December 13, 2024 • 56 mins
Sam and the gang talking about NXT Deadline and preview Saturday Nights Main Event.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
And we're rolling.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hell yeah, rolling, Welcome, roll.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
And roll and roll and rolling. I love Fred Durst.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Oh my star of Y two K the movie.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah, and Limp Biscuit the band. Hello, ladies and gentlemen,
and we are here at Welcome to Slamtown the podcast
you Know and you Love. We're back from our Thanksgiving hiatus,
just in time to talk about NXT Deadline and Saturday
night's main event. As always, I am your host, the
(00:40):
sensational Sam Housen, and I'm joined by intimidating Tim. Hello,
and just Josh. It's Josh. How have you been boys,
It's been a hot minute.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Good, very good. My semester has wrapped itself up. Nice
boy should have straight a's.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, yeah guy, And.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, everybody's been on the nice list. You think everybody's
been behaving for Santa Claus Hell yeah, I hope he
brings me a title belt.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Christmas list.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I forgot I didn't put it on my Christmas list,
and now I feel like a damn fool. I was like, yeah,
knows everything that got rules you cut wrestling reference. Hopefully
we don't get a visit from Xanta Clause, one time
character played by Ball's Mahoney when his manager a million
(01:39):
dollar man, Ted d BIOSSI. Anyway, if you're new around
here or if you're old around here, we start our
show the same way every time, and that's our week
in wrestling. Hell yeah, yeh, you had something you wanted
to talk about for this week in wrestling.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yes, So just announced this by WWE. There is a
new show coming out on A and E it's channel.
It is called LFG. It's not Let's fucking go. It's
Legends and Future Greats. And a little bit of spoiler
warning here before we move on, I will be spoiling
(02:20):
the taping that occurred this yesterday, Tuesday, December tenth. But anyways,
spoiler gone. Elijah Hollyfield wrestled Anthony Luke, and you might
be saying to yourself, Hollyfield, Hollyfield, Hollyfield, Hollyfeld. I don't
know kind of Holyfield. Thank you, welcome. It is the
(02:44):
son of Evander Holyfield, Elijah Holyfield, and he is a
former football player played in the NFL for a couple
of years and now he just recently signed with WWE
and the NXT department, and he's already been on a show.
So I thought that was pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It is pretty neat. I don't know if you boys
saw the clip of Nick Aldos and Carmelo Hayes backstage
where Nick told Carmelo on Friday night, Yeah, he will
be fighting SmackDown's newest acquisition. H He didn't say who
(03:26):
it was. It's a mystery person. Several people have told
me who they think this new acquisition is going to be.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
What are the leading suspects?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Pentagon?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
WHOA Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Like fucking that would be insane. I did hear that
Ray Phoenix has about a year of injury time added
to his aw contract, so that's something. But if it's Pentagon,
I really hope he can like stand out in the
singles capacity in WWE. I feel like he could because
(04:05):
that guy rules and he is probably in my top
ten of all time. So if the rumors are true
and Pentagon debuts on SmackDown this week, he's going to
be speed Champion in about a month.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Kind of how it works on a regime.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Also, everybody that's held the speed Belt so far is
a luchador.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Wow. No, Yeah, that's a really good point. I feel
like maybe just the way that the match stipulations are
it kind of favors fast styles.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, it's cool when they put a big guy in there,
like Bronson Reid competed in the tournament for the first champion,
and it's like it lends itself very well to high
flyers like you have mentioned. But just a big dude
like squashing a guy that would be insane. Oh yeah, yeah,
if you're saying to yourself, pay wait a minute. Ricochet
(05:01):
is not a luchador. Yes he is shut Yes, he
was Prince Puma and Luca Underground.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
He's a lichator.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He's a luchator. He is Prince Puma. And then he
of course lost it to Andrade. Then Andrade dropped it
to dragonly one of my biggest pet peeves. They should
acknowledge WWE Speed outside of just the episodes that go
on to X.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Absolutely did, but it's exclusive to X, No says everyone. Ever,
It's like, no, I think it would be. It would
be far more recognized and watched if it was advertised
other than a little pop up at the bottom of
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the screen during Monday Night Raw.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah. And like Andrade competed in the Money in the
Bank as the Speed champion, he didn't even get announced
as such when he ended third. Yeh, belt wasn't with him?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The belt should be with the champion and they should
be announced as the speed champion.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yes, Women's Speed Champion Candice Larray was in the fucking
War Games match like no acknowledgement, all right, So like
the heel team in the women's War Games match featured
both women's champions, the Women's Speed Champion, Miss Money in
the Bank.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And Q and Riccael And then McDonald's employee.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Is, Oh my gosh, she's so bad. She was so
bad in the War Games. I don't know what happened
between NXT and the main roster because she was good
in NXT.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Well been out of action off and on for a
long time.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's fair, real quick. Did you guys watch the War Games? Yeah,
it was fucking awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It was so good. I kept waiting for another Samoan
to show up.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Whatever happened, I think this wasn't one of the more
Games matches. But my favorite match in the card was
the Triple Threat. I just it was just an absolute banger.
Shamous put on a banger.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
After bang after banger after banger.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I really liked the US title match because holy shit,
Shinsky Nakamura is us. Champa entrance was amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, dude, he came out swinging.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
His mask that he was wearing was designed by the
same guy that made the Fiends mask. Oh shit, Yeah,
I can't remember his name, but it's the same designer. Also,
I like L A. Knight. I thought his US title
reign was kind of boring.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It's better than Logan Paul's though, which isn't saying a lot,
but I'm glad it was better.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Another that I thought of DIY Johnny Gargana turned heel
and they won the SmackDown tag team titles crazy putting
MotorCity machine Guns rain to an end after forty two days.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
They've never had a shorter rain, right.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
There have been four different SmackDown Tag Team champions on
the show, and the whole time, JD and Finn have
been tag champs.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yep, that's wild.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That's insane because it was Waller in theory, and then
they lost it to Gargano and Champa. Then Gargano and
Champa lost it to the Bloodline, the New blood Line
Bloodline lost it to mcmg, and then they lost it
back to DIY.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Just just keeps going back and forth.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I again, I've said it before on this podcast, Triple
H cannot book a tag team division to save his life.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I want just a tag title match on a pl E.
That's all I ask.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, it's a good, solid one.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Or a Speed title match on a pl.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
That would be cool.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Could you imagine if Speed got its own ple or
like a spot on one. But if Speed got its
own like premium live event, it would be over in
like forty five minutes. Yeah, yeah, I think that about
wraps up our weekend wrestling. Should we move on to
(09:45):
the main event?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
What sure? Would you? Are we doing Deadline first or SNM?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
We should do Deadline first because that happened.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah first, agreed.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
So I'm going to reveal that I broke a rule
at my job. I didn't know Deadline started at seven,
not eight, so I was at work until eight. I
I watched it on my phone while I was standing
(10:21):
in my self check.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Go oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I brought my phone up in a corner where no
one could see it and put it on and was
watching it. So going into the show. The opening match
of the program was the Men's Iron Survivor Challenge advertised
for this matchup Javon Evans, Nathan Fraser, Ethan Page Wesley
(10:51):
and Eddie Thorpe Eddie Eddie Thorpe. On the episode of
NXT that was the go home show, Eddie Thorpe got
attacked backstage and was taken out, so he was not
medically cleared to compete in the Men's Iron Survivor Challenge,
so they said they were going to find a suitable
(11:12):
replacement and that got my gears turning. Picolu and lance
On Awahee, both family members of the blood Line, have
been signed to nxtape and before Eddie got attacked backstage,
(11:33):
Ava was attacked backstage, or like not attacked. He was
like scared or something like someone like threatened her. She's
the Rock's daughter.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
He's part of the blood line.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
He's part of the blood line. Maybe I was thinking
one of the Samoans was going to debut because they
took out Eddie to get their spot, and this was
them show up because they went after Ava. Let me
just rip the band aid right now and tell you
it was not one of us ammons.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It was the return of Oba female who first time
we've seen him since he lost the title to Tony
DiAngelo at Halloween Havoc. Yeah, yeah, baby lose it at
Halloween Havoc? Or was that him trying to win it back?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
He lost it there. I think he was on the
next Tuesday to try and win it back.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Okay, that's what it was. It's been a while since
we've seen Oba Female spoilers Oba Female the Men's Iron Survivor.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
He's the winner Winner Chicken Dinner, Baby Up.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
He gets the title match at New Year's Evil against
Trick Willie.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Trick Willie.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So this match, all five competitors are people that are
supposed to be like they could be the champion.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I hate to say it, but three of the five
guys in this match I did not feel needed to
be in there.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Really.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I didn't think Wesley should be in there. I don't
see Javon being world champion maybe like North American champion.
And I didn't think Nathan Fraser was in it other
than to just do cool spots.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, I think I think the only one I would
take out would be Frasier. Okay, I think I think
I should have put like, I know he's Heritage Cup champion.
