June 24, 2025 • 32 mins
Stew previews WWE Night Of Champions, including the King Of The Ring and Queen Of The Ring finals. He also recaps a few of the highlights from AEW Grand Slam Mexico.
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This is WWE Superstar rear Lee, and you're listening to
sports guys talking wrestling. When they're not covering the sports world.
They're talking about the world or professional wrestling. It's sports
guys talking wrestling. Now here's Stu Myrick. It is sports
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guys talking wrestling. Stu Myrick here. Thank you so much
for joining me on this Tuesday. The This is the
last Tuesday of the yes, last Tuesday of June, and
it's getting hot. It's getting hot here in Central Texas.
It'll be hot for the next three months at least.
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But that's okay. Wrestling action is even hotter. Uh. Gonna
start with the pe that is this weekend, this Saturday,
WW Night of Champians. As of right now, I should say,
and right now by right now, I mean around five
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forty five pm Central on Tuesday, June twenty fourth. It
is still scheduled for Saturday, one pm Eastern noon Central
on Peacocky will come to us from the Kingdom Arena
in Riyad, Saudi Arabia. Now, as I said, as of
right now, it is scheduled for them. If you have
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been following the news over the last seventy two hours,
you know what has been going on in that region,
especially with the US bombing of Iran, and there has
been some unsettling or you know, just it's it's been
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at it's been a little unstable there. In fact, yesterday
there were reports Brian Alvarez had one on RUSS Observer Live.
There were reports that there was WW production crew that
were on their way to Saudi Arabia. They were stuck
in Qatar because the Qatar had closed airspace with everything
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that was going on. And so now I believe they
have reported those those individuals have made it to Saudi.
I think I saw the talent, and everybody is posed
to head over starting probably tomorrow because and then they've
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got smacked down the night before, or it'll be Friday
night in Saudi Arabia. It actually be taped. You'll be
you know again, be probably midday on Friday, you be
taped Friday night to air on USA Network. But as
of right now, Night a Champion still ago six matches
on the card as of right now, starting with Sammy
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z Ain facing Carrion Cross. Now, there's a couple of
things with this one. This was I think it was
either this one or the next one that was a
that was a replacement. They were supposed to have an
Intercontinental title match between Dominic Mysterio and AJ Styles. However,
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Monday night on Raw, Adam Pierce told AJ Styles that
Dominic has an injury. He he is not cleared to wrestle,
So that match is not going to happen. Now I've read,
I have not seen a report if that is a
legit injury what the injury is, but it is the Nevertheless,
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that match is not happening. So they are going to
have Sammy z Ain carrying Cross, Carrying Cross who has
not been on has not been in wrestling action on
TV for quite some time. A lot of backstage segments.
You've seen the vignettes he you know, paster Sammy Zay
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with you know, you should become a bad guy. You
should become who you really are. It's the only way
you're gonna be a world champion. Samy's Ay finally had
enough of it on Monday night and just punched Carrying
Cross and so now we're gonna have a match sami's
Ay and Carrying Cross in Saudi Arabia. I did get
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earlier today updated betting odds from our friends at bet
online dot ag and so these odds. This was as
of noon today, noon Central today. I can tell you
that the betting odds slightly favor Sami Zay. He is
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at a minus one eighty or five nine odds to
carry acrosses plus one seventy five odds odds gives Zane
a sixty four point three percent likelihood of winning. Now, again,
as I have said before, these are not predictions. This
is simply where the money is laying on bets that
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bet online dot ag is taking for these matches. So
but at least the money right now seems to lean
Sammy Zane's way. We'll see in a street fight, Rea
Bloody Ripley facing one half of the ww Women's Tag
Team Champions, Raquel Rodriguez Uh. This has stemmed from Raquel's
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constant interference in Rihea's matches and then Rea interfering Raquel's matches.
This is a rivalry that goes back to their NXT days.
Now we know that liv Morgan is out with the
separated shoulder they mentioned in fact, they mentioned Monday night
that Live is probably gonna be out for several months.
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It looks like instead of vacating the tag titles. They're
gonna slide Roxanne Perez in there, because you had Roxanne
come in uh after a a you know, kind of
a face off against Rhea and Rocks. You know, Raquel
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put her arm around Roxanne, and so it looks like
they may just slide her in and have her defend
the tag titles with Raquel Rodriguez. So nevertheless, rear Ripley
Raquel Rodriguez in a street fight. Odds right now, pretty good,
pretty good, you know, pretty much in the favor of
rear Ripley. She is at a minus one thousand or
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a one to ten to Raquel Rodriguez's plus five point
fifty or eleven to two. Odds odds give Ripley a
ninety point nine percent likelihood of winning the match, So
take that for what it's worth. Jacob I too will
defend the ww United States Championship against Solo Socoa. He
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has distanced himself from Solo and his band. Uh. Solo
you know, approached him Friday night on SmackDown, wanted him
to say those four words I love you so Loo,
but Jacob did not. Jacob instead challenged him, Actually, you
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offered to defend the title against Solo. Betting odds right
now slightly favored Jacob Fatuo minus two hundred one to
two odds Solosca plus one fifty or three d two odds.
Odds give fat a sixty six point seven percent likelihood
of winning the match. So, UH will see what happens now.
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The you know, the question is could Solo win that
match via you know interference? Could we see somebody interfere,
whether it's j C. Matteo aka Jeff Cobb, could be Hikaleo.
