BIRD GIRLS BECKY BEATERS or TSUNAMIS FOR TWO (Wrestling Soup 7.29.25)

In this episode of Wrestling Soup, Mish dives into a variety of hot topics within the wrestling world. Joey is on vacation in Las Vegas, enjoying his time at the Whitney Houston slot machine. The show covers the fallout from Hulk Hogan's passing, and emotional homages to Hogan on both Friday Night SmackDown and Monday Night Raw. Mish also addresses the intense controversies surrounding Hogan's legacy, including the responses from various commentators and the extreme reactions on social media. The episode transitions into a recap of Monday Night Raw, including match highlights and promos from stars like Jay Uso, Bronson Reed, Paul Heyman, AJ Styles, and the Kabuki Warriors. It ends with a preview of the upcoming Summer Slam event and other content viewers can expect on the Wrestling Soup network. Join Mish for an in-depth review and commentary on the latest wrestling drama and storylines.
00:00 Introduction and Joey's Vacation
01:58 Reactions to Hulk Hogan's Death
06:57 Criticism of Hulk Hogan's Legacy
28:57 Jay Uso's Promo and Paul Heyman's Response
34:21 Mixed Match and AJ Styles' Performance
37:52 Seamus vs. Grayson Waller
41:25 Sev and Seamus: Rising Stars in the Ring
42:25 Naomi's Heel Turn: Embracing the Dark Side
44:16 Lyra's Painful Promo and Becky Stompers
49:42 Paul Heyman and Bronson Reed: A New Leader Emerges
51:01 Sammy Zane vs. Cross: A Battle of Truths
55:52 Bailey's Struggles and Future Prospects
58:02 Eight-Woman Tag Match: A Night of Surprises
01:04:03 Judgment Day Clubhouse: Pep Talks and Steam Decks
01:10:49 Gunther and CM Punk: The Addiction of Wrestling
01:13:32 Main Event: Bronson Reed vs. Jay Uso
01:20:28 Show Wrap-Up and Upcoming Events



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Wrestling for a make sure audience still doing the boys
wrestling soup or just the missionary position or just frank
not sure what to call it, but Joey. Joey's on
vacation this week. He's hopefully enjoying his time in Las
Vegas spending lots of money at the Whitney Houston slot machine.

(00:26):
So shout out to that. UH be kind of a
busy weekend, obviously, more fallout from the Hulk Hogan passing
and uh more interest about the aw lawsuit with John
Moxley coming forward. But of course we had Friday Night
SmackDown and Monday Night Raw where they paid homage to
Hulk Hogan, and Monday felt very different than Friday, Like

(00:49):
there was nothing wrong with the Friday tribute. I think
overall everything was handled well, but Monday felt a little
bit more emotional with the with the actual video packages.
I mean, I know, we had the ten bell salute
to start off both shows, and we saw people like
Heck Saujubduggan in the video package, Jimmy Hart and others.
And there's still a real big contention as to how

(01:10):
people feel about the passing of Hulk Hogan. Some of
it is absolutely insane. Right, I understand that Hulk Hogan
is seen, or I should say, Terry Boleya is seen
as a consummate racist. There's not really much you can
say about that. Obviously, it's true, he was unapologetic, and
there's a lot of people that will never forget him, obviously,
even in death. But some of the responses have been

(01:33):
completely insane. I have clips of some of it. I
got some of it from I don't know if you've
ever watched the Hodge Twins, but ever I watched them
every once in a while, the Conservative Twins, Hodge Twins,
they pulled up some I saw some myself going through
places like TikTok and Twitter, where people were actually celebrating
the death of Hulk Hogan, going so as so far

(01:55):
as to say that Black America is a better place
now because because Hulk Hogan isn't there to hold them back.
And I think that these kind of responses are they're
very petty, They're very odd and petty. Look, it's an
absolute shame that someone that was so beloved by so
many people turns out to have such an evil thought

(02:17):
or evil beliefs in his heart. Right for as much
money as Hulk Hogan made from all colors of people
under the sun, that gave him money, that paid money
to see his matches, that paid money to buy his merchandise,
that paid money to feed his family. It's amazing to
me that you would be elevated to that level by

(02:40):
the people that you hate. But in death, I saw
people flipping it and literally cheering, honestly cheering that he
was gone. And I don't know how that makes anyone. Look,
I don't understand. And a lot of like I was
speaking with casuals earlier, and a lot of this might

(03:00):
be performative. A lot of this might be people's need
for attention or clicks or rage bait. I guess I
don't understand that. Maybe I've aged myself out in that way,
but I just don't see the benefit of being a
person that rallies around someone dying and is happy that
other people feel sadness because someone has died. I recently

(03:24):
had a comment on a YouTube video that myself and
Joey were on and I spoke about how I, you know,
over the years when we were talking about some of
the crazy deaths in the two thousands, that I actually
cried for some wrestlers, and it's true, I did. I
absolutely did. I mean we're not talking big, weepy tears
or nothing. It wasn't like a grand display. But I

(03:44):
absolutely felt sadness for losing people that I idolized as a
kid or that I truly enjoyed, and I didn't feel
any shame with it. But that same thought process, that
same thought process where someone as actually listening to you
talk about these these moments and thinking to themselves, the
fuck is wrong with this guy? He feels sadness when

(04:06):
someone dies, and then they look at you like you're
the insane person for feeling that way. So I don't know,
I don't understand that. I don't understand that mentality, right,
Zane Viscious says, the point is, despite what Hogan did,
I didn't want him to die. I think we all
understood that Hogan was sick, right. We talked about that
a little bit on the previous two shows, And I
don't want to make this a big Hogan ordeal. I

(04:27):
was just kind of, you know, blown away by some
of the responses, some of the negatives on both sides too.
I mean, on the other side, the people that are
still drinking the Hulk Hogan kool aid? You have what
was it? The borders are Hoffman that named his dog
after Hulk Hogan named his mastiff, the one that hunts
the ones that he that he hunts with and kills with,

(04:49):
named it after Hulk Hogan. So yeah, you have it
on both sides. Both sides are a little crazy, right,
but it's just these extreme levels to I think that
either side looks good for doing this. Yes, absolutely, I
agree extremes everywhere. Have we heard from Brett Hart on this? No,
he might call it on the ship box, So well,

(05:10):
we'll find out. Although I don't think he's talking to
us anymore. Who knows, but we open up raw. I
think with the ten bell salute it was fine. I
don't think there was any real problems with it. I
know that there are still people that are opening up
like Oh, and this was another thing I wanted to
get to too, and I almost wanted to wait till
Joey got back, but at this point it would be

(05:30):
too late to read it next Tuesday or Thursday. But
there was an article right called I'm Glad Hulk Hogan
is dead on Giant Frickin' Robot and the guy who
wrote it was Drew Ditsch Dietschitz or something like that,
something German. And it's not a very long article. It's
about a two pager, right, but he goes into a