But Patrick Dempsey or someone like that.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Charlie Dempsey.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Charlie Dempsy. Sorry, sorry, Dempsey.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Is the actor. I'm sorry, you're good. That would be
a good fit. I feel like his style would just
like look cool in a multiman match, like he would
have had Wes and Javaon locked in the same submission
at the same time and then would have gotten two points. Yeah,
(14:18):
Oba did win the match by pinning two guys at once,
because he's done.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
That's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
He's the go, which caused him to bring it up
constantly on commentary for the rest of the night. Oh
my god, I hate double double euh Men's Iron Survivor
(14:47):
I thought was pretty good, but it wasn't my match
of the night.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
What was yours?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So we're gonna get to it a little later in
the car. I didn't get to see the underground match
because I was driving home and I've been doing six
in a row, so I didn't get a chance to
rewatch the show before we recorded, so I didn't. I
still haven't seen the underground match.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You might this might be it might be an al
on our parts because I know who won. Yeah, I
don't know how she won, but I know she won.
For me to tell you who won.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yes, I thought it was Lola, Lola, Lola. Okay, she's
won the two she's been in.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Kind of dumb for Jade at a challenger to one
of those, but whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, right, she's one in Oh and it's like her
thing now. She's like, yeah, I could fight you in it,
and no, okay to Lola won the Underground, which brings
us into the next match, which I thought was my
match to the night.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Hey of a good tag team, it seems.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
NXT Tag Team title match. Nathan Fraser, pulling double duty
after already competing in the Men's Iron Survivor tag team
partner Axiom, took on Miles Bourne and tav On Heights
of the No Quarter Catch Crew. I thought this match
was fucking awesome.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Everything I've seen says this match was amazing, so have
to agree.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It was like a clash of styles which I always
go for two high flyers in Fraser and Axiom versus
two more like Matt submission based brawling guys in the
No Quarter Catch Crew. There was a moment when is
it otm the two guys that are with Jada Parker,
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they came out to ringside and were like jaw jacking
tav On Heights, belly to belly, suplex Nathan Fraser over
the top rope onto them.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
H so fucking cool.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
My only gripe with this match is that I don't
think the right tag team won.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Really.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I think Fraser and Axiom have had these belts for
a little too long and this is their what second
run with the belts. Like, there's other tag teams, a
lot of them I don't think are on that level yet,
(17:34):
which I understand why the belts are still on them
in that aspect, but I thought No Quarter or Catch
Crew really showed out that they could be the champs.
One should have won this match. Yeah, they would have
put three titles in their camp, well three physical, but
only like two in terms of championships.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I saw this match looked and then it led me
into one of the more disappointing matches of the night,
which was the NXT title match between Trick Williams and
Ridge Holland.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yawn, no whipping that Trick today.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Well, Trick Williams retained, which was the right move because
Rich Holland has the personality and like charisma of a
fucking door knob.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
He's spinning, he's spitting, spinning, he's to.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Watch mm hmmm. Arguably his stuff in NXT has been
better than the stuff he did on the main roster
with the brawling brutes.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
But still so fucking boring.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I left the room to make food, which I never
do when a pl is on. I keep the food
in the room with me, grab it and keep watching
my program. You know. I left the room and I
made ramen. And when I came back out, it was like,
whoa dad trick because he had won, and I didn't
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care that I missed the whole matchtin yeh, Tim, and
I attended last year's because it was in Connecticut, the
state in which I left.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We did, and at no point were we able to
leave to go make ramen in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
No, because there was no kitchen at the TV Bank arena.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Exactly. Trick.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Williams won last year's Iron Survivor.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, that was a big deal too. He got like
two or three pins in the last minute. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, that's what kicked the off. His first title ring,
the one that ended to ethan page. Do you remember
what happened after the pay per view ended and we're
trying to leave.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Oh dude, core memory. We're walking out to the parking garage.
The entire time that we're in there, we're pretty high up,
so we have to wait for it was like a
big back up line the entire.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Time of car accident at the exit of the parking garage.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, the entire time that we're waiting to come out,
everyone's just chant and whoop that trick. People are starting
the chance up again. We're getting involved. It's a lot
of fun. When we pull out and we're starting to
finally like drive out of the area where the arena is,
we go past a train station and they are blasting
Seth Rollins's Walkout music just into the streets of Bridgeport.
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Bridgeport so funny.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It was like the speaker that's like, this is the
train to Grand Central the party at Like it was
just coming out of the speakers on the train station.
Like and do you remember when like they started playing
Trick Williams music in the parking garage. Oh yeah, like
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the car in front of us was playing it on
its speak lasting it. Oh my god, my dad, that's
why my dad is a Trick Williams fan. Because of that.
Core memory in the parking garage. Oh man, it's crazy
to see, like what difference a year can make in
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terms of like who's getting booked on cards and like
where everyone is now. Like the main event of that
show was Dragonov versus Baron Corbin. Right, Dragonov is out
with an injury.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Is not in the company YEP Wrestling anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
He's doing judo and making barbecue on TikTok. Hell Man,
Like friggin guy Jack was in the Iron Survivor. He's gone.
He's in MLW Now.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I can't believe that, dude, I'm so said, he's gone.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Tyler Bate was in it. He's out with he's main roster,
but he's out injured. Josh Briggs is still he's doing stuff.
The other guy at the partner, Brooks Jensen, was it. Oh,
I don't know. Bron Breaker is main roster, he's Intercontinental
(22:32):
Champion for the second time, and Trick Williams is NXT
Champion for the second time.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Crazy what happens in a year.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Right, Kim and I have merchandise from this event that
has a match that did not happen.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. I have a
poster of the match like card, like, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Wearing the T shirt. This match didn't happen, So it happened,
but one of the competitors was different.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, it's supposed to be dirty dam was defending his
North American championship against Wesley Roy was not there, Sot
Dragon dragonly won.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
We saw a title change and then lost the next
on Tuesday night, didn't he He held it for a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
He lost it to Oba Feme who won the Breakout tournament.
And then uh, that was when Wes Lee was like,
I don't know when I'm coming back, Like my body
is shutting down. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And then now he's like the biggest heel they have
on x T.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Man Deadline Live was cool. I couldn't even tell you
what else was on the card, Like who was in
the women's match? Oh, Keana James was in it? She's
nowhere to be found. Yeah, she got drafted main roster
and then they didn't do nothing win her.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, didn't. Didn't Blair Davenport win the women's and she
hasn't been on TV in like four months?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yep, Yes, she won the women's Iron Survivor failed to
win the title, got drafted to SmackDown and like the
only time we've seen her was in a losing effort
in the Women's US Tournament.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, she also no, she also was wasn't she on
a pal wasn't she on a pl e? Actually they
did like a they did the Big three of Jade, Fianka,
Naomi versus the Oh Her and Yeah, I think so.
(24:47):
Was that on a pl Was that just on a
regular SmackDown?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Might have been just a SmackDown, but I remember her
kind of linking up with them. Yeah, because she's also
from the UK.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Was the storyline real quick? Who do you think is
winning the Women's US Tournament?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Who do I think? Or who do I hope?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Who do you hope?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Who do you hope?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Chelsea?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Chelsea? Are they doing the final two like qualifiers for tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
It should Friday?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yeah, Friday night should be Friday.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
So it's Chelsea going up against Bailey, right.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
And then Tiffany and Naomi. Kiffany beat Naomi in her
triple threat? Was what.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Chelsea would be awesome?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I have a sneaking suspicion it's going to be Bailey
Mechin and that would piss me off.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
That'd be so sad. I love Bailey, but I want
to see something.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, which brings me to my next talking point. The
finals for the Women's ice tournament. Do you think they're
going to be on the raw debut on Netflix?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
It should be follow up?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Have you heard the rumors Becky Lynch is returning on
the raw Netflix debut?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I have actually not heard those rumors. I've seen a
lot of other rumors.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So my big fear is that if Becky Lynch does
return on the Netflix Raw, she will win the women's
IC tournaments. No, Becky doesn't need it. No, I think
it should be Dakota Kai.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I think it should be the final should be Lyra
versus Dakota.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That would be amazing And.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Honestly, as much as I want Olyra to win, I
actually don't even think she should have won her first
round matches. Zelena should have won that match.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
It was her, Zelena and Ivy, right, Yeah, I would
have been happy with either her or Zelena. Ivy I
don't think was main roster ready, correct. I do like
the Creeds though, and wish they weren't jobbers yet much.
One more thing about Monday Night Raw that really bothered me.
(27:05):
Uncle Howdi got pinned.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
That wasn't Uncle Howdy, that was Bodallice.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
But like, still, yeah, Wyatt six protecting them?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
What the hell?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
No, I think that was what I call I think
Cross needed a win.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I agree that kring Cross needed a win. I don't
think it should have come at the expense of the
why at six mm.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
It sucks, but I would probably disagree. I think I
think that was a perfect win for him.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So are we finally going to get Wyatt six on
a p l E versus?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Doubt it?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah? It was an eight man tag miss aop and
Cross versus the four male members of the six Paul
Ellrig returned and threw powder in the face of Bo Dallas,
which helped kring Cross pin him, which I thought was dumb,
(28:04):
but that's whatever. And then the main event of Deadline,
of course, being the Women's Iron Survivor Challenge Woman's This
one featured Ren Sinclaire from the No Quarter Catch Crew, Soul,
Ruka Zaria, Stephanie Veaker, and Julia.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Match was very good.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
This match was incredible.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I was gonna say, I like how it's a lot
of like, there's no kind of layover from last year.