We know Hikaleo had a match on main event. Could
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that have been the test for to have him show up?
We'll see, We'll see you on Saturday. We now know
the finals for the King of the Ring and Queen
of the Ring. UH those matches. Winners of those matches
get the crowns, get that title and they get to
challenge the world champion of their brand at SummerSlam Queen
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of the Ring Finals. Oscar, who defeated at Alexa Bilists
in the semifinals, will take on Jade Cargill, who defeated
Roxane Perez. Monday Night on Raw. It will be Oscar
for sin Is Jade Cargil with the Queen of the Ring,
King of the Ring, the Viper Randy Orton will face
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his former legacy stable mate, the American Nightmare Cody Rhoads.
Cody Rhoads had a fantastic match with Jay Usso Monday
Night on Raw. In the end, Cody gets the win.
They hugged uh betting odds right now. Queen of the
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Ring Jade Cargill at minus five hundred or one to
five odds to Oscar's plus three hundred or three to
one odds odds give Cargill a typo. But I assume
Cargill and a three point three percent likelihood of winning
the ground. King of the Ring Cody Roads at minus
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seven hundred or one to seven odds to Randy Orton's
plus four hundred to four to one odds. That gives
Cody a an eighty seven point five percent likelihood of
donning the crown. So, and I think most everybody has
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expected it will be Jade car Gill and Cody Rhodes.
Jade will then go after Naomi on you know for
the which one is it? No, not Naomi, It's still
Tiffany Stratton. Uh, Naomi's got the money in the bank. Briefcase,
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I forget Tiffany Stratton still has the belt. We'll see
if she still has it Friday night on SmackDown. I'll
get to that hen just a bit. Meanwhile, Cody Rhoads,
I think everybody is expecting it will be Cody versus
John Cena at SummerSlam for the world title, for the
undisputed title. We'll see. And then speaking of John Cena,
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he will defend that undisputed WW Championship against c M
Punk a rivalry that goes back many, many, many many years.
You heard what was it? Uh? Friday night on SmackDown,
the John Cena version of the pipe bomb mentioned Claudio Castignoli,
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an ae W wrestler, Nick Neamath, a TNA wrestler, and
Matt Cardona, currently an indie independent wrestler. Uh mentioned them
by by those names. Of course, you know in w
W they were known as Czarro, Dolph Zigler, and Zach
Ryder respectively. Uh. He was. He was pretty good promo.
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I mean there, you know, it's funny on you know,
on social media. He was just all over themselves praising
the promo and and saying it was the greatest deeve
And I'm going okay, let's let's not be you know,
captured by the moment, all right, you know this was
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this was John Payne tribute to see Him Punk's promo
from fourteen years ago, his pipe bomb. So but it
was good. It was It was easily the best moment
of his heel turn so far. I'll I'll definitely say that.
So as of right, the betting odds overwhelmingly in John
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Cena's favor. John Cena at a minus three thousand or
one to thirty odds See Him Punk plus nine hundred
and nine to one odds. Current odds indicate a ninety
seven point eight percent likelihood of Sena retaining the title.
Sou And that's that'spected. As I said, I think everybody's
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looking to SummerSlam. But anyway, that's Night of Champions this Saturday.
We say night. It will be a night in Saudi Arabia.
It'll be midday here in the United States one pm
Eastern noon Central on Peacock from the Kingdom Arena in Riad,
Saudi Arabia. Six matches. That's that's probably pretty good show
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right there. You know, I don't see them adding another
match on SmackDown. Remember SmackDown will come from that very
same place on Friday. They have I mean, I mentioned
Tiffany Stratton. She is She got challenged by Nina Jacks
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and nine Jack's later out and they're gonna have a
last woman standing match this Friday on SmackDown from Saudi Arabia. Yeah,
which could be the catalyst for Naiomi to cash in.
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It's possible we could see that. By the way, speaking
of SmackDown, next week, SmackDown will be taped. They mentioned
on Raw Michael Cole and Corey Graves, which who's filling
in for Pat mcabee for the second week in row.
He did a fantastic job because he's just really good.
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It was good to hear him. But they mentioned that
Raw on Monday will be in Pittsburgh and it will
start at six pm Eastern, that's five pm Central here
be on Netflix. As it turns out, it's to allow
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them to tape the j you know, next next Friday
is July fourth. It is the fourth of July, and
so to give the folks, give the wrestlers and everybody
some time to enjoy the fourth, they're gonna tape SmackDown
that same night in Pittsburgh. So that's why Raw is
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coming on so early on Monday. So SmackDown next week
will be taped in Pittsburgh because of the fourth. So
that's good, good move. That's good move for them, and
that's I like that. I don't mind that at all.
So one other note, and I so full disclosure. I
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am not a gamer. I had problems with pac Man
way back in the day, so I am not a gamer.
But this was kind of cool. There is so WW
two K twenty five, the current version of their video game.
They are promoting a let's see if I can it's
a dunk and Destruction deal pack downloadable content I believe
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that's what it's called that you can get. And part
of that pack they've got they've got Tyrese Haliburton from
the hand of that passers by the way, I mean, oh,
all the love to him. He tore his or you know,
or Injuredi's achilles during Game seven against the Thunder. Uh,
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you just felt bad for him. I mean, congratulations to
the Thunder on winning the NBA championship, but man, you
just feel bad for Tyree's Aliburton. Anyway, he's gonna be
in there. There's several other NBA players in there and Abyss. Now,
if you're wondering, guess that is TNA icon. I think
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he's a TNA Hall of Famer Abyss, He's he is
part of the downloadable pack. It's complete with janis that
that two by four of the nails that he would
carry as well as they use his entrance music from TNA. Now.
