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The Supermedia Bros. Podcast is afounding member of the Odd Pods Media network
Supers. There's kickoffs, there's kicksin the face, there's back blading,

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Like what the fuck? Like,what are we even talking about this week?
A lot of sports? Actually,all right, that sounds great.
There's definitely not gonna be a greattitle for this episode, but I don't
give a shit. X Wrestling.I don't know it's okay. Welcome to
episode two hundred and sixty four ofthe Supermedia Bros. Podcast. I'm Richie,
and I'm still thinking you can stillthink it's okay. We're gonna talk

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about WWE Elimination Chamber from last week. We're going to talk about the XFL
kickoff, which finally happened last week, and we're gonna hop in our thirty
year time Machine series with a visitto WCW Super Bowl three from nineteen ninety
three. So with all that beingsaid, we're gonna go ahead and kick

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this off with the XFL, becauselike we're hot off of a brand news
start, the third or the secondreboot, the third time that this sport
has tried to, you know,do its thing, and it feels like
this time they're gonna get it right. Yes, that was, and the

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last go around was excellent as well, But I just feel like this is
very pristine. Maybe I don't know, there's something about it. The rock.
Yeah, let's be honest, man, that dude anything damn near anything
he touches turns to gold. Iknow, like financially, like dude just

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doesn't take els like he's had acouple of movies and everything that don't make
a billion dollars. But like justoverall, like him as a marketable figure,
everything that he is a part ofoverall does really well. And it
looks great. Like the design looksgreat, the logos look clean. I'm

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happy with where the teams are,the logos of the teams, the names
of the teams. It feels big, not like it didn't before, but
it feels more big time. Iwould like, after you know, a
couple of seasons and expansion, getit less Texas and more like spread out.
I was gonna say, but Iknow they did that because Texas is

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a breeding ground for fans like putanything in the Most of these teams are
in the South, which I thinkis funny because like, we love our
fucking sports down yeah, but thereare eight teams. There is a North
and a South division. The Southdivision are the Arlington Renegades led by Bob
Stoops, the Houston Roughnecks led byWade Phillips, the Orlando Guardians led by

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Terrell Buckley or Terrell Buckley because Isuck it pronouncing this dud's first name,
and the San Antonio Brahmas led byHines Ward or Dwayne Johnson. Yeah.
I mean, let's be honest.Let's be honest. That man probably like
just whispering in his ear, likeall right, here's what you gotta do.
Yeah. Now, the fact thatlike there are three Texas teams,

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one thing I thought was really interestingof note is that half the teams,
and I say half, they're kindof split unevenly. Half the teams have
a turf field, and like theother three have grass fields. That does
actually make a huge difference in youand you're playing. So the ones on

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the South Division that have turf isHouston, Orlando and San Antonio. And
as we moved to the North division, we have the DC Defenders that are
led by Reggie Barlow, the SeattleSea Dragons led by Jim Haslet, the
Saint Louis BattleHawks led by Anthony Beckt. The Vegas Vipers led by Rod Woodson.
Now, funny enough, our teamwho we have already picked, which

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is the Vipers. We're fucking fangangall the way. We've got a grass
field, but we actually have theleast amount of people that the field can
hold. Well yeah, actually thatwas a huge thing is we didn't even
have a stadium until like maybe amonth before the fucking kickoff, right right,
So where are we going? Like, what's going on? It's a

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soccer specific stadium, dude. That'sthe funny part about it. Where you're
in a fucking soccer field. Andit's funny because whenever the first game happened
in it was Vipers at Arlington,I was like, oh god, well
the defenders have a soccer field too, but like ours looks real tiny.
But here's a thing, dude,whenever that game started, I was looking

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at the crowd. I was like, oh no, oh no, no,
no, turns out. First ofall, you have to realize it
was the away side that was notfilled capacity, right right, And I
had to think and be like,now, who in the fuck from Vegas
is going to travel to Arlington fora football game, like for the first

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game of not only this team butthe league. It's like, yeah,
Okay, it's not gonna sell outthere with that distance and everything surrounding it,
even if you are not a Vegasresident but you're still a fan of
the Vipers. Still, it's notgonna happen. But also turns out the

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top of the stadium was still sealedoff, So that's a lot of crowd
that's not even physically able to bethere, right, So when you think
about that, it's like, Okay, you probably did have a pretty good
turnout. Yeah, And it wasweird seeing it on camera, you know
what I'm saying, Like, becauseyou know, it's not going to be
packed, you know. I feellike, if anything, the Vegas Vipers

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home field will look pack because itseats less people. Yeah, but twelve
thousand, five hundred is still alot of people. Yeah. And then
the other teams like uh, SanAntonio and the DC game. Dude,
the DC game was fucking packed.Yeah, And I think it's because of
like those cities, Like, yeah, they're clamoring for shit like this,

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man, But let's go ahead andtalk about the Let's go ahead and talk
about the games because we finally hadsome kickoff games happening, and um,
there were some rule changes that happenedthat were revised from the twenty twenty season.
The opening which I loved this,the opening game for the entire league

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for this season was the Vipers versusthe Renegades, and man, look I
got some shit to say about this. Yeah, yeah, we both got
some shit to say about this.Okay, first of all, this is
just us given our boys shit,because why the fuck not fucking how do

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you blow an eleven point lead andthen just give the other Did you just
give the fucking Renegades every point thatthey had? Even the coach, even
coach said that shit, he waslike, every point they have, you
fucking gave it to him. I'llsay this, A lot of the fucking
games did have that where it's likenail biting. Even though at first it

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was a there was a clear winner, you know, like right, So,
I mean, to be honest,like, it's not. I would
say it's set the tone of theXFL. Week one in general. Time
will tell if it's an XFL thingin general, but Week one in particular,

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yes, I mean, shit,dude, look at the BattleHawks game
against the Brahmas, right fucking twominutes left in the fourth quarter, and
those fuckers just come right back.Yeah, they were down three to fifteen
in the fourth quarter, two minutesleft, two touchdowns, three point conversion,
fourth and fifteen. Like, itwas fucking insane. So for the

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Vipers too, I guess choke it. And really it was just the third
quarter. I don't know if theyjust got cocky, but Perez is kind
of known for starting off hottest shitand then I don't know, he like
he always starts off like ready toprove something right, and then just fizzles.