It just shows like how how much it's grown in
the year.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Like, yeah, one of the women from last year's show
competed on this show.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Are you sure I thought Jada was in the Jada
was in last year's parn Survivor.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Oh, she was.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
For Lola was.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Last year was Tiffany Blair lash fell in and uh
uh Klana Jordan.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Okay, I was wrong, No, all good, I'll good. That
was a good one, Tiffy time.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
This one was. This year's was really good.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
This was better I thought. But Wren getting pinned to
like very quickly back in the penalty box. It was
pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Mm hmm. That soul Snatcher was so good when Wren
rolled right into the ring.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Like right tight in the corner.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
God, she hit some good ones. There's one that she
hit on like two people at the same time.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
The double one was sick.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yea truth, that's such a good move.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Oh and soul Roca's dive over the top and yeah,
popped up on a barricade and like sat there. That
was sick.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I was glad Ren Sinclaire scored a point, like if
they just put her in here to take the pins boo. Yeah,
Zaria going through the announced table was sick.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Very Reren's you can see Wren's face in the background
is great.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, that was That was the best part. My big
fear was with how many big names of their division
were in the match. Someone was going to go out
looking weak, but I thought they found a great way
to keep everyone like still looking strong in the outcome
of the match.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Well, Stephanie didn't even take a pin.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
That's true, That's what I was trying. I'm sorry, No,
you're fine, but like I just couldn't get to like
figure out how to say it, so I appreciate you
saying it. Okay, Yes, Stephanie not taking a pin smart
uh m jule being the winner.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
A little interesting, a little interesting.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
They're they're really going all in on her.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I don't think it's the wrong choice, but I think
that she could have earned that a little bit further
down the line.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
She had the title match on like the CW debut.
Yeah yeah, and now she's got it again at New
Year's Evil, which this year is New Year's Evil a
pl E or just the episode of XT like it
always is.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I don't know, I guess just an episode of nic.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Because one year is on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yes, it'll be the Tuesday before and then episode. It's
usually a two week one, so one will be the
the Tuesday before New Year's Eve, and then the following
one will be the first Tuesday of the new year.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Usually the event will take place January seventh, twenty twenty five,
at Ryan Exprahole and let's say just California.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Oh so it's a pale exciting, is it really? Yeah?
That's I feel like it was the sixth.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
The sixth. The sixth is the six is a Monday,
So that's just a regular Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Oh never mind, it's a special event though. It's like
on the road.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Wrestling television special produced by WWE.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Oh okay, yeah, so it's a Tuesday episode to confirmed
matches Oba versus Trick, Julia versus Rock Sande.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
It's actually Oba versus Trick versus Eddie Thorpe.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Wait, what.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Did you not see XT this week?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I didn't because I was at my wonderful partner's house
and we don't have cable there.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
So Eddie Thorpe comes back and Ava, feeling bad for Eddie,
is giving him a contract for him to sign for
a match against Trick for Tricks Championship. Oh, Eva, goes Eddie,
I'm really sorry about whoever attacked you. We're gonna keep
(33:15):
looking into this. And he's like, I already know who
attacked me. I did it to myself and he walks away.
He walks away and has already signed the contract. They
both already signed the contract.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Wow them damn.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Okay, that's pretty good. Yep, time machine to go back
and watch that. Oh wait, I can watch you free
on the CW.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
App sponsored.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Deadline was a pretty good show. It was fun.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I think we spent a large chunk of that recap
talking about last year's deadline as well.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah we are oh yeah, alright. Then we move into
the main event, main event Saturday night. For the main event,
Oh my gosh, that was good.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Josh, that's good. There's some matches in here I'm looking
forward to.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I think this is a pretty damn good card. With
the last minute they made to a certain match. So
the card for Saturday Night's main event, sam match discuss it,
move on to the next Yes. Added on Monday Night Raw,
we have Samy Zane versus Drew McIntyre one on MAC.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
He's so back.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
McIntyre.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Mm hmmm, second place, sam of the Year, Sammy zaying
first in ME anyway, I don't see Sammy's Ay winning.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
This, yeesh. So what's what's Drew's motivation? Is he just
angry that Sammy is back with the Bloodline people.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I didn't see this part of RAW, so you're asking
the wrong guy.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Drew is. Yes, Drew's upset that all these people are
running back to Rome and like nothing ever happened. But
he's also upset that they willingly or you know, just
stood to the side and let Punk wrestle with them
without them challenging Punk.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Gotcha?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Oh, okay, gotcha?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Gotch.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
So Drew mcintyry is about to beat Sammy's ass. I said, Honorary.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Oose, I have a really weird theory. What if both
of the ME final matches and in no contest and
we get a fatal four way for the first champion.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
So you're talking about Bailey versus Nietschen versus Tiffy versus Chelsea.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Oh my god, you better drop it so I can
pick it up, because that would be coolest.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Fuck, dude, I'm just kind of looking at it here
on Wikipedia, I'm like, man, all four of those names
look really good in the same box. What if they
all fought each other?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
That would be pretty cool. Then Tiffany loses and cashes
in on the winner of the women's title match at oh,
I really would like to see Chelsea win this tournament.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Holy pro Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
She deserves it. I feel like it'll be hurting Mechen
because there are two people that I think like our
sleeper picks.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
They have they have history, they put on good matches together.
I feel like putting them, you know, and this would
be good. But at the same time, we've got to
remember this is a nationally televised event. Everybody else that's
on this.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Card is known.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Who the hell who knows who Mechen is? Like a
casual viewer, do they really know who Michen is?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
That's that's good point.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
I guess, yeah, sadly.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
But then that's why, Like if that's why, that's why,
like a fatal forward would makes sense because you get
your you can get your two three ish big names
in it, but also have Mechen still have a chance.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
M that's true, but wasn't miss money in the bank.
I could see her winning this absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
It'd be wild to have her be miss money in
the bank and hold like a championship.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Or what if they don't know how to have her
cash in on the main women's title and she loses
the tournament and cashes in very quickly becomes the second
ever women's US champion.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
If they if they ruin this moment by having Tiffy
cash in, I would be I would be so.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Upset, terrible, be a terrible booking decision.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
The worst booking decision of the year.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
They also teased her cashing in on the winner of
Julia and Roxanne.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Which would again be aways her title.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Reign ending to Becky Lynch was the fucking stupidest thing,
and they were just like, put Becky Lynch on NXT.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
I was like, why do you mean, Becky Hogan?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I'm sorry, m bes take was what I meant to say.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
I enjoyed that match though it was like a like
a big weapons sprawl.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
The extreme rules and no mercy weapon matches have a
special place in the heart of slam town.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Oh yeah, outcome aside? What Oh?
Speaker 1 (39:32):
I misunderstood you and I thought you said I'll come.
I was like, what is he saying, what did you say?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Just felling you guys in no, please don't.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Okay, So that's the women's US title. We've talked about
Drew versus Sammy, let's talk about the other addition, because
we're getting a triple threat on this car Gunther versus
Finn Balord versus Damian Priest.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Oh yeah, I h I keep my Twitter feed. Is
like everyone talking about like how happy they are for Finn,
like how much he deserves it, and like, I like Finn.
I hate Judgment Day Finn. This this Finn Balor character
right now is so bad. It's not even funny.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
It is so but not like an exciting slimy like
he could be healed, but.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Like, but like this first, it's just so bad. This
Judgment Day story is dog shit.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Ever since Priest and Rhea got kicked out, I was like,
I don't really like Judgment Day anymore. Yep, because who's
Judgment Day now, Finn dom.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Carlito, Livid Raquel.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Oh it's so boring.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
It's just so bad. I just totally they just totally
messed up that whole story.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
And then Finn and JD being tag champs, and then
not doing anything really bugs me. I do think that
new Finn Valley T shirt though, with the FS all
over it pretty drippy. I don't see anyone besides guns
(41:27):
walking out as world champion.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Yeah, I actually no.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
I think one of the two of them will win.
Other two will win.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
I sure hope it's Priest.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I do too.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
I think has just lost Cuther's lost a lot of
boxy and also I still think that we are heading
towards a Gunther versus uh Ludwig match, and like, well,
that would be They're cool to have them.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
As for the title, I think that Gunther loses this.
I think Ludwig wins and takes the title off a
bron breaker and then we get the whole ludwig.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Ic belt back on Gunther.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
I don't know if it goes back to Gunther, but
I just think that that feud would be very fun.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
It would be good. Maybe they'll get Giovanni Vinci to referee.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
It, doubt it. Ludwig hates Giovanna Vinci.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
I hate Giovanni. Yeah, him getting all that hype and
then the six matches he's wrestled, he's lost.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
What are they doing?
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Something to remember when.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
He feuded for the North American title on NXT. Nope, Yeah,
he feuded with Carmelo at last year's New Year's Evil Wow,
the second time we talked about last year's pay per
views for n XT. So that's three of the five matches.