The the person that you know that was Abyss, Chris Park.
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He is one of the producers on I Think It's SmackDown.
He's one of the backstage guys, you know, producers of
the matches. But it's kind of cool to see Abyss
come to life on the video game. And I saw
somebody put on social media put a clip and sure
enough it was. It was the theme music, and it
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was so cool. I was, I was, I was happy
for Maybe Abyss was one of those you just had
you enjoyed watching He was just brutal, but it was
it was just so good. So so Abyss a TNA
icon part of a WWE video game. That's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool. When I come back from the break,
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I'll let talk a little ae W They had Grand
Slam Mexico at Arena Mexico. Talk about that and some
other things. Next on Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, This is
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the International King of Swerve Swerve Strickland and this is
Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. Brot me back here on Sports
Guys Talking Wrestlings. Do myrick here? Uh? A E W
headed to Arena Mexico, the home of CMLL as they
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called it the Cathedral of Lucci Libre. Uh if you
saw that last Wednesday, I mean it was it was
really cool. I mean, I got admit that was. It
was a great visual. The place was packed and they
did they did well by all the the CMLL wrestlers,
Myssedico and Moscowderrada and and all of them. It was
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really neat. Uh. One of the results, Mercedes Mona is
now I think six belts bne she has captured the
cml A Women's World title from Zeusia Zouxia. Uh. Good match,
really good match. Mercedes mone captures the belt. Of course,
she is getting ready to face Tony Storm timeless Tony
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Storm for the AEW World Women's World Title at all Lean, Texas.
But that was really cool. But yeah, it was really cool.
The entrance by Mystico was really nice. You know, the
fans just ate it up, did you hear? By the way,
so Misco in MJF MJF beats him and then takes
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Mystico's mask off. I mean it's bad enough when they
do it, say just a random arena here in America,
but when you're there in c in Mexico, in CMLL's
home spot, and you take the mask of arguably one
of the most popular individuals in CMLL, I mean, all
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the best, you know all you know, Max has got
some bravery and apparently there was a report that some
fans tried to get to him after the show at
the hotel or whatever. But you know, hey, that's you know, okay, sure,
but it was it was a fun night. They had
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the they started the show up with a fourteen man tag.
They almost didn't have enough bring to get all fourteen
individuals on the apron but nevertheless, great show. Uh Saturday
Night Collision. So it was Okada taking on Mark Briscoe.
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Great match. In the end, Ocata gets the victory. Don
Callis comes up, you know, talks about how Okada you
know Omega Omega is going to be all by himself,
he doesn't have any friends. Well, que Mark Briscoe's music.
It wasn't Mark Briscoll. He took on, Oh who was it? Okada?
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And I forget anyway? Then Mac it was Mark brisco
and Okada faced each other in at you know, on Grandslid, Mexico.
So Mark brisco comes out, says, hey, I am one
of Kenny's friends, and here's another one, and outcomes none
other than his Golden Lover tag team partner Coda Ibushi.
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And Coda looked fantastic. Now Coda has not been in
a ring in at least a year I think actually
almost close to eighteen months, but he looked fantastic. I
went to the ring, chased everybody off, gotten a little
fistic cups with Okada. Well, Ibushi apparently he is ready
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to wrestle, and in fact, this Wednesday night on Dynamite
he's going to wrestle Trent burretta from the Don Kallis family.
So that should be a fun match. You'll be great
to see Kodoabushi back in the ring. Ah, so I
really call on that. Uh. Tony Kahn announced via social
media all in Texas, and as I said, yeah, I
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think I said this. I say this on the Mark
Coke Show on Sunday k don FM KDWNF FM in
Las Vegas and worldwide on the Odyssey. App I said
this that you know, the pattern is usually so Tony
Kahan will start adding matches about two to three weeks
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out from a pay per view. Well, we're about two
to three. We're about just under three weeks away from
all in Texas. One, two, three and a half weeks
maybe with three and a half weeks, so oh, sure enough,
we'll starting to hear a little bit. He did add
these there's gonna be a men's and women's casino gauntlet match. Now,
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the casino gauntlet matches is like it is one of
the it's one of the really cool things that Tony
has come up with. There's gonna be a men's match
and a women's match. So basically and basically what it is,
it's a gauntlet match, but you don't know how many
people are gonna be involved, you don't know when it's
gonna end, because it's simply a matter of It's kind
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of like they say a casino gauntlet, it's more like
a gauntlet meets a real rumble where you know, two
men start or two individuals start and then they'll bring
out additional at intervals until somebody gets the pinfall. So
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you could have four, you could have six, could have ten,
you name it. And there's gonna be a women's gauntlets,
casino gauntlet, So that's gonna be something look forward to
at Global Ie Field in Arlington. So that should be
really cool. Good Old Jr. Jim Ross on his podcast
saying he is feeling better. He's got an appointment with
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his doctor. I think next week. They want to make
sure they did get all of the cancer out. He
is still hoping to be a part of All In.
He wants to be there in Arlington, wants to call
him matter or two and you know, I think we
all hope he can be. I mean, it's it's Jim Ross.
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He is the Hall of Fame voice of wrestling. You know.
For all the praise that Michael Cole is getting nowadays,
there's no Michael Cole without Jim Ross, simple as that.
So so all the best to Jim Ross and as
he continues to recover from you know, cancer surgery, hopefully
hopefully we will see him in Arlington. And one final note,
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so they also did Ring of Honor tapings. In fact,
they did. They did the Ring of Honor Global Wars
brand that they used to run all the time, you
know in Europe and such. So they did the Ring
of Honor Global Wars tapings Ring of Honor versus CMLL,
and there was a match. It was Lee Moriarty taking
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on Blue Panther. I think, and yes, it's gonna be it. Well,
I don't know if it's a spoiler or anyway, So anyway,
I think morilready gets the win, and then here comes
the rest of Shane Taylor Promotions to beat down on
Blue Panther. Well, then all of a sudden, the music
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hits and it's none other then former Ring of Honor
World champion, former ae W World Champion, the A Mayor
and Dragon Brian Danielson. He comes down with a couple
other guys, you know, takes care of business, hits the
Butsyco knee on Shane Taylor, and the crowd just went nuts.
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I mean, of course it's Brian Danielson. Now I don't
think this is like, this is not a precursor of
him coming back to the ring, but it was cool.
It was cool nonetheless to see it. So that's fun.
It's fun to see Brian Danielson make an appearance than
the Ring of Honor tapings there so good stuff. Like
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I said, All in Texas one two three and a
half weeks July twelfth, I planned to be there, planning
to be there for a Ring of Iron, Supercar of Iron,
planning to be there for Star Cast, and planning to
be there for All in Texas. More information coming as
we get closer to that big event. I'm gonna quit,
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take a quick time out. When I come back, I'll
let you know what's happening in inpent wrestling around the
state of Texas. A couple more notes before we close
out this week's Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. Hey, this is
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the Bad Bad Boy Joey Janella and you're listening to
the Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. Welcome back to Sports Guys
Talking Wrestling. Stud Myrick here. I got actually a few
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cards to talk about this week in independent wrestling in Texas.
Starting in Houston, All Fury Pro Wrestling brings you Our
Flag Means Death Saturday at Houston Premier Arena, Bell time
seven thirty pm Central. Dimity alexandrov Ethan Hunter, Rachel Rose,
Just Nick and Moore. That's all Fury Pro Wrestling This
Saturday in Houston. Reality're Wrestling has Glory for and Heart
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and Soul double taping Saturday at the Walker, Texas Lawyer
Arena in Texas City, bell time seven pm. WWE's Natalia
will be there, Edge Stone Promised, Braxton, Gena, Medina and Moore.
That's Reality You're Wrestling This Saturday in Texas City. Wrestling.
Revolvers has their Texas Title Tournament. They are going to
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crown their very first Wrestling Revolver Texas Champion. That is
this Saturday at the MPX Event Center in Bedford, Bell
time APM Central. AJ Francis from TNA will be there. JD. Griffy, Vixen, Brick,
Savage and Moore. That's Wrestling Revolver this Saturday in Bedford.
And DFWL Pro Wrestling has tables, ladders, chairs and doors.
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Sunday at the Poor in Keller, Fell time five pm Central.
Lou Gotti will be there, Dylan Caven's Rook Tyler, Exodus
Prime and more. That's DFW All Pro Wrestling this Sunday
in Keller in the Metroplex. And that's a look at
independent wrestling around the state. Of Texas. Wherever you may be,
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go out and support independent wrestling. This is a big
deal of this wrestling Revolver. Sammy Callahan's promotion out of
the Midwest, so he's going to have a Texas Championship.
He frequently visits the Metroplex and so why not that
that'll be fun. And then Italia, we just saw her
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go after the NWA Women's World title just a few
weeks ago. Now she's going to be at Reality of
Wrestling Booker T's promotion, So that's cool, That's very cool.
I mentioned last week the participants in this Summer's g
One Climax thirty five. We have two more they have qualified.
There were you know, there's there will be qualifying matches,
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so they had two this past Sunday. I believe two
more will be on July fourth. Uh Drilla Maloney is qualified.
He'll be in Bleep B block. Callum Newman from United
Empire he will be in the A block. Two more matches,
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as I mentioned, A block Oil had taken on Don Filet,
the former bad Luck Filet on July fourth, and B
Block Yoshi Hashi versus Chase Owens. Both those matches will
be on July fourth, so that will round out the
participants in the G One Climax. And I think from
membercrast said July nineteenth for the start of this year's
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G One Climax. So one other note, Moose has become
the second longest reigning X Division champion. I believe the
rain is now two hundred and twenty four days, second
longest behind Austin Ares. So congratulations Moose on his ability
to keep that title. He's had quite a few contenders.
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He's got a contender coming up at Slammiversary, and so
I think it's leons later, so you know, we'll see
if Moose can continue holding on to that title. They'll
do it. For this week, Sports Guy is Talking Wrestling.
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This is WWE Superstar rear Lee, and you're listening to
sports guys talking wrestling. When they're not covering the sports world.
