.The little hokey just because Damian Priest.
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He goes out, he tricks theref. He brings out the title and
he brings out the nightstick. He'slike, oh, you better have somebody
looking after this. So the stupidref obviously goes, oh, I gotta
put the title back. Priest comesinto the ring with his nightstick, tries
to do what he did to Leelast week. Keith catches it and this
is this is where it got alittle cheesy for me. Keith catches his
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arm, he raises it up.Priest goes impossible. He did He's like
an exactly. He goes impossible andKeith goes no, no, I am
limitless. He puts the damn thingdown, ends up hitting him with one
(08:13):
power bomb, picks him up andthen does it does a double power bomb
pins him for the one, twothree. Keith wins. I mean Keith,
he didn't do the normal spirit bomb, he did two power bombs.
But the impossible No, I amlimitless. It's a little corny for me.
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Little corny, especially because it wasa really good match. It was
a lot. I mean, Ithought that those two were going at it.
I didn't see anything that was youknow, wonky or or like forced,
like they just had a good naturalchemistry like him and Daijakovic. But
the finished impossible. No, comeon, So that was your main event
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and that's how the show ended.Um, what did you think of the
match? Uh? And that finished? Because you really haven't said much on
it. Um, it was nothingspecial compared to like matches they've had in
the past. And yeah, Iagree, the finish was very like anime
(09:22):
like just cheesiness. Um. Thesilver lining for me is that hopefully,
hopefully this is fucking done. Hopefullyyou never know, but god damn it,
please, Well, where do youwant Damien to go? Where you
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want Keith to go? So weknow we know where Djovic is going,
So let's let's go. Let's goto that Djakovich is well. It started
on the social media platforms but endedup on NXTI Television this week just in
promo outside and basically called out JohnnyGargano because he was complaining about what he
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what he wanted and didn't get it, and you know, paraphrasing obviously,
but challenging Johnny because he doesn't know, you know, what it means to
you know, be at the topor something rather like that. So him
and Johnny are gonna go at itnext week. Let's talk about um Candice,
because Candice was outstanding. First off, she came out with some banging
(10:39):
new theme music, banging new thememusic. Loved it, the Titan tron,
the new font, the pint sizepoison. She's no longer the potent
size Pixie, She's pipe size poison. Say that five times fast. I
couldn't do it. Wow. Sheshe was fantastic. And you know what
I liked about this? Okay,So one Johnny came out as the oversupportive
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manager slash boyfriend and he was almostdoing like personal ring anouncing for him,
like I don't know if they're goingto continue that that, Like Ricardo Rodriguez,
Albert till type thing. I don'tknow if they're going to continue that,
but like overly happy to support hiswife, Johnny. I liked it.
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Uh. Secondly, you know shecomes out with you know the look
that she she showed on the vignettelast week, with the you know,
the pink streaks and the hair andthe well not pink, it's like magenta
but um, and then the blacklipstick. What I liked about this though,
was her opponent. She was facingCasey Katon's arrow um perfect opponent to
(11:54):
start her heel running gets because Casey'seven smaller than Candice. Is that Candice
was wrestling like her old self atlike the beginning of the match, like
there was nothing healy about her,and then like when Casey like kicked out
or got like the upper hand onher, she just increasingly got more and
(12:16):
more pissed and finally got her toa point like where she started to go
like she was like questioning, Shewas like what do I have to do?
What I have to do? Shewas looking back at Johny blah blah
blah. Eventually, you know,like she started showing this side of her
that we haven't seen yet, startedlike holding on it you know, using
the whole five count on the ropes, and then eventually I think my favorite
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part of the match was when shefaked putting Cat and Zero into the Gargano
escape. It was either that orCata and zero escape, that can't remember.
But then she debuted a brand newfinisher which is just beautiful looking.
She you basically do the stretch themthe monkey stretch, and then she put
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her foot on top of her headand then just caved her head into the
mat and then one. So firstoff, beautiful new funit finisher for Candice.
Secondly, after the match is over, Candice is walking back on the
ramp with Johnny. Candice stops midramp, says no, that's not enough,
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goes back into the ring, andthen puts the Gargano escape onto Cat
and zero. And then of coursesomething we forgot to mention was Maron Allo
Bethy Knicks were back on commentary withTom Phillips. So you just heard Morrow
go no, no, what yourdoing? You know, and that typical
like overselling Morrow. It was goodto hear though, yes, no,
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it was great to hear it.It's like, what is shr doing?
But that whole Candice thing, Ithink they knocked that out of the fricking
park. What did you think?I mean, I felt like it was
kind of a boring match, butthat finish that she has now is fantastic.
Also, the fact that I knowit was an accident, but that
she like fell backwards and tripped aftershe did it made it look more devastating,
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even though it was like her momentumcarried her back. Yeah, okay,
yeah, I feel it. Ifeel it. Um Okay, we
had uh Charlotte and Mia yim.That was another match that was built to
be a big one this week.Um thought Mia looked actually a little bit
(14:37):
better, Um, not quite asyou know, as a slow paced as
she usually is. Maybe Charlotte hadsomething to do with that, I mean,
just because I have Yeah, Ialso think it was pretty boring,
but better than what she's usually putout is what I'm saying. Yeah,
you can think it's boring, butum, I I think it did the
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job. It was a good,you know, ten minute match accomplished what
it was supposed to accomplish. Mialooked a lot better than the last time
she faced Charlotte. Obviously, Charlotte'sa completely different in a completely different stratosphere
than where she was when she firstfaced me a UM five years ago.
Oh absolutely, I think it accomplishedwhat I need to accomplish. Um.
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Mia hit the eat defeat and Charlottedidn't even fall. I thought that was
an interesting point of it. Miaalso hit the Cold Blue, which is
the Canadian destroyer type thing, andCharlotte kicked out of that. That was
more like a sunset power bomb.Yeah, I don't know, it's a
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oh yeah, you're right. You'reright, You're right. That one's a
sunset power of them. I getthem mixed up. They're all they're all
used. Nothing's original anymore. U. But Charlotte ended up winning with the
figure eight and uh, you knowwas our first and then EO came out
after and just started screaming at herin Japanese. Yeah a la Oscar.
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But wow, I mean Charlotte andOscar are gonna go at it. I
mean, not Charlotte Oscar, Charlotteand EO are gonna go at it next
week for the Women's Championship. Sobuckle up for that one. Okay.
Uh. We also had another randommatch here. Your boy Dexter loomis h
(16:33):
forgot who he faced. I don'tknow. I'm glad it was him time.
Oh we faced Shane Thorne. That'sright, So Loomis faced Shane Thorne.
Thorne actually had you know, anupper hand here, and I think
that they're starting to showcase him alittle bit more because he's on main event
television now. I don't know ifyou saw, but him and Brendan Vank
(16:56):
are being managed by MVP now onRAW. Oh really, Yeah, so
Shane looked a lot stronger than heusually as here, even though he I
don't want to say he did ajob, but you know, he lost,
but he did a good job.Like, um, he's a he's
a good he's a good wrestler.Yeah, Loomis, Uh, he is
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just such an enigma. I amso enthralled, Like I I need more
of this guy every week. AndI don't want him to say a word
for a year. I know,I don't. I still don't. I
don't know what he's doing. AndI think that's the most you know part,
that's the part that wants me towatch even more because I don't know
(17:45):
what he's doing. He's literally he'sbeen booked in every part of the show.
He's been booked in like angles.He's been booked in random matches and
they haven't explained a day thing.It's fantastic. And he doesn't say a
words, and I continued, Idon't want him to say a word because
I just want to keep trying tofigure it out. So I don't know,
(18:07):
but I want more, all right. Uh. Cruiserweight Championship Tournament had
two matches, both I thought werereally good. We had Isaiah Swerve Scott
versus l Eho del Fantasma. Bythe way, Morrow called him Heo del
(18:30):
phantasma, and I wanted to punchmy screen every time because you don't pronounce
the h in Spanish. It's eho, not heo. But still h good
have Marrow back. Were you surprisedthat they gave Swerve the win here?
No? Why not? Because otherthan him, he's been the one that's
(18:55):
been like booked the strongest. Yeah, but he I mean he loses,
you know, week one to Zawahand you don't know, you know.
I think the best part of thiswhole thing, uh was his h post
match promo. It was just reallyimpassioned. I don't like want to paraphrase
(19:15):
it because I'm not gonna do itjustice. But like it was the first
time we really heard Swerve on themic, you know, yeah, but
it was very impassioned, um,basically talking about how much he needs the
you know, everyone needs it,everyone needs it. But and then they
did that cheesy ass promo that wasoutside between Atlas and Drake Maverick sounded like
(19:41):
please please delphin Well he was like, I believe in you. We all
believe in you. You can dothis. And I was like, shut
the fuck up. It was justincredibly lame. That seems incredibly forced.
You can do it all right.Other Cruiserweight match Drake Maverick Tony nice and
(20:11):
this one was this is a dandy. What was the best about this was
Tony was beating the ever living hellout of him. This whole match,
like the first ten minutes was justTony trash talking and stomping the hell out
of him. And finally Drake gotpissed enough to the point where he started
(20:33):
coming back on the offensive and onthe offensive. Um. The I think
the storytelling in this match was reallygood. Drake's um, you know,
the the finish was beautiful. Uh. I had no idea how adaptable he
(20:56):
was because Tony's not your you know, your typical cre your weight size,
No, not at all. Ithought Drake killed it. I thought he
did a hell of a job andhe got the win, and you know
they caught up with him, youknow, post match, and he's continuing
this. You know, I cando it mindset. I thought the line
(21:18):
about Wolf of Wall Street was great, so that you'd call me the Wolf
of NXE because I'm not freaking goinganywhere. That was really cool. Whether
it's truthful or not, I don'tknow, but in this case, I
thought that was really cool. Andhe's one and one now Tony Nie is
eliminated from advancing, but he inhis one of his online videos that he
(21:41):
can play spoiler or something against Kushita. So those were the matches. I
don't think I missed a match.I know there were a couple other segments.
Let's get this one out of theway. Well, the Newly Bros.
Show, Will you missed the maskedassailants coming after what's his face?
