What's up everybody?

Welcome to a brand new episode of Wrestling with Freddy, where Scotland reigns supreme in the WWE and Drew macintyres the champion once again.

How long will it last?

Is he cursed to have the shortest championship reigns ever?

Or will this one get some legs, some big hairy man legs.

We shall see you with me as always as mister Jeff Dye.

Let's start the damn show.

And now your main event, introducing the hosts Wrestling Win Freddy, Jef Die and Freddy Frett Tunor.

Jeff, I'm wearing a mister Rogers sweater today.

Just kind of look on camera, sing you a little.

It's a beautiful day in the wrestling neighborhood, beautiful day for our wrestling neighbors.

Would you be man?

That's how I'm feeling right now.

I love the week in wrestling.

We have so much to talk about.

But before we do, Jeff, how is your weekend, sir?

It's good.

I was up in Canada.

I was in the great Edmonton.

You know, nice wrestling a wrestling country for sure.

The problem is, you know i'd post all this Brett Hart stuff, and they're like, he's Calgary, he's Calgary.

I'm like, yeah, I know, but he's Canada embracing m Yeah, I would photoshop my head on Bret Hartstead holding a Canadian flag and they're like, you're an Edmond Jon He's he's Calgary.

I know, but it's Canada.

It's Kent.

But today I'm in New York City and I'm excited to be on the pod.

I almost spit water all over the computer and it would have shorted out and that would have been the end of the episode, but it would have ended really funny.

You're in New York City.

What are you doing?

You got to show out there?

What's going on?

Yeah?

I did a show last night, and then I come back to Los Angeles.

I'm tough.

Is that why you're wearing your North Faced jacket because you're freezing, dude.

It's so cold there, and so was Edmonton.

Edmonton was like freezing.

Bro It's like seventy three degrees here.

Today.

You got to come home to the swing.

My weekend was lovely.

I went bowling with the family yesterday.

I bowled the best two games of my life.

You might laugh, but for me, this was really good.

I bowled a one thirty five, come on, come on, hey, and I bowled a one twenