7-22-25 Plead The SIth x Off The Mike Sports

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Are you ready?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
No, I said, oh.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
You what is up? Miante to boy e Leah's host
to plead the sith. I hope you all ready for
a show. It's more wrestling focused. Have my boy Mike
Mayor on today's show. He's are down for the count affiliate.
If you joined into sammar X space, he's probably heard
him rambling, rambling, going up against your favorites, you know,

(01:46):
contradicting everything I said, contradicting everything Leha says. So there's
some some wrestling beef there. Mike is the heel to
my baby face. But you know that's my boys. So
y'all give a loud welcome to my boy Mike Mayor.
Come on in, bro, What is up?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Man?

Speaker 4 (02:03):
How are we doing that?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (02:04):
From the from the west.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Coast of the Central time zone and this is like
a year in the making. Thanks for thanks for having
me man like Matt. This is really cool, Matt. Thanks
for taking time out of your day to join us
out here. Yeah, some backyard baseball for y' all. I
kind of had to have Mic breakdown the time difference
because your boys not so not so.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Du I've dude, I've been dude.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
I've been in radio for so long, I've worked across
like three different time zones, so it's like I even
I get time zones mixed up. Sometimes I forget yeah,
Central two and then you know East is three, So
like yeah, I I when he was saying, when the
invite was coming through, yeah, can you do seven thirty?

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah? Is it Central? And then I was like, okay,
five thirty Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
I was like, bro, you tell me whatever time is
over there. As long as you're on on my side,
that's all it matters. So our chat is powered by
MCS General Contracting. We got the head hon show over
at MCS and the chat my boy Chris Leha already
insult of me, Sith is a little slow. You know what,
It's better to be slow.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Off the top rope already, man.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Man so speaking off the top rope, Mike, go ahead
and plug your stuff, bro, off the top rope. That's
your wrestling.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Yeah, my wrestling sag and uh off the Mike Sports
Network OT Mike Sports on Twitter, but yeah, off the
Mic Sports Network is where I do all my sports
and wrestling content.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Been more wrestling focused obviously.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
You know a lot of heavy wrestling topics going on
because wrestling just never stops and sports is just to
you know, we're just kind of in the dog days
of summer.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
So yeah, off the top rope is uh what we
do over there.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
And so to go from off the top rope to
those hate those hate comments that you have in there, bro,
you can't get away from those A wucks brod, y'all
don't know. We have a group group chat slowly based
on wrestling. It's called a yield to the face to
play off the bad guys, you know, heel, which is
also kicked to the baby face. It's got to me
and me and Laya put that together. But Mike's always

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showing us how he's going into war against these motherfuckers
from ae W, these weird couk fans.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Bro.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's just and you know, your boy
a Swiss, I know, interacts with a lot of them too,
and it's my thing. And people think that I'm like this,
you know, like you know, I'm preaching like tribalism because
that's a big thing, like AW versus WW.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Listen, I want both companies to do well.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
Like t Anda had a great show this weekend, but
everything has to be every everything has to be a war,
and everything has to be like a battle. And if
these people would stop picking these petty battles, this is
why CM punk has become such a divisive figure, because
these people can't get the fuck over what CM punk
did when he went out the door there, and it's

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just gotten to the point where, like, you know, they
get almost twenty five thirty thousand people in twenty five
thirty thousand people in a baseball stadium in Texas a
week or so ago and still talking about CM punk
like it's just dude, what like, why does this need
to be a war? Just focus on being who you are.
And then the more times that you just like try

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to poke things at WWE and say, oh haha, you
know they only have forty thousand seats sold for each
night a SummerSlam, It's like, what what focus on yourself, man,
And it's fostered because of their owner, Tony Kahn, just
you know, can't get over the fact that you know,
you know, CM punk burned him and now he's doing

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much better in another place, and it's just trickled down
to their fan base. So that's really my root, that's
really the root of why I get on AW people
a lot is because they just they just they just
never shut up about like stuff that they they should
just focus on their own company.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
It's yeah, man.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
So the thing the way I said from the outside
looking in, right, I mean, I have no player in
this game, bro, I don't. I don't watch AW more
so because of the time it comes on, neither coming
out of work and I want to spend time with
my kid and my wife, opposed to, you know, adding
another day to wrestling. You could only take so much
men in tights before you start getting looks from.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Your wife, right, yeah, right, Like you.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Know, she asked me the other day why I had
her put on that red glove that Roman Reign wears. No,
I'm fucking with you guys, but nah, man, the trablism's crazy.
It's like, uh, my algorithm on Twitter is a very
wrestling base. You just see a lot of people going
at one another saying, right, yeah, t out did aw aw,

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I'll did NXT, And it's like, why can't y'all just
enjoy the fucking product in itself. I remember a time
before Twitter where wrestling was what it was, just a
show in the can.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
Can you imagine what it would have been during the
Monday Night Wars. Can you imagine what that would have
been like with w CW and WWE back and like,
you know, the late nineties, early two thousands like that,
that the invasion and all that other shit, like it
would have been like that was like if you thought
this is crazy right now, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Like WCW and WW fucking hated.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Each other, legitimately hated to the point. My favorite stories
the fucking when mankind won the title. Bro WCW try
to blow up their spot and it backfired on them.
It had all the attention drawn to Monday Night Raw,
and look what happened. You know. W CW is no
longer around, and WW just ended up on top, and

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they're going to remain on top. And that's not just
me being let me say it. I'm not being arrest
WWE fanboy. They just enjoy their product a lot better.
It's done a lot better. Earlier, you mentioned TNA having
a great event. Mike, be honest, I.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
Saw okay, well, okay, let me say this. Aside from
the main event and then obviously you know the jc Jankow,
it was a fun show.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
It was a fun show.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
The problem is, as I always say on I say
this on my show, I say this to a bunch
of other people that I talked to when I talk wrestling,
You're only as good as your main event. You're only
as good as your main event. And that main event
was lazily booked. You know, it was the most obvious
thing in the world. Trick was outside the ring and
you knew he was going to come in and steal
the pen. And it's the second it's the second year

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in a row that they've done this where they had
the easiest call in the world. They could have crowned
Joe Hendriett's Lammiversary last year. They could have crowned Mike
Santana here and they didn't.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Do it in New York.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
And based off the way that that show had went,
there was a lot of good will in it. To
have your two top champions be NXT people is certainly
a choice. So it was, like I said, there were
some production stuff here and there. TNA definitely did look
very amateurish, but it was the most energy I've seen