(22:02):
Phantasma or whatever? Oh yeah,that's right, that's right. And guess
what they didn't get him again?Yea, my theory stands true. Yeah,
it's definitely literally only it revolved aroundhim at this point now, like
that's his thing, and you saidthat that would be the biggest storyline out
of this entire tournament. Yeah,unless they make Strake Maverick things something ridiculous.
(22:23):
Yeah, they could. Are youin agreement with me now that he's
behind all this and he's staging it? Not yet really? Yeah, guess
we'll have to tune in and findout. All right, we've prolonged it
long enough. The Newly Bros.Show. I told you last week,
(22:45):
but there is nobody in the companythat could portray Matt Riddle's character the way
Matt Ridle portrays his character. Ithink this one took it to another level.
This was kind of like a huhfor me. So NXT does its
(23:07):
best raw impression by putting Matt Riddleand Timothy Thatcher out there on a game
show. It's like the Newlyweds game. They called it the Newly Bros.
Show. Byron Saxton is hosting,doing his best Carlton Carlton Banks oppression.
Yeah, just being Byron as wellas he can be. Byron's great.
(23:30):
I love that guy. I'm sorry. But still, so they were doing
they did like literally like five orsix straight minutes of it, and you
know, it was comedy stuff,you know, typical. I think the
best parts about the actual Newly Bros. Show was the ding buzzer when you
(23:52):
got something right, that Diddy hittingit's a brow. Yeah, that was
freaking terrible. The whole thing wasjust a was just a joke about how
much Matt Riddles into drugs. Itreally was, and it was also trying
to introduce you to who Timothy Thatcherwas. And Timothy Thatcher is just standing
(24:14):
or sitting there just like what thehell is going on? And he's giving
his honest answers and Riddle has thissharpie or this you know, this erase
marker pen with his pad and writingall the answers and stuff like that,
and it was just it was oneof those things where you loved it or
hate it, but I'm in themiddle. I was like, I don't
(24:36):
know what I'm watching right now,but I am laughing at Matt Riddle saying
that he's not into speed. Yeah. I mean I thought it was funny.
Definitely could see why someone would hateit, but I didn't think it
was bad. I still don't knowwho Timothy Thatcher really is as a person
yet. But I did have aproblem with the sec with though, is
(24:57):
when he was talking, it wasway too quiet and I couldn't or anything.
Well, maybe that's him, he'sjust talking. You need you just
he's not loud. I literally couldn'thear him of it. And I wasn't
going to turn up my TV becauseeverything else was already so loud. I
didn't want to have the problem thatall movies have where one things too loud
and one thing's too quiet, andI'm constantly turning up and down the volume.
(25:19):
So I just I just didn't hearanything he said because I wasn't turning
my TV up to hear him.Well, it wasn't really that important obviously,
I mean I figured it wasn't thatimportant. But yeah, I literally
I couldn't hear anything that he saidbecause the volume was so low on it,
like he didn't have the mic closeenough or he just wasn't talking loud
(25:40):
enough. I'm not sure, buteither way, it was pretty annoying.
They literally talked about the craziest placethat they've done it, Timmy said in
the ring or something. Oh no, oh no. But the segment comes
(26:02):
to a sad end when Imperium comesout and attacks them from behind, So
right now they're done with fim Balorclearly, m Fabian and Marcel come out
and attack Matt Riddle and Timothy Thatcher. They then get into the ring do
their finishing move. So looks likethey're looking for a tag team title shot.
(26:30):
Okay. We also had Carrie andCross and Scarlett Bordeaux do their final
promo apparently their debuting next week.Good is that is? That? Is
that? What it is? Thatwhat it was about? Because they said
the clock stops TikTok? Is thereanother part of this rhyme that I'm not
getting here? Well, I mean, let's think about what's next week.
You got the title match, theboth title matches, just title match and
(26:56):
title match, NXT Championship and NXTWomen's Championship. Well I don't see them
getting inner interjected into the women's one. So I'm saying, like, what
if they don't have their own segment, what could they possibly be in?
You've got Finn Johnny and the titlematch? Or they have no right?
I have failed to mention that FinnBalor, Uh they advertised for next week
(27:18):
but he was not there. Um, I don't think I missed anything else.