(43:04):
Next up, we've got why am I also drawing a
blank Live Morgan e Sky with versus EO Sky for
the women's title? Mm hmm, I think Live Morgan's rain
has been all that good.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Do you think Tiff he's going to cash in? I know,
I think Joshua floated that idea.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
No, I don't think if he's gonna cash in. No, No,
I don't think it makes sense here. Yeah, I think
EO wins this match wholeheartedly. I mean I I there
is no reason for Live to hold this. If they're
going to continue this livery of feud, it doesn't need
a title that they're They're just they're killing the title.
You have to get here here, even though sadly, if
(43:50):
EO wins, her first feud is probably with Sonya Deville,
which sucks, but yeah, it's it's gonna be kind of gross.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
But what if it was sheen A Beeesler?
Speaker 3 (44:03):
No, I don't think so, I would.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
I'd like that better.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Like who else is on Raw right now?
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Like that? Like Zoey Stark.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
I like Zoe Stark's move said, she just has negative aura.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Yes, she is the Bridge Holland of the women's division
speaking of negative order. Or Ricochet's on the mic on Dynamite,
so I'm fast forward in.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Hen't turn that ship off?
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Oh my god, he sucks on the mic. Oh Macardonah,
that's cool.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Huh yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
With Macardonah, That's what I'm getting.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Sidebar, How excited are you guys that maccardona is fighting
Jericho at Final Battle? Because I'm excited. Oh, I know,
we've we got to watch that for pod Oh my god.
Any who, I wouldn't mind if EO.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Off of Live Here you should win here hold it
till hold it for a little bit, and then I
think we should get Rha versus e O at Mania.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
That'd be good, pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
So is the last match also what we seem to
think will be going on last?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Probably it would makes sense for them to end with
the why.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
Would this match not go on last? They are literally
they are literally the poster of the of the only people,
not the.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Sound but yeah, that's no, You're fine. Cody Rhodes defending
his w W What even fucking is his belt called
the Universal Title?
Speaker 2 (45:56):
It is the undisputed w w E Championship.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
The undisputed WWE Championship. Cody Roads versus Kevin Owens.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Has everyone seen the the teaser for the weekend for
this match?
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (46:14):
Are you not?
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Are you guys not chronically online?
Speaker 1 (46:16):
No? No, just chronically ill? But anyway, yeah, I mean, uh,
there was a.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
Video that came out today and it is Paul Vec
and Code Roads backstage and this to a case and
it opens and there's light shining out of it, and
Paul's like, here you go. You get for one night only.
This is yours. So we're we're almost one hundred percent short.
That is the Golden Eagle, the old the old belt.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Wow, I did see that.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
That's gonna be fucking cool.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
And it's gonna be so much better when in twelve
minutes Kevin Owens wins and takes it from Cody, which
is exactly which is what should happen. I think Kevin Win,
I think chains as.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
I like seeing Cody win it. WrestleMania Tyrring has kind
of sucked.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Like, I don't think there's any reason that Cody has
to one drop it to Roman or to hold it
for forever. I think that he can lose it and
the story would be great. I feel like he, especially
right now to to Kevin h he finished the story.
(47:30):
He's held it, he's had He's had some really good matches.
But we're at We're at a kind of a dead
end with this bloodline story because Jimmy's hurt and Roman's
bloodline really can't do anything, and who knows, who knows.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
If he's going to drop now, it's going to have
to be the time too, because then he gets like
way too close to to Mania were stuff is kind
of already set in motion. Yeah, and I also feel
like we're forgetting the most important thing. If Cody drops
the belt to Kevin Owens, then Cody can compete in
Royal Rumble and can win for the third year in
(48:13):
a row. It would be the first to ever do that.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
That was a wild I wouldn't put it past the
Fed to do that.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Oh No, I don't want to watch Royal Rumble anymore.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
First, I think that Kevin should win here.
Speaker 4 (48:36):
I think that.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
They should feud and somehow, some way end up on
the first Raw on Netflix and should fight for it there,
and I think that Cody should win with the help
of the rock Call me crazy, Call me crazy, Call
(49:04):
me crazy crazy. I then think that at the Royal
Rumble Cody should either I don't know who Cody should fight.
I think Cody could honestly fight Roman at the Royal Rumble,
and like it would be okay, I think Cody should.
I think actually, this isn't really word shout. I think
(49:25):
Cody versus Drew at the Royal Rumble would kind of
cook because both of them are going to end up
on Roll with Punk and Rollins and probably Ko.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
Feels like they're gonna take all the big guys from
SmackDown move from the Raw and vice versa, because I
think Gumter is going to end up on SmackDown.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Yes, like we're gonna do like a roster flip, except
for like Rollins, Punkin Drew m hm.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
No. On Friday, draft speak of, I don't think they
do the draft anymore. They've been talking a lot about
a trade window being open right now, which is also
making me think maybe it's not Pentagon that's showing up
as Carmelo's mystery opponent on Friday. It's gonna be someone
from NXT.
Speaker 3 (50:19):
I can tell you. I can tell you I think
it is.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Who do you think it is?
Speaker 3 (50:23):
I think it's all Ego Ethan Page.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
That would be fucking amazing.
Speaker 3 (50:28):
He has been so defeated in the XT, he is
so distraught with how Ava runs it. I think him
moving to SmackDown would be such just so good.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
I think that we do Cudson. Okay, I don't think
that I was just taking.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
A name, but anyways, say I think Kevin Wins I
would love to see that.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
That'd be cool. Kevin Owens, I think deserves another world
title run after or his got ended to Goldberg to
promote that year's two K game.
Speaker 2 (51:09):
Are they advertising Saturday Made event as a pay per
view because I feel like after Survivor series, they were like,
our next pay per view isn't until like the Elimination Chamber.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
I think it's a primetime special. Yes, interesting, because that's
what Saturday Night's main event used to be. It was
just on primetime on a Saturday. It had like big
marquee things because it was like special right. Speaking of
I heard that Jesse the body Ventura from a governor
of Minnesota gonna be on commentary because he was on
(51:46):
the original commentary team for snmy y. I don't remember
what podcast he was on, but he was also talking
about that it's like gonna be the set is going
to be like low tech. It's gonna be like a
total throwback. Not a lot of pyro, not a lot
of like lights and stuff.
Speaker 3 (52:04):
But we're getting we're getting old graphics.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
And yeah, which leads me to something fun I learned.
I don't remember the actor's name, but he played Jay
on Modern Family, the one who's married to Sophia Vergara.
He as his character from Married with Children did the
cold open for the original Saturday Night's main event. Oh
(52:32):
what if that's how this opens. It's just him as
I don't even know the character's name, guy from Married
with Children. Yeah, and then they're like, okay in the
opening match. That would be kind of cool. It's like
when they brought back the guy who did the backstage
commercials for in Your House when they used to do
the In Your House NXT show, that kind of thing.
(52:56):
It'd be cool. I'm excited to see what it looks like.
Hell yeah, we get throwback stuff. What if Kevin Owens
comes out as Kevin Stein, his name before he got
signed w W. Cody Rhodes comes out as Starbus.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
That's what was.
Speaker 3 (53:14):
That's what was in the case, the star face or
the unit or whatever, the gloves and everything.
Speaker 5 (53:22):
Oh my god, I love that'd be hilarious. What one
little a W grape because I have it on in
the background real quick. Adam Cole and kylo' Riley are
fighting each other right now to see who gets to
fight m j.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
F at World's End.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
Oh interesting, this is.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
Dumb And I'm an a W guy.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
This is dumb.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
A I was really getting into a W and then
this oh mox Lee storyline has started and I'm.
Speaker 4 (54:04):
Not gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
I hate it.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
It's not good.
Speaker 3 (54:08):
I agree, And now and then now we've got like
this stuff with right Fank's going on, and I'm just
like kind of kind of sucks because like, I want
to watch the Osprey, but I don't want to support
a W.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Worry because Big Boom a J is going to be
at the Hammerstein Ballroom a wish I can, and he's
bringing Big Justice with him. But they were at the
media thing for all in Texas.
Speaker 3 (54:44):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (54:46):
Talked and I was like, are you fucking shitting me?
Speaker 2 (54:50):
It's just there.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
It was Brian Danielson sting and then the fucking Costco
guys and then Swerve and Bobby Lashley too, But the
point being the Costco guys were there. Aw is running
the Hammerstein Ballroom like twenty days before GCW does their
(55:11):
big show there, So yeah, that's gonna be. I do
think the GCW show from Hammerstein will be better than
the aw ones.
Speaker 2 (55:24):
Oh yeah, I'm excited for that, the people versus GCWW.
Speaker 1 (55:29):
Josh is pretty jealous of the postcard I got for
it when we were at dream On. Yeah, it's hanging
on my wall. I have the Alli Catch postcard and
with that before we go, it's just Josh, what match
are you most excited for for Saturday night's main event?
Speaker 3 (55:54):
Probably the tournament final for the women's US.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
Okay, and Tim, I asked you the same question.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
I'd say the same conditional on if Chelsea Green, isn't.