They're talking about the world or professional wrestling. It's sports
guys talking wrestling. Now here's Stu Myrick. It is sports
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guys talking wrestling. Stu Myrick here. Thank you so much
for joining me on this Tuesday. The This is the
last Tuesday of the yes, last Tuesday of June, and
it's getting hot. It's getting hot here in Central Texas.
It'll be hot for the next three months at least.
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But that's okay. Wrestling action is even hotter. Uh. Gonna
start with the pe that is this weekend, this Saturday,
WW Night of Champians. As of right now, I should say,
and right now by right now, I mean around five
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forty five pm Central on Tuesday, June twenty fourth. It
is still scheduled for Saturday, one pm Eastern noon Central
on Peacocky will come to us from the Kingdom Arena
in Riyad, Saudi Arabia. Now, as I said, as of
right now, it is scheduled for them. If you have
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been following the news over the last seventy two hours,
you know what has been going on in that region,
especially with the US bombing of Iran, and there has
been some unsettling or you know, just it's it's been
(01:50):
at it's been a little unstable there. In fact, yesterday
there were reports Brian Alvarez had one on RUSS Observer Live.
There were reports that there was WW production crew that
were on their way to Saudi Arabia. They were stuck
in Qatar because the Qatar had closed airspace with everything
(02:17):
that was going on. And so now I believe they
have reported those those individuals have made it to Saudi.
I think I saw the talent, and everybody is posed
to head over starting probably tomorrow because and then they've
(02:37):
got smacked down the night before, or it'll be Friday
night in Saudi Arabia. It actually be taped. You'll be
you know again, be probably midday on Friday, you be
taped Friday night to air on USA Network. But as
of right now, Night a Champion still ago six matches
on the card as of right now, starting with Sammy
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z Ain facing Carrion Cross. Now, there's a couple of
things with this one. This was I think it was
either this one or the next one that was a
that was a replacement. They were supposed to have an
Intercontinental title match between Dominic Mysterio and AJ Styles. However,
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Monday night on Raw, Adam Pierce told AJ Styles that
Dominic has an injury. He he is not cleared to wrestle,
So that match is not going to happen. Now I've read,
I have not seen a report if that is a
legit injury what the injury is, but it is the Nevertheless,
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that match is not happening. So they are going to
have Sammy z Ain carrying Cross, Carrying Cross who has
not been on has not been in wrestling action on
TV for quite some time. A lot of backstage segments.
You've seen the vignettes he you know, paster Sammy Zay
(04:09):
with you know, you should become a bad guy. You
should become who you really are. It's the only way
you're gonna be a world champion. Samy's Ay finally had
enough of it on Monday night and just punched Carrying
Cross and so now we're gonna have a match sami's
Ay and Carrying Cross in Saudi Arabia. I did get
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earlier today updated betting odds from our friends at bet
online dot ag and so these odds. This was as
of noon today, noon Central today. I can tell you
that the betting odds slightly favor Sami Zay. He is
(04:57):
at a minus one eighty or five nine odds to
carry acrosses plus one seventy five odds odds gives Zane
a sixty four point three percent likelihood of winning. Now, again,
as I have said before, these are not predictions. This
is simply where the money is laying on bets that
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bet online dot ag is taking for these matches. So
but at least the money right now seems to lean
Sammy Zane's way. We'll see in a street fight, Rea
Bloody Ripley facing one half of the ww Women's Tag
Team Champions, Raquel Rodriguez Uh. This has stemmed from Raquel's
(05:44):
constant interference in Rihea's matches and then Rea interfering Raquel's matches.
This is a rivalry that goes back to their NXT days.
Now we know that liv Morgan is out with the
separated shoulder they mentioned in fact, they mentioned Monday night
that Live is probably gonna be out for several months.
(06:08):
It looks like instead of vacating the tag titles. They're
gonna slide Roxanne Perez in there, because you had Roxanne
come in uh after a a you know, kind of
a face off against Rhea and Rocks. You know, Raquel
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put her arm around Roxanne, and so it looks like
they may just slide her in and have her defend
the tag titles with Raquel Rodriguez. So nevertheless, rear Ripley
Raquel Rodriguez in a street fight. Odds right now, pretty good,
pretty good, you know, pretty much in the favor of
rear Ripley. She is at a minus one thousand or
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a one to ten to Raquel Rodriguez's plus five point
fifty or eleven to two. Odds odds give Ripley a
ninety point nine percent likelihood of winning the match, So
take that for what it's worth. Jacob I too will
defend the ww United States Championship against Solo Socoa. He
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has distanced himself from Solo and his band. Uh. Solo
you know, approached him Friday night on SmackDown, wanted him
to say those four words I love you so Loo,
but Jacob did not. Jacob instead challenged him, Actually, you
(07:36):
offered to defend the title against Solo. Betting odds right
now slightly favored Jacob Fatuo minus two hundred one to
two odds Solosca plus one fifty or three d two odds.
Odds give fat a sixty six point seven percent likelihood
of winning the match. So, UH will see what happens now.
(08:01):
The you know, the question is could Solo win that
match via you know interference? Could we see somebody interfere,
whether it's j C. Matteo aka Jeff Cobb, could be Hikaleo.
We know Hikaleo had a match on main event. Could
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that have been the test for to have him show up?