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I was gonna say the exact fuckingsame thing, but then he came
back alive in the fourth quarter,but by then it was just too late.
It was a couple of picks anduh, several fumbles. But I
did want to point this out thatone fucking moment when he's talking to not
one but two lady refs and youcan hear them saying, oh my god,

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how he's just spitting his fucking game. Basically, he's just basically he's
like spitting where he came from,what he's done. I graduated a twenty
seventeen, you know, and he'sjust got the biggest smile. Oh yeah,
And I'm just like, you gotthe win in the bag. Yeah,
he already knows. He's he's takingof which two or probably both of
them to take to dinner and justyou know, and I was like,

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yeah, we got this win.We didn't, but I was like,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see, I see the vision
that motherfucker sitting there like, I'mgonna sure you my viper later. Fucking
hell. Hey, you know what, though, Renegades got immaculate defense.
I'll give them that, even thoughfrom the twenty twenty jersey design to now,

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it's fucking ass. I fucking hatethe rebooted Renegades. Look, yeah,
yeah, yeah, that's pretty bad, dude. I'm not gonna lie.
Yeah it's bad. Now. Ido want to point out you were
talking about just stats and like shitthat happened to the game, Like the
fucking amount of goddamn turnovers that Vegasjust gave to the fucking Renegades, dude,

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Jesus Christ. And I'm glad youbrought that up because you want to
hear a crazy stat fucking would loveto This game ended at twenty two and
twenty somehow they won a game withthat score, not a single offensive touchdown.
It was all fucking yeah, Iknow, I cannot fucking get over

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that shit. Either. I'm likeit was either defensive like turnover and touchdown
or field goals, like what thefuck? Oh? Speaking of field goals,
this is where Devin and I hadlike a human monks, like,
like, as far as the ruleswent or whatever, we were having a
huge fucking conundrum because the Vipers hadcome back with like, oh god,

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less than a minute, way fuckingless than a minute eight seconds left,
and the fact that we had atouchdown and I was sitting there like,
why the funk wouldn't they just gofor the field goal? And like I
think at the time we hadn't realizedthat they just they don't do that here.
Yeah, Like it wasn't until likethat night whenever it was it was
a second game. No, No, they kept saying it during the c

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Dragons game, and defenders they keptso I didn't see it on social media,
but the way that they kept explainingit after every turnover, no field
goals, after a touchdown they saidit so many times, I have to
think that we were not the onlyones that didn't know, Yeah, because

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I can guarantee you people that arejust getting into this and they don't know
probably did the same fucking thing wedid where they were just like you sons
of bitches, like and we werethe fucking heels in that area. Dude.
It was fucking amazing. I lovedit. Yeah, but uh yeah,
that that game. It's not thatit soured me completely. I was
just like, god damn it,like and me and you both you said

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it. I had the same thought. We just can't have a team that
goes all the way, can Iknow? Because between my Miami Dolphins,
Chicago Bulls now this, um hey, the Bruins are looking really fucking good.
Hey yeah exactly go Bruins. FuYeah, Ruined buys all about some
fucking hockey over here too. Butuh yeah, like you you think about
it, like you go from thatgame and then like our second pick,

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the Roughnecks just wipe the goddamn fieldwith the Guardians, bro, Like that
was like that was a fucking slaughter. Despite throwing two picks, Houston by
far had the best quarterback, uhbest looking team front to back, which,
by the way, how fucking wildis it that you look at that

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color scheme right right and it's adominant dynasty ass team their quarterback is number
twelve. Yeah, I just it'sthe stupidest thing. But I don't know.
Talking about the Guardians though, theywere the only team all weekend to
not get a sack. That sucks, man like, and it's like,

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dude, Guardians aren't even my leastfavorite team in the league. No,
they're really not. Like they dohave a pretty cool aesthetic. I like
their logo all that stuff. Andplus maybe it's my generation, but in
middle school, neon green was thecolor. So neon colors were a thing
for me in like elementary school andthen like going into middle school, like

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they were still kind of there.Because you gotta think like like we're we're
literally like a decade apart, solike our generations are a little different.
Like I came up, like literallycame up like of mind in the nineties,
like literally in the nineties. Yougot the tail end of that ship
going in like the early two thousandsor whatever. But like it's still a
thing. So from sixth grade toninth grade, dude, if you didn't

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have the black Nike socks with thewhite check, you weren't cool, but
you were extra cool. If youhad the fucking black with the neon green,
you were elite. So but no, your feet were elite, dude,
that was the ship. But noGuardians. They looked the weakest.

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But also, you're going up againstthe Roughnecks, and there's a reason they're
called the Roughnecks, dude. Andeven the last version of XFL, they
were the only team that was undefeated. They were five. And oh,
I believe you think this is gonnabe the team that, like, just
based on the score in their performance, do you think this is gonna be
the team to look out for?Oh? Yes, absolutely, I think

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so too. But like the BattleHawksand Brahmas game, like I couldn't believe,
like we were talking about a whileago, I couldn't believe the fucking
comeback on that one, dude,And all the way through it was strictly
a defensive game up until the fourthquarter, which it was fun as hell
to watch, but offensively it lookedlame, to the point where Charlie his

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favorite team so far is a BattleHawksand he was like, Dude, my
team is ass because they just werenot getting it done and then up until
the last two minutes, it wasthree to fifteen, and he was like,
damn, motherfucker, at least youguys were twenty to twenty two,
you know, like, right,we look like shit. And it's like

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it's almost as if they heard himsay that, and they were like,
oh word, we're gonna him.Yeah, he helped him. Whoop that
ass, dude. It was fuckinginsane. The Brahmas looked really stout for
most of the game, Like Iwas pretty pretty happy with the Brahmas.
And then the last game of thekickoff was the DC Defenders against the Seattle

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Sea Dragons. And I'm just gonnago on record right here and now.
I told Devin this over text message. I told Devin this in my kitchen
about thirty minutes ago, and I'mtelling this to him now in front of
all of you people out there thatare listening. Devin and I are Day
one Vegas Vipers, guys, andI feel like I can speak for the
both of us when I say weare also Day one Fuck the Sea Dragons

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all the fucking way, dude.And it's not even because like the team.
It's the sad part, dude.We are just like, man,
we just gotta find a team.And honestly, another one of my good
buddies, Buckalou, he loves theSea Dragons, and so I was like,
nobody likes DC Defenders, okay exceptfor Washington people, in the fact

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that we're even just like, fuckthe Sea Dragons over the Defenders. Well,
that's the thing is because like it'slike, dude, y'all are the
most midass looking team. Like,even though the fans are great like all
of that shit. It's Washington,of course it's gonna have great fans,
but their presentation, the jerseys andall of it. I'm just like,

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this is the most mid shit,whereas the C Dragons at least look cool.
But I'm like that makes me hateyou for some reason. At DACY
Defenders walk in their locker rooms andthey're just like, fuck, yeah,
we got the we got a reallyrad like color scheme. Oh man,
that's gonna be fucking great. We'rerepresenting like DC period, and they fucking
look at their jerseys, lay itout and they're just embarrassed. Well,

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the thing is is their way jerseysand uniform overall is pretty good. You
know. The home uniform is assdude, I can't. Red is my
favorite color, but that's just toomuch. It just it doesn't look right
to me. It honestly looks like, you know, remember whenever maddened games
you could create a custom team.Yep, it looks like a custom team's

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default that you were supposed to takeand then customize around. Yeah, it
just looks off. But as faras the C Dragons go, uh,
fuck them. Like, in myprofessional opinion, as far as the C
Dragons go, fuck them. Movingon, I mean in the Nucci,

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I mean at their quarterback started offhot like I'm talking like Sam Raimi's Spider
Man one and two hot, andthen ended it like Spider Man three.
I swear to god, he fuckingJesus Christ, he fucking God. Damn.
I don't know, Like it feltweird because I was like, dude,
I don't want to cheer for Logan'steam, because like I feel it

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in my heart that if my buddy'sfavorite team is on, I have to
root against them. Yeah. Like, like it's really not even fuck the
C Dragons. It's more like fuckLogan. But you're not even calling him
Buckaloo anymore. It's like you're bringingout the name. Yeah, it's like
it's personal at that point. Soand plus, like, like I said,