Speaker 1 (56:06):
It Okay, for the sake of not saying the same
thing as you, I'm gonna go with the triple Threat
for the World Pilot. All right, nice, that's like the
quote unquote gimmick match of this pay per view. All right,
(56:26):
but and with that, thank you once again, ladies and
gentlemen for joining us in slam town. We'll see you
again next time. Hell yeah yeah, I see you before
the holidays. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Holidays. Goodbye, bye
bye
And we're rolling.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hell yeah, rolling, Welcome, roll.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
And roll and roll and rolling. I love Fred Durst.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Oh my star of Y two K the movie.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah, and Limp Biscuit the band. Hello, ladies and gentlemen,
and we are here at Welcome to Slamtown the podcast
you Know and you Love. We're back from our Thanksgiving hiatus,
just in time to talk about NXT Deadline and Saturday
night's main event. As always, I am your host, the
(00:40):
sensational Sam Housen, and I'm joined by intimidating Tim. Hello,
and just Josh. It's Josh. How have you been boys,
It's been a hot minute.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Good, very good. My semester has wrapped itself up. Nice
boy should have straight a's.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, yeah guy, And.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, everybody's been on the nice list. You think everybody's
been behaving for Santa Claus Hell yeah, I hope he
brings me a title belt.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Christmas list.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I forgot I didn't put it on my Christmas list,
and now I feel like a damn fool. I was like, yeah,
knows everything that got rules you cut wrestling reference. Hopefully
we don't get a visit from Xanta Clause, one time
character played by Ball's Mahoney when his manager a million
(01:39):
dollar man, Ted d BIOSSI. Anyway, if you're new around
here or if you're old around here, we start our
show the same way every time, and that's our week
in wrestling. Hell yeah, yeh, you had something you wanted
to talk about for this week in wrestling.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yes, So just announced this by WWE. There is a
new show coming out on A and E it's channel.
It is called LFG. It's not Let's fucking go. It's
Legends and Future Greats. And a little bit of spoiler
warning here before we move on, I will be spoiling
(02:20):
the taping that occurred this yesterday, Tuesday, December tenth. But anyways,
spoiler gone. Elijah Hollyfield wrestled Anthony Luke, and you might
be saying to yourself, Hollyfield, Hollyfield, Hollyfield, Hollyfeld. I don't
know kind of Holyfield. Thank you, welcome. It is the
(02:44):
son of Evander Holyfield, Elijah Holyfield, and he is a
former football player played in the NFL for a couple
of years and now he just recently signed with WWE
and the NXT department, and he's already been on a show.
So I thought that was pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It is pretty neat. I don't know if you boys
saw the clip of Nick Aldos and Carmelo Hayes backstage
where Nick told Carmelo on Friday night, Yeah, he will
be fighting SmackDown's newest acquisition. H He didn't say who
(03:26):
it was. It's a mystery person. Several people have told
me who they think this new acquisition is going to be.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
What are the leading suspects?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Pentagon?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
WHOA Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Like fucking that would be insane. I did hear that
Ray Phoenix has about a year of injury time added
to his aw contract, so that's something. But if it's Pentagon,
I really hope he can like stand out in the
singles capacity in WWE. I feel like he could because
(04:05):
that guy rules and he is probably in my top
ten of all time. So if the rumors are true
and Pentagon debuts on SmackDown this week, he's going to
be speed Champion in about a month.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Kind of how it works on a regime.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Also, everybody that's held the speed Belt so far is
a luchador.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Wow. No, Yeah, that's a really good point. I feel
like maybe just the way that the match stipulations are
it kind of favors fast styles.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, it's cool when they put a big guy in there,
like Bronson Reid competed in the tournament for the first champion,
and it's like it lends itself very well to high
flyers like you have mentioned. But just a big dude
like squashing a guy that would be insane. Oh yeah, yeah,
if you're saying to yourself, pay wait a minute. Ricochet
(05:01):
is not a luchador. Yes he is shut Yes, he
was Prince Puma and Luca Underground.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
He's a lichator.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He's a luchator. He is Prince Puma. And then he
of course lost it to Andrade. Then Andrade dropped it
to dragonly one of my biggest pet peeves. They should
acknowledge WWE Speed outside of just the episodes that go
on to X.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Absolutely did, but it's exclusive to X, No says everyone. Ever,
It's like, no, I think it would be. It would
be far more recognized and watched if it was advertised
other than a little pop up at the bottom of
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the screen during Monday Night Raw.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah. And like Andrade competed in the Money in the
Bank as the Speed champion, he didn't even get announced
as such when he ended third. Yeh, belt wasn't with him?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The belt should be with the champion and they should
be announced as the speed champion.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yes, Women's Speed Champion Candice Larray was in the fucking
War Games match like no acknowledgement, all right, So like
the heel team in the women's War Games match featured
both women's champions, the Women's Speed Champion, Miss Money in
the Bank.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And Q and Riccael And then McDonald's employee.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Is, Oh my gosh, she's so bad. She was so
bad in the War Games. I don't know what happened
between NXT and the main roster because she was good
in NXT.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Well been out of action off and on for a
long time.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's fair, real quick. Did you guys watch the War Games? Yeah,
it was fucking awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It was so good. I kept waiting for another Samoan
to show up.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Whatever happened, I think this wasn't one of the more
Games matches. But my favorite match in the card was
the Triple Threat. I just it was just an absolute banger.
Shamous put on a banger.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
After bang after banger after banger.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I really liked the US title match because holy shit,
Shinsky Nakamura is us. Champa entrance was amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, dude, he came out swinging.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
His mask that he was wearing was designed by the
same guy that made the Fiends mask. Oh shit, Yeah,
I can't remember his name, but it's the same designer. Also,
I like L A. Knight. I thought his US title
reign was kind of boring.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It's better than Logan Paul's though, which isn't saying a lot,
but I'm glad it was better.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Another that I thought of DIY Johnny Gargana turned heel
and they won the SmackDown tag team titles crazy putting
MotorCity machine Guns rain to an end after forty two days.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
They've never had a shorter rain, right.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
There have been four different SmackDown Tag Team champions on
the show, and the whole time, JD and Finn have
been tag champs.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yep, that's wild.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That's insane because it was Waller in theory, and then
they lost it to Gargano and Champa. Then Gargano and
Champa lost it to the Bloodline, the New blood Line
Bloodline lost it to mcmg, and then they lost it
back to DIY.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Just just keeps going back and forth.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I again, I've said it before on this podcast, Triple
H cannot book a tag team division to save his life.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I want just a tag title match on a pl E.
That's all I ask.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, it's a good, solid one.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Or a Speed title match on a pl.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
That would be cool.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Could you imagine if Speed got its own ple or
like a spot on one. But if Speed got its
own like premium live event, it would be over in
like forty five minutes. Yeah, yeah, I think that about
wraps up our weekend wrestling. Should we move on to
(09:45):
the main event?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
What sure? Would you? Are we doing Deadline first or SNM?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
We should do Deadline first because that happened.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah first, agreed.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
So I'm going to reveal that I broke a rule
at my job. I didn't know Deadline started at seven,
not eight, so I was at work until eight. I
I watched it on my phone while I was standing
(10:21):
in my self check.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Go oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I brought my phone up in a corner where no
one could see it and put it on and was
watching it. So going into the show. The opening match
of the program was the Men's Iron Survivor Challenge advertised
for this matchup Javon Evans, Nathan Fraser, Ethan Page Wesley
(10:51):
and Eddie Thorpe Eddie Eddie Thorpe. On the episode of
NXT that was the go home show, Eddie Thorpe got
attacked backstage and was taken out, so he was not
medically cleared to compete in the Men's Iron Survivor Challenge,
so they said they were going to find a suitable
(11:12):
replacement and that got my gears turning. Picolu and lance
On Awahee, both family members of the blood Line, have
been signed to nxtape and before Eddie got attacked backstage,
(11:33):
Ava was attacked backstage, or like not attacked. He was
like scared or something like someone like threatened her. She's
the Rock's daughter.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
He's part of the blood line.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
He's part of the blood line. Maybe I was thinking
one of the Samoans was going to debut because they
took out Eddie to get their spot, and this was
them show up because they went after Ava. Let me
just rip the band aid right now and tell you
it was not one of us ammons.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It was the return of Oba female who first time
we've seen him since he lost the title to Tony
DiAngelo at Halloween Havoc. Yeah, yeah, baby lose it at
Halloween Havoc? Or was that him trying to win it back?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
He lost it there. I think he was on the
next Tuesday to try and win it back.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Okay, that's what it was. It's been a while since
we've seen Oba Female spoilers Oba Female the Men's Iron Survivor.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
He's the winner Winner Chicken Dinner, Baby Up.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
He gets the title match at New Year's Evil against
Trick Willie.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Trick Willie.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So this match, all five competitors are people that are
supposed to be like they could be the champion.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I hate to say it, but three of the five
guys in this match I did not feel needed to
be in there.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Really.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I didn't think Wesley should be in there. I don't
see Javon being world champion maybe like North American champion.
And I didn't think Nathan Fraser was in it other
than to just do cool spots.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, I think I think the only one I would
take out would be Frasier. Okay, I think I think
I should have put like, I know he's Heritage Cup champion.