Uh they're doing. Yeah, likeyou said, So, next week's
show is Charlotte flairt Iosharai. Bythe way, I think that's main eventing
um an extra championship, Adam Coleand Velveteen Dream and then Johnny Gargano and
(27:41):
Dominic did Jakovic And I'm gonna assumethat the Interim Cruiserweight Championship tournament continues right
next week. Yeah, yeah,I'm gonna assume. Yeah. So hitting
on all that, Uh, what'sthe craziest thing you see coming out of
next week? UM? I guessit just depends on where they have Cross
(28:07):
interjected. You know, Well,we haven't seen Champa since that video or
whatever. We haven't seen him ontelevision. I mean excluding that small you
know, backstage camera thing. Wehaven't seen him on TV in like a
month now. I don't see ifthe winning so I don't think it'll be
there. I don't think EO isgonna beat Charlotte yet. I don't think
(28:30):
that match has a conclusion. Yeah, so I don't know. It really
all relies on a where Cross isput into the show and what he does,
and that's what's gonna draw the viewers. I think that's the that's got
my most interest for next week isthat segment alone. I think that there's
(28:53):
gonna be an advancement in that kidnappingangle. Still that that's those two things
right there. I think also aremine. Well, is he gonna have
a match next week? He alreadyhad a match this week, so they
might take a week off from that, right, but he doesn't have to
have a match to have they hada storyline advanced true to shape. Um,
(29:19):
Johnnie Organa, Is he gonna havenew theme music? Yeah? I
think so. Yeah, I lookforward to it. I like new theme
music. I get all giddy aboutnew theme music. Wasn't wasn't Candice is
awesome. It was middle of theroad, middle of the road. It
reminded me of like I don't don't. I don't remember it, so that
(29:42):
I think says enough I remember it. It's good and it just goes with
everything. Yeah, I don't rememberit, so I feel like that says
enough about it. Boom. Ithink Johnny, you'll have it new music,
though, that's gonna be weird becauseI'm just so used to rebel Heart
(30:03):
okay, um, money in thebank. Things I always ask you this
every week. I'm going to continueto ask you. Did you read anything
on Reddit or scroll across anything onTwitter that negative? Okay, well,
I already named you the participants.So far, the only update I have
is that there is one missing now. Um, Apollo Cruz got written out
(30:30):
of the money in the bank match, and he was like getting big time
momentum. I know what they're doinghere, but I still think it sucks
because the general opinion that I've atleast started to come across is that Apollo
(30:52):
is gonna beat on Drata for theUS Championship, but on drawd A is
gonna get the money in the bank. Okay, what would you think of
that scenario? I wouldn't hate it. I'd loved Alister's in it, isn't
(31:15):
he? Yeah, I'd love tosee him win it. Yeah, Alister's
in it. Um, let mepull it up. I watched raw um
the um. One of the spotsis going to Otis and Dolf. We're
recording on a Friday. That matchis gonna happen after this, so that
(31:37):
result will happen. Um Stall,Marty Stall, I got I got noth
in the stall for you. Well, just continue to talk just ramble,
ramble, rouse, talk about what'son your mind. Nothing you know it
goes. You aren't the worst,you are the absolute worst. Oh man,
(32:00):
Well, and Rod's not even inthe competition, But putting on Drade
in his spot would make sense.Um. There are a couple people thinking
that because Gender Mahall's back now,that General Mahall would take Apollos spot,
but that I don't. I thinkthat would be a little fast. I
could see him doing it though,because he's a former champion. By the
way, Gender looks in great shape. Um he dude, he's so much
(32:22):
slimmer. Um. It was goodto see him back. It's been like
literally a year. Um. Soyeah, there's there's that um saying I'm
a lot this week. Yeah,so there's that. Uh, Ricochet and
(32:43):
Alexander continue there. They're tag teaming. Um, I really like their tag
team. They're calling themselves a twofly crew. They're facing the Viking Raiders.
Wait, no, not them,Street Profits are facing facing the Ranking
Raiders. My bad, I'm allover the place. I'm gonna stop talking.
(33:04):
Are you still talking about Marty inthe bank? Yes? Isn't it
in two weeks? Who cares?Yeah? You're right. It's a week
from it's a week from Sunday,week from Sunday. Did you see them
Drew Mcatyre and Seth segment. Ithought that was really good. No,
I told you I didn't see anythingfor it. Well, Drew claymore the
hell out of Murphy. It wasreally sweet. Seth came out with is
(33:30):
Michael Jackson, glove and student tie. I said he looked like Minnie Wardlow.
You probably don't know, you don'tremember who Wardlow is. All Right,
all right, I'll stop boring you. I know it'll get you to
shut up. Give you an updateon the a w t NT Championship Tournament.
(33:52):
Oh god, So we had anawesome match between Cody and Darby Allen
to open up the show. Codyone on a roll up after a coffin
drop. It was very subtle.I didn't notice it at first, and
then they put it on replay.I was like, oh, they did
that. Actually pretty solid. SoCody's in and then we had in the
(34:15):
main event Dustin Rhodes versus Lance Archer. And when I tell you this,
Marty Archer's money dude. This dudeis he's badass, Like he's really good
and really you should have seen hehad a spot where he walked all the
way across the ropes and then dida moon salt off the top rope.
(34:37):
And for somebody that's Archer size,that's just you know, how Undertaker does
old school like, he did thisto another level and then introduced athleticism to
it. It was outstanding. Buthe beat the everliving hell out of Dustin.
And so we have Cody versus Archerat double or Nothing on May twenty
(35:00):
third for the TNT Championship. Sothere's there's an update on set. They
have the final set and it's itculminates May twenty third, ye m hm,
and they um, you know,I usually don't mention, you know,
like the smaller matches, but thisone, specifically between best friends against
(35:25):
Jimmy Havoc and Kip Sabian was mymatch of the night. I'm telling you,
man, that was That was aridiculous match. And I know I'm
not much for Jimmy Havoc here,I'm not a big Jimmy Havoc guy,
but I mean they took the elementsof Jimmy and you know, the hardcore
stuff and who they just they wentto town. They went to work man,
(35:49):
and you know, it was abrutal, like a brutal fifteen minutes.