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in TNA in almost fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
The original AJ Style days, right.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Yes, And you know AJ Styles is like you know,
that's where I grew to love him, like back in
the day and hearing that old entrance music was great.
So like there was there was like there was doses
of nostalgia, like you had the hearties, like Jeff Hardy
climbing a freaking rope ladder. Like it was like it
was a very good balance, Like you had that kid,
Leon Slater win a match us only twenty years old,

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and it was really cool that AJ gave him the
rub there at that point. Uh, And so it was, yeah,
it was a fine show, but it's like I it wasn't.
Maybe if they would have stuck the landing there with Santana,
it probably would have been remembered a lot better than
it was. And there's a lot of theories out there

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as to why they went the way that they did.
They're trying to get a television deal and then you
know this whole TNA AEW WWE thing. It's just it's
just good to have so much good wrestling with a
lot of talented people working each other. But it's just like,
you know, you're seeing the faults in all three companies,
at least the major ones, like WWE even has issues

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like they're they're they're TKO and their production side is
kind of fucked.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
So but yeah, all at all.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
Like I said, I didn't hate TNA Slammiversary, but there
was definitely some questionable decisions made on that show.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
No for sure. And I'm just going based off what
you were telling me, because you were, you know, raving
and rantsing in the in the group chat, saying, bro,
they kind of shit the bucket when it came to
the final, the final, in the final match, right, the
outcome just wasn't it. We got my boy Daniel Castro
in here. If y'all need solar panel work, y'all go
ahead and reach out to Daniel Castro of Costro Solar

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and Sons good. It gives out a good product in
news family manags you could trust his word, trust and
everything he said, says what about local wrestling, Well, Costlo,
my local wrestling to me, I come from a city
that's for four miles wide, four miles long, you know,
so now we don't get too many stops here.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
I mean Texas, like the Texas local scene, man, you
guys got some you guys got some territory wrestling out
there that's really really great, Like we had Pete wg
out here in California and like, you know, I went
to like this had to have been like fifteen sixteen
years ago. Actually, I actually might have watched, you know,
Daniel Bryant's last independent match before he actually went to WWA.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
So so we.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Had we had the privilege of seeing Rock Calrodriguez. She
stopped in our little hometown there you go. I believe
I have a picture with her somewhere. You know, she
wasn't going by that name, of course, but you know, right, yeah, yeah.
They announced before the match that this would be her
final outing before heading out to Florida, which is their
development spot, right, So yeah, bro, I mean we don't

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have much stops. I mean the last time we came here,
the fucking power went out because they were holding it
at a at a skating rink and everyone had their
cell phones out trying to light the ring for them.
There was a whole fucking shit show. So we had
we had cold hot dogs and hot sodas being given
out at that.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
Oh that sounds that sounds delightful, man.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
So that's that's as far as our local and goes
goes to the Daniel But uh, Daniels from San Antonio.
He says he has a couple of homies and r
O W r O w's the San Antonio promotion. I'm
sure you've heard of them. You have some, you have
some connections in the game too. We got the head
Han show of Sleeeper League, Rudy in the mixtal. In
TNA I ever recognized as tits an Ass and not.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
DNA.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
TNA on Spike TV was fucking that was That was
puberty city for you. Boy. It had me growing up
a lot quicker than I wanted.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
To, right, Yeah, yeah, it was growing up like when
you were seeing that TNA was actually a wrestling company,
uh for the uh the perverted, sick freaks and that
think out that with the dirty minds.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
And I'm one of those people. I'm one of those
people when you when you hear oh TNA what so
so believe believe me, believe me. I totally get it.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
If somebody came up off the street say, hey, did
you watch TNA. What that's a wrestling company?

Speaker 3 (13:02):
You mean did you watch boob too?

Speaker 4 (13:04):
That's what? Yes, exactly exactly, yes.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
And we we had we had at schoolers and we
don't watch that TNA, John, Bro, you're watching for the wrestling.
I'm watching it for the bodies. I almost hit a
couple of people would with this line here. If you're
watching TNA for the wrestling, then you're just not doing
it right.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
You might be a little sweet on the side. With
that being said, Uh, we have mad in the mix.
He's mentioned we need more.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Here we go, here we go.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
All right, Okay, So I mean you and me appreciate
Gunther like we we listen like I get it. I
understand that Gunther may not be everybody's cup of tea
because he's he's he's a wrestler, and his character is
he's a wrestler, he's the ring general. It's about keeping

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the matt sacred. He's to me, he's unlike any thing
that WWE has had really pushed to this level in
a long time. But my issue is this whole gender
thing is gender mahaal. If you guys remember gender Mahall
in twenty seventeen, he is responsible for one of the

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worst main event pushes maybe ever. Like remember they remember
when they were trying to push him as WWE Champion
on SmackDown because they wanted to go to India, and
the guy was so freaking bad that they they took
the title off of him on a on a a
tape SmackDown in London.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
He was so freaking bad and Gender maybe a great.

Speaker 5 (14:37):
I think he might have just gotten married because you
know the old three MB listen. Gender maybe a good guy,
and I've heard good things about him from backstage people.
Guy was not good. To put Gunther in that classification.
I just think is insulting to Gunther. Like you guys
can think of whatever you want about Gunther, but I
think he's like universally and you know, maybe I'm maybe

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I'm I'm just the one sicico in this chat who
actually appreciates good wrestling.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
But hey, gender is better, like.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
You know what, you know what, you know what? My well,
it doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
I know, I know you invited me here, but it
doesn't matter what I think. It's your show, So I
told you, I'm.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Just fucking with you, bro. It seems like our boy
Chris Lei has in the chat trying to get Mike
Mike riled up. Yeah, I don't know how often we
have to separate the two because they're just constantly going
at it the whole but Chris.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
I love Chris. I love Chris Man.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
Like he he he's he's the resident ballbuster and like
you know it, Uh it definitely livens up the chat
when when you have just a bunch of nonsense going
on from every different direction, and you know, I know
Leha is not very shy about making an opinion known,
so agree to disagree. But it's uh yeah, like I said,

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I some of this whole gender two point zero is
I'm just like, guys, come on, see.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Everybody, everybody's entitled.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
Everybody's entitled like who they want, and like we agree,
do you disagree on that?