But Patrick Dempsey or someone like that.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Charlie Dempsey.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Charlie Dempsy. Sorry, sorry, Dempsey.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Is the actor. I'm sorry, you're good. That would be
a good fit. I feel like his style would just
like look cool in a multiman match, like he would
have had Wes and Javaon locked in the same submission
at the same time and then would have gotten two points. Yeah,
(14:18):
Oba did win the match by pinning two guys at once,
because he's done.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
That's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
He's the go, which caused him to bring it up
constantly on commentary for the rest of the night. Oh
my god, I hate double double euh Men's Iron Survivor
(14:47):
I thought was pretty good, but it wasn't my match
of the night.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
What was yours?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So we're gonna get to it a little later in
the car. I didn't get to see the underground match
because I was driving home and I've been doing six
in a row, so I didn't get a chance to
rewatch the show before we recorded, so I didn't. I
still haven't seen the underground match.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You might this might be it might be an al
on our parts because I know who won. Yeah, I
don't know how she won, but I know she won.
For me to tell you who won.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yes, I thought it was Lola, Lola, Lola. Okay, she's
won the two she's been in.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Kind of dumb for Jade at a challenger to one
of those, but whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, right, she's one in Oh and it's like her
thing now. She's like, yeah, I could fight you in it,
and no, okay to Lola won the Underground, which brings
us into the next match, which I thought was my
match to the night.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Hey of a good tag team, it seems.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
NXT Tag Team title match. Nathan Fraser, pulling double duty
after already competing in the Men's Iron Survivor tag team
partner Axiom, took on Miles Bourne and tav On Heights
of the No Quarter Catch Crew. I thought this match
was fucking awesome.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Everything I've seen says this match was amazing, so have
to agree.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It was like a clash of styles which I always
go for two high flyers in Fraser and Axiom versus
two more like Matt submission based brawling guys in the
No Quarter Catch Crew. There was a moment when is
it otm the two guys that are with Jada Parker,
(16:46):
they came out to ringside and were like jaw jacking
tav On Heights, belly to belly, suplex Nathan Fraser over
the top rope onto them.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
H so fucking cool.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
My only gripe with this match is that I don't
think the right tag team won.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Really.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I think Fraser and Axiom have had these belts for
a little too long and this is their what second
run with the belts. Like, there's other tag teams, a
lot of them I don't think are on that level yet,
(17:34):
which I understand why the belts are still on them
in that aspect, but I thought No Quarter or Catch
Crew really showed out that they could be the champs.
One should have won this match. Yeah, they would have
put three titles in their camp, well three physical, but
only like two in terms of championships.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I saw this match looked and then it led me
into one of the more disappointing matches of the night,
which was the NXT title match between Trick Williams and
Ridge Holland.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yawn, no whipping that Trick today.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Well, Trick Williams retained, which was the right move because
Rich Holland has the personality and like charisma of a
fucking door knob.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
He's spinning, he's spitting, spinning, he's to.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Watch mm hmmm. Arguably his stuff in NXT has been
better than the stuff he did on the main roster
with the brawling brutes.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
But still so fucking boring.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I left the room to make food, which I never
do when a pl is on. I keep the food
in the room with me, grab it and keep watching
my program. You know. I left the room and I
made ramen. And when I came back out, it was like,
whoa dad trick because he had won, and I didn't
(19:22):
care that I missed the whole matchtin yeh, Tim, and
I attended last year's because it was in Connecticut, the
state in which I left.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We did, and at no point were we able to
leave to go make ramen in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
No, because there was no kitchen at the TV Bank arena.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Exactly. Trick.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Williams won last year's Iron Survivor.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, that was a big deal too. He got like
two or three pins in the last minute. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, that's what kicked the off. His first title ring,
the one that ended to ethan page. Do you remember
what happened after the pay per view ended and we're
trying to leave.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Oh dude, core memory. We're walking out to the parking garage.
The entire time that we're in there, we're pretty high up,
so we have to wait for it was like a
big back up line the entire.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Time of car accident at the exit of the parking garage.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, the entire time that we're waiting to come out,
everyone's just chant and whoop that trick. People are starting
the chance up again. We're getting involved. It's a lot
of fun. When we pull out and we're starting to
finally like drive out of the area where the arena is,
we go past a train station and they are blasting
Seth Rollins's Walkout music just into the streets of Bridgeport.
(20:53):
Bridgeport so funny.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It was like the speaker that's like, this is the
train to Grand Central the party at Like it was
just coming out of the speakers on the train station.
Like and do you remember when like they started playing
Trick Williams music in the parking garage. Oh yeah, like
(21:18):
the car in front of us was playing it on
its speak lasting it. Oh my god, my dad, that's
why my dad is a Trick Williams fan. Because of that.
Core memory in the parking garage. Oh man, it's crazy
to see, like what difference a year can make in
(21:38):
terms of like who's getting booked on cards and like
where everyone is now. Like the main event of that
show was Dragonov versus Baron Corbin. Right, Dragonov is out
with an injury.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Is not in the company YEP Wrestling anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
He's doing judo and making barbecue on TikTok. Hell Man,
Like friggin guy Jack was in the Iron Survivor. He's gone.
He's in MLW Now.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I can't believe that, dude, I'm so said, he's gone.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Tyler Bate was in it. He's out with he's main roster,
but he's out injured. Josh Briggs is still he's doing stuff.
The other guy at the partner, Brooks Jensen, was it. Oh,
I don't know. Bron Breaker is main roster, he's Intercontinental
(22:32):
Champion for the second time, and Trick Williams is NXT
Champion for the second time.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Crazy what happens in a year.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Right, Kim and I have merchandise from this event that
has a match that did not happen.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. I have a
poster of the match like card, like, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Wearing the T shirt. This match didn't happen, So it happened,
but one of the competitors was different.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, it's supposed to be dirty dam was defending his
North American championship against Wesley Roy was not there, Sot
Dragon dragonly won.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
We saw a title change and then lost the next
on Tuesday night, didn't he He held it for a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
He lost it to Oba Feme who won the Breakout tournament.
And then uh, that was when Wes Lee was like,
I don't know when I'm coming back, Like my body
is shutting down. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And then now he's like the biggest heel they have
on x T.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Man Deadline Live was cool. I couldn't even tell you
what else was on the card, Like who was in
the women's match? Oh, Keana James was in it? She's
nowhere to be found. Yeah, she got drafted main roster
and then they didn't do nothing win her.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, didn't. Didn't Blair Davenport win the women's and she
hasn't been on TV in like four months?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yep, Yes, she won the women's Iron Survivor failed to
win the title, got drafted to SmackDown and like the
only time we've seen her was in a losing effort
in the Women's US Tournament.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, she also no, she also was wasn't she on
a pal wasn't she on a pl e? Actually they
did like a they did the Big three of Jade, Fianka,
Naomi versus the Oh Her and Yeah, I think so.
(24:47):
Was that on a pl Was that just on a
regular SmackDown?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Might have been just a SmackDown, but I remember her
kind of linking up with them. Yeah, because she's also
from the UK.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Was the storyline real quick? Who do you think is
winning the Women's US Tournament?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Who do I think? Or who do I hope?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Who do you hope?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Who do you hope?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Chelsea?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Chelsea? Are they doing the final two like qualifiers for tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
It should Friday?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yeah, Friday night should be Friday.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
So it's Chelsea going up against Bailey, right.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
And then Tiffany and Naomi. Kiffany beat Naomi in her
triple threat? Was what.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Chelsea would be awesome?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I have a sneaking suspicion it's going to be Bailey
Mechin and that would piss me off.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
That'd be so sad. I love Bailey, but I want
to see something.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, which brings me to my next talking point. The
finals for the Women's ice tournament. Do you think they're
going to be on the raw debut on Netflix?
Speaker 3 (26:03):
It should be follow up?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Have you heard the rumors Becky Lynch is returning on
the raw Netflix debut?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I have actually not heard those rumors. I've seen a
lot of other rumors.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So my big fear is that if Becky Lynch does
return on the Netflix Raw, she will win the women's
IC tournaments. No, Becky doesn't need it. No, I think
it should be Dakota Kai.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I think it should be the final should be Lyra
versus Dakota.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That would be amazing And.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Honestly, as much as I want Olyra to win, I
actually don't even think she should have won her first
round matches. Zelena should have won that match.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
It was her, Zelena and Ivy, right, Yeah, I would
have been happy with either her or Zelena. Ivy I
don't think was main roster ready, correct. I do like
the Creeds though, and wish they weren't jobbers yet much.
One more thing about Monday Night Raw that really bothered me.
(27:05):
Uncle Howdi got pinned.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
That wasn't Uncle Howdy, that was Bodallice.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
But like, still, yeah, Wyatt six protecting them?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
What the hell?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
No, I think that was what I call I think
Cross needed a win.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I agree that kring Cross needed a win. I don't
think it should have come at the expense of the
why at six mm.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
It sucks, but I would probably disagree. I think I
think that was a perfect win for him.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So are we finally going to get Wyatt six on
a p l E versus?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Doubt it?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah? It was an eight man tag miss aop and
Cross versus the four male members of the six Paul
Ellrig returned and threw powder in the face of Bo Dallas,
which helped kring Cross pin him, which I thought was dumb,
(28:04):
but that's whatever. And then the main event of Deadline,
of course, being the Women's Iron Survivor Challenge Woman's This
one featured Ren Sinclaire from the No Quarter Catch Crew, Soul,
Ruka Zaria, Stephanie Veaker, and Julia.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Match was very good.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
This match was incredible.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I was gonna say, I like how it's a lot
of like, there's no kind of layover from last year.