Best friends ended up getting a win, but it was just outstanding.
I felt like I had to mentionthat. I also felt like I have
to mention um Wardlow aka Mason Ryanslash Batista. Uh. He introduced a
(36:09):
finisher that I've never seen before,and my god, it's devastating with somebody
when they connect. Did you seethis by chance? If anything from Raw
and Smacked, anything I saw anythingfrom a w Okay, go on your
phone. Look at the last thingI retweeted on my wrestling account. It's
that easy to find. It's it'snasty, dude, and it's like a
(36:34):
modified version of a Go to Sleep. But it's it's ugly looking. Man,
it's pretty dang dang rough. Okay, I see it. That's nice,
isn't it not bad? So hehangs him off the top of the
turnbuckle, you know, with hishand, and then he needs him right
in the jaw and that's his finishand he has a pretty nasty uh you
(37:00):
know, gorilla press. He hasthe um he has a nice spinebuster where
he just picks people up. He'she's good. I've liked what I've seen
so far from him. Obviously youhaven't heard him cut promos or anything like
that, but you know, what'ssomebody that size? I don't know,
And I also feel like we haveto support him, dude. I mean
he's from Cleveland. I don't knowwhere he's from, but he's from Cleveland,
(37:22):
so yep, I didn't know thatsure is mhm. So those were
the stick out moments of um awfor me. Do you have anything else
to add before we get back intoour bracket and then close this thing out?
You know, not really? Nextweek will be a big week for
(37:45):
an XT, So yeah, thisweek is kind of Yeah, it's gonna
it's weird, it's gonna be liveagain. Still getting to get invested with
the current presentation formats it is.It is real mighty difference. It's getting
rougher and rougher for me on aweekly basis. Man, I feel like
(38:07):
the money in the bank for justthe reasons if they're gonna be at headquarters
is going to be something they're like, oh this is different. Yeah,
I mean it'll be different, butwill it hold my attention? Is the
real question? Well, if you'retalking about are you multitasking while you're watching,
the answer is always yes. Areyou you know, singularly watching like
(38:30):
you would maybe a show with agiant crowd. No, So I'm with
you there, see. But thething is, it's like, yeah,
if I'm multitasking, obviously I'm notgoing to pay much attention. But it's
not keeping me from multitasking, right, Like, I'll start not multitasking and
then eventually I'm like, oh,well, I'll do this while this is
(38:52):
happening because I can't hold my focusto what's happening. M And there's no
reason, I mean, you shouldn't. Did you see? I mean,
as much as we love wrestling,did you see the numbers? The um
that the ratings? No I didboth shows? No I did not.
(39:14):
It was it was it was ugly, really really ugly. They were very
low, very low. Do youknow what they were off the top of
your head. I think they saidthat both of them combined drew like one
point five. Isn't that normal?Not? They usually get like six eighty
each, is it? I don't, I don't know it. The way
(39:35):
that Twitter made it sound made itseem like it was really bad. I
thought that normally for the past likemonth, they've been drawing like six eighty
each. That's wild. I meanthink about it though, I mean what's
the point of watching things like,Yeah, everybody has the time to watch
(39:55):
stuff live right now, but everybodyelse has the time to watch things when
they want to right now. Soyeah, that's true. How do how
does it applied to ratings? Iwonder how that does? You know?
And also there's the people that don'twatch it on the network or don't watch
it on TNT and the USA appthat go out of their way and watch
it online via a third party.Well, everybody in England, anybody who's
(40:22):
not in the United States can't watchit the next day in the United States
the USA app. So everybody who'snot in the United States is probably watching
it the next day or that nightbecause again they can't watch on USA,
they have to watch it on Sky. But also at you know, one
in the morning, so they're probablywatching it on a different site. Yeah,
(40:45):
and if they are, that doesthat account into the ratings? That's
the you know, like Thursday,like for NXT to watch it on the
w w E app, you haveto wait until the next night, Like
you don't get to watch it thenext morning, you have to wait for
I think it airs like for thefirst time at like ten on Thursday nights
(41:06):
or something like that. Yeah,I think that's just an agreement with the
network, because I don't know why. I'm obviously not in charge of television
station here. But there's probably itdoesn't come to the network for three weeks.
M it's you know, they havethe rights to stream it for probably
(41:28):
I bet it's twenty four hours.I bet that's why it airs at ten.
M. Interesting. Okay. SoAW had six hundred and ninety three
thousand with a point to seven rating. I don't know what the rating means.
And then NXT had six hundred thirtyseven thousand with a point one six.
Yeah, I have no idea whatthat means. I don't. I
(41:50):
don't know what that means either.Um oh, the partial numbers is what
was bad. H n XT didnot ring in the top fifty in the
demographic It was number fifty one comparedto aw's sixteen. So I don't.
Again, I don't know what thatmeans. I don't. I don't know
what that means. Obviously, there'speople try to try to slant things,
(42:15):
but I don't know that. That'sjust what I read me. That means
literally nothing to me. Numbers.Okay, um, let's do the final
part of our first round in ourbracket, will do? Let me pull
(42:37):
it up a pull up? Allright? Alrighty, you're ready? No
hold on, I got it,but I need to grab that. Do
this, do that all right?Okay? The playing matchup sixteen seeds,
(43:05):
Mark Mark Henry versus Shane McMahon.I mean, I'm gonna take Mark Henry.