(05:52):
diet tribe about how the world is better now that
Hulk Hogan is dead, and I'll read some of it,
he said. Hulk Hogan, real name Tarry Blea, has died
at the age of seventy one. Hogan was best known
as the face of professional wrestling in the eighties thanks
to being the Golden Boy for the WWF, the predominant
American pro wrestling company headed by Vince McMahon, someone who

(06:12):
you should probably already have an opinion on if you
have any moral compass whatsoever. Over the following decades, Hulkogan
continue to be a prominent presence in the world of
pro wrestling, including a momentous stint in WCW as one
of the founding members of the New World Order Stable.
Hogan's persona and interpretation of a professional wrestler character would
end up as the definitive poster child for the art

(06:34):
of professional wrestling, The art of haven't we learned this
stick by now? The art carving out a stereotype that
has continued to persist in the minds of so many
people who have never even watched professional wrestling. Right, Hulk
Hogan was that for so many people. Hul Hogan was
many people's first interpretation of professional wrestling. Absolutely agree, he

(06:56):
might not be the only one. I would assume not.
I would asume, especially in the eighties, for many of
us that are my age and maybe even a little
bit younger, Guys like Andre the Giant were big news.
Guys like The Undertaker were big news. Guys like Roddy
Piper were big news guys like Rick Flair. So I'm
glad Hulk Hogan is dead because it's time to bury
that perception. Let me make something clear. Hulk Hogan was

(07:18):
a successful entertainer. There's no question that he was able
to channel the emotions of a crowd in a unique
way that only pro wrestling can do. If there's a
single nice thing that I can say about Terry Bolea,
it's that he could do his job when given every
advantage possible from his employers and screwing over every talented
wrestler in the back. That's a shitty compliment. That's the

(07:40):
only nice thing you can say about Hogan. That is
a shitty thing to say. Look, Joe and I even
brought it up as much as much weirdness and the
silly stories and lies that he told. I mean, even
beyond the racism, even beyond the gawker stuff with Bubba
and his wife like, he still did make a wish,
He still did how many fucking charities. The guy was

(08:01):
a mixed back anyways. But here's the thing. Haul Cogan
was never putting forth a best that pro wrestling can offer.
He was a simple performer that found a formula that
did everything he could to milk from it. He was
never as creative or technically sound in the ring as
peers like Macho Man, Randy Savage, Er Jake the Snake Roberts.
His character in Charsma never felt earnest or fleshed out

(08:22):
like Rick Flair Sting. Hal Cogan was always aiming for
the lowest common denominator and finding that mark over and
over and over again. You don't even need to stay
in the world of pro wrestling for evidence of the
low effort, the low quality art that Hulk Hogan put
into the world at which he highlights his movies like
Gremlin two, Suburban Commando, Santa with Muscles three, Ninja's High

(08:45):
Noon at Mega Mountain. Right, Well, it took The Rock
a few movies before people were on board with The Rock. Right.
It took John Cena quite a few movies before people
were on board with John Cena, and I dare say
most people aren't. I think a lot of people like
the John Cena characters. Peacemaker so and that's what's that.
I just saw that trailer drop the other day. Wrestlers

(09:05):
and movies on the most part, I don't know if
i'd blame that on Hulk Hogan. I mean, I guess
that's what this guy's trying to say, is that professional
wrestlers follow the rolling star of Hulk Hogan to making
bad movies. I would say many sports stars, not all,
but many sports stars were awful at acting. There's a

(09:26):
reason why Lou Frigno's best role was wearing green paint.
Hogan did have a few worthwhile appearances in movies while
he wasn't hogging the spotlight. His film debut and Rocky three,
painting him as a pretty boy lunkhead. It's pretty on point. Still,
it's not his attempts at cinema that will linger after
his death. It's the stink that he left on the
pro wrestling that we have to wrap up on. Even

(09:46):
when I was younger, the first interests and first interested
in professional wrestling, I never liked Hulk Hogan, not only
because he looked like a hot dog. Okay, that's fair.
I don't. I don't take anybody's defending Hulk Hogan's orange skin.
You know all the comments I saw, No one's like, hey, hey,
don't make fun of the brothers Tan Okay, no, fair enough,

(10:13):
because they looked like a hot dog someone left out
on the highway. But his whole shtick of brain dead
flag waving American nationalism never spoke to me. It spoke
even less to me as Hogan made his garbage political
beliefs and affiliations impossible to ignore as his social relevancy
began to dwindle. Man, you were thinking all that as
a child. Fuck, you were way ahead of me. Diached

(10:36):
to way ahead of me. I wasn't thinking about his
socio economic beliefs when I was in third grade. That's
how you could tell this article is bullshit. Oh yeah,
I don't like Hogan because you know all of his
American nationalism. Clearly he was a fascist in disguise. I
knew that. Like, that's the fuck smartest seven year old

(11:00):
right here today outside of the Sorry looking back, Hulk
Hogan's brand of pro wrestling doesn't just look antiquated, it's
practically neanderthal and both presentation and spirit. It's an empty
calorie meal of toxic machismo, not fit for the pig trough. Well,
I think a lot of people would say that about
McDonald's food too, but they seem to have made a

(11:22):
lot of money for themselves. Nobody goes to McDonald's and goes,
you know, give me the healthiest thing on your menu. Actually,
I think they got rid of the salads a long
time ago. They used to have those shaker salads. Some
genius said, hey, what if we put salad in a
cup and put the lid full of dressing and then
people can just shake it themselves for lunch. No, now

(11:44):
you just get steamed onions and fucking thirty three percent
meat burgers. But they made a lot of money. I
don't think anybody would deny that. People kept going back
to that horse trough, that pig trough looking today outside
of the view of the still Hogan esque WWE, pro
wrestling is thriving in its diversity of performers, stories in

(12:07):
ring ability, and stronger mentality. These elements were always there,
but were shouted down or out by Hulk Hogan and
others of his ilk in the industry. In many ways,
Hogan never cared about the art of pro wrestling. I
disagree wholeheartedly with that sentence. In every fucking way. I
think Hulk Hogan understood the art of pro wrestling way

(12:29):
better than some random columnist. I think Hulk Hogan understood it,
and it made him millions upon millions of dollars. It
made people that associated with him millions upon millions of dollars.
To sit there and say such an audacious claim that
Hulk Hogan never cared or understood the art of pro

(12:51):
wrestling is fucking insane and his shows short thoughts. A
lot of the views of younger fans now with what
the art of pro wrestling is is echoed by high
flying dynamics, things like the Young Bucks matches, a lot
of Lucha Libre style, even some Japanese style, and it's

(13:13):
like there are different types of wrestling in different parts
of the world, but people struggle to understand that these
different cultures have their own style, and American style is
absolutely based on the back of performance. It is absolutely
created on the backs of larger than life characters and

(13:34):
larger than life cinematic moments. Vince McMahon understood this and
destroyed the territories and built the WWF up into a
TV show that people raved for. And Hulk Hogan was
that star. Hulk Hogan was the American was it the
American Eagle jeans girl of wrestling? It's insane. Look, even