It just shows like how how much it's grown in
the year.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Like, yeah, one of the women from last year's show
competed on this show.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Are you sure I thought Jada was in the Jada
was in last year's parn Survivor.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Oh, she was.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
For Lola was.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Last year was Tiffany Blair lash fell in and uh
uh Klana Jordan.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Okay, I was wrong, No, all good, I'll good. That
was a good one, Tiffy time.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
This one was. This year's was really good.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
This was better I thought. But Wren getting pinned to
like very quickly back in the penalty box. It was
pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Mm hmm. That soul Snatcher was so good when Wren
rolled right into the ring.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Like right tight in the corner.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
God, she hit some good ones. There's one that she
hit on like two people at the same time.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
The double one was sick.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yea truth, that's such a good move.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Oh and soul Roca's dive over the top and yeah,
popped up on a barricade and like sat there. That
was sick.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I was glad Ren Sinclaire scored a point, like if
they just put her in here to take the pins boo. Yeah,
Zaria going through the announced table was sick.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Very Reren's you can see Wren's face in the background
is great.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, that was That was the best part. My big
fear was with how many big names of their division
were in the match. Someone was going to go out
looking weak, but I thought they found a great way
to keep everyone like still looking strong in the outcome
of the match.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Well, Stephanie didn't even take a pin.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
That's true, That's what I was trying. I'm sorry, No,
you're fine, but like I just couldn't get to like
figure out how to say it, so I appreciate you
saying it. Okay, Yes, Stephanie not taking a pin smart
uh m jule being the winner.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
A little interesting, a little interesting.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
They're they're really going all in on her.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I don't think it's the wrong choice, but I think
that she could have earned that a little bit further
down the line.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
She had the title match on like the CW debut.
Yeah yeah, and now she's got it again at New
Year's Evil, which this year is New Year's Evil a
pl E or just the episode of XT like it
always is.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I don't know, I guess just an episode of nic.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Because one year is on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yes, it'll be the Tuesday before and then episode. It's
usually a two week one, so one will be the
the Tuesday before New Year's Eve, and then the following
one will be the first Tuesday of the new year.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Usually the event will take place January seventh, twenty twenty five,
at Ryan Exprahole and let's say just California.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Oh so it's a pale exciting, is it really? Yeah?
That's I feel like it was the sixth.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
The sixth. The sixth is the six is a Monday,
So that's just a regular Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Oh never mind, it's a special event though. It's like
on the road.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Wrestling television special produced by WWE.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Oh okay, yeah, so it's a Tuesday episode to confirmed
matches Oba versus Trick, Julia versus Rock Sande.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
It's actually Oba versus Trick versus Eddie Thorpe.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Wait, what.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Did you not see XT this week?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I didn't because I was at my wonderful partner's house
and we don't have cable there.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
So Eddie Thorpe comes back and Ava, feeling bad for Eddie,
is giving him a contract for him to sign for
a match against Trick for Tricks Championship. Oh, Eva, goes Eddie,
I'm really sorry about whoever attacked you. We're gonna keep
(33:15):
looking into this. And he's like, I already know who
attacked me. I did it to myself and he walks away.
He walks away and has already signed the contract. They
both already signed the contract.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Wow them damn.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Okay, that's pretty good. Yep, time machine to go back
and watch that. Oh wait, I can watch you free
on the CW.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
App sponsored.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Deadline was a pretty good show. It was fun.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I think we spent a large chunk of that recap
talking about last year's deadline as well.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah we are oh yeah, alright. Then we move into
the main event, main event Saturday night. For the main event,
Oh my gosh, that was good.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Josh, that's good. There's some matches in here I'm looking
forward to.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I think this is a pretty damn good card. With
the last minute they made to a certain match. So
the card for Saturday Night's main event, sam match discuss it,
move on to the next Yes. Added on Monday Night Raw,
we have Samy Zane versus Drew McIntyre one on MAC.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
He's so back.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
McIntyre.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Mm hmmm, second place, sam of the Year, Sammy zaying
first in ME anyway, I don't see Sammy's Ay winning.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
This, yeesh. So what's what's Drew's motivation? Is he just
angry that Sammy is back with the Bloodline people.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I didn't see this part of RAW, so you're asking
the wrong guy.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Drew is. Yes, Drew's upset that all these people are
running back to Rome and like nothing ever happened. But
he's also upset that they willingly or you know, just
stood to the side and let Punk wrestle with them
without them challenging Punk.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Gotcha?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Oh, okay, gotcha?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Gotch.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
So Drew mcintyry is about to beat Sammy's ass. I said, Honorary.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Oose, I have a really weird theory. What if both
of the ME final matches and in no contest and
we get a fatal four way for the first champion.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
So you're talking about Bailey versus Nietschen versus Tiffy versus Chelsea.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Oh my god, you better drop it so I can
pick it up, because that would be coolest.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Fuck, dude, I'm just kind of looking at it here
on Wikipedia, I'm like, man, all four of those names
look really good in the same box. What if they
all fought each other?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
That would be pretty cool. Then Tiffany loses and cashes
in on the winner of the women's title match at oh,
I really would like to see Chelsea win this tournament.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Holy pro Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
She deserves it. I feel like it'll be hurting Mechen
because there are two people that I think like our
sleeper picks.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
They have they have history, they put on good matches together.
I feel like putting them, you know, and this would
be good. But at the same time, we've got to
remember this is a nationally televised event. Everybody else that's
on this.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Card is known.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Who the hell who knows who Mechen is? Like a
casual viewer, do they really know who Michen is?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
That's that's good point.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
I guess, yeah, sadly.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
But then that's why, Like if that's why, that's why,
like a fatal forward would makes sense because you get
your you can get your two three ish big names
in it, but also have Mechen still have a chance.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
M that's true, but wasn't miss money in the bank.
I could see her winning this absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
It'd be wild to have her be miss money in
the bank and hold like a championship.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Or what if they don't know how to have her
cash in on the main women's title and she loses
the tournament and cashes in very quickly becomes the second
ever women's US champion.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
If they if they ruin this moment by having Tiffy
cash in, I would be I would be so.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Upset, terrible, be a terrible booking decision.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
The worst booking decision of the year.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
They also teased her cashing in on the winner of
Julia and Roxanne.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Which would again be aways her title.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Reign ending to Becky Lynch was the fucking stupidest thing,
and they were just like, put Becky Lynch on NXT.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
I was like, why do you mean, Becky Hogan?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I'm sorry, m bes take was what I meant to say.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
I enjoyed that match though it was like a like
a big weapons sprawl.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
The extreme rules and no mercy weapon matches have a
special place in the heart of slam town.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Oh yeah, outcome aside? What Oh?
Speaker 1 (39:32):
I misunderstood you and I thought you said I'll come.
I was like, what is he saying, what did you say?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Just felling you guys in no, please don't.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Okay, So that's the women's US title. We've talked about
Drew versus Sammy, let's talk about the other addition, because
we're getting a triple threat on this car Gunther versus
Finn Balord versus Damian Priest.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Oh yeah, I h I keep my Twitter feed. Is
like everyone talking about like how happy they are for Finn,
like how much he deserves it, and like, I like Finn.
I hate Judgment Day Finn. This this Finn Balor character
right now is so bad. It's not even funny.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
It is so but not like an exciting slimy like
he could be healed, but.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Like, but like this first, it's just so bad. This
Judgment Day story is dog shit.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Ever since Priest and Rhea got kicked out, I was like,
I don't really like Judgment Day anymore. Yep, because who's
Judgment Day now, Finn dom.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Carlito, Livid Raquel.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Oh it's so boring.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
It's just so bad. I just totally they just totally
messed up that whole story.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
And then Finn and JD being tag champs, and then
not doing anything really bugs me. I do think that
new Finn Valley T shirt though, with the FS all
over it pretty drippy. I don't see anyone besides guns
(41:27):
walking out as world champion.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Yeah, I actually no.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
I think one of the two of them will win.
Other two will win.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
I sure hope it's Priest.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I do too.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
I think has just lost Cuther's lost a lot of
boxy and also I still think that we are heading
towards a Gunther versus uh Ludwig match, and like, well,
that would be They're cool to have them.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
As for the title, I think that Gunther loses this.
I think Ludwig wins and takes the title off a
bron breaker and then we get the whole ludwig.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Ic belt back on Gunther.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
I don't know if it goes back to Gunther, but
I just think that that feud would be very fun.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
It would be good. Maybe they'll get Giovanni Vinci to referee.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
It, doubt it. Ludwig hates Giovanna Vinci.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
I hate Giovanni. Yeah, him getting all that hype and
then the six matches he's wrestled, he's lost.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
What are they doing?
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Something to remember when.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
He feuded for the North American title on NXT. Nope, Yeah,
he feuded with Carmelo at last year's New Year's Evil Wow,
the second time we talked about last year's pay per
views for n XT. So that's three of the five matches.