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DC's got some cool fans, youknow, the free the fucking beer
snake, dude, I love that. Let's talk about that real fast before
we kind of like get to umlike where we want to see the league
go and all that shit, Likewe'll close the chapter on this. But
oh my fucking god, during thatgame, a beer snake from the fans
was taken. So how did thisfucking trash ass response go? They started

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throwing lemons onto the field, wholeass fucking limons. We're not exaggerating this.
You can go on YouTube and findthis. I just want to know
did they how do they plan this? Did did they come prepared? That's
what I want to know? Likedid they where did they get these?
Right? Like? Did did theyfucking like all band together somehow? Did
somebody in the parking lot just havelike a fucking like supply of lemons in

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their truck and they were like,hey, guys, lemons? Is that
a thing in DC? Like Igotta know, Like that's the one.
How I want to know if it'slike a like a traditional thing that you
just come prepared I mean, like, would would Green Bay fans throw cheese?
Fuck Green Bay, That's what I'msaying, fuck them, But like,

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did they throw cheese? I don'tknow, Like that'd be like coming
down here for a Saints game andus getting so pissed off we throw crawfish
onto the field. Like I justI I need to know if it was
a cultural thing that I just wasnot aware of. Oh, when life
gives you lemons, yeah, fuckingMy favorite shot of that game was whenever

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they showed the limon and it wasbroken in half from the impact and it's
like, oh my god, we'reabout to squeeze these lemons to make some
hataid out of it. Dude.It was fucking wild. But they made
that comeback, Yeah they did.There was a fucking post on the XFL
Instagram and it was of this kid. He was wearing like all decked out

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and sea dragon shit, and hehad a sign that said, I traveled
seven hours to see Benda Nucci andthat man lost. You give seven hours
to see your man's lose, restand piss. He will not be missed.
Oh my fucking god. So beforewe leave, who do you think

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it's gonna be in the championship.Definitely Houston, And that's difficult for us
to say. Man, well that'sokay, So do you think and this
is just this is just like,do you think it's gonna be the Vipers
in the Roughnecks? It? OhGod, I'm actually looking up who's on
which side? No, that's whatI'm saying, because the Vipers are the

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North Division and then Houston's and SouthDivision. It's very possible. It's very
possible. The only if the VegasVipers get their shit together though. Yeah,
I mean as far as the Northgoes. Before Week one, everybody
was saying to look out for theSea Dragons. Now granted it was one
loss, but I feel like,I don't know, I'm not so sure

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about them. I'm thinking it's gonnacome down to either. I would prefer
it to be the Vipers, butyou cannot count out the Battle Hawks.
See as far as from the NorthDivision, I'll go either of those two
teams. I would be happy with, yes, because Devin and I actually
have teams that we enjoy on bothsides of the divisions, which it kind

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of works out for us because I'msitting here, like, Okay, Vipers
or battle Hawks could go on oneside and then on the other side,
I'd be happy with the fucking roughRoughnecks or the Brahmas going yeah, yeah,
absolutely, and it's it is possible, you know, like it's one
week. It's so possible for shitto fucking turn on a dime. But

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just I think we'll get a betteridea because like I said, it's week
one that we have seen Orlando couldjust be ass like, could be horrible,
but Houston was going up against him, so it made Houston look good.
We will see on week two wheneverit's the Roughnecks versus the Renegades,

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because like I said, Renegades havesome baller ass defense. Let's see how
Houston actually plays against a real teamright on. But as it stands,
I think it'll be Houston and probablyBattleHawks. But I would love if it's
the Vipers, yeah, because that'dbe our two teams. Then I'd be
happy with whoever the fuck you honestly, yeah, because in April, whenever

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we're going to the Roughnecks and Vipersgame, we're gonna see how it might
look. Not even just that,but it's also just like dude, we're
just gonna be happy to be therebecause like we love both teams, right,
Like people would lose their shit ifwe showed up, like because like
I'll wear my fucking viper as Citywithout the sleeves because I'm trashy, Like
I'll wear it like that over there, but then I'll buy out like a

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fucking Roughnecks baseball hat and put itwith the jersey. People will probably be
like, what the fuck are you? And I would be like, I'm
a rough viper. I'm a viperneckbitch, dude. Well, honestly,
like my goal is to go toevery team's game at least once. I'd
love to do that too, sameget merged from all teams because really,
like shit talk aside, I reallydo like at least something out of every

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team. Sure, you know,even like I said, Defenders look a
little underwhelming, but they have aclever get a gimmicked little logo like with
the D and the sea with thestar. Yeah it's clever. Yeah.
Plus, like I said, red'smy favorite color, so cool. Yeah,
BattleHawks have a great ass logo SeaDragons fuck you logan, um yeah,

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I fox with it. Vipers goaded, Roughnecks is goaded Renegades love their
throwback logo. Yep, I hateeverything else that's current. Yeah, I
was. I was looking at thembeing like, how you fucking chroma key
blue looking sons of bitches. Iwas so pissed off watching that on my
TV. I was like, ohmy god, that hurt my fucking eyeballs
to look at, especially their helmets. I don't like their helmets. Yeah,

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I don't either. The Brahmas lovethe Bramas. Look, I feel
terrible. We have a shitload oflisteners in the Dallas area. They're gonna
be fucking so mad at us.Well, well, I mean I'm just
staying in fact, Like I know, I know, it's just it's funny.
It's just funny that I'm pointing itout. Twenty XFL I loved the
Renegades. That was my team actuallybecause look at their aesthetic from twenty twenty

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versus now. And I think that'swhy I'm so sour on them is because
I'm like, guys, all youhad to do is copy and paste.
You had. It was perfect,it was beautiful. Why'd you fuck get
up? You want to go fromDallas to Arlington. I understand, I
get it. I'm cool with that. Why the fuck that and the guardians

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are pretty dope. Yeah I likethem, you know, so, yeah
I would I would get merged fromany team really same yeah. So okay,
Like actually, before we go,like this time for real, before
we go, I'm going to rollover the rule changes that happened from the
twenty twenty season to twenty twenty threebecause we did mention that at the top
of the program. So the playclock changed from twenty five seconds from spotting

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of the ball to thirty five secondsfrom the end of the previous play.
Team timehouts increased from two to threeper half. The regulation over time rounds
decreased from five to three, thenew option to convert a fourth and fifteen
to keep the ball in the fourthquarter. This is also in addition to
the traditional on side kick option,which remains in the rules. Teams now

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have one coach's challenge can be usedto review any officiating decision without restriction in
lieu of the on site sky judgeas used in the AAF In twenty twenty
seasons, all replay decisions are beingmade from a centralized hub, and the
hub retains the error correction powers.The sky judge held and Finally, a

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new football is replacing the design usedin twenty twenty with more of a conventional
pebbling and design scheme and the signatureof Danny Garcia on the football itself.
So I mean, not a lotof changes, but subtle ones. And
that's already in addition to the standardrules that the XFL has, which are
pretty fucking goal So go search thoseout yourself. Yeah, it's even if

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you're not a football fan, youmight become a fan just watching this shit.
Yeah, because really it's dare Isay, more exciting than the NFL,
but only because all of the playersare very hungry, they all have
some to prove and all. Sojust in general, the way that the