Speaker 3 (16:08):
So in all, honestly, you know, Chris is actually admitting
it out in public. He saw me on the sidelines.
He just said he'll text me. He's like, you know what,
I'm going to stir up the pot a little bit,
says I know how Edgar reacts when you shiit on
on c punk, so I kind of gives that same
same reaction.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
I'm a very I'm a very easy reactionary type thing.
This is this is what makes you know, like the
sports media business. So like it's maybe this is a
good jumping off point here for something we could talk
about here is like you know, obviously you know I'm
in sports media, and one of the big things in
sports media, like you know, the Skip Bayless is the
Colin Coward. It's like, you know, the Nick Wrights, all

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these people that we see and obviously you guys have
your own sports opinions drive interest. Sometimes these people are
totally full of shit and they will just say things
to get engagement, get impressions, and just rile people the
fuck up to the point where it's almost pro wrestling.
It's like a great heel going into the ring in
front of fourteen thousand people and you know, in San

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Antonio and saying the Spurs suck okay, just as an example,
And I know that would rile a bunch of people
up in here because most of your audience is obviously
based in Texas in her Spurs fand but it's.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
Just the way that they.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
Use takes to just drive interest in, like you know,
just to rile people up. Leiha knows the game, man,
he knows the game, like rile people up and people
are pissed off.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
So you mentioned the media room. I want to give
a quick shout out to my boy Jeff Garcia from
Lockdown Spurs. He's also the lead writer for Spurs. At
Ken's five right, he's asking Sith, where do you see
the future of wrestling going towards? Well, Mike, didn't they
just announce that they had a collect They're having some
sort of deal made with Fandangos, So now we'll be

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able to watch wrestling events with the families and whatnot
at actual movie theaters. Role I call that progress. It
used to be a lot of mom and pop, you know,
wrestling shops, local shops that would host events. You know,
they legally stream the pay per views, and they'd set
up for projectors or whatnot. But now we have someone
like Fondango in the mix. Bro, It's I like where

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wrestling's going. It's become more cinematic in these past couple
of years and what it's been. It used to be
just a glorified bingo hall sort of event. But I
think we're heading on to bigger and better things. I
could do without so much celebrity people stepping in, but
I think we're I think we're heading on the right path.

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So yeah, speaking of celebrities, a lot of people think
that stuff of new we got like I said main
man Rudy Comple's in the mix he mentioned David Arquette
was a better world champion than Gender. You know, you
know the story behind that, bro right, Reddy Brumble had
to be one of the one of the worst fucking
movies ever created. But mat is it my guilty pleasure

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and that's state. David Arquette got the title off promotion
for that film, and you know he's What I respect
about David Arkett is that he's a man of the sport,
so is Logan Paul. I mean a lot of people
don't want to give him his props, But David Arquette
bro almost lost his life. What was it five five
years ago when that his death match. Yeah, Bro got
his throat slit accidentally and still finished the fucking match.

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You know that's Dewey from Scream. If you don't know
who David Arkett is, Bro, He's he's great.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
He gave his heart all to the sport, and you
know you gotta love shit like that. Travis Scott did
the complete opposite. Mike didn't put any time into training,
couldn't cut a promo, walked out with a fucking blunt.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
You see what Drew back Attire said today on Logan
Paul's podcast, did you see do you see that?

Speaker 3 (19:44):
I kind of read up on him, But what do
you say? You could say basic?

Speaker 5 (19:47):
Basically, he said, Travis Scott had a six minute running
and he basically ruined the fucking main event of wrestle Media.
And I was like, true, Drew is speaking for all
of us, man, Like so many things that went wrong
in that match, one of the top things is the
fact and the fact that we're gonna go all the
all the way down the rest of wrestling history and

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know the fact that John Cena won his seventeenth World
his historic seventeenth World Championship because of Travis fucking Scott.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
He barely got a receipt, he got a crossroads.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
And then Cody just like, I still don't understand how
that match. I don't know what their intention was at WrestleMania,
but my god, and then obviously the Rock with everything
that built up there, Like you know, that's a whole
separate conversation, but yeah, apparently they were they were trying
to do what they're doing with Jelly Roll, they were
trying to do something similar with Travis Scott, like and

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they were gonna bring him in, and the word going
around is like he didn't give a shit. He got
his publicity and got the fuck out of there, like
he was just fucking trained. I mean, he fucking I
think he might have broken or he might have done
something to Cody's jaw at Elimination Chamber.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
You could hear the shot that he gave him.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
But listen, I'm not for celebs, and listen, I'm generally
not the biggest fan of celebs and wrestling. But if
if a company does it right, it's WWA and generally
when they invest in it, it turns out really good.
And everything that has been talked about in the way
that they've built this thing with Jelly roll based on
the fact that they're doing this with Randy Orton, Drew McIntyre,

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Logan Paul, They've done an unbelievable job of making this
genuinely interesting. And Jelly Rolls lost like two hundred pounds
training at the PC Weekly Guy Guy cares. It's like,
this is more gonna this is gonna be more like
Bad Bunny, And I'm not expecting him to bust out
freaking Canadian destroyers and do.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Like Bad Bunny is on like the Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
Of celebrity celebrities like he he was like Logan Paul,
I don't even really count because he's technically, you.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Know, assigned to the company company.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
But like, yeah, the Travis Scott thing.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Was just well, what was old dude's name who played
the Green Arrow. He had one of the best fucking
cross cross body jumps out of the ring too. When
he made his appearance.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
Faced Stardus, I think, right, yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Even Johnny Knoxville held his own a couple of Mania's back.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
That was fun, dude, That was That was a fun match.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah, since we're speaking about celebrities, roll, we got to
give a moment of silence to you know, legendary metal
god I don't know, the Prince of Darkness, just you know,
shout out Ozzy Osbourne, who is the WWE Hall of Famer,
so we could give them quick, you know, we'll do
five seconds moment of silence for old boy that we'll

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continue the show. Yeah, shout out Ozzy Osbourne.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Than that was that was That was Yeah, that was super.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
My wife texts me, She's like, Ozzie died, and I'm
like I was taking a nap and I'm like, do
I know an Ozzie. She's like Osbourne dumbass. I was like, oh,
I got you, So that's on me. That's on me.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
Here's what's crazy.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
So it's like I told John and Radio, so at
my job today, I you know, I run the board
and I played an intro music, I played crazy Train
coming back in and literally like ten minutes later I
found out he died.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
I was like, what I mean?

Speaker 5 (23:26):
And he just had his you know, like one of
his last concerts. So seventy six years young man like,
he was still getting it done. It's it sucks, man like.
And there were some there. He had some decent WWE memories.
I think somebody rehashed the old I don't know if
you guys remember the Chris Masters where he did like
the whole peck dance to Crazy Chain, which is one
of the weirdest things.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Like who the hell was here? What the hell was that?

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah? That was Yeah.