(14:00):
if you don't like Hogan, it is an insane statement
to say that he did not understand pro wrestling. There
are plenty of people that we will never know the
names of or have forgotten the names too, that truly
never understood pro wrestling and went penniless in that business.
Those are the people you should associate with not understanding

(14:22):
pro wrestling. But a guy synonymously as this person said,
was the poster child and the face of pro wrestling
for decades is probably not the same person. You should
attach a statement like that too. Anyways, he goes on
and he said he only cared about what pro wrestling
could do for Hulk Hogan. As such, it meant that
he needed to be continually reaffirmed the idea that Hulk

(14:45):
Hogan is pro wrestling. Every time he stepped on the stage.
That formed a picture of pro wrestling in many people's
heads that wasn't actually an accurate representation of the art
forms wide and wondrous potential. I think Hulk Hogan would
have liked that, but I don't think that you can
openly say that every fan that saw Hulk Hogan match went,
oh shit, that's what pro wrestling is. Pretty sure a

(15:07):
lot of people didn't. Case in point, I was a
bigger Ultimate Warrior fan, and he wasn't a great wrestler either.
I don't understand. This just feels like angry energy for
the sake of angry energy. Oh I loved I loved Warrior,
but Warrior wasn't a great wrestler. Scott Warrior was. Yes,
Warrior was crazy, right, Jim Hellwig. Actually Warrior was his

(15:31):
real name. It was he legally changed. Of course, we
all know that, so calling him Warrior is probably probably
more accurate than calling him Jim Helwig at this point. Anyways,
he goes that for him to Picture Plus Sorry, and
now he's headed for the fertilizer factory. We can finally
unshain the albatross of Hulk Hogan from around pro Wrestling's neck.

(15:52):
Lovely visual. He was never the real optimum ambassador for
pro wrestling. You just thought he was because he's the
one they kept shoving in your face and down your throat. Hi,
all right, Yes, it's called marketing. They loved to market
Hulk Hogan, and Hulk Hogan loved to be marketed. Hulk

(16:13):
Hogan put his face on everything anything.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
What.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Hul Hogan did that with or without wrestling, This article
would have meant more. That sentence would have meant more
if when Hulk Hogan wasn't in wrestling, he just sat
at home twiddling his thumbs. But that's not true, that's bullshit.
We all know that even without the WWF influence, Hulk

(16:40):
Hogan was still out there peddling his ass for attention,
for money, for anything. And he did it with his
kids too. The Hull Hogan's the Brook or entire music career.
He had to be a part of it. He had
to be a part of everything that had nothing to
do with Vince or WWF for the art of pro wrestling.
That's who Terry was. Terry marketed Hulk Hogan, with or

(17:04):
without wrestling. Hogan knows best, right, thank you. I came
to bury Hulk Hogan, but his body of work and
the legacy he leaves is Terry will do that a
lot better than I ever could. I think he did
a real shit job of burying Hulk Hogan. I think
Hulk Hogan or Terry wasn't buried at all in your article.
In fact, it made you sound kind of stupid, like

(17:25):
you didn't understand what pro wrestling is you. This person
must think that pro wrestling is nothing but the moves
in the ring. It's nothing but the flash in the ring,
and I dare say least in the American style, that
might be twenty percent of it. I wish I had
a Joe here or lou here to straighten me out
on this, but I think we've all seen it where

(17:47):
a good catchphrase, a good look, a good character will
take you way further than any in ring talent will
way further. Oh, I'm not sure of his age. He
looks like a middle aged man. There's a pick sure
of the guy. Yeah, I tried to look up his Twitter,
but it's either banned or blocked or just just taking
off the internet. I don't know, but there he is.

(18:09):
I thank you, Scott, you found Diitch Diitch. I don't
know that's that's gotta be German. I'm not sure anyways.
I think the article was bad, but this is another
case of somebody's initial reaction to Hulk Hogan's death just
saying things for clicks and not really understanding the point.
There are a lot of fans that felt betrayed by
the man. I got a personal a couple of personal

(18:31):
messages about people explaining why they felt betrayed by Hulk Hogan,
about why they don't like Hulk Hogan, and you know,
not necessarily like they were cheering that he was dead
like some fucking social media influencers. But they were fine
with his passing. And that's that's their funt, that's their feelings,
that's their emotion, and I understand that too. But let's

(18:51):
get back to let's get back to raw. I really
don't know what else to say about the Hulk Hogan stuff.
Like I said, it's it's been a lot, it's not
going to stop. I don't think that that's a case
at all. I think the I think the Hulk Hogan
stuff is going to continue for a while. I know
we heard from Linda which I was genuinely surprised that
she kept her shit together. I really was. I know
me and Joe were talking about that that she was

(19:12):
going to go on the apology tour of the sadness tour,
but she seemed to just kind of miss him and
fond over the better times that they have. You're not wrong,
mister money. Mister money says it's going to be the
same when Vince dies. I think. I don't know, because
a lot of people felt, again, whether performative or not,
a lot of people felt that Hulk Hogan was the

(19:34):
voice of racism. There were posts that quite literally implied
that now that Hull Hogan is dead, black people's lives
were going to get better. And I think they were
giving Hulk Hogan way too much credit or they just
didn't understand. It's it's a wild place. But Vince doesn't
really have that attached to him now. The Janelle Grant stuff,

(19:58):
I mean that that might be another way that people
take it. It might just come straight out and might
be just you know, hate all men. Vince McMahon was
that toxic maleness. Look he worked with Hugh Hefner, of
course he was evil in the same way that they
paired Donald Trump and Hulk Hogan again, although Vince McMahon

(20:18):
worked with Donald Trump too, so maybe it is a
double whammy. I'm not sure. I think racism is a
much bigger hot button than where Vince is at as
far as the pro wrestling world. I think there will
still be extremists either way, if that's what you're implying.
I think there will be people that will ride or
die with Vince even after he's gone. Say, Vince was
the greatest of all time. He never did a fucking

(20:40):
thing wrong. I'm still sniffing his chair. And I think
you're gonna have a lot of other people, and more importantly,
a lot of wrestlers that may come out and start
sharing how they really felt about Vince McMahon. I saw
that post too on our YouTube as well, that a
guess Mish never got his chance to hear Hulk Hogan
talk about Vince after he passes, and I was very

(21:01):
adamant on that. I really really wanted to hear how
Hogan would have addressed it, would he have been gracious
about it, or would he taken the attention of millions
of people wanting to hear what hul Cogan had to say.
But Vince McMahon on the other on the other hand,
was very gracious about hul Cogan's passing, as he should be.
It was very simple about it. So anyways, on to Raw.

(21:23):
I had a good feeling going into Raw. Once you
get past the hul Cogan stuff, I thought, thanks Chalk
and shout out to Chocolate. Chocolate, of course, is one
of the guys that works with us on the discord.
He works by the scenes. He has a dose of
chocolate the show, and he also did many of the
episodes of Evolve. When obviously he gets healthy and comes back,

(21:43):
he'll continue that along with Jeff Lippmann. He recently had
heart surgery and it's been going in and out of
the hospital quite regularly. Complications therein. But we get past
the hull Cogan tribute to the ten bell salute, and
there was a couple of moments too. They had video
package towards the middle of the show that had Jimmy
Hart on it, and Jimmy Hart makes me sad too.