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rules are laid out, it makesfor a more fast paced game. Yeah.
It doesn't feel laggy, it doesn'tfeel terrible, it doesn't feel boring.
It feels fun. So everybody outthere, check out the XFL.
If you catch a game on television, it's on ESPN, ESPN two,
ESPN plus FX and ABC, whichI think it's cool that they're going to
air it on FX. Like that'sa fucking awesome option right there. And

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if you guys don't have cable,I do not as well. YouTube TV
is what I use, but somepeople can use ULU. I believe sling
is a good option. But youare going to miss a few because they
don't have ABC. So yeah,and ABC is going to be one of
the main carriers of this one,so trying to help you allowed, yep,

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same, But yeah, the seasonhas just kicked off and it's gonna
run through the playoffs from April twentyninth to May thirteenth, and May thirteenth
is going to be the championship game. So it's set in San Antonio.
Yeah, yeah, it's it,man, I'm telling you. So check
out the XFL shit. I'd loveto go see that. Actually, same,
that'd be a good road trip.I love that, sou And let's

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move along to Super Brawl three fromnineteen ninety three. This was a fun
rewatch for me because I haven't seenit in a very long time, and
obviously, like this is part ofour thirty year time Machine series we started
with WWF, like we're gonna dothe Big five in WWF, but we
also want to do some of thebigger pay per views from WCW as well,

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because they did have some cool shitgoing on in the nineties, despite
it being kind of with the bleedover from the NWA, you know,
becoming WCW full blown damn good cardhonestly, and it was quite fucking entertaining
match wise. I was pleasantly surprisedwith how well this held up. Yeah,

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I felt like shit whenever I waswatching it, like I was so
sick, Like yeah, but Iremember you texted me being like, dude,
this this is fire as fuck.Yeah, because like it was one
of those things of like, yeah, I can barely like crack a smile
physically because I'm just everything hurts,but I'm happy right now, Like I

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was. I was just happy toactually be able to sit down and enjoy
something because I just hadn't up untilthat point. And so just watching it
and dude, the fucking Benwall match, Dude, what a crazy fucking ending.
Dude, I was very surprised.Okay, So like let's start from

(30:38):
the top. Yes, Okay,so there are nine matches on the card
altogether, and we're not gonna likesit and dwell on this. I just
want to kind of run through someof these. But I want to talk
about a couple of matches in particular, the first one was before they even
recalled the Hollywood Blonds. It wasAustin and like Steve Auston and Brian Pillman
wrestling Eric Watson buff bagwell, whichhe was not buff yet, he was
just Marcus this school watch. Thiswas a fun tag match. I thought

(31:03):
it was great because you can tellthis is right when Pillman and Austin started
first teaming, and you can seethat they're finding their footing as a tag
team, and they're even doing likethe you know, the camera real thing
when they're walking to the ring.I still crack up at the fact that
they're just like, oh, yeah, Steve Auston from Hollywood, California went
in reality, it's Steve Auston fromthe south west Houston, Texas, Victoria,

(31:23):
Texas area. And he's he's he'sfucking redneck. Is shit? I'm
from fucking Hollywood, California. No, you're not. You're fucking not.
You ain't full of nobody, buddy, Please, because I was, I
wasn't even born, or if Iwas, I was so young. Please

(31:44):
tell me he cut promos. Ohabsolutely, you need to go fucking look
at that shit on me. It'sthe best shit, it's the best shit
ever watching. Yes, it reallyis. It's the best shit watching Steve
Auston. Stunning Steve Auston. Mindyou try to sound like he is from
fucking California, because he just hejust doesn't fucking do it. He still
sounds like he choose and fucking everything. But yeah, they win this match

(32:08):
in sixteen minutes and thirty four seconds. A very well done tag match,
and it's a fun opener. Andonto the match that we were just speaking
about prior. It's two cold scorebil versus Chris ben Wah, which I
was really surprised, but then Iremembered that when NBC Universal got the rights
to the network, they reinstated allthe ben Wah matches because they held the

(32:30):
creative freedom to do so. Now, and this is gonna sound so fucked
up, but I have to sayit. I'm watching this match and it's
Tony Schivanni and Jesse Yeah, it'sTony Schivanni and Jesse Ventura on commentary and
without missing a beat, and grantedthis happened in nineteen ninety three, without

(32:50):
missing a beat, Jesse Ventura,I like this ben Wa kid. He's
got the killer instinct and I'm likeJesus Christ. They really left that in
there. They really left that inthere. I mean, honestly, as
morbid as we are, we're probablyone of the very few that actually thought
that way. Yeah. I wasjust like, oh god, they really

(33:14):
fucking didn't win it by any means. But I was just like, fuck,
it was a I mean, obviouslyit's gonna be a great match.
It's been one nineteen ninety three.Yeah. Yeah, and those fucking tights
he was where Jesus Christ's fucking zebrapants. Oh fuck man. But you
mentioned the finish. Okay. Sothe match had a twenty minute time limit,
okay, And obviously Ben was brandnew, this is his first pay

(33:37):
per view, like in the company. A great match, by the way,
him and him and Scorpio had ahell of a match. But yeah,
you mentioned the finish to it.Yeah. So they keep announcing like,
oh you ten minutes left, fiveminutes left, like all this stuff,
and so you think, okay,so it's gonna go down to a

(33:58):
draw, And it looked like itvery last second, like right before the
bell rings, Scorpio pins Ben Wallwith a second left, And I was
like, I would not have thoughtlike you you really did think that it
was going to be just a draw, but nah, I was like,

(34:22):
they really took it to the veryend. That's fucking awesome. Yeah,
and the way they timed it out, because let's be honest, man,
that's hard to do. Yeah itis. So they did it great though.
And then the third match on thecard, which this again there this
was that weird era in wrestling awarepeople were coming in and out of each

(34:44):
company or this will be something tomention later on Davey boy Smith the British
Bulldog wrestling Bill Irwin. He defeatshim in five minutes and forty nine seconds.
This is nineteen ninety three. Thisis I want to say. I
want to say this is during likenot the middle of his run, but
he's fresh in the company somehow,because I feel like whenever they did Beach

(35:07):
Blast instead of Bash at the Beach, it was Davey boy Smith and Sting
wrestling Sid Vicious and I can't Ithink Vader. Maybe Davy boys Smith left
the wwbe got fired at like inninety two sometime. This was after his
Intercontinental title run, after he beatBrett Hart at Summer Slam that year.
But this is like in the middleof his run in WCW because he returns

(35:31):
to the company. He returns toWWF ninety four that summer Slam during the
Brett Owen cage match. So it'sweird seeing the Bulldog in this company because
they didn't do jack shit with himon either of his fucking runs. Well,
they also didn't do anything with Brettyears later. Yeah, they didn't

(35:52):
do anything with any of the Hartfamily members that rolled through that bitch.
The only notable thing I remember fromthis one is David boy Smith losing one
of the beads from his braids wheneverhe drops a bill around on his fucking
head with a side suplex, andthen he wins with the weakest running power
slam I've ever fucking scene. Movingon to the fourth match, our boy

(36:12):
Cactus Jack wrestling Paul Orndorff in afalse count anywhere match. Ye, dare
I say a dark Horse match ofthe fucking night. Yeah, it was
a lot of fucking fun, whichexpected you know, it's Cactus Jack,
but it was just like, Idon't know, I always find myself in
a weird place of like feeling mesmerizedwhenever I'm seeing guys like Mick or ben