We'll see, We'll see you on Saturday. We now know
the finals for the King of the Ring and Queen
of the Ring. UH those matches. Winners of those matches
get the crowns, get that title and they get to
challenge the world champion of their brand at SummerSlam Queen
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of the Ring Finals. Oscar, who defeated at Alexa Bilists
in the semifinals, will take on Jade Cargill, who defeated
Roxane Perez. Monday Night on Raw. It will be Oscar
for sin Is Jade Cargil with the Queen of the Ring,
King of the Ring, the Viper Randy Orton will face
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his former legacy stable mate, the American Nightmare Cody Rhoads.
Cody Rhoads had a fantastic match with Jay Usso Monday
Night on Raw. In the end, Cody gets the win.
They hugged uh betting odds right now. Queen of the
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Ring Jade Cargill at minus five hundred or one to
five odds to Oscar's plus three hundred or three to
one odds odds give Cargill a typo. But I assume
Cargill and a three point three percent likelihood of winning
the ground. King of the Ring Cody Roads at minus
(09:53):
seven hundred or one to seven odds to Randy Orton's
plus four hundred to four to one odds. That gives
Cody a an eighty seven point five percent likelihood of
donning the crown. So, and I think most everybody has
(10:13):
expected it will be Jade car Gill and Cody Rhodes.
Jade will then go after Naomi on you know for
the which one is it? No, not Naomi, It's still
Tiffany Stratton. Uh, Naomi's got the money in the bank. Briefcase,
(10:38):
I forget Tiffany Stratton still has the belt. We'll see
if she still has it Friday night on SmackDown. I'll
get to that hen just a bit. Meanwhile, Cody Rhoads,
I think everybody is expecting it will be Cody versus
John Cena at SummerSlam for the world title, for the
undisputed title. We'll see. And then speaking of John Cena,
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he will defend that undisputed WW Championship against c M
Punk a rivalry that goes back many, many, many many years.
You heard what was it? Uh? Friday night on SmackDown,
the John Cena version of the pipe bomb mentioned Claudio Castignoli,
(11:29):
an ae W wrestler, Nick Neamath, a TNA wrestler, and
Matt Cardona, currently an indie independent wrestler. Uh mentioned them
by by those names. Of course, you know in w
W they were known as Czarro, Dolph Zigler, and Zach
Ryder respectively. Uh. He was. He was pretty good promo.
(11:51):
I mean there, you know, it's funny on you know,
on social media. He was just all over themselves praising
the promo and and saying it was the greatest deeve
And I'm going okay, let's let's not be you know,
captured by the moment, all right, you know this was
(12:13):
this was John Payne tribute to see Him Punk's promo
from fourteen years ago, his pipe bomb. So but it
was good. It was It was easily the best moment
of his heel turn so far. I'll I'll definitely say that.
So as of right, the betting odds overwhelmingly in John
(12:39):
Cena's favor. John Cena at a minus three thousand or
one to thirty odds See Him Punk plus nine hundred
and nine to one odds. Current odds indicate a ninety
seven point eight percent likelihood of Sena retaining the title.
Sou And that's that'spected. As I said, I think everybody's
(13:03):
looking to SummerSlam. But anyway, that's Night of Champions this Saturday.
We say night. It will be a night in Saudi Arabia.
It'll be midday here in the United States one pm
Eastern noon Central on Peacock from the Kingdom Arena in Riad,
Saudi Arabia. Six matches. That's that's probably pretty good show
(13:28):
right there. You know, I don't see them adding another
match on SmackDown. Remember SmackDown will come from that very
same place on Friday. They have I mean, I mentioned
Tiffany Stratton. She is She got challenged by Nina Jacks
(13:49):
and nine Jack's later out and they're gonna have a
last woman standing match this Friday on SmackDown from Saudi Arabia. Yeah,
which could be the catalyst for Naiomi to cash in.
(14:15):
It's possible we could see that. By the way, speaking
of SmackDown, next week, SmackDown will be taped. They mentioned
on Raw Michael Cole and Corey Graves, which who's filling
in for Pat mcabee for the second week in row.
He did a fantastic job because he's just really good.
(14:36):
It was good to hear him. But they mentioned that
Raw on Monday will be in Pittsburgh and it will
start at six pm Eastern, that's five pm Central here
be on Netflix. As it turns out, it's to allow
(14:57):
them to tape the j you know, next next Friday
is July fourth. It is the fourth of July, and
so to give the folks, give the wrestlers and everybody
some time to enjoy the fourth, they're gonna tape SmackDown
that same night in Pittsburgh. So that's why Raw is
(15:18):
coming on so early on Monday. So SmackDown next week
will be taped in Pittsburgh because of the fourth. So
that's good, good move. That's good move for them, and
that's I like that. I don't mind that at all.
So one other note, and I so full disclosure. I
(15:40):
am not a gamer. I had problems with pac Man
way back in the day, so I am not a gamer.
But this was kind of cool. There is so WW
two K twenty five, the current version of their video game.
They are promoting a let's see if I can it's
a dunk and Destruction deal pack downloadable content I believe
(16:02):
that's what it's called that you can get. And part
of that pack they've got they've got Tyrese Haliburton from
the hand of that passers by the way, I mean, oh,
all the love to him. He tore his or you know,
or Injuredi's achilles during Game seven against the Thunder. Uh,
(16:23):
you just felt bad for him. I mean, congratulations to
the Thunder on winning the NBA championship, but man, you
just feel bad for Tyree's Aliburton. Anyway, he's gonna be
in there. There's several other NBA players in there and Abyss. Now,
if you're wondering, guess that is TNA icon. I think
(16:44):
he's a TNA Hall of Famer Abyss, He's he is
part of the downloadable pack. It's complete with janis that
that two by four of the nails that he would
carry as well as they use his entrance music from TNA. Now.