(22:05):
I listened to Jim Cornett's thoughts on the passing of
Hulk Hogan. Him and Brian Last did an amazing job.
I thought they broke it down quite well, even though
they weren't and even though Jim Jim said that he
really didn't have any real problems with him, they weren't
glossing over the fact of what he said and what
he did. But Jay Uso gets on the mic. We
open up the show with Jay us getting on the mic,

(22:27):
and before he can't before he can't say anything, which
is pretty apropos, Paul Hayman comes out, does his stick
and pretty much tells him that family is family's worthless.
Family lies to you. He talked about Santa Claus. He
asked Jay if ri keish he ever, told him that
he wanted to be more iconic than he was, and
over and over again, Paul Hayman kept bringing up the

(22:49):
fact that your parents and the people closest to you,
all they do is lie. And Jay is standing in
the ring making faces and I don't know, he looks
like he's pained, like somebody's punching him in the stomach.
The whole time it was kind of silly, and Paul
wraps up his promo by saying that I love you
because we're family, hammering the point home that everybody that

(23:10):
tells Jay he loves them is lying. And I thought
that was pretty clever. That was a little cerebral from
the mind of Paul Hayman, which he's very good at being.
And Jay Usso then grabs the microphone out of breath,
completely out of breath. He's been standing still and shivering
for the last five minutes while Paul Hayman runs him
down and runs down the audience, and he's just you're

(23:33):
just out of breath, completely fucking blown up, and he
starts mumbling stuff, We're gonna run it back something something,
four words, mumble, yeat and then microphone of the audience
and I'm part of family and family something. It was awful.
I kind of hope that Jay was drunk, because that
was one of his worst promos in a long time.

(23:55):
I barely understood what the fuck he said, and everything
that he said had no substance. It's amazing how much
Detroit fucking loved him. Holy shit, if that crowd didn't
care for Jay Usso, that whole thing would have fallen flat.
It was bad. I don't know why he saw out
of breath. He couldn't finish a thought. He was rambling,

(24:18):
and I thought that Paul Hayman was actually going extra slow.
Like if you go back and watch the way that
Paul Hayman was delivering that promo, it was very methodical,
it was very paced out. Everything was slow and calm,
and in that Paul Hayman mechanic, that demeanor that he has,

(24:39):
and Jay Usso was being given time by Paul Hayman
to figure out something to say. And he went down
and made fun of Santa Claus and he went down
and he talked about how Roman Reigns doesn't want him
to be champion, and he went down and made fun
of his father.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Don't make fun of my momo.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Really, Uso is a hack. Jay Uso is a absolute
fucking hack. I don't know how you can be main
events Jay Usso and not be able to one on
one a promo against a guy like Paul Hayman who
makes it easy. He is a fat, bald Jewish guy

(25:19):
hiding behind other people. He is a quite literal punching
bag of jokes for you to take out of his
ass and Jay Usso couldn't think of anything. And he's
the professional. It's one thing when a schlub like me
or anybody on my level was to try and take
out Paul Hayman, that's an undertake it. But Jay Uso

(25:40):
is getting paid millions of dollars to be on our
TV every week and he can't think of something besides
being out of breath. Awful, just fucking awful. Billions and
billions we got the crowd was chanting bullshit to Paul Hayman,
which was funny the crowd. The crowd had a better
promo than Jay Usso did because Jay Usso is like, Oh,

(26:01):
I'm so flustered by your mean comments, Please stop saying them. Paul,
You're hurting my fiefees. And the crowd's like, nah, Jay,
that's bullshit. And they chanted it so that he could
get his spine back, and he still couldn't figure it out.
That crowd was gracious to j Usso. J Usso needs
to build a house in Detroit for the amount of

(26:23):
love that he was given. On Monday night, we had
aj styles coming out afterwards. We got the inter the
intergender or cross gender? What is the appropriate way to
title this match multi gender match between aj Styles and
the Kabuki Warriors, Oscar and Kyrie versus the Judgment Day

(26:45):
of Dominic, Raquel and Roxanne. Mixed match. That's what it is,
mixed match. We don't call them intergender matches anymore. Fetish fetish.
I loved this match. I really did. On a the
matches on Monday were fun. I don't think I had
a problem with any one of the matches. They all

(27:07):
had something to contribute. AJ Styles was really elevated in
this match. He looked like a million bucks him getting
in there and mixing it up with Dominic. Obviously for
the win too. He had the big ending, the big win,
but they kept him at bay. He was like a
rabid dog out there, pacing up and down the outside
of the ring looking for a chance to just fuck

(27:30):
with Dominic. It was great, the energy was high. Rock
Sand made another couple of mistakes, and I swear I
know Joey is unsure of it, but I'm telling you
she's doing that shit on purpose. She is purposely making mistakes.
So her character is less than live. So her character

(27:51):
isn't the strongest, it's the weakest link of the judgment day,
things like her trying to charge Rio Ripley or I'm
sorry not Rio Ripley. Oh my god, I'm messing up
two different things. But she was charging what was it
Oscar and Oscar moved out of the way. Anyways, it
was a fun match. It was very explosive, absolutely good.

(28:11):
Hyrie was a bit of the weak link. I didn't
like the fact that there were a couple of points
in the match where Kyrie needed a setup and everybody
else was very fluid, right Like it was fluid when
rick Kel used Roxanne and threw her, it was fluid
when Oscar was in the ring. It was fluid with

(28:32):
the back and forth with AJ and Dominic. But the
weird team up stuff with Oscar and Kyrie just doesn't
land for me. Kyrie, there was a moment where she
was making the big jump to the outside of the
ring and AJ was going to flip her outside the ring.
It felt like they were there for thirty seconds, forty
seconds waiting for Kyrie to find her girl balls just

(28:53):
to do that spot. And it's like, dude, in that time,
they could have moved on the outside. Rikel could have
moved I don't know. But yeah, aj Styles and the
Kabookie Warriors won the match via pinfall with the phenomenal
forearm from Styles to Dominic mystereo, we call him Transorgis.
Is that what these matches are called? Anna, trans Orgi's

(29:13):
because I think you'd get a lot more viewers if
he started calling any of these matches orgies, just saying
we go. So in the back, we got Seamus talking
to Jackie, right, Jackie Redmond, the one with the crazy eyes,
and Seamus is talking about, you know, giving Rusev some
comeuppance from last week, when he's interrupted by Grayson Waller

(29:34):
and his new backup, the New Day and Grayson what
do they call him now, g money? What is Grayson
GW something like that, g ewnitt. So Grayson calls the
New Day the greatest tag team Champions of all time?
GG big G. Yeah, big G. There you go, and
he gets in Seamus's face and Seamus kind of cuts