(36:37):
Wa or Austin like seeing these guysnot only in their prime or even younger,
but also like these were like iconsof my childhood and it's like before
they even found themselves. And it'slike, yeah, well, in a

(36:58):
way, I feel like fully hithe found himself. Oh yeah, But
you gotta think, did Mick everreally have a bad match with anybody in
WCW, Like, really think aboutthat? Yeah, I think about it.
Think about the matches that this dudehas been involved with, hell with
anybody? Really, Um, it'sdifficult to find a terrible match that mcfully
is involved in because he makes hisopponents look good and then he also can

(37:21):
dish it out, you know aswell. Well. I even remember reading
his book or at least one ofthem, and he had said that he
tries his hardest to make sure thatevery single fan gets their money's worth with
just his match alone. Yep.And it's like, yeah, it's almost

(37:42):
as if people should always have thatmentality. Now, sometimes I can get
muddled because you know, as muchas we love modern wrestling too, you
could argue like everybody has these showstealer mentality to the point where nobody's a
show Steeler, right, But Mickjust knew what he was doing. Yeah,

(38:04):
he really did, and work withsomebody like Paul Orndorff too. Paul
looked great in this match, andI mean he sadly passed away not very
long ago, but Mick could workwith anybody, and the fact that you
know, he's as young as heis in Paul Orndorf's a pretty good ways
into his career by this point.The way he won was fucking great though,
Like Mick took some fucking sick bumpsin this match. You want a

(38:27):
sunset flip off the apron onto theconcrete floor, like an offensively done move,
taking a full bowl like just takinga back bump off of the apron
to the fucking floor. He winsby smacking Orndorff right in the face with
a snow shovel in the fucking Imean, he got his hand up or
whatever, but the fucking thud thatit made, you're just ooh yeah,

(38:50):
and the crowd was like, ohmy god, he hit him with a
fucking shovel, Like that's back whenthat was like devastating looking. But he
wins in like twelve minutes and seventeenseconds and it was a fun match.
It was a good like that wasa good midpoint match, you know,
because up next he had The Rockand Roll Express versus The Heavenly Bodies with
Jim Cornette. It's a twelve minuteand fifty two second tag team match,

(39:10):
and it was a fun tag match. I've forgotten that the Heavenly Bodies were
a WCW tag team before. Theywere a WWF tag team at one point,
still managed by Jim Cornett. Yes, and this is like right before
Cornette went to the WWF because aswe all know, he became the American
ambassador for Yokozuna at one point.And we can talk all day about Cornett's

(39:34):
views and sure I as as anon screen presence, though, Yeah,
I was gonna get to that.The man bumped his ass off. He
was one of the few managers thatreally bumped their ass off for the dudes
whenever they would run into him,or he would take a punch, or
he would get like fucking clotheslined,or he always had that Jim Cornette sells

(39:57):
like he slipped on a banana peal. Jim Cornette just exudes passion, and
I think that's why, Like I'llcatch myself if if I get a YouTube
recommendation on a clip, I'll belike, all right, I'll see what
he has to say about it.Even if I know that I might disagree
with him aggressively, even like couldn'tbe more different of opinion, I'm still

(40:21):
like no, but he'll still bringup a point, you know, Like
he's got a great mind for thebusiness. It's just outdated. He's very
set in his ways. But herehe fit because this was his era,
right, this was his baby,this was his his fucking time. But

(40:44):
yeah, Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton, Tom Pritchard and Stan Lane put a
hell of a tag match on andit was a lot of fun and it
was about what you'd expect from bothteams. Rock and Roll Express pick up
the victory and we move on tothe WCW United States Heavyweight Championship match,
which is Dustin Rhodes us Max Paine. Now I have to laugh because Max
Pain Max Paine had opened the payper view by playing a guitar rendition of

(41:07):
the National anthem. Max Payne alsowent on to become the man known as
Man Mountain Rock and the World WrestlingFederation going so far as to have a
World Wrestling Federation logo guitar, andgranted this dude could play guitar, but
he looked like, okay, soRick Boogs is a bad motherfucker, right,
Rick Boogs can play the ship outof a guitar and Elias can play

(41:30):
the ship out of a guitar andthey look great doing it with their gimmicks
and all this other shit. Right. Max Payne looked like every kind of
I'm gonna get shit on for this. Max Payne looked like every drunk bearded
guy in a local band at thebar playing Stone Sour Covers, the guy

(41:54):
that says yes to some drunk assyelling freebird yeah and starts playing it even
the rest of the band is notrehearsed to play it. He just he
just goes. He looks at thebands, he goes, you'll set this
one out. I got this holdmy fifth beer, and then he just
starts like strumming kind of mildly.You know where he's just like you can't

(42:15):
tell if he's improving it or ifhe's trying to get his footing. You
can't really tell. That motherfucker wasprobably sitting there just like all right,
does the C come before the F? Fuck? Does the D come after
the F? Oh? But there'slike a fucking E minor in there too,

(42:36):
God damn it. Hold up,he started sucking playing it then just
clears the room completely out except forthe one drunkard that asked for that song
to be played. But any fuckingway, and it was probably me,
because let's face it, you're gonnabeat the freebird guy in the crowd,

(42:57):
dude. Not only that, butanything from that era of music of like
Stone Stours, Stained, fucking Disturbed, Static, x lim Biscuit, fucking
all that shit. Give it allto me. Do you love how fucking
trash ass new metal you are?It's so funny, dude. I love
it. Fucking love new metal,man. I know it's just fucking hilarious

(43:20):
because, like I'm sitting here goingshit, dude, all you're missing is
a pair of fucking five hundred poundDenham Jinko jeans. Hey, I used
to wear the fuck out of somebuckle jeans. I'm not even gonna lie
fuck anyway. Dustin Rhodes beats theshit out of Max Painting eleven minutes and
twenty eight seconds. I can't evenlie. I knew he wasn't gonna win,
so I barely paid attention in thismatch. But let's talk about how

(43:43):
young Dustin Rhodes was and just boy, they call him a natural for a
fucking reason. Yeah, the dudealready looked like a season vet by the
time, and now he's a seasonvet. But he's one of the greatest
about to retire this year. I'mgonna be sad about it, but um,
and he still fucking moves like likehe was young. Yeah, it's

(44:04):
fucking weird. He's having some ofthe best matches of his career in this
aw run, Like no shit,he's like he reminds me of like an
AJ styles and that where there's someguys that just even though you until they've
aged, did they really It's like, fuck, dude, it was a
good matching down the last like itjust god Like. I love watching Dustin's

(44:25):
matches, Like he's whether he's doinglike like those fucking bunk house matches or
he's doing yea, yeah, ifhe's just doing like strap matches or fucking
Nohol's barred or just straight up wrestling, he's great. Well you know what
it is, dude, he's justgot a great psychology to him. Yeah.
But like there's a reason they callhim the natural. That's where they

(44:46):
that's where he got his name from, because he took to the fucking business
in the sport like a fish towater. Yeah. So yeah, and
then the longest match of the nightjust after this then probably like the third
best, which I'm still saying CactusJack and orndorfers like underdog match of the

(45:07):
night really, but dude, BarryWindham versus the Great Muda for the NWA
Heavyweight Championship, which Rick Flair hadcome back to the company. So this
is right after the Royal Rumble nineteenninety three, so think about it that
way. He loses in the Rumble, his contract runs out in February,
and he's back on WCW television andhe's back as a baby face, and