Speaker 5 (23:52):
WWE in two thousand and nine was in a really
was in a really dark place. So don't remind me
about some of that stuff that they were doing back then.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
I think I've held you up enough on the on
the wrestling talk. Mike, I'm gonna let you put all
your other stuff. Bro, you you cover college ball, all
these other fill us in on your on your sports endeavor.
What do you what do you do? What's your daily job?

Speaker 4 (24:16):
So I work at sirius XM.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
I've been there for gonna be seven years in November,
and I work covering college sports on College Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
It's Channel eighty four. We're heading into college football. That's
really one of the big.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
And I know a lot of Texas Longhorn fans watch
this show. I know, I know there's a there's some
Texas Tech Red Raiders who are probably watching right now.
Those are actually here's what's interesting. And I know, Elias,
you're not really into the college game. But if we can,
we can kind of do this here. Texas is a
very interesting team this year because of Arch Manning. Because

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there there's so much unknown and I think, really that's
gonna tell the story of college football in twenty twenty five,
twenty twenty six, because we just don't know. This guy
sat for two years behind Quinn Uors, who ended up
being a seventh round pick in the NFL draft, and
people are wondering, man is this guy gonna be like,
you know, anything close to like you know, his two uncles,

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Like this is Cooper's son. Like, so Arch is a
better athlete. He can run, but the question is like
can he deliver on the field. Because Texas has got
like back to back college football playoff appearances. They lose
to they lose to, they lose to Ohio State. My
family is loaded with a bunch of Buckeyes, even though
I live out in.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
California, I'm not even a College of ball player. And
that last pick broke my fucking heart.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
I'm like, oh, oh yeah, yeah, Jack Sawyer, Jack Sawyer thing.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
If you're a Texas fan, you were probably just losing
your fucking mind. That was basically, let me put it
to you like this, And I'm crossing over sports Texas
fans seeing Jack Sawyer run that that fumble back for
a touchdown. That was how I felt when Tyre's Halliburton
hit the three pointer against my Cleveland Cavaliers, and I

(26:10):
felt like I got stabbed in the heart about fifteen
fucking times. But in terms of Texas, they're really interesting
because of Arch Manning and you know this is their
you know, really their third this to me, they should
absolutely be playing for a national title if arch Manning
is really that good. And then you know, Texas Tech

(26:31):
is really interesting because they're investing a ton of money,
like they've got the Cody Campbell who's this.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Big, you know, all the oil money.

Speaker 5 (26:42):
And so one of our mutual friends, Brandon Medina, who
kind of connected us together. He's also friends with one
of my best friends, Andrew Marx. But they're all Texas
Tech alum and I know Leha is a Texas Tech alum. Like,
it's great, it's great to see you know, Texas Tech
victually in the world of college football, where now you

(27:02):
can pay these guys and just literally buy a fucking team.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
It makes the sport.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
It's listen, college sports isn't what it was when I
started covering it. But what I think is really interesting
about it now is it's become very professional. And you know,
we always lobbied for these student athletes to like, you know,
go out there and get paid because they felt like, hey,
they were doing this just basically for fun.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
But now they're getting paid.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
The problem is now these guys are being effectively acting
like their mercenaries and they're just going to go to
whatever place they want to go to for your trit right, yeah,
whoever pays them the most.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
So but you know, it's it's it's it's definitely fun doing.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
My day to day job because you know, you get
to experience, like you.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Know, we were all young, and we were all.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
Once in college, and now you get to see these
guys go through the ringers of something that's completely different
from when.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
We were in school.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Where like like when we were in school and we
were watching our sports teams or like our college teams
depending on Like I didn't go to I went to
a commuter school, so I didn't get to, you know,
see experience college football like on the level of like
a Texas Tech or a Texas But to see now
these athletes, like you know, they're already revered as much
as they are now they're getting money, they're getting endorsements,

(28:15):
none of it's illegal.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
It's it's it's.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
It's definitely a more fascinating time to cover college athletics.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
And I really enjoy it.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
Like wrestling balances me out because it sort of loosens
me up from my day to day job.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
And that's why I appreciate the chat and I appreciate
you guys.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
It's kind of just no, no, no, Like I said, no,
it bring it brings me, It brings me down a
peg because, like like I said, I'm thirty five years old. Man,
I'm getting fucking old. So it's like, as long as
like you guys keep me young, and it's it's very
it's very entertaining to like, you know, just you know,
remind yourself that life is too short. But like I said,

(28:51):
I my day to day job, I really enjoy it.
And you know, like it's that also keeps me young too,
because I'm watching these these guys go around and like
they're eighteen nine, twenty twenty one years old and they're playing,
you know, at the highest level of football.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah. Man, So from from the outside looking in, like
I said, I don't really follow much college ball. You
cover that, but I like, I like where it's becoming.
I do think they deserve to be paid. I have
gotten paid sooner than what these these deals you know,
happen happened as of late. I feel like it should
have happened sooner rather than later. But what has gotten

(29:29):
to the point where some of them are acting spoiled? Man? Like, so,
why would we want to make the jump to the
NFL and we're getting paid doing what the fuck we're
doing here and we're not going up as against as
huge motherfuckers that are in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Yeah we're not right.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
Well I think what this Well, what this also does,
like the whole nil the name, image and likeness thing
is like, you know, the people that you know ultimately,
the people like you know back in like the ones
who are not going to ultimately make it in the NFL,
have a reason to stay in college, like you see
it in college basketball.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
Also in college football, like the.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Guys who you don't think are going to end up
being like a high draft pick, they can come back
to school for another year and have incentive to maybe
better themselves but also get paid a decent amount of money.
It used to be like, hey, listen, you you stay
or you get the fuck out, And it's like it's
it's now a much more intriguing decision to see what
these guys want to do if they want to actually

(30:28):
play in college and they value that or or or
you know, if the dollars make more sense for them
there as opposed to like, you know, going into the
NFL and being potentially dude fifty to fifty one on
a fifty two fifty three man roster.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
So yeah, so I had a question in regards to
that that I'm trying to remember. Was it the seventeenth
overall pick from this year's draft. He's kind of gotten
to some situation. Oh yeah, break down that that situation
for someone like me.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
So this is this is this is so I've never
seen anything like this. My understanding is. So his name
is Samar Stewart. He was drafted. I think I think
he said I think he went to Texas teen.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Yeah, I think he was seventeen, seventeen or eighteen. He
went to Texas A and M.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals, and as of
this point, I don't think he saw he has signed
a contract, which is really I mean, typically like now
we're talking about training camps starting, like the season is
starting like in like like what eight weeks, seven, eight weeks.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
Or something like that.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
So what's happening is this guy, like I guess this
guy wants language in his contract and Bengals don't want
to give it to him in terms of like guaranteed
money because they're scared that he might get arrested or
something like that, even though this guy doesn't.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Even have a rap sheet. So this guy, so this guy.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
I'm really vague on the details, but there was some
reporting that he was working out with Texas A and
M and was going to go back there. But Mike Elko,
the coach at A and M, he was at they
had sec media days last week. He basically said, Listen,
Schamar is an aggie, but he ain't coming back.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
He's he's getting ready to be in the NFL.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
Now, what the Cincinnati Bengals are doing is a completely
different issue. They're trying to nickel and dime here because
they're a cheap they're a cheap ass organization. Yet you know, hey,
you paid t Higgins a bunch of money, you paid
Jamar Chase a bunch of money, you paid Joe Burrow
a bunch of money, and you're getting by basically on
those guys talent, and then, hey, you can't pay a