(29:56):
him off and he's like, oh, you want to scrap
and Grayson's like yeah, like you want to fight and
Grayson's like yeah, and fucking Seamus goes off on. Character Wise,
Seamus is so comfortable now being Shamus that it is
an absolute delight to listen to him school people on
the microphone. It is the weirdest thing to say. Seamus

(30:19):
is comfortable, he's funny, he's poignant. He goes off on
Grayson saying, well, that's the best news I've heard all day, fella,
and he's like, there's a reason why my matches are
banger after banger after banger, and he starts pointing at
the new day behind Waller and Seamus trails off in
the distance and they turned back to Waller and he

(30:41):
looks behind him and fucking Woods and Kofe are nowhere
to be seen. They ditched the motherfucker. I was like,
that's great. No, we would not have set this five
years ago. Well, actually five years ago is when it
started to be fair the stuff with him and Drew.
Five years ago something broke in Shamous Andrew that started
them understanding how to appeal to their audience. I think

(31:06):
both of these men have had miraculous comebacks from some
of the lowest points of their career. But Grayson, Waller
and Seamus the ring, another fine match, another fine match,
and even though it was interrupted a little bit by Russev,
Seamus still got the win, and it was a banger
after banger. It was brutal. Seamus tarred and feathered Grayson

(31:29):
Waller and it was fun to watch. He had Waller
on the ropes at one point and was just beating
his chest in while pointing to the crowd like he's
calling a home run. It was fucking hilarious. Just beating
the shit out of Grayson Waller was very therapeutic. It
was funny and I enjoyed it. And the aftermath of

(31:52):
Russev coming down there with the sale lee and using
the schalley on Seamus after the match was everything you
wanted to be. Choked him out, broke his back, made
him humble. Fantastic, fantastic. Give me more Russev and Seamus.
These are the killers I want to see in a ring.
Russev is absolutely stepping up, and I know that they're

(32:13):
only giving him little bits at this point. I still
think they need to change the music. I don't know.
I want the old Russian music back, the Bulgarian brute
music back, I want that back in full. But I'm
fine with this. These two guys can go out there
and kill each other and I will pay for that
match all day yes, I agree, Russev is a slow drip.

(32:33):
It's gonna be fucking great when he finally blows up
and it's coming. I really think that when they finally
get to the head, to the fucking giant pimple esque
head of this feud and it pops, Russev is going
to be thrust back into main event action go from there,
and Naomi is backstage, and Naomi's kind of leaning into

(32:54):
her gimmick as well. I saw a lot of mixed
reactions from comments on the show on the podcast, as
well as fixed reactions about Naomi on our YouTube page.
But I think Naomi's doing just fine. Think I think
the laugh is a little forced. If you hear it,
you know what I mean. She forces the laugh. But
she's coming off pretty comfortable in this heel role. As

(33:14):
weeks go by, she's adapting and she's overcoming whatever problems
she was having as a babyface cutting a promo. She
gets a little urban on the mic sometimes and I
like it. It fits her, it fits her, and she
does a good job with it. She's throwing shorthands out
to all the women on the roster and she's talking
about how the haters are once again going to be

(33:36):
foiled when Summer Slam comes around. It's a cautionary tale,
she said, and I loved that. So now she's using
puns with her catchphrase. And she was in a match
tonight and there were people that were finishing her proceed
with caution. It was just a smattering, but Detroit absolutely
finished her sentence for her. And I'm like, that's how

(33:58):
you know it's going to work because the crowd is
already doing the She says proceed and everybody else says
with caution. So I'm not saying she's at Lyra Valkyria
bird Girl levels yet, but she's getting there. Naomi's learning
real quick. And speaking of Lyra.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
I am Lyra Valkyria. And these these are more than
just my big shoes. These are my Becky stompers.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
In two weeks, in one week, I will be standing
here as your first ever two time Women's Intercontinental Champion,
or or I will have failed and I will never

(34:56):
again be able to challenge for the title as long
as Becky is champion. Actually, if that happens, there's a
good chance I won't be standing at all, because Becky
is going to have to beat me into the ground
if she wants to walk out of Summer Slam with

(35:17):
that title. Look, I already know that Becky doesn't like
to play by the rules. In fact, that's the only
reason that she was able to beat me for the
championship in the first place.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
So why is that?

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Fine?

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Let's try it her way.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Can't break the rules if there were no rules to
be broken, right, some of you guys, you might think
that I'm playing right into her hands. But the thing
you need to understand is I've seen everything that Becky
Lynch has ever done.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
I know exactly what she's capable of.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
In this type of matchup, but she doesn't know what
I'm capable of.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
In fact, I'm not even.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Sure if I know what I'm capable of. All I
know is I am prepared to go to a place
that I have never gone before.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
It, Dear Lord, that was painful. She doesn't know when
SummerSlam is, and she's proud of her baby blue super
sneakers with like the extra padding, so she looks like
she grew four inches. I they almost look like they're
for people that have like corrective foot issues. It's the

(36:38):
kind of shoes that you put on somebody that doesn't
know how to walk right. They're like medicinal shoes. They're
not flattering, they look awful. You trade it in the wings.
She didn't come out with wings. She came out with
like a baby blue mini skirt or a folded towel
or whatever the hell that was, and corrective shoes. She
is the slow woman in the women's Divisi. Clearly, she's

(37:01):
just letting you know. Anyways, after that wonderful promo, Becky's
music hits and Lyra gets crazy and pulls out a
kendo stick and starts beating the hell out of Becky
till the kendo stick breaks, and Becky doesn't really say
much and just kind of talks shit as she walks
up the ramp. It was very, very bad, and I
want to know. I genuinely want to know, because both

(37:24):
myself and Joe have been receiving that Alexa Bliss level
of hate lately because of our thoughts on Lyra, Like
we just don't understand what a fucking gem she is.
How do you not respect the greatest women's wrestler in WWE.
I don't see it. I don't see it. I just

(37:44):
don't see it. Someone educate me tell me what it
is about Lyra Valkyria that makes her the best at
anything other than making people's pillows get a little crusty.
But they love her. Man, they will fight for Lyra.
I got some tough guys out in the social media world.
They will fight for Lyra. They won't give me forty

(38:06):
grand for it, but they will fight for it. So
we get past that fucking shit break. Oh sorright phone,
Maybe it was somebody calling to tell me how they're
gonna kick my ass for Lyra. I should have picked
I should have picked it up, should have taken it,
said I. Tough guy. Fucking asshold. So then we get
we come back from break. There's some Hulk Hogan stuff,

(38:27):
obviously more tribute and they have the they replay some
of the stuff that they did on Friday. But they
get to Paul Hayman chatting it up with Big Bronson
Redbackstate and they're psyching him up, and Paul says that
Jay Usso's family thinks that with Seth Rollins gone, that
they're a group without a leader. And then bron Breaker
just kind of meanders in. He just slides in. He's like, Wow,