(43:04):
Next up, we've got why am I also drawing a
blank Live Morgan e Sky with versus EO Sky for
the women's title? Mm hmm, I think Live Morgan's rain
has been all that good.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Do you think Tiff he's going to cash in? I know,
I think Joshua floated that idea.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
No, I don't think if he's gonna cash in. No, No,
I don't think it makes sense here. Yeah, I think
EO wins this match wholeheartedly. I mean I I there
is no reason for Live to hold this. If they're
going to continue this livery of feud, it doesn't need
a title that they're They're just they're killing the title.
You have to get here here, even though sadly, if
(43:50):
EO wins, her first feud is probably with Sonya Deville,
which sucks, but yeah, it's it's gonna be kind of gross.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
But what if it was sheen A Beeesler?
Speaker 3 (44:03):
No, I don't think so, I would.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
I'd like that better.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Like who else is on Raw right now?
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Like that? Like Zoey Stark.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
I like Zoe Stark's move said, she just has negative aura.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Yes, she is the Bridge Holland of the women's division
speaking of negative order. Or Ricochet's on the mic on Dynamite,
so I'm fast forward in.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Hen't turn that ship off?
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Oh my god, he sucks on the mic. Oh Macardonah,
that's cool.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Huh yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
With Macardonah, That's what I'm getting.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Sidebar, How excited are you guys that maccardona is fighting
Jericho at Final Battle? Because I'm excited. Oh, I know,
we've we got to watch that for pod Oh my god.
Any who, I wouldn't mind if EO.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
Off of Live Here you should win here hold it
till hold it for a little bit, and then I
think we should get Rha versus e O at Mania.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
That'd be good, pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
So is the last match also what we seem to
think will be going on last?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Probably it would makes sense for them to end with
the why.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
Would this match not go on last? They are literally
they are literally the poster of the of the only people,
not the.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Sound but yeah, that's no, You're fine. Cody Rhodes defending
his w W What even fucking is his belt called
the Universal Title?
Speaker 2 (45:56):
It is the undisputed w w E Championship.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
The undisputed WWE Championship. Cody Roads versus Kevin Owens.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Has everyone seen the the teaser for the weekend for
this match?
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (46:14):
Are you not?
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Are you guys not chronically online?
Speaker 1 (46:16):
No? No, just chronically ill? But anyway, yeah, I mean, uh,
there was a.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
Video that came out today and it is Paul Vec
and Code Roads backstage and this to a case and
it opens and there's light shining out of it, and
Paul's like, here you go. You get for one night only.
This is yours. So we're we're almost one hundred percent short.
That is the Golden Eagle, the old the old belt.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Wow, I did see that.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
That's gonna be fucking cool.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
And it's gonna be so much better when in twelve
minutes Kevin Owens wins and takes it from Cody, which
is exactly which is what should happen. I think Kevin Win,
I think chains as.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
I like seeing Cody win it. WrestleMania Tyrring has kind
of sucked.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Like, I don't think there's any reason that Cody has
to one drop it to Roman or to hold it
for forever. I think that he can lose it and
the story would be great. I feel like he, especially
right now to to Kevin h he finished the story.
(47:30):
He's held it, he's had He's had some really good matches.
But we're at We're at a kind of a dead
end with this bloodline story because Jimmy's hurt and Roman's
bloodline really can't do anything, and who knows, who knows.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
If he's going to drop now, it's going to have
to be the time too, because then he gets like
way too close to to Mania were stuff is kind
of already set in motion. Yeah, and I also feel
like we're forgetting the most important thing. If Cody drops
the belt to Kevin Owens, then Cody can compete in
Royal Rumble and can win for the third year in
(48:13):
a row. It would be the first to ever do that.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
That was a wild I wouldn't put it past the
Fed to do that.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Oh No, I don't want to watch Royal Rumble anymore.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
First, I think that Kevin should win here.
Speaker 4 (48:36):
I think that.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
They should feud and somehow, some way end up on
the first Raw on Netflix and should fight for it there,
and I think that Cody should win with the help
of the rock Call me crazy, Call me crazy, Call
(49:04):
me crazy crazy. I then think that at the Royal
Rumble Cody should either I don't know who Cody should fight.
I think Cody could honestly fight Roman at the Royal Rumble,
and like it would be okay, I think Cody should.
I think actually, this isn't really word shout. I think
(49:25):
Cody versus Drew at the Royal Rumble would kind of
cook because both of them are going to end up
on Roll with Punk and Rollins and probably Ko.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
Feels like they're gonna take all the big guys from
SmackDown move from the Raw and vice versa, because I
think Gumter is going to end up on SmackDown.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Yes, like we're gonna do like a roster flip, except
for like Rollins, Punkin Drew m hm.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
No. On Friday, draft speak of, I don't think they
do the draft anymore. They've been talking a lot about
a trade window being open right now, which is also
making me think maybe it's not Pentagon that's showing up
as Carmelo's mystery opponent on Friday. It's gonna be someone
from NXT.
Speaker 3 (50:19):
I can tell you. I can tell you I think
it is.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Who do you think it is?
Speaker 3 (50:23):
I think it's all Ego Ethan Page.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
That would be fucking amazing.
Speaker 3 (50:28):
He has been so defeated in the XT, he is
so distraught with how Ava runs it. I think him
moving to SmackDown would be such just so good.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
I think that we do Cudson. Okay, I don't think
that I was just taking.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
A name, but anyways, say I think Kevin Wins I
would love to see that.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
That'd be cool. Kevin Owens, I think deserves another world
title run after or his got ended to Goldberg to
promote that year's two K game.
Speaker 2 (51:09):
Are they advertising Saturday Made event as a pay per
view because I feel like after Survivor series, they were like,
our next pay per view isn't until like the Elimination Chamber.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
I think it's a primetime special. Yes, interesting, because that's
what Saturday Night's main event used to be. It was
just on primetime on a Saturday. It had like big
marquee things because it was like special right. Speaking of
I heard that Jesse the body Ventura from a governor
of Minnesota gonna be on commentary because he was on
(51:46):
the original commentary team for snmy y. I don't remember
what podcast he was on, but he was also talking
about that it's like gonna be the set is going
to be like low tech. It's gonna be like a
total throwback. Not a lot of pyro, not a lot
of like lights and stuff.
Speaker 3 (52:04):
But we're getting we're getting old graphics.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
And yeah, which leads me to something fun I learned.
I don't remember the actor's name, but he played Jay
on Modern Family, the one who's married to Sophia Vergara.
He as his character from Married with Children did the
cold open for the original Saturday Night's main event. Oh
(52:32):
what if that's how this opens. It's just him as
I don't even know the character's name, guy from Married
with Children. Yeah, and then they're like, okay in the
opening match. That would be kind of cool. It's like
when they brought back the guy who did the backstage
commercials for in Your House when they used to do
the In Your House NXT show, that kind of thing.
(52:56):
It'd be cool. I'm excited to see what it looks like.
Hell yeah, we get throwback stuff. What if Kevin Owens
comes out as Kevin Stein, his name before he got
signed w W. Cody Rhodes comes out as Starbus.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
That's what was.
Speaker 3 (53:14):
That's what was in the case, the star face or
the unit or whatever, the gloves and everything.
Speaker 5 (53:22):
Oh my god, I love that'd be hilarious. What one
little a W grape because I have it on in
the background real quick. Adam Cole and kylo' Riley are
fighting each other right now to see who gets to
fight m j.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
F at World's End.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
Oh interesting, this is.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
Dumb And I'm an a W guy.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
This is dumb.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
A I was really getting into a W and then
this oh mox Lee storyline has started and I'm.
Speaker 4 (54:04):
Not gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
I hate it.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
It's not good.
Speaker 3 (54:08):
I agree, And now and then now we've got like
this stuff with right Fank's going on, and I'm just
like kind of kind of sucks because like, I want
to watch the Osprey, but I don't want to support
a W.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Worry because Big Boom a J is going to be
at the Hammerstein Ballroom a wish I can, and he's
bringing Big Justice with him. But they were at the
media thing for all in Texas.
Speaker 3 (54:44):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (54:46):
Talked and I was like, are you fucking shitting me?
Speaker 2 (54:50):
It's just there.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
It was Brian Danielson sting and then the fucking Costco
guys and then Swerve and Bobby Lashley too, But the
point being the Costco guys were there. Aw is running
the Hammerstein Ballroom like twenty days before GCW does their
(55:11):
big show there, So yeah, that's gonna be. I do
think the GCW show from Hammerstein will be better than
the aw ones.
Speaker 2 (55:24):
Oh yeah, I'm excited for that, the people versus GCWW.
Speaker 1 (55:29):
Josh is pretty jealous of the postcard I got for
it when we were at dream On. Yeah, it's hanging
on my wall. I have the Alli Catch postcard and
with that before we go, it's just Josh, what match
are you most excited for for Saturday night's main event?
Speaker 3 (55:54):
Probably the tournament final for the women's US.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
Okay, and Tim, I asked you the same question.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
I'd say the same conditional on if Chelsea Green, isn't.
Speaker 1 (56:06):
It Okay, for the sake of not saying the same
thing as you, I'm gonna go with the triple Threat
for the World Pilot. All right, nice, that's like the
quote unquote gimmick match of this pay per view. All right,
(56:26):
but and with that, thank you once again, ladies and
gentlemen for joining us in slam town. We'll see you
again next time. Hell yeah yeah, I see you before
the holidays. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Holidays. Goodbye, bye
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