(32:27):
top twenty pick who you drafted, and you want to
try and nickel and diamond for guarantees because you're scared
that he might get himself into trouble.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
Guys, the Browns.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
My team drafted Quinn Shawn Judkins out of Ohio State
in the second round.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
That guy got arrested for domestic assault recently, like in
the last week. It happens. These guys are young people.
You can't just nickel and dime and manipulate the system.

Speaker 5 (32:53):
And the reason why this situation has gotten so weird
is because there is a potential avenue if he wanted
to go get a waiver from the NCAAA.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
It's not illegal to like, you know, go back to college.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
Like it's that barrier of like you know, signing an
agent or you know, getting paid outside that was broken
down with this whole nil era.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
So from what I've gathered, he's gonna probably be in
the NFL. Whether or not the Bengals want to sign
him or not, that's up to them.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
So yeah, because there was they were talking about him,
possibly there was some type of how would I say that,
I know there's a way he could re enter the draft,
right right?

Speaker 5 (33:34):
Yeah, I mean, and you could do this, and you
could do this in baseball, Like baseball sometimes like if
the well baseball doesn't weigh differently, you have you have
like slots where you have to pay a certain amount
of money, and sometimes if you don't sign the guy,
the guy will just go ahead and re enter the draft.
In baseball, I don't know how this. I've never seen
this happen in football or in basketball. I've never seen

(33:55):
a guy, you know, flat out just not sign with
the team that he went to and just re enter
the draft and go to a different team that's also
potentially on the table.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
It would be certainly a choice by the Bengals, you know,
basically saying, hey, you know, we're they're already having issues
with Trey Hendrickson trying to sign him, and this guy's
a defensive lineman too, and you're not going to sign him,
Like what's going on here?

Speaker 4 (34:18):
So it's just it's a mess.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
There's just a fucking cheap organization.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
Yeah, they're a poverty franchise.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Head Haunch over here at Sweep the League, Rudy compos says, man,
we need mic on Sweeps. There you go, bro, you
have an open invitation to Okay, you're the main show
Sweep the League, Rudy compels, they cover everything sports, everything
in sports.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
Not I'm an open book man, Like I enjoyed talking sports.
I enjoy talking wrestling. It's just like I said, That's why.
Initially when I started my YouTube channel, I wanted to
be about wrestling. But then you know, I realized, Man,
I have some decent sports opinions and I go all
over the place.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
So yeah, yeah, and I'm knowledgeable and all the other bullshit.
Right when it comes to wrestling, you know, my knowledge
is pretty high. Dallas cowboys, I could talk coleboys with
the best of them. I got tagged into Area to
one to the Area two one oer podcasts earlier this morning.
They were having technical difficulties and then they said if
I wanted in in case the other co host could
have made it. They let me on the show and

(35:12):
we ranted about the fucking cowboys for about an hour
or so. That's a ship show. If you want to
talk about a shit show, out the ship show. When
it comes to the ownership, bro, let's get to one
of these some of these comments and we'll continue the conversation.
Wade's World says, I think I figured out the chat.
What's up, guys go guards.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Is that they guard guardians.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Man.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
I mean, we know my boy Edgar Man, my boy Edgar.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
We we we unite over favorite Indians player of all time,
and I'll read this one. I always loved ol Marvis
gal Uh and also you know, Jim Tomey. Those were
two of my favorites growing up. And I think I
still have a Kenny Lofton bobbleheads around here somewhere in
my apartment. But the gold the golden days of Cleveland

(35:59):
Indians go already in baseball. And let's be real, guys,
are presidents trying to change their name back?

Speaker 4 (36:06):
I've grown into yes.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
Yes, yeah, yeah, you know I I I don't want
to take ownership of him, but yeah, it's just I listen,
I could give a crap what he wants to do.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
I've me and my dad. My dad's given me my.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
Love of Cleveland sports because like my my family's from
there for those who don't know, and I'm a West
Coaster my whole life.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
But I grew up with the Cleveland Indians. I understood
the name change.

Speaker 5 (36:35):
But this whole idea of you know, trying to use
it as a political talking point is really it's real,
it's really it's really dumb, Like the whole Commander's thing.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
It's like, dude, what are you doing? What are you doing?

Speaker 5 (36:44):
You You could give two ships about what's going on
with those teams. He couldn't even get the ownership right
for the Guardians. He got he named the donor rung,
he named the freaking owner wrong. Uh, Matt Dolan doesn't exist.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
Okay, so.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
But uh no, but it's good to know that there's
some other Guardians fans in here, freaking Edgar. It's amazing
what connections can do for you through this whole thing.
Me and Edgar have now bonded over, you know, uh,
the Cleveland Guardians. It's great, and there's also good to
see you know, some other people here in the chat
that are appreciating you know, uh, a good baseball team

(37:20):
that still needs to win a fucking world championship.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
At some point. Well, bro, if you haven't read read
the context, cluse, you know that is a boy Edgar
in the chat. He's wait world, He's the one saying
fuck TKO as well. That kind of gave it away.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
You know, I was wondering, I was wondering if that
was somebody different.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
It took me a while to click.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
I was like, I was like, I didn't see, but
it's like, yeah, okay, what up Edgar. I mean, yeah,
seem punk and the Cleveland Guardians brought me and Edgar together.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
Man, how about that?

Speaker 5 (37:52):
A guy from Los Angeles and a guy from San Antonio?

Speaker 4 (37:55):
About that?

Speaker 3 (37:56):
How about you show some love to the other guy
from San Antonio who brought us together. And Mike, I
know you want you had some stories about a boy,
Brandon MITI know you wanted to share with ye.

Speaker 5 (38:05):
So so yeah, Brandon, it's it's a crazy story.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Actually, I think I mentioned this earlier.