(45:28):
the big gold belt is there,and the Great Muda has been the champion
for a while now, Barry Windhamwinds up beating him in twenty four minutes
in ten seconds in a great fuckingmatch. Barry Windham just has that kind
of like cool hand Luke kind ofbit about him where he's just what the
fuck ever He's just gonna go outand whip your ass and fucking take your
He's gonna take your fucking belt.And they were setting up what would later

(45:51):
become like a Barry Windham ric Flairmatch whenever Flair like went and started putting
the belt on him, unbeknownst toWindham, and Windham turned around was like,
what the fuck? And then GreatFlair just like all right, all
right and just walks out the ring, and which, ironically, as we're
talking about this thirty years later,now, the Great Muda just had his
last match, and of all people, he did it in a six man

(46:13):
teaming with Sting and Darby Allen.It makes me so happy, Oh dude,
I'm telling you like because Sting andthe Great Muda are one of the
greatest rivalries over the last three decades. Those two had some fucking awesome matches
with each other, and then theygo out like his teammates. I think
it's cool that the Mudha got toretire, and he had such a long
and storied career and he's one ofthe best that's ever fucking done it.

(46:35):
How do you think Darby feels beingasked to be a part of that,
Like you know at his age,he's like, damn, bro, my
life a movie. I'm telling you, because really, if you look at
like Darby in general, you wouldnot expect him to have these kind of
like run ins. So really goodfor him, dude, that's coolest shit.

(47:00):
This man's wrestled everywhere, but greatmood of loses this match in the
Championship to Barry Wyndham and and infact, it's the only title change of
the night because we had some segmentsthat led up to the main event,
which is Big Van Vader versus Stingin the White Castle Fear strap match.
Now, like the White Castle ofFear. I'm sitting here thinking, okay,

(47:20):
are they going on some Hamburger runs? I was like, what the
fuck? It's just like Harold andKamar. I mean, Sting kind of
in this era was just kind ofroped into some of these giving matches,
like this motherfucker done have the goddamnthe fucking Coal Miners glove match with Jake
Roberts months before and Halloween Havoc.This motherfucker's gonna have a White Castle of
Fear strap match, which is justa regular strap match. Let's be honest.

(47:42):
They were throwing some stupid names onthis because the vignettes that were playing
of Sting going through like the fuckingsnow trying to look for Vader and finding
his fucking helmet gear and all hisothers. Dumb shiit. Vader actually beats
Sting in this match, which reallysurprised me, but it was furthering their
feud along at the time. Butlet's about a couple of moments in this
match that happened. I was justlike, what the fuck happened here?

(48:04):
Now, Vader is known for notoriouslybeing stiff in the ring. Right da,
Vader is whipping the piss out ofSting with his belt. I'm talking
like with the strap, just smackinghim real hard. Sting is being a
sport about this, and he's whippingVader, but he's doing the thing where
he kind of jumps down and stompsthe rain to make it look all like
dramatic and shit, so it's louderthan it looks him. They're showing the

(48:25):
crowd like all these old women yellinghit him, beat him up, like
telling him to beat the piss outof Vader. So he beats the ship
out of Vader like quite less stiffthan Vader beats his ass. Vader rolls
out of the ring onto the floor. Harley Race is like kind of standing
over him or kneeling over him tolooking like he's trying to like rub his
back out. Well, they swapcamera angles, and clear as day,

(48:50):
you can see Harley Race running ablade riot across Vader's back three fucking times.
Invader's back just starts bleeding out becausethey're trying to sell that sting whooped
him so bad that it cut hisback open with the strap. And I'm
just like, no, you reallyjust gave the man like an option to
get infected. Yeah. Well,granted, they're splitting their foreheads open and
shit like they're doing, you know, they're they're getting jews that way,

(49:13):
but i mean, at least theycan like cover it easily if they need
to. With their back. You'rejust kind of there. You're just kind
of like laying in fucking beer andspit and piss and whatever. The god
damn staph infection. Oh god.But if you didn't catch it on camera,
though, it was still a coolidea. That's what I'm saying.
It's just just the fact that yousee it happened. It's just like,

(49:35):
oh, you're god, you're reallygoing that far with it, aren't.
Yeah, So, anybody out therethat doesn't know the rules of a strap
match, the idea is you haveto like take your opponent, like with
you at a dragon around the ringand touch all four corners of the ring.
Now you know Vader does this,you know he wins or whatever.
And it's so funny because like Stingis all pissed off. The crowd is
like booing. And this is backwhen payer views wouldn't just go off the

(49:59):
air. They would kick it backto the announced team for a minute.
And it's like you see Tony Shavanniand Jesse Ventura, you know, signing
us off the air, and yousee people just throwing shit on the ground
in the bag like they were justleaving their signs. They're just so fucking
mad that Vader won this match likethat. They just they're getting the fuck
out and you can see, likeTony Shavani because this is the point where

(50:21):
they put their their mics over thePA system and you know, Tony,
oh what a great night of matchesbe bad? Oh that's right, Shavanni.
It's one of the greatest cards I'veever seen, and I'm just sitting
there like, oh no, it'sreally not. But the crowd, like
can hear them talking and he's like, oh yeah, Tony want a great
Man of the Boom. I'm like, yeah, boom, boots boo you
horror, Like for real. Itwas still a pretty fucking fun event though,

(50:45):
Man, it really was. Iwas very entertained by it, Like
legit, I was legitimately fucking entertainedby a wc W pay per view,
like before WCW was winning the MondayNight Oars and all this other ship.
It cheered me up whenever I waslike super fucking ill. And that's that's
what I used to do. WheneverI was holding sick from school, I

(51:05):
would go to Curtis Mathis and Iwould rent wrestling tapes just like this one.
Great memories though, But yeah,February twenty first, nineteen ninety three
was when this pay per view tookplace. So we're really not very far
off, no, So like wejust passed the thirty year anniversary on this
one. As of this recording,we're gonna take a break and we're gonna

(51:25):
come back and we're gonna talk aboutWWE Elimination Chamber that happened just last week.
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this one had five matches on itas well. But because of the style
that the Elimination Chamber match itself is, that leaves hardly any room for anybody
else. Yeah, however, brockLessner had the shortest match of the night
and Roman Reins had the longest matchof the night. That really doesn't surprised

(58:00):
me anymore. I know what surprisedme is the placement of the brock Lessener
match. Now we'll get to thatin just a minute. It opened with
the women's Elimination Chamber match, andit's for a shot at Bianca bell Airs,
and it's for a shot at Biancabell Airs Raw Women's Championship bed WrestleMania
thirty nine and this was Carmela LiveMorgan Italian Nicky Cross where Kel Rodriguez and

(58:24):
Oscar and just spoiler alert, noneof these bitches were ready for Oscar.
I wasn't ready for Oscar, dude, whenever who was it? Because again
I was sick during the viewing ofthis, so it's feverish. Maybe my
memory is a little floggy. Itwas Carmela that was dancing in front of
Osca at one point, and Oscaris just staring right through whole Yeah,

(58:49):
dude, I was like, Iwas sitting there, laid up in bed,
my cat is sitting on my chest, and I was like, let's
go, let's fucking go. Aman's dying over here, dude. I
felt like shit, but I poweredthrough it, man, and over a
good kid. It done did goodoverall. You know, it's, uh,