(38:51):
we got one, we got a leader. What are you
talking about? I'm the leader And Bronson almost has this
look on his face like, oh wait, what when did
that happen? But he's straightens up real quick. Bronson Reid
says that he's gonna basically kill Jay and tsunami Jay
and the rest of the family, anybody that comes out,

(39:12):
They're all getting tsunami. Everybody's getting a fucking tsunami. Bronson
Reid is going to take business by the end of
the night. Oh that might have happened before it, my bet. Anyways,
so we have a sit down interview with Corey Graves
and Sammy's ain and Corey and Sammy kind of talk
about Cross and long story short, Cross shows up tells

(39:32):
Corey to hit the bricks, and Cross thought about jumping
in there and just beating the shit out of them
with the pipe again. But he's really upset at the
fact that Cross has been able to get everybody to
show their true colors except for Sammy, and that irritates them,
that pisces them off. And he told Sammy that when
he beats his acid SummerSlam, all he wants is that
Sammy to say that Cross was telling the truth, that

(39:54):
Cross was right all and he tosses the pipe into
Sammy's hands because at this point, well Cross wants is
Sammy to be dastardly. He wants Sammy to be a
piece of shit because he knows Sammy's a piece of shit.
Even though Sammy has turned into this consummate, dumb good guy,
Cross knows deep down that Sammy is just a fucking

(40:18):
piranha waiting to happen. And Sammy flips it and says, no,
when I beat you at Summer Slam, I just want
you to say that you were wrong. And Cross seems
to kind of take it at stride like he's thinking
about it, and we kind of moved past from that.
But interesting set up for what it is. I think
Cross is doing some of his best work. I know

(40:39):
people aren't completely on board, and hell, obviously, my former
co host Kevin Castle loved Cross thoroughly and saw things
in him that I had not seen. And if these
are some of the promos and the reactions, because there
was little things that Cross was doing and Sammy too,
but mostly Cross. In this promo that he does facially,
there's like a little tick that the guy has in

(41:02):
his eye. He's able to make one of his eyes
bigger and smaller at the same time, and not in
the rock way with the weird eyebrow shit like. Cross
genuinely comes off as a guy who's unhinged. And the
thing that I like about the way he delivers his
promos where everybody else feels scripted. We just heard that

(41:22):
awful lyra promo where she may as well just have
been reading off of a que card. Cross, even if
it is a scripted promo, he emphasizes it in such
a way that it feels like he's casually talking to you.
He's talking off the cuff, and that adds believability to
the badass story that Cross is trying to tell, and

(41:43):
I enjoy that. And Sammy, with his Canadian side, with
his good guy side, is telling this story of an
up and a good guy. He's thoroughly a good guy.
He sees the light. He doesn't want to resort to
underhand into tactics to do what his talent can absolutely

(42:04):
do in the ring, and I love the dynamic. I
love the fact that Cross is still playing. And I
hate to say it because I make the comparison and
I know other people have as well, But the shan
O'Hair devil's advocate position. But that is what a twenty
twenty five version of that character looks like. It is
absolutely Cross. So I'm enjoying this. I'm looking forward to

(42:26):
their match on Saturday or Sunday, I'm not sure yet.
I know we just did the predictions on Friday. We
just post them earlier today if you haven't had a
chance to check them out yet. It was fun to
do myself in Joe ran down the card for what
we do. I don't think there's going to be anything
else added to it feels pretty full, but we'll see. Anyways,
we come back from a commercial break. Yeah, no, Deck

(42:46):
Cross resign his contract. I don't know. That's still up
in the air too, right, That's something that's been stirring
in the background. What is it up in August? I
think it's August. They haven't re signed yet, or at
least they haven't publicly resigned yet. Back from commercial, Bailey
is interviewed. She talked that she talked about losing the

(43:06):
IC and the Women's Tag Team Championship opportunities, she missed
WrestleMania and now she's not a part of Summer Slam
and she has no idea what the fuck she's going
to do, and she kind of walks off. She does
the incredible Hulk at the end of the road, sad
music plays. Honestly, I know a lot of people love Bailey.
I am fine with this. I am fine with Bailey leaving.

(43:29):
I'm coming back at Royal Rumble. I am totally fine
with that. Take her off my TV. Stop wasting my time.
Bailey needs to rediscover herself and come back with something good.
Not saying she's a bad wrestler, not even saying she's
a bad promo. I'm saying in the same way that
a lot of people were tired of Corey Graves, because
Corey Graves was tired, I think Bailey is tired. Give

(43:52):
the girl a break, Litter, disappear for a little bit longer, litter, rejuvenate,
find yourself, Maybe sip a couple of mic ties off
a beach. I'm not sure whatever it is Bailey needs,
because this version of the Bailey Becky Lyra thing has
been a waste of time. The fallout with Damaged Control
has been a waste of time. Bailey is not a

(44:13):
headliner and it shouldn't be that way. That is where
my feelings come from. Bailey is far more capable of
being a better entertainer than what she's presented to us lately.
And if this is a way of writing her off
of TV for a bit and having her quote unquote
discover herself, Bravo, kudos, let it be, because if she

(44:36):
comes back at Summer Slam just to fuck over Lyra,
I'm going to hate that storyline even more. Chelsea Green,
Naomi and the Secret hervis Alba Fire and Piper Nevin
versus Eosky, Nikki Bella, Rhea Ripley and Stephanie va Kerr,
which one of those is not like the others. I'll
be honest, man, Eo Sky, Real Ripley and Stephanie v

(44:58):
Kerr are a killer feel stable together. They are killers together.
They fucking work. And then they bring out Nicki and
I'm just like, ah a Nicki. Nicki was that older
lady at the bar that has twenty year old friends.
You got you got three smoking hot twenty year olds, right,

(45:24):
and then nick Nicky's rolling up in her late forties
with a kid and all going, I'm still hot participation
trophy and look, Nicki is attractive, right, I get it.
There's a lot of people that find Nicki Bella absolutely
dropped dead gorgeous, and that's fine, but when you're comparing

(45:45):
her on the level of people half for age, I
don't know, man, just it looked wonky. It looked wonky
cause she's I don't know, I guess I don't see
Nicki Bella as attractive as other people do, right, So
maybe for other people, that was the dream team on Monday,
maybe the dream team was Nikki Bella and Stephanie of

(46:06):
a curve back to back, that was their dream team.
Because on the other side of things, like, let's put
it this way, if they replaced all the fire with
Trish Stratus, I mean, wou Tris Stratus would have brought
down the group. Absolutely not. The match was fantastic. Usually
the six women tags, right, or I'm sorry, the eight

(46:28):
woman tags, any of these these big tag matches can
kind of be a mess. But this was a lot
of fun. There was a lot of fun spots. Man,
Naomi loves her knees. There was a point too where
I forgot who it was she had on the ropes.
I think it might have been EO, and she dropped
EO with like a jumping tombstone off the ropes. Corey

(46:52):
Graves and Michael Cole didn't even name it. They didn't
even say anything about it. They just got past it.
And I'm watching it and I'm like, Jesus Christ, guys,
that was a crazy looking fucking move. What's it called?
Nothing crickets. I was like, Okay, that's that's fantastic, guys.
There there was a point where Piper Nevine took control.