Speaker 5 (38:11):
So Brandon knows my friend Andrew Marx and they went
to college together at Texas Tech. And so Andrew and
I connected through a mutual friend from one of my
best friends who grew up out here in California, and
so we all kind of linked up and it led
it kind of one thing led to another, and it

(38:33):
you know, hey, me and Brandon kind of connected. We
we did a couple of podcasts during COVID and then
obviously you know, we started doing uh you know, these
spaces and stuff. Uh.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
Brandon came out here a couple.

Speaker 5 (38:44):
Of years ago for WrestleMania, which was great with this
with his friend Michael rest in Peace.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Uh, that was a that was a really sad thing.

Speaker 5 (38:52):
Like Michael, if you guys knew history and Michael, that
guy is the epitome of why pro wrestling is so great.
Joy that that man had when we were at wrestlemating,
when John Cena came out, or when Roman Reigns came out,
it was it was infectious. So like being able to
experience that and also to just have you know, Brandon

(39:13):
out there with his father and you know and his stepfather,
it was really cool to like, you know, experience that. So, yeah,
we've bought Brandon and I have bonded over you know,
sports stuff, and you know, obviously we have a similar
pathway in terms of the broadcasting world. It's uh, yeah,
it's cool that Hey connected us, man, It connected us man,

(39:36):
so like it.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
That's what's cool man.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, it seems to be. That seems to me. The
you know, the reoccurring theme is wrestling and sports. You know,
it brought us all together. Like Edgar and I are
Chris Leiha and I actually bonded together through the over
the spurs and Edgar was quite the opposite. He wasn't
very fond of my spurs s takes. I wasn't too
fond of him. That's one mouth move fucker who I

(40:00):
learned to love. He's uh, he's one of my best friends. Honestly.
You know, Edgar could be a little, a little on
edge at times. You know, he doesn't always agree with
what we say. But you know, that's that's all. That's
what it is when you when you have a friendship.
You know, Mike, I think you want to plug your
YouTube your YouTube?

Speaker 5 (40:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, OT Mike Sports if you want to
go there off the mic Sports network is uh is
where my stuff is at. And uh, I could try
I could potentially try to drop a link here in
the chat potentially if you guys, I don't know if
I can do.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
I don't know if I can potentially drop that.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
On a second, I see, I don't know what. I
don't know what you expect from me, Uh, Mike, but
I'm just kidding. Yeah no, no, no, it should have posted.
I put OT Mike Sports.

Speaker 5 (40:57):
Yeah yeah, o T Mike's at ot Mike Sports and
then uh at it and uh my Twitter handles up
there at off the mic, uh at off the Mic twenty.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Eight But yeah, I know I we have a good
time over there.

Speaker 5 (41:09):
I mean, aw fans uh fucking hate me because I'm
just real, just real. I mean, I mean, as you've
known you for like a year man, Like I am
nothing if not very real. And sometimes that sometimes that
gets people on their on their p's and q's and
like they get they get upset at me. But it's

(41:31):
just like I, I just get annoyed when you know
you can't have an opinion without it being like some
sort of travesty of injustice.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
And that's the whole thing.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
It's like everybody you know seems to like, you know,
take everything so damn personally.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
So.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
But like I said, I enjoy doing I enjoy having
the chat. I enjoyed the the X spaces. It kind
of revitalized I honestly have to give the chat and
I have to give you, Brandon, all the people in
the X Spaces. You're big inspira big inspiration as to
why I wanted to revitalize and actually start talking more
wrestling and more bullshit because I tried doing the podcast

(42:10):
before I got burned out a little bit.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
And then you know, we we mean we we we.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
Met up on a on a space after money and
I think was after like a raw or SmackDown after
money in the bank last year, and we just bullshitted
with each other for an hour, and I was like, man,
this is fun. This is fun. So and that, and
that's why wrestling is great. And that's why I get
annoyed with some people just you know, you know, the

(42:36):
aw schmucks out there who will just like you know,
try to just make this some sort of a contest.
It's like, just enjoy your product and stop trying to like,
you know, compete against somebody else.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
Hey, if you like that WUD product that jumped the
shark many many years ago, then absolutely shout out my voice.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
I'll say this, Sam.

Speaker 5 (43:02):
When Vince McMahon was in control, that place was just
so off the wall. It's it's definitely in a rocky
place right now with all the TKO stuff and some
of the creative is you know, hit and miss with WWE.
But when Vince McMahon was in control, specifically in the
last three to four years that he was running things

(43:25):
like you know, like you know, eighteen nineteen and then
obviously twenty twenty one, twenty two or so, like four
or five years, it's it was so bad, man, it
was so bad.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
It was so awful.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Now we have the cornea shit happen and let's not
bring up the whole what was it the Thunderdome row, Bro,
that almost.

Speaker 5 (43:46):
I commend them for at least trying to, you know,
put on entertainment when you know, everybody was freaking out
for their lives during COVID. But the combination of you know,
I mean, it did give us the tribal chief, which
is great, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
But it also gave us raymis STEREO's murder scene.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
You know, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the I the
famous I for an eye match I meant, and he
got tossed out of the If you guys remember back
in the day, Buddy Murphy who is now famously mister
Rhea Ripley. That guy was fraternizing and you know k Fabe,
you know, going out with Aliah Mysterio, who's like ten

(44:30):
years younger than.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
Him, Dom's sister. Like that was weird, man.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
There was some weird ship going on and going on
during the Thunderdome era.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
I'm telling you, bro, it was. It was a ship
show of the circus. It gets praised a lot. You know,
Vince Mickmann had his time in the game. You know,
he what he did giving us products he did at
times where goaded per se. Triple H hasn't lived up
as high to the expectations that we've put it on
them yet. You know, it's getting there with the with
the partnership with TKO, it's really set them back quite

(45:05):
a bit. Him not having complete creative control kind of
you know, kind of sucks Mike. And they're kind of
pricing out the actual fans. Bro. Those fucking ticket prices
are ridiculous. Always have to you almost have to be
sure to have in a firm or a fucking karna
ready to go so you could make your monthly payments.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
Right, you want to.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Watch them, and Lord forbid, you want to buy a
fucking shirt at the event, because if you're walking in
with less than fifty bucks, you ain't getting a ship. Broy,
You You're better off picking up some napkins and autographing
them hoses yourself.