(59:13):
that's what you expect from a women'smatch in the w where that's elimination
chamber. You know, it seemslike they all wanted to use the chamber,
but all they knew to do isjust smash their faces through the bars
right, Like they were like,we want to do this, but we
fucking really can't go how we wantto go. Like I feel like WWE

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needs to allow a little bit ofbloodshed, man, and some stuff like
this, Like I feel like theyshouldn't do it year round, like they're
obviously like, oh, we can'tfucking like do it as often as a
w fucking does this shit. Butmy god like you guys, if you
have a match like this, Um, I don't know, just give us
a just give us something like thisfor cage matches like Helen the Cell and

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Elimination Chamber, like need to comewith like a fourteen reading. I think.
So this match was fine. Itwas serviceable, you know. I
mean it's you've got women like Carmelain there, so you're not gonna get
anything too extra. You know,Oscar looked great sum the Live Morgan spot

(01:00:20):
where she passed out and said it'stapped out. Um, okay, I'll
buy it. Yeah, I mean, because that's the thing is, like
you can't buy it in this schemeof like Live doesn't have that stone cold
Steve Auston look to her where obviouslybecause completely different people. But I'm saying,
like, you don't buy this.She's that kind of character. But

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at this point, it's like,oh, y'all pushed her to the moon,
so I guess, so, yeah, you gotta you gotta make her
not look weak. Yeah, SoI mean, honestly, you're kind of
backed into a corner with some people, you know. Yeah, But anyway,
Oscar winds up winning in nineteen minutesand thirty seconds, making Carmela tap

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out or say yes or whatever thefuck she quits, and by god,
man, it's about fucking time.Yeah, yeah, Conna, Yeah,
but I'm talking it's about time thatshe's getting a main event at WrestleMania for
a championship that hopefully she fucking wins. I'd be shocked if she doesn't,
dude. Yeah, because it feelslike they're they're going ahead and just putting

(01:01:28):
the train behind her again and pushingher like, which they should be doing.
Yeah, for sure, because Oscarwas a comedy act for a while
and she was taken very seriously beforethat. So yeah, and might I
just say the makeup looks badass asfuck. Sure, but that one night
that she showed up with no makeupon, I was like, I loved
him for kids. Just how prettythis woman is? Oh not me?

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Oh my god? God, LikeOscar is great, she is, dude,
She's great all around. But I'mlooking forward to her in Bianca's match
at WrestleMania. I think that one'sgonna be a pretty fucking good banger.
So Oscar is gonna win it,because at that point, it's gonna be
a year that because yeah, soit's like she's run out of people.
Yeah, like you could drop thestripe yep. Moving on to Bobby Lashley

(01:02:12):
defeating Brock Lessner in four minutes andforty five seconds by disqualification because brock Lessner
was just like, no, I'mgonna fucking You'll kick you on the dick.
Yeah, because he couldn't bust outof he couldn't bust out of his
finisher. It was like, ohmy god, dude, I guess uh
Mania match. No, it's gonnabe Lessner at Omas at WrestleMania. That's

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right. Yeah, I forgot aboutthat ship. What the fuck is this?
Then it's a bunch of bullshit.Yeah, I only I only excused
it because I thought of WrestleMania.I forgot about Oma. I don't want
to see that. Who wants tosee that? No, Moss, no
Moslem. I know Omas is probablya really sweet guy. I get it,

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but like I don't. I don'twant to see him versus b I
do. I want to see Brockfucking like beat his ass like legit.
I just don't care, man,I want to see him drop him on
care. All right, let's moveon Edge and Beth Phoenix This was fun.
Yeah, Edge of Beeth Phoenix defeatthe Judgment Day in thirteen minutes and

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fifty seconds Finn Baller and rear Ripley. So I have to say something about
this match. Um, poor BethPhoenix just couldn't get her shit together for
this one. And that terrible fuckingspot where the referee and Beth both missed
their fucking que referee straight up stoppedcounting. Edge did his best. Yeah,

(01:03:47):
he did his best to realize whatwas happening and try to kick out.
Everybody just looked bad in that spot. Yeah, and even the crowd
couldn't. The crowd didn't recover afterthat, honestly, And really, I'm
kind of the same way whenever Isomething takes me out of a match or
even a movie or an album,like really anything, once i'm taking out

(01:04:11):
of it, it takes me solong to recover. Yeah. And I'm
not even trying to shit on thismatch because they did that best with what
they got. No, I'm nottrying to shit on them. Like I
said, it was still a reallyfun match, But I don't know,
it's one of those things where onceit takes you out, I think that
it's probably because of how much funit was in the event overall that whenever

(01:04:34):
you do get a slip up likethat, it's like it sticks out even
more. Yeah, because I'm notgonna I feel like a dick saying this,
but this is true. Bro,that's a Hall of famer in the
ring two, I know, butI'm talking about the one, the one
that did their best, I'm nottalking about I'm talking about the one that
completely like missed. And but againit shows a lality of the rest,

(01:05:00):
you know, because right think ofit like this does did you get taken
out of the match with sky Blueand Soreya whenever they would watch something?
Yeah, a little bit, butnot not this bad. That's what I'm
saying because the caliber right here exactlybecause you expect sky Blue to watch.
I love sky Blues ass so do, but I mean she botches a lot

(01:05:28):
like back to dark Kid, Yep, yep, not even Elevation, just
darkin. You ain't seen the lightof fucking day at all. You ain't
seen the light of day at all. And that ship. Yeah, Edjiebeth
Poenis win this match and we're gonnamove right on to um the Men's Elimination
Chamber for the w W United StatesTitle, which I still think is one
of the better looking championship belts WWE. Yeah, um Austin Theory, who

(01:05:53):
I'm starting to really not mind sinceVince McMahon left and he's just gonna be
his own fucking guy now and he'sdoing his thing. He looks better with
a beard instead of that fucking Petostash that he's been fucking rocking for a
while. And he got his firstname back again. Wrestling Bronson read Damian
Priest, Johnny Gargano, Montes Ford, and Seth freaking Rollins. Now,

(01:06:15):
I will just cut to the chaserright now. The better of the two
elimination chamber matches. Hell of aneffort by all six men involved. When
it came down to montes Forward,Austin Theory, and Seth Rawlins, I
really thought they were gonna give thisto montes I really thought they were going
to give it to him. Ias far as like, if you put
the three people you think are gonnawin, I had my money on montes

(01:06:36):
Forward actually fucking winning this because they'regonna push him as a single star soon.
However, it came down to Theoryand Rawlins, and so when that
happened, I was like, there'sno way they give this to seth Rawlins
because Rawlins is gonna need something atMania because they're actually gonna be building to
Austin Theory and John Cena at WrestleMania. And that's why I thought they would

(01:06:59):
give the belt to seth only becauseit would probably be a title match,
and that at that point it becomesobvious a Theory would go over. Well,
here's the thing, Austin Theory needsthis championship. Seth Rawlins does not.
Seth Rawlins is. Seth Rawlins isone of those guys that has finally

(01:07:20):
reached that status of he doesn't needa title. Well, he would love
to see him with one. Buthere's where I was thinking, is again,
like I said, if Theory andSina go for to Mania, it
would be a title match. It'spretty obvious Theory would go over. Sure,
I thought, well, with thatsaid, give the strap to seth