(47:13):
I She has kind of been left in the background
for a while now for whatever reason. In this match,
her and Alba Fire did great. Piper. Piper played the
big girl role finally, she wasn't on the defense the
whole time. She was finally giving offense. There was a
point where EO and Nikki were doing the the EO

(47:35):
fucking cheer or whatever, and Piper is in the background.
She's kind of blurry and they're doing the what a
that fucking thing? Right, And Piper comes up and clubs
both of those bitches in the back. She just takes
them both down, and then the crowd focuses on Piper
and Piper does the like in a stupid way, and

(47:55):
the crowd actually popped for Piper. And I thought it
was great. It was funny as hell, her mocking EO
and Nicki Bella. There was a point where all the
fires highlighted match was when she took what was it,
Rio Ripley. She shoved Chelsea Green out the way and
she just took the hit. She just sacrificed herself and
I'm like, that is great, that's great wherewithal she was

(48:17):
in a lot of that match. She did a great
job there. It was one of those moments that you
never hear anybody really going, oh, all the fire did
a great job. She did a great job in that match.
The Devil's Kiss by Stephanie Verkerr was timeless. It was
absolutely funny listening to Michael Cole and Corey Graves go
I'm fucking married, fucking married. I can't watch this. It's

(48:40):
like Jesus, guys, be professionals. Watch the girl with the
big booty drop. The other girl with the big booty
I think was Chelsea Green was getting it. So there's
a lot of booty in that shot. And Corey Graves like,
I'm married. Coldwater babe, Ruth, you know cold showers. Yeah,
that's right. We need Booker Ashley He's like, I can't
do Booker justice. Well, Booker says it from the heart. Corey,

(49:02):
that's why you know. Charmel has ads to say something
like geez, honey, what a put your tongue back in.
But I enjoyed it. I thought everybody did a great
job in this match, which is weird to say, but
EO Niki Riha and Stephanie Winn via pinfall after Kerr
gets the pin on Chelsea and then they go into

(49:24):
the Judgment Day clubhouse where Finn and Forehead are standing
there while we're cal and Dominic and Rock Sann are
all They're lounged out on the couch looking down, looking sad.
It's a very sad day in the Judgment Day clubhouse,
and Finn Balor is giving them a pep talk because
four Head told him to, and Finn's like, oh, stop

(49:45):
looking like a bunch of fucking losers. We're all wearing gold.
They told us after we lost Rio Ripley, the Judgment
Day was finished. After we lost Priest, the Judgment Day
was finished. And Forehead's like dead they told us we
were dead, and Finn Balor, what a great job they did,
And Dom's like can I help? Can I do something?

Speaker 4 (50:05):
Finn?

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Can I do anything? And Finn just basically verbally taps
him on the head, pats him on the head and says, no,
why don't you play some video games or something in
a real condescending tone, which, of course Domin's like, okay,
that's great, and I think. Roxanne then pulls out a
steam deck. I wonder if that's with her with the
thousands of delisted games, but she pulls out a steam

(50:27):
deck and hands it to dom and Dom's like, is
this for me? And Roxanne is like, yeah, it's for you.
He's like, really, it's mine. She's like yeah, And then
Roxanne's like, maybe we could play some some WWE on there,
little action, little little guy girl action on there, and
kel Cock blocks and says, hey, you know who loves
video games? Live in Dominic in true fashion, turns around like, oh,

(50:51):
can we FaceTime live? We could play with live too,
And there was a there was a hint on Roxanne's
face once again, it's like these are these her tiny
little single frame moments like that picture of Raquel giving
Dominic the nuggies, and then the eye contact was just
fucking perfect where rox Anne does like that flittery eye thing,

(51:14):
like the ugh gross, but immediately shifts it to pleasure,
like oh yeah, we'll get live like that fakeness. And
it's like there is a story here, and obviously Michael
Cole was talking about it during their match earlier, how
the love train is on board and here comes Juliet
and Cole is really selling up the idea that Dominic

(51:36):
and Roxanne are absolutely gonna be banging, that they be banging,
but Dominic is playing the role of I don't know
what you mean, which is funny because that's the same
exact shit that happened with Rio Ripley and Live Morgan
when Liv Morgan was swaying Dominic and Rhea and everybody
else like Davian Priest are like, dude, she's trouble, and
Dom's like, I don't know what you mean. We're just friends.

(51:57):
She likes giving me things. I like getting things. What
a great gal. Roxanne is basically pulling out the old
Live Morgan handbook on Live Morgan. So anyways, I've given
this a lot of time. I enjoyed the judgment, I
enjoyed tom and we go over to back from the commercial.
We've got the four girls celebrating Nicki, EO, Ria and
Stephanie and Nicki and Stephanie and Rihea go to walk off,

(52:21):
but EO grabs Ria Ripley's hand, and you could tell
Nicki didn't know what the fuck was going on because
her leg was still in the shot for like an
extra long period of time, like she had stopped walking,
but she was still on screen anyways, because she was
supposed to walk off screen so that they could focus
in on EO, Sky and Ripley having a promo. And

(52:44):
Ria basically says, look, I know we're friends and shit,
but at Summer Slam, I'm going to have to take
you out. I'm sorry, that's just what it is. And
EO's EO's delivery is still fantastic to me. I like
the fact that she's always smiling because she's not smiling,
she's showing teeth something I to say a long time ago,
but that's what she's doing. And EO says, you've never

(53:04):
beaten me, and you never fucking will. I'm just like, okay,
I mean, we are definitely setting the tone for this.
It's gonna be great. We got Finn Balor and Jad
McDonough out there with the LWO Orro and Wild Joaquin
for the World Tag Team Championship. They give this one
the big match feel. They got Alisha the Great Alisha
Taylor out there, Tyler Taylor Jesus, which I thought it

(53:27):
was wild that Cole was calling her that, but he
called her the great. They do the cinematics with both teams,
focus on the titles once again, big match feel. Little
things like this with production look great, feel great. The
match was fast, it was fine. It was fine. It
was fast. Not my favorite match of the evening, but
it was a solid display. I'm just not a big

(53:48):
Finn Balor guy these days. I very much liked what
he was doing back down on an XT. I very
much liked different portions of his career, and there's nothing
wrong with him and Jady McDonough. I just don't have
any belief that the LWO was going to be the
next big champions. So maybe going into this match, I
didn't really care as much because they were facing the
Job Squad. If there was a reason to believe that

(54:09):
the LWO were going to be genuine title contenders, it
wouldn't be on a Monday night raw before Summer Slam.
The judgment day win by pinfall, obviously the Kuda graph
from baler On Cruz del Toro to retain the belts.
Then they show Jay Huso warming up backstage, and then
we get a Gunther coming out after the break to
cut the promo about cm punk chance or he comes

(54:29):
down to the Seampunk champs and he says, last week,
you know it made him that cmpunk had no right
to call himself the best in the world. That'll never
be the champion again. And most importantly, he made them
shut the hell up. And Sampunk came down there and
I think delivered a fantastic promo about what the world

(54:50):
title is to him.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
I need.