Speaker 5 (45:37):
I went to WrestleMania thirty nine here in LA and
we think we I think I think I paid like
two hundred, three hundred bucks for a combo ticket. I
wanted to go to WrestleMania this year, and Brandon was
going to come out here to do that in Vegas
seven hundred to sit up in the in the upper tank, man, Yeah,
up up in the heavens man like like shit like

(45:58):
it was. It's And then money in the bank was
like three hundred dollars, Like the Netflix premiere was like
three hundred dollars just to go into a dome out
here in LA It's like, listen, I understand the whole
notion of supply and demand. Like I mean, they had
fourteenth they they'd have sold out fourteen thousand Seed Arena
in Houston last night for Monday Night Raw, which is incredible,

(46:20):
Like they're drawing still, but part of the issue is
everything's getting too expensive and a lot of the creative
that was really good, that gave us a lot of
good will, like you know, when Cody finished his story,
and like you know, obviously you know the CM Punk
MacIntyre stuff, like all that stuff. It seems like I'm

(46:41):
not saying that Triple h has kind of lost a step,
but it almost feels like they're kind of like coasting
a little bit and kind of just you know, they're
kind of just you know, going through the motions, like
you know, we're going back to Cody and Sena again, Hey,
they made it a street fight. How are they going
to spice that up a little bit to make it
a little bit interesting? I don't know, you know, is
Seth Rollins really heard?

Speaker 4 (47:01):
Is it a work? Is it a shoot? That would
certainly be something a little bit different because.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
A lot of us wanted l A. Knight to win
the money in the bank briefcase. But yeah, the price,
the TKO surge pricing thing is definitely an issue because
it's definitely I'm not gonna say it's made AEW at
least somewhat more desirable, but it's sort of leveled out
the playing field a little bit because AW is a

(47:27):
little bit more affordable. They have a lot of similar stars.
It's just their booker is an idiot and is a
mark like Tony Kahn's a freaking mark.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
So it's see, it's what I like to call a cup.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
Yes, I mean, there you go, there you go.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
We have Sam Selenas who rebuttaled on his pet on
his last sweet right. He said, here's my take on it.
I've never heard, and I've never heard and I've never
heard it. We're in the social media area era, a
time where the superstars are more concerned with their characters,
social media influencers and wrestlers. What's your take on that.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
I mean, it's a totally fair point. It's it's totally
a fair point. It's not a lot of what is drawing,
you know, interest in terms of WWE. It is not
so much their shows, it's their social media content.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
It's like, you know, they'll pump.

Speaker 5 (48:20):
Out all the numbers in the world about, oh, they're
trending number one on x or Hey, romans.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
Return had like you know, this many.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
Hits on on TikTok, YouTube and x or whatever. Like
It's it's definitely the society and the way you know,
people consume wrestling content. Like sometimes people don't want to
sit through at two and a half hour raw and
they'll just watch the clips, which is totally understandable. And
I think, you know, some way wrestling is kind of
migrated to that to make things more digestible so that

(48:53):
you kind of understand the little ins and outs of
what's going on.

Speaker 4 (48:55):
So that's a completely valid point.

Speaker 5 (48:57):
That's a completely valid point that social media has kind
of like you know, I'm not gonna say infested, but
it's kind of it's definitely made you know, because listen, listen,
we can knock on Logan Paul all we want. He
can be entertaining, but listen, in the grand scheme of things,

(49:17):
he sells. But in the grand scheme of things, it's like,
we shouldn't be focusing so much inordinate amounts of time
on like, you know, him, when you know.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
You've got other talented people.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
Because I know a lot of people are mad with
this jelly roll celebrity thing and you know, appealing to
social media and trying to get like, you know, mainstream attention,
whereas there's a guy like Carmelo Hayes who's being tucked
away and catering, and that guy's fucking talented as hell
and he can't get on television.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
So yeah, should That's That's what I was selling you earlier.
I'm not really a big fan of the celebrity spots,
especially when they come with you know, when sacrifice their place.
We're losing the likes of a Carmelo Hayes on the
Big Car, a Ray Phoenix, you know, people in that nature.
I'm surprised they have Andrade coming up, bro, Like, that's

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surprised the hell out of me. Sam sam Selina says,
two thousand and two, friends and I spent the night
in front of Ticketmaster Warehouse Music for SmackDown second row
on the aisle, tickets for no more than thirty dollars,
if I remember correctly, about a damn good deal. Yes, Mike,
we have a boy, Mario cub Assos in the mix
and he's asking the Iron Claw or the wrestler.

Speaker 5 (50:29):
Well you prefer for full disclosure, I have not seen.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
Iron Claw yet. Oh but bye bye. By default, I
go with the wrestler.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
I do think they missed you're missing I need.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
I need to see it. Yes, because I heard it
was really good.

Speaker 5 (50:44):
I mean obviously you know m jaff by the way
m chaff's getting around man.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Seconds.

Speaker 5 (50:51):
Yeah, he's in the movie for like two seconds. But yeah,
he's gonna be happy Gilmore's son. Dude, he's gonna be
happy Gilmour in.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
The mix too. That's that's happy Gilmore's daughter.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
Nicki Bella is going to be in that movie. Bad
Bunny's gonna be in that movie.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
There's gonna be a bunch of WWA people or WWE
affiliated people or celebrities in that movie.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
Which and then obviously you've got the aw guy, which.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Let's see how that goes. So my wife and I
she kind of talked to me about I took her
to go see The Iron Clall when it first came out.
She doesn't like wrestling. She has absolutely no knowledge when
it comes to wrestling history, and so once the Brothers
started dying off, she's like, oh my god, why would
you bring me to see this. We had got into
the second von Erik and she's like, that's.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
It, right.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
I'm like, well, there's one more. And then after the
film ended, I told her, you know what, there was
actually another von Erik who didn't make the cut because
they didn't want this movie to be overly tragic. And
she's like, what do you mean We saw the deaths
of so many people. And I was like, girl, I
don't know what to tell you. And it had to
be maybe two months ago. I think i'd posted that
I was watching The Wrestler as well, and again she's like,

(51:59):
you're telling me he has a heart attack at the
end of the movie and he fucking dies. To do
any of these wrestlers ever survived the film? And I
was kind of like, well, do you want to see ready?
To rumble. But if you want a happy ending, you're
gonna have to see some some corny a ship like that.

Speaker 5 (52:14):
Yes, but by the way, by the way, John Cena
wasn't ready to rumble. Yeah, John Cena was. He was
an extra and ready.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
It was an extra doing during the gym scene where
they're walking around Goldberg. Yeah, with Goldberg push bench pressing.
Cause the only celebrity spot in my opinion that worked
and entertain thing was Mike Tyson and with the DX
stone Cold angle, it was.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
Good end to a WrestleMania.