(01:07:45):
and then have Logan Paul win itat Mania. Yeah, this is what
we're getting at. I called sethRawlins and Logan Paul in a Rumble review
because that's who fucking showed up andscrewed Rawlins over which my boy ran in
there while they were fucking carting outmontez Ford. Not only did he show
up, my man's been studying tapesand he's like, you know what,

(01:08:09):
I'm gonna fucking hit, Um,I'm gonna hit hangman Adam Pages Finisher on
Zeth Rawlins. And why why whyis that? Why is Logan Paul this
good? Already? I don't understand. But every time I see a prime
drink now I buy it because I'mlike, you know what, this man
earned my respect, plus say,fucking taste amazing. I fucking love those

(01:08:30):
police sponsors, dude, so fuckinggod. But yeah, the fact that
Logan Paul of all people, I'msitting here like, fuck, dude,
between him and Bad Bunny, they'regetting a lot better with the people they're
picking celebrity wise to come do thesematches, and shit, I know it's
fucking wild. I remember when peoplewere like blown away that Hugh Jackman was
so good in that one spot withZach Ryder. Oh my god, And

(01:08:55):
because we were so preconditioned to hatingthese spots, Logan Paul, though,
is fucking phenomenal. How do youthink that match is gonna be I think
really good, honestly is style wise. You know, Logan Paul would probably
do best against somebody like Seth oreven Orton if he was available. Yeah,

(01:09:15):
I feel like Logan and Seth aregonna they're gonna do great though,
because like you know, uh,their size wise, they match up pretty
well. You know, seth Rawlinsis gonna take care of him in the
ring, and you know they're gonnahe's gonna make him look like a million
fucking dollars, Like they're gonna They'rejust they're gonna have a great fucking match.
That's uh, that's kind of whatI was getting at. He's basically
become Seth Rawlins is kind of likethe special attraction guy right now that the

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company can count on to deliver.But yeah, you basically have two matches
set up out of that, sothat that's great. Like WrestleMania is starting
to come together pretty well, whichleads us to the main event of the
evening. And now granted this isin Montreal, this is where Sammy Zane
is from. It is Sammy Zaneversus Roman reigns for the undisputed ww Universal
Championship and at thirty two minutes intwenty seconds. This was, without a

(01:10:03):
doubt, match of the night.Sammy looks like a fucking megastar. Roman
looks like a badass. Sammy lookslike a badass. They both made each
other look so fucking great. Thefucking bloodline story is the greatest story in
professional wrestling right now. And thisis across every fucking company going right now.
It is the best fucking long runningstoryline. And Sammy is knocking this

(01:10:27):
clean out of the park. Heis sympathetic, he's got great acting.
The fact that we are slowly seeingwhat I was calling coming together the last
time we talked about this storyline.Sammy Zane loses this match, but with
a valiant effort, like the likethe way that he lost. He looked
so strong in defeat that it actuallymade Roman look weak with the way he

(01:10:50):
had to beat him and to beatthe fuck out of him with a chair
and all this other shit, likehe had to have interference and all this
other shit just to beat Sammy Conzane. I'm just so glad they didn't do
the dusty finish the same because Ijust don't want it to look like Cody's
victory is going to be taken away, you know, like where it's like,

(01:11:13):
but they've they've got to be carefulhow they do this though, because
the fans has not even just inMontreal, the fans and period are just
so behind Sammy that it could completelylike USURP Cody Rhodes like story going to
Mania and then like we don't wantto have a Brian Danielson Dave Batista story
happening, where like Dave Batista wassupposed to be the baby face running that
one and he was actually gonna winthe title, and then the fans wanted

(01:11:35):
Brian to win so fucking bad theywound up going with that. Well,
as long as they don't make ita triple threat, A god hope not,
because what they're building to. Itseems like what they're building to is
gonna be Kevin Owens and Sammy Zanewrestling the USOS for the tag titles at
May's when it needs to be,man, it's gonna be that. It's
gotta be because like Sammy and Kevinstill have like their their shit because they

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never they never really healed that fracturebetween the two of them in story,
you know, um and we couldtalk about some of the aftermath of this,
because of course, like Roman wonthe match, lets just be honest,
and he won the fucking match.Kevin Owens came out after the fact
to fend off the Bloodline, whichJay Usso was not there, and jay
Uso has not been there for awhile. In fact, Roman had told
him to stay home. But itjust blows my mind how well this is

(01:12:23):
like all coming together on raw Sammytalking with with um Kevin Owens and he's
trying to sell a fact and he'slike, we need to take the blood
line down together, and Kevin Iwas like, no, I've been fighting
him by myself for this whole time. I'm gonna keep doing that. Why
don't you ask your buddy Jay todo it. It's like, fuck man,

(01:12:44):
And then you're gonna have Jay who'slike obviously at you know, and
on his end of this fucking storywhere he's torn between like he really loves
Sammy as a brother and a friend, but you know, he's he's got
to make a choice here, andit's it's either it's either his family or
it's or it's you know, SamAnd that's interesting. Yeah, And I
really feel like the Bloodline's foundation crackingand crumbling like this is what leads to

(01:13:09):
Roman Reigns losing the Cody. Thefact that, like Roman is so consumed
with the fact that Sammy Zane hassplit his family apart, like this,
his family is not a solid foundationanymore heading into WrestleMania with him, and
like maybe by that time, thefamily the bloodline doesn't have his back anymore,
or maybe some of them do.What if it's just Sam and Paul
just like how it started, Yeah, very well, could be the roads

(01:13:33):
to WrestleMania, which that's the eliminationchamber. By the way, the five
matches um pretty good pay per view, honestly it was. But like heading
into Mania, dude, Like,I'm actually very excited for this two nighter
again this year to talk about itin a couple of months, like it
when it drops, it's shaping upto be a pretty loaded card. Like

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dare I say, last year's Maniawas probably one of the better ones in
recent memory, probably since thirty.Yeah, and then this one's already looking
like it's gonna be a million fuckingbucks, Like, oh yeah, big
times. And it has to dowith the stories going into it. You've
already got like a really good,like special attraction match with Logan Paul and
Seth Rollins. You've got another specialattraction with Lessner and Omas, which that

(01:14:15):
will be like you know, bigmedi men slapping meat or whatever. The
fuck. Hey, yo, You'vepotentially got Zayan and Owens wrestling the USOS
for the tag Championships. You've alviouslygot roads in Roman Wrestling for the championship,
Oscar versus Bianca bell Air. Thenhe got Charlotte and Ria Ripley.
The possibilities are fucking endless for whereverthe rest of this pay per view goes.

(01:14:38):
Because you got two nights to fill, they still get a whole bunch
of other ship they could put inthe undercard, Austin Austin Theory and John
Cena. I'm thinking it will.I want to know who to fuck Gunther's
going to be wrestling, because youwould show Oh did they make that?
Nope? But shameless I could seeit because that's the only that's the only
championship that he hasn't won. Wait, actually did they right? Yes?

(01:15:00):
But did they confirm it? Ifeel like I feel like they're doing shameless
Gunther and Drew. That'd be kindof a cool triple threat or whatever.
But all I know is like theonly legitimate like they're confirmed, Like as
of this recording, it's the onlyconfirmed matches they've got are Cody and Roman,

(01:15:24):
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