The the person that you know that was Abyss, Chris Park.
(17:08):
He is one of the producers on I Think It's SmackDown.
He's one of the backstage guys, you know, producers of
the matches. But it's kind of cool to see Abyss
come to life on the video game. And I saw
somebody put on social media put a clip and sure
enough it was. It was the theme music, and it
(17:30):
was so cool. I was, I was, I was happy
for Maybe Abyss was one of those you just had
you enjoyed watching He was just brutal, but it was
it was just so good. So so Abyss a TNA
icon part of a WWE video game. That's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool. When I come back from the break,
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I'll let talk a little ae W They had Grand
Slam Mexico at Arena Mexico. Talk about that and some
other things. Next on Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, This is
(18:12):
the International King of Swerve Swerve Strickland and this is
Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. Brot me back here on Sports
Guys Talking Wrestlings. Do myrick here? Uh? A E W
headed to Arena Mexico, the home of CMLL as they
(18:34):
called it the Cathedral of Lucci Libre. Uh if you
saw that last Wednesday, I mean it was it was
really cool. I mean, I got admit that was. It
was a great visual. The place was packed and they
did they did well by all the the CMLL wrestlers,
Myssedico and Moscowderrada and and all of them. It was
(18:58):
really neat. Uh. One of the results, Mercedes Mona is
now I think six belts bne she has captured the
cml A Women's World title from Zeusia Zouxia. Uh. Good match,
really good match. Mercedes mone captures the belt. Of course,
she is getting ready to face Tony Storm timeless Tony
(19:21):
Storm for the AEW World Women's World Title at all Lean, Texas.
But that was really cool. But yeah, it was really cool.
The entrance by Mystico was really nice. You know, the
fans just ate it up, did you hear? By the way,
so Misco in MJF MJF beats him and then takes
(19:42):
Mystico's mask off. I mean it's bad enough when they
do it, say just a random arena here in America,
but when you're there in c in Mexico, in CMLL's
home spot, and you take the mask of arguably one
of the most popular individuals in CMLL, I mean, all
(20:10):
the best, you know all you know, Max has got
some bravery and apparently there was a report that some
fans tried to get to him after the show at
the hotel or whatever. But you know, hey, that's you know, okay, sure,
but it was it was a fun night. They had
(20:32):
the they started the show up with a fourteen man tag.
They almost didn't have enough bring to get all fourteen
individuals on the apron but nevertheless, great show. Uh Saturday
Night Collision. So it was Okada taking on Mark Briscoe.
(20:53):
Great match. In the end, Ocata gets the victory. Don
Callis comes up, you know, talks about how Okada you
know Omega Omega is going to be all by himself,
he doesn't have any friends. Well, que Mark Briscoe's music.
It wasn't Mark Briscoll. He took on, Oh who was it? Okada?
(21:15):
And I forget anyway? Then Mac it was Mark brisco
and Okada faced each other in at you know, on Grandslid, Mexico.
So Mark brisco comes out, says, hey, I am one
of Kenny's friends, and here's another one, and outcomes none
other than his Golden Lover tag team partner Coda Ibushi.
(21:41):
And Coda looked fantastic. Now Coda has not been in
a ring in at least a year I think actually
almost close to eighteen months, but he looked fantastic. I
went to the ring, chased everybody off, gotten a little
fistic cups with Okada. Well, Ibushi apparently he is ready
(22:05):
to wrestle, and in fact, this Wednesday night on Dynamite
he's going to wrestle Trent burretta from the Don Kallis family.
So that should be a fun match. You'll be great
to see Kodoabushi back in the ring. Ah, so I
really call on that. Uh. Tony Kahn announced via social
media all in Texas, and as I said, yeah, I
(22:27):
think I said this. I say this on the Mark
Coke Show on Sunday k don FM KDWNF FM in
Las Vegas and worldwide on the Odyssey. App I said
this that you know, the pattern is usually so Tony
Kahan will start adding matches about two to three weeks
(22:47):
out from a pay per view. Well, we're about two
to three. We're about just under three weeks away from
all in Texas. One, two, three and a half weeks
maybe with three and a half weeks, so oh, sure enough,
we'll starting to hear a little bit. He did add
these there's gonna be a men's and women's casino gauntlet match. Now,
(23:12):
the casino gauntlet matches is like it is one of
the it's one of the really cool things that Tony
has come up with. There's gonna be a men's match
and a women's match. So basically and basically what it is,
it's a gauntlet match, but you don't know how many
people are gonna be involved, you don't know when it's
gonna end, because it's simply a matter of It's kind
(23:38):
of like they say a casino gauntlet, it's more like
a gauntlet meets a real rumble where you know, two
men start or two individuals start and then they'll bring
out additional at intervals until somebody gets the pinfall. So
(24:00):
you could have four, you could have six, could have ten,
you name it. And there's gonna be a women's gauntlets,
casino gauntlet, So that's gonna be something look forward to
at Global Ie Field in Arlington. So that should be
really cool. Good Old Jr. Jim Ross on his podcast
saying he is feeling better. He's got an appointment with
(24:25):
his doctor. I think next week. They want to make
sure they did get all of the cancer out. He
is still hoping to be a part of All In.