Speaker 5 (52:35):
Man, I was a good end to a WrestleMania Like
you get him involved in, like you know, the that
whole thing you think, Yeah it was I think it
was Stone Cold.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
What was it? Was it thirteen and I was I
think it was four That had to have been fourteen
at fourteen.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Yeah, then we had the Dennis Rodman spot too, got
his ass cut from the team. If I'm not mistaken
for Skipper wasn't.

Speaker 5 (52:54):
Didn't Carl Alone, like you know, do something in w
c W. I think I think I think Carl Alone
I might have joined the end Mule or something like that.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
Man.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Just recently we have fucking Snoop Doggs saving the day when.

Speaker 5 (53:05):
Uh, I was that was I was in the building
for that, like, and we like, I'm sitting up in
my seats with you know, Brandon and our our group
and we see Shane go up for the leap frog
and we just see him fall down to the mat.

Speaker 4 (53:18):
I'm like, what the fuck just happened? It's just like
Shane was so hyped up.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
Man, He's Torres Squad, just damn Quad and Snoopy and
then like I think, uh, the ref just tells him
to go home, and I'm and I was just like, man,
Snoop is a trooper man Like.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
Like he's like, what do you want me to do?
They're like give them the people's elbow. That's all you
got to do, is Snoop. Make it work.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Brother.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
So our boy MAVs in the mixed Iron Claw is insane.
The weird thing is they had to tone it down
because the real life story was so unbelievable. I watched
w c CW growing up. Yeah, I bet you did
with your old asked. Oh we got sam Selina saying
ready to rumble class sick bro. I always quote you
broke my butterfinger baby and No one knows where that

(54:04):
comes from. It's like, come on outside of the hospital, well,
you know the whole thing.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
You know, the whole you know, the whole thing where
he like you know, gets an extra slush and he
sticks his finger in his butt.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Yeah, fucking class.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
That movie was so fucking fucked man, like our cat,
Like you know, I have that.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Video saved on my phone just when you know, people
want to come at me for my wrestling ship where
our cat's yelling wrestling's.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
Not fake to his dad's not fake?

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Sorry about that? Right after or that that guy with
the super fan, they visit him, he as the whole
wrestling arcade in the.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
It's right, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
He's like, keep it down. My dad says, wrestling's for pussies. Classes.

Speaker 5 (54:50):
That movie came out like twenty five. Yeah, I mean yeah,
it's it's a stupid movie. But like you said, it's
like a guilty pleasure, like it's like, yeah, it's twenty five.
I think it's been like twenty five or since that
movie came out, Like, holy mackerel.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Man, and talk about promotion. I still can't believe they
put the fucking title on David.

Speaker 5 (55:06):
Arquette like there is promotion, there is promotion, and then
there's doing that. Because that is like if that happened
today with social media and you had like a mainstream
actor go into the ring with say, like you know,
let's if they go into the ring with Cody Rhodes.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
Or you know, Health Gunther.

Speaker 5 (55:30):
For the sake of argument, you imagine if like you know,
somebody walked in there and just won the world title
to promote their album or something or promote their movie.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Like my god, man, I think I think the last
chance for them to do that might have been when
the when the twenty four to seven Championship was around.
But yeah, I'm just tired of these celebrity spots.

Speaker 5 (55:51):
Yeah, they have a two night they have a two
night show to build, so and I, like I said,
I will give them credit where credit is due. In
like a span of a week, they've made that jelly
Roll Randy Orton versus Logan Paul and Drew MacIntire match
really interesting. Dude, if mav don't don't put that evil

(56:14):
in here, man, do not put that evil on us.
Travis Scott being the WWE champion would have been like
he already ruined a main event a WrestleMania. Dude, if
he if Travis Scott would want would win the WWE
Championship like WWE might like the fan base might spontaneously combust,
Like holy shit, that's that's legitimately one of the worst
booking decision ideas.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
Don't ever put that evil in our minds, you know what.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
I man should know your role and shut to man
always always bringing up the dumbest fucking takes. But I
love I love my boy mav Bro. He's he's always
willing to debate, even though most of the time he's
just he's just talking, just talk. But you know, it's
kind of what we all do. We're all heels when
it comes right at the end of it. I would

(56:57):
never justify myself or label myself as as good guy
in any situation. Bro, I run off sith for a reason,
you know. But yeah, anything you want to plug Mike.
Before we gone, we kind of went over a bit.

Speaker 5 (57:12):
I mean, well, no, we're just we're we're just doing
two dudes bullshit man. Like No, Like I said, obviously,
SummerSlam coming up, we'll have a lot of wrestling content
over on my channel.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
I appreciate the subscriber, I appreciate, like above all us, man,
thank you for the invite.

Speaker 5 (57:28):
It's great to like, you know, like I said, doing
this type of stuff or doing the chat is the
reason why I've been doing the YouTube channel. And this
is what makes wrestling so great. It's just the interaction,
the camaraderie, even if we don't like or agree or
you know, have different opinions, no matter if I'm in
you're in Texas, you're in New York, or you're in
Los Angeles like me, like, we can just all get

(57:51):
along from miles away. And so thank you very very
much for like the opportunity to come on here. Like
I said, we're gonna have a lot of great stuff.
Hopefully we can do some crossover stuff on my channel
because I very much appreciate you inviting me over here.

Speaker 4 (58:05):
Man a lot.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
I'm always down for Mike. You know where to reach
me out, bro, just a call away, just want call now.
I'm playing. Ain't a fucking singer, y'all thought you were
going to get that side of me, y'all trip and
but yeah, that's been Mike Mayer from the Off the
Top Rope. That's his wrestling show. Off the Mike Sports
channel on YouTube. Go ahead and search that up. If

(58:28):
you guys are having trouble finding it, I'll go ahead
and plug it on both of my my X pages.
Next week's the return of the main Man. We're gonna
have Rudy compos and the We're gonna have Rudy compos
in the mix. It's gonna be a themed episode. We're
gonna talk about rest restaurant etiquette, you know, just public
etiquette in in general, because we have especially when it

(58:50):
comes to like tipping culture and all that bullshit. We
have a lot of fucking opinions and all that. So
y'all be sure to like to subscribe to PTS Underscore
TV twenty two twenty five, so you'll gonna be a
part of the chat. Mike, welcome back anytime. Brother, Just
let me know.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
Where no, no, no, I would love to do this again. Man,
This is fine.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
Thanks, well, yeah, bro, that's pretty much. Hey, y'all make
sure to show my boy some love on the way out,
like and subscribe to his channel like a subscribe to
mine if you haven't yet. And y'all have a good night.
God bless