I am also gonna take Mark Henryjust because he's been a world champion
before Shane. He could win yourheart over with a lot of crazy spots,
and he was probably a better wrestlerthan some on the roster in the
(43:27):
late nineties and early two thousands.But Mark was the world's strongest man,
for God's sake. But like Martysays, doesn't matter. He's facing off
against number one seed and I'm guessingnumber one overall seed, Stone Cold Steve
Boston. Did I say that?Did I say that with a Vince Vince?
(43:51):
I was I was looking for thatand not really, but go for
it. Stone Cold Steve Roston wasbetter I thought that was not too bad
either, But yeah, obviously takingStone Colt. How about this, And
I don't know if I've ever seenthese two go at it eighth Seed Okay,
(44:16):
Scott Hall versus Diesel Okay, KevinNash, were you gonna? I
was waiting on you. That's athat's a tough one. I'm gonna take
Razor just I know somebody somewhere inhere's gonna be a quad joke from Marty
(44:43):
Well, yeah, because you knowKevin as tours Quad on the way of
the Ring. But first of all, I'm taking it simply because of that
Razor ramone w w F time.Really like that's what it does for me.
I understand Kevin Nash was you knowthat was Diesel and was world champion
at some point. But I don'tknow that raise a ramon you know Sean
(45:08):
Michael's kind of shit. Oh,it just kind of and it like cast
a shadow on Kevin Nash Like it'sit's higher up for me, Okay.
I just the total package that thepromos, the entering, uh versatility that
(45:31):
he had. He also had waymore of a personality. Oh yeah,
even if it was a stolen personality, it was way more of a personality.
Yeah, okay, you want totalk about a miss seating here.
Four seed Andre the Giant, thirteenseed to super Fly Jimmy Snuka. Uh,
(45:52):
Andre should be like a two.Yeah, Like so that's a no
contest. Andre wins, and Andrewould pancake the hell out of this terrible
person. Uh. Five seed Batista'stwelve seed Bob Backlan. This is actually
(46:12):
probably closer than people would imagine becauseBob Backlin. I mean, we don't
want to have racency bias here.And Bob Backlin was a world champion and
heeded the you know, the chickenwing. Everyone knows the chicken wing,
and he was around for a longtime. Batista. The thing about Batista
is you had to have a veryspecific taste with him. I feel like
(46:38):
he was not the best at likecutting promos and stuff like that, but
he was like he was monstrous,but in the in a way where he
was beatable, but he got hewas sucking his muscles and like his just
overall, like I don't know,to stop osterone is that's the word to
(47:00):
say, Like he was just andobviously the you know the theme song and
everything that accompanied it. Um healso has given us some very memorable moments,
uh in in the bad ways likebasketballs don't hold grudges. Yes,
and and you were supposed to bemy friend, Bautista, give me what
(47:22):
I want. Yeah, that wasthe most recent one. Um. God,
I don't want to disrespect Bob Backlandhere, but just from my obviously,
I don't know much more about BobBackland, and there's probably some you
know, old timers and wrestling historiansthat would disagree. But I'm gonna put
Batista in just because I know himbetter. Um, and I know that's
(47:45):
you know, obviously bias, butI don't know much else about Bob Backland.
I mean, I'm also gonna gowith Batista. Okay, Three seed
Macho Man, Randy Savage, fourteenseed Harley Race. Again, I feel
(48:08):
like a miss seating. We didnot make the seedings. This is like
whose lines that done? Whose lines? In anyway? Games made up?
The points don't matter, but wow, fourteen seed Harley Race. Wow.
I mean I was gonna pick theMacho Man regardless. Yeah, but Harley
(48:31):
and you know in the seventies,come on, Macho manch's nicotic wrestler though
he is, and you know,I watched a documentary on him recently,
and just it's wild to me thatWWE gave up on him in the early
nineties and put him on commentary whenhe still had so much more left in
(48:55):
him. Um, obviously, youknow, he jumped ship over to WCW
and was doing a thing there.But I wonder what would have happened if
he stayed and if Vince let letthat roll a little longer with him,
because he was a magnificent performer.He obviously, you know, was the
(49:15):
first one to like have I feellike, the first one to have like
an over the top, you knowcharacter that was pretty over the top.
Well, they mirrored each other.Remember you don't forget about the megapowers,
h but like, he was sogood and in ring ability and his just
(49:43):
his charisma and there was just nothingbetter than him at the time, and
that includes Hulk. Okay, uhoh, this is a good matchup.