Speaker 5 (54:56):
To be World heavyweight Champion like a Midwest dad needs
a cold, frosty Old Style on a hot summer.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Day while he's mowing the lawn.

Speaker 5 (55:07):
And no, I don't drink, and I don't smoke, and
I don't do drugs, but I understand addiction because this
place wrestling is my addiction. I need to be world
heavyweight Champion so I can raise that strap above my

(55:29):
head as.

Speaker 6 (55:30):
A thank you to the millions of people who have
chanted my name for over ten years.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
His addiction is wrestling, and I thought it was great.
I loved it once again going back into a straight
edge gimmick. Even in twenty twenty five, it still works.
I like the parallels. I like him pointing to the else,
pointing to the ring, pointing to the crowd. This is
my addiction, well fucking delivered, and I love that Gunther
tried to interrupt him and see him. Punk puts his

(56:09):
hand on Gunther's mic and just shuts him down and goes,
I'm not finished and proceeds to finish his promo, basically
giving a Gunther a verbal fuck you and walks out
the ring delivering another pipe bomb, and Gunther is standing
in the ring going fuck and it was great. Gunther
is unhappy that he cannot educate a guy likes see

(56:31):
him Punk on the mic, and nor should he try.
But I am absolutely looking forward to what he does
in the ring at Summer Slam. So they built this
up well and we still got Friday to go, so
who knows what will happen there. We go from there
to the main event, Bronson Reid versus jay Usso it

(56:51):
was it was okay, It was all right, like the
actual matchup for as long as it lasts. It was
fine Bronson Reid in the match. I still think he
gives people too much. Maybe I'm wrong for that. Maybe
it's because I like Bronson read a lot. I really
want Bronson Reid to be the next fucking big thing.
No pun intended. Bronson Reid. Even when he's talking in

(57:13):
his promo, the little Australian drawl that he has is
so fucking interesting to me. The guy looks like a
fucking murderer. His eyes bulged out of his head. He's
constantly sweating. He's a guy who's about to go into
cardiac or rest or eat you limb from limb. Bronson
Reid has a look of someone you really don't want

(57:35):
to fuck with, and it's weird when I gotta say,
pretty boy, Jay Usso is going out there and taking
it out of your ass. I don't know, obviously what
the deal is with that, because he's done it before
for even smaller dudes. Maybe Bronson just likes being the
guy that makes little guys look stronger. Maybe that's his kink.

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I don't know. Maybe he doesn't fantasize about the big
bronze Stroman type matches. Maybe he wants guys like Chad
Gable to lift him up over his head because he's
constantly allowing people half his size to dominate him in
matches and it's odd to me. Anyways, bron Breaker comes
out spears jay Uso out of his fucking shorts, and

(58:20):
thus the match is rewarded. I guess to jay Usso
Ford Q, to which they both take turns beating the
ever loving shit out of jay Usso in a big
top rope tsunami from Bronson Reed and just he's like,
he's like a beautiful eagle because he doesn't even jump
straight right like you always see guys on the top rope,

(58:43):
guys and girls jumping off the top rope, and they
jump straight. It's always very straight ahead. How beautiful. The
frog splash was by Eddie Guerrero and fucking RVD off
the top rope and he's grabbing his ribs, and it's
always very very methodic, very mechanical. When Bronson Reed gets
up there, it's like somebody's pushing a garbage truck off

(59:06):
the top rope sideways, and I fucking love it. It
looks so uncoordinated and dangerous and it looks so vicious
when it lands. It's difficult for me to believe that
jay Usa could get back up on his feet of
his own accord. And then Roman Reigns music hits and
Roman Roman Reigns comes down and gets to be a

(59:28):
part of the action. It goes back and forth a
little bit, and Roman Reigns gets a gets a tsunami
of his own once again. This weird diagonal big man
jumping off the top rope. Fantastic, Roman sells the shit
out of it, or he was actually hurt. I don't know.
That's a lot of that's a lot of weight coming down.

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It's a lot of weight. That's one of the things
that I've always talked about with Joe, like there's a
lot of things in wrestling, and like, oh, it's the
slide of hand motions that you don't see of why
that move looks great. How do you slide a hand
a dude that weighs four hundred pounds? How do you
slide a hand that? Somebody teach me the trick of

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being able to lay down and take a four hundred
pound dude and it doesn't knock all the wind out
of your sternum. I'd love to know that that's something
I need to know before I go. But but they
get outside the ring and they have some kerfuffle outside
the ring, Bronson Reid spears the shit out of Roman
Reigns and then Bronson Reid fucking hits Jay who's so?

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And yeah, they go back at it, but they finish
up the show after the table spot the outside announcer's
table by stealing their shoes. By stealing Roman shoes frot fright,
Bronson Reid did the most high school shit ever. I

(01:00:54):
knew guys back in high school when I was a
kid that if they beat your ass, they would take
your wallet and steal your shoes. And Bronson Reid stole
Roman rains and shoes. Now, I don't know if they
have the same shoe size, but I think it was
more of the perspective of Bronson Reid just eight Roman
Rains's lunch, and I found that oddly satisfying and poetic,

(01:01:18):
and I thought it was great again, just another thing
that these guys are doing without Seth Rollins that is
fucking fantastic, and Seth Rollins is still not missed. Bronson
Reid stealing Roman Rains's shoes to end the show was
a fucking cherry on top of a really solid show.

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I know Joe is having a great time in Vegas,
and maybe you heard that Lyra Valkeria promo and it
kind of made his day a little worse, but I
hope not. But I really enjoyed myself. It was a
good go home show for RAW going into Summer Slam,
and I look forward to more of it on this Friday.
But with that said, we've got an LFG show tonight

(01:02:00):
with Lou Fisto and Jeff F Lippman that'll probably go
up tomorrow. More shows on the Patreon of course, Patreon
dot com forward slash Wrestling Soup on Thursday. If everything
is happening and everything is everyone is willing, it'll be
myself and Lou Fisto hosting Wrestling Soup while Joe is
on vacation. And this Saturday's show for SummerSlam will be
myself and Andrew Carlok And maybe I'll get a hold

(01:02:21):
of John Draper and see if we can make it
a three way, not that kind of three or maybe
who knows, but I'll call up John, see if he's
around and see what we can do with that. And yeah,
other shows are around the shopping block, got new Garden
of Thought going up, got new LFG, new Evolve shows.
I don't know when another Dose of Chocolate will be around,
but new Tuney Talk Wrestling available on the Wrestling Soup

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network as well as their YouTube channel. Much love for
Phil Marx and Pro Wrestle and Pro Wrestle Time. Sorry,
and yeah, I will see all you guys again on Thursday,
and I'll be in the background doing a lot of
other shows and stuff. Got some surprises for everybody. Yeah,
thanks for hanging out with me. Hopefully you guys enjoyed
the show. See you guys Thursday.

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