He wants to be there in Arlington, wants to call
him matter or two and you know, I think we
all hope he can be. I mean, it's it's Jim Ross.
(24:46):
He is the Hall of Fame voice of wrestling. You know.
For all the praise that Michael Cole is getting nowadays,
there's no Michael Cole without Jim Ross, simple as that.
So so all the best to Jim Ross and as
he continues to recover from you know, cancer surgery, hopefully
hopefully we will see him in Arlington. And one final note,
(25:08):
so they also did Ring of Honor tapings. In fact,
they did. They did the Ring of Honor Global Wars
brand that they used to run all the time, you
know in Europe and such. So they did the Ring
of Honor Global Wars tapings Ring of Honor versus CMLL,
and there was a match. It was Lee Moriarty taking
(25:30):
on Blue Panther. I think, and yes, it's gonna be it. Well,
I don't know if it's a spoiler or anyway, So anyway,
I think morilready gets the win, and then here comes
the rest of Shane Taylor Promotions to beat down on
Blue Panther. Well, then all of a sudden, the music
(25:50):
hits and it's none other then former Ring of Honor
World champion, former ae W World Champion, the A Mayor
and Dragon Brian Danielson. He comes down with a couple
other guys, you know, takes care of business, hits the
Butsyco knee on Shane Taylor, and the crowd just went nuts.
(26:14):
I mean, of course it's Brian Danielson. Now I don't
think this is like, this is not a precursor of
him coming back to the ring, but it was cool.
It was cool nonetheless to see it. So that's fun.
It's fun to see Brian Danielson make an appearance than
the Ring of Honor tapings there so good stuff. Like
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I said, All in Texas one two three and a
half weeks July twelfth, I planned to be there, planning
to be there for a Ring of Iron, Supercar of Iron,
planning to be there for Star Cast, and planning to
be there for All in Texas. More information coming as
we get closer to that big event. I'm gonna quit,
(27:02):
take a quick time out. When I come back, I'll
let you know what's happening in inpent wrestling around the
state of Texas. A couple more notes before we close
out this week's Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. Hey, this is
(27:27):
the Bad Bad Boy Joey Janella and you're listening to
the Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. Welcome back to Sports Guys
Talking Wrestling. Stud Myrick here. I got actually a few
(27:51):
cards to talk about this week in independent wrestling in Texas.
Starting in Houston, All Fury Pro Wrestling brings you Our
Flag Means Death Saturday at Houston Premier Arena, Bell time
seven thirty pm Central. Dimity alexandrov Ethan Hunter, Rachel Rose,
Just Nick and Moore. That's all Fury Pro Wrestling This
Saturday in Houston. Reality're Wrestling has Glory for and Heart
(28:16):
and Soul double taping Saturday at the Walker, Texas Lawyer
Arena in Texas City, bell time seven pm. WWE's Natalia
will be there, Edge Stone Promised, Braxton, Gena, Medina and Moore.
That's Reality You're Wrestling This Saturday in Texas City. Wrestling.
Revolvers has their Texas Title Tournament. They are going to
(28:37):
crown their very first Wrestling Revolver Texas Champion. That is
this Saturday at the MPX Event Center in Bedford, Bell
time APM Central. AJ Francis from TNA will be there. JD. Griffy, Vixen, Brick,
Savage and Moore. That's Wrestling Revolver this Saturday in Bedford.
And DFWL Pro Wrestling has tables, ladders, chairs and doors.
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Sunday at the Poor in Keller, Fell time five pm Central.
Lou Gotti will be there, Dylan Caven's Rook Tyler, Exodus
Prime and more. That's DFW All Pro Wrestling this Sunday
in Keller in the Metroplex. And that's a look at
independent wrestling around the state. Of Texas. Wherever you may be,
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go out and support independent wrestling. This is a big
deal of this wrestling Revolver. Sammy Callahan's promotion out of
the Midwest, so he's going to have a Texas Championship.
He frequently visits the Metroplex and so why not that
that'll be fun. And then Italia, we just saw her
(29:44):
go after the NWA Women's World title just a few
weeks ago. Now she's going to be at Reality of
Wrestling Booker T's promotion, So that's cool, That's very cool.
I mentioned last week the participants in this Summer's g
One Climax thirty five. We have two more they have qualified.
There were you know, there's there will be qualifying matches,
(30:06):
so they had two this past Sunday. I believe two
more will be on July fourth. Uh Drilla Maloney is qualified.
He'll be in Bleep B block. Callum Newman from United
Empire he will be in the A block. Two more matches,
(30:30):
as I mentioned, A block Oil had taken on Don Filet,
the former bad Luck Filet on July fourth, and B
Block Yoshi Hashi versus Chase Owens. Both those matches will
be on July fourth, so that will round out the
participants in the G One Climax. And I think from
membercrast said July nineteenth for the start of this year's
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G One Climax. So one other note, Moose has become
the second longest reigning X Division champion. I believe the
rain is now two hundred and twenty four days, second
longest behind Austin Ares. So congratulations Moose on his ability
to keep that title. He's had quite a few contenders.
(31:19):
He's got a contender coming up at Slammiversary, and so
I think it's leons later, so you know, we'll see
if Moose can continue holding on to that title. They'll
do it. For this week, Sports Guy is Talking Wrestling.
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