I like this one. This isdebatable too, six seed staying eleven seed,
aj styles, Where are you goingwith this one? Because I'm I'm
(50:05):
setting to think I have to thinkabout it. Okay, because Sting here's
the thing. You know, Stingwas doing his thing like early and then
you know, he had the shortblonde hair and the face paint then m
and he was having you know,incredible matches at that point. And then
(50:27):
you think about when he has thisfeud with the nWo, comes out from
the rafters, completely reinvents himself asyou know, the vigilante Sting with a
baseball bat, and that's the StingI remember most, obviously because that's when
I started to really watch and hewas just so he had this cool factor
(50:49):
about him. I I just Inever went as Halloween as him, but
like I had so many friends thatdid, and um, you know,
he's just so mysterious and he didn'ttalk like. It was so cool,
the reintroduction of Sting. And thenobviously you know WWE folds, he goes
(51:10):
to t NA, and then Iwatched him in TNA. I actually really
enjoyed his run in TNA. Ithought when he you know, the Dark
Knight came out and he turned himselfinto you know, a joker type of
character like from The Dark Knight,I thought that he killed it and that
and I was like I was watchingTNA like religiously at that point, and
he did a fantastic job there,and then you think about when he first
(51:35):
appeared on ww television at Survivor seriesand Dolf Ziegler was the lone survivor in
like two thousand. I'd want tosay it was like fifteen. That was
memorable. I think that Sting wasobviously an icon of our business. And
then you look at the flip sidewith aj Aj also reinvented himself. I'd
(51:57):
be at not with face paint.You know, he comes in as the
this, you know, generic lookingdo with a buzz cut, with really
good athleticism. First earliest memories Ihave him was in the X division in
TNA in the storyline actually remember mostearliest was when he was out of the
(52:19):
X division actually, and he wasfacing Christopher Daniels and they had Claire Lynch.
I don't know if you remember ClaireLynch. Claire Lynch was somebody who
he allegedly added an affair with andit had impregnated. This was TNA creative,
by the way, But I justremember the matches he had with Daniels
and they were just so outstanding.And then I stopped watching TNA and eventually,
(52:42):
you know, when I got,you know, all into Twitter,
and he came back. He hadlike a little bit of longer, Harry
had like a beard, and hewas like this mysterious character. And all
of a sudden he's over in NewJapan, and I'm like, what the
hell? I always knew who A. J. Styles was. I always
loved his finish the style class isone of the coolest finishers ever. M
(53:02):
Then they announced that he went intoWWE, and then that pop he had
at the Rumble when he first cameout, Oh God, Alice, that
was something. And he has youknow, theme music's perfect eight. He's
always he's had steale moments in WWE, but he's always been really good in
(53:22):
the ring. That said, Icannot allow a WW Hall of Famer to
lose to AJ Styles. So I'mpigging Sting. Really, I'm gonna go
with I'm gonna go with AJ.That was mine? Oh wow, yeah,
okay, all right, all rightthen any specific reasoning, just like
(53:47):
you know, he I know Stingwas able to invent himself outside of a
w WE, but I mean startedAJ and he not only did it in
one company, but he did itin two and then did it in three.
To Shay, I just think ifif WWE and Sting would have been
(54:09):
able to come to terms earlier thatit had been a lot closer than you
think. Yeah, oh absolutely thatthat's just I feel like Sting's abilities were,
especially at the time, just aheadof his time. You know,
Stinger splash and he had the theSharpshooter Scorpion deathlock. It's it's a different,
(54:32):
a little bit different modified version theStinger Splash. I'm sure that his
athleticism could definitely compete, even thoughthe moveset isn't quite as eye opening as
AJ's. Okay, uh seven seedDaniel Bryan, ten seed, Iron Chic
(54:55):
Daniel Bryan, What the fuck?Unfortunately that's my memory of Iron Cheek.
I know Iron Cheek was a hellof a heel back in his day,
especially the feud against m Hulk Hogan. I mean, unforgettable when you go
(55:15):
back and watch those tapes. MDaniel for me as somebody I latched onto
really early when he was just Greenis Green Day, you know, like
Green is Green Day, there's ournext title. M Daniel. When he
(55:38):
won that money in the bank,I was like, I'm looking forward to
this. I remember watching that atbea Dubs. That was our hangout guys
went to be dubs to watch thesepay per views, and he won the
Money in the Bank that year andI was like, he's got something and
it's it's you know, he didn'tquite show the charisma and the audience of
(56:00):
drawing power that he has now andit just sent him on this just rocket
ship going forward, you know.And the Yes movement started very shortly after
that, even though it wasn't amovement yet. It was between yes and
no. And then he had thestuff going on with AJ and then he
had the matches with Punk. Iactually was on the network that they were
(56:23):
showing the Money in the Bank matchbetween him and Punk for the ww title.
That was a really good match.The one it over the limit was
outstanding. I mean, and thiswas all WWE. Daniel Bran. We're
not even talking about Ring of HonorDaniel Bryan or Brian Danielson. I should
say, you know, that's justsomebody who at his size was able to
(56:47):
break through that glass ceiling and forciblydo so. We all remember the reaction
that ray Masterio got at number thirtyat the Royal Rumbolt twenty fourteen, as
that I was supposed to be Daniel. Daniel was stuck in a program with
Bray Wyatt at the time, whichby the way, it was a really
good product and and it ended upreally getting him over. I remember that
(57:10):
that cage match like yesterday when hehad the Wyatt gear on and ended up
taking it off and doing the theyes chance that was out. That was
awesome, and then that set thethe whole stage for WrestleMania thirty. But
I mean since then to be ableto come back, he's he's even did
a little bit of heel work.So good, so good, iron chic.
(57:35):
I mean, I can't say thatI know all that much about him.
I know he's entertaining, but likehe had that he was dubbed the
you know, the the foreign heelthat worked back in the day. You
know, I don't know what elsehe was able to do. And that's
not trying to take away from hisability, because he obviously drew so much
(57:59):
heat and he has so much respectnow and he's in the Hall of Fame
for a reason. But Daniel's gonnabe in the Hall of Fame too,
So I'm gonna take Daniel here.I agreed final first round matchup before our
brackets changed next week. Two seedundertaker, fifteen seed. Mister Perfect doesn't
(58:24):
even need to be said dead manwalking. I would like to say this
though. I wish I would havebeen my age now to watch mister Perfect,
because he was he was so cool, Like when you look at those
(58:44):
vignettes that he would do, likehe would do them with real life professional
athletes, and like he just hadso much swagger about him, like the
thing with the basketball when he's lookingin the camera and he flips it over
his head and it goes in,or when he's at the plate with the
bat and he hits a home run, Like these were so outstanding, and
(59:06):
it's such a good, good,you know, character to have, like
I'm perfect at everything I do.And every time he tossed that damn towel
behind his back, he caught itand he just did it so fluidly.
He's just I wish he would havebeen been able to wrestle longer than you
(59:28):
know he was able to do.Obviously pass away at very young age,
but I wish I would have beenable to see him at that time too.
I mean I do remember seeing himin two thousand and two when he
came back. I do remember that. I remember watching brock lesnar beat the
living crap out of him. Iremember seeing him at the Royal Rumble,
(59:49):
you know, but like that earlythe you know, early to mid nineties,
Kurt hen Egg. I would haveloved to see that. And speaking
of which, his son just gotuh let go by w w E.
Actual Mania has officially run out oftime with WWE UM wondering where. Um,
(01:00:14):
I don't know what they're gonna what'shis actual name, Mike, I
don't remember. Well, I hopethat I'm just gonna refer to him as
Curtis Axtell. Curtis Axtell finds hisway. Uh. He had a really
you know, obviously this is aside but before we get into an undertaker.
But UM, hope that he youknow, finds his way. I
(01:00:36):
thought that his you know, intercontinentalyou know run went really well when he
was aligned with Hayman. Uh.And then he obviously had the tag team
with Sandow. Uh. He wasa part of the miss Security stuff.
He always kind of got fed crapwith with his his storylines. Always thought
(01:00:57):
he had the ability. I mean, there's a lot of talent that has
the ability, but he was apart of some really funny segments too.
We're never gonna forget the genesis ofmcgilla cutty, whether it was good or
bad, We're never gonna forget that. And we're never gonna forget Axleomania.
Axlomania was great, still running,still never got eliminated. So God speed
(01:01:21):
to him. Over to the Undertaker. I mean, it's self explanatory.
The dude's got undergone so many changesand stayed the same character for ever,
and it's just the longevity and themystique that he brings and the ability,
(01:01:43):
you know, the ability to bethis badass that beats the crap out of
people and then be this walking zombiethat can set an arena on fire like
just such a cool, cool,unique and there will never be another type
of character like that. So that'swhy Undertaker wins that one. So we
(01:02:09):
have our second round set and we'lldo one by one with that too as
well. As we go on.Marty and I are gonna have our differences
though, as we've talked about them, so we'll just continue to track our
own and you can track along athome as well. Yeah, so there's
(01:02:31):
our bracket conversation and we've reached theabout hour or so mark, so we're
gonna just go ahead and put thisone to bed. We are on Twitter
at Gimmipower, on Facebook at Facebookdot com slash stick to the Gimmick.
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same thing for us, because welike to do it. We like to
make you laugh, we like tobe that annoying bug in your ear.
(01:03:15):
It's all fun, it's all goodfor us. So with that said,
I'm gonna leave it off to myco host to tell you what's going on
for episode one oh five. So, yeah, alright, Episode one oh
five next week. We almost madeit two an hour and five minutes thanks
(01:03:35):
to Spencer and his ramblings that henever ever seems to never have. So
episode one oh five next week it'llbe a packed one. Hopefully we can
contain Spencer two under an hour nextweek. Doubtful but possible. So two
(01:03:57):
title matches, the Gargano match,all that shit, and then obviously the
Money in the Bank that happens thenext couple of days after this comes out,
not this one, but the nextepisode. Yeah, you know how
it goes. But one oh fivewe'll be talking about next week's episode those
title matches, Cross as well.Forgot about him, and then the preview
(01:04:19):
of Money in the Bank, andthen you know, Spencer can go on
his tirades about whatever goes on ina w that's about it. Nothing new
gonna happen before then, So oneoh five with us, And of course
he thought I forgot, but Ididn't. Jonahill, He'll be here again
(01:04:41):
one hundred and five times. Dude'skilling it. I mean, no one's
that consistent except for him. SoI mean, what are you gonna do?
Nothing? Nothing's what you're gonna do. But one oh five next week
us jonah Hill, NXT, youknow, do all the things go read
my article. It's up. Idon't care who hairs one oh five hour
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five. Oh I got good bym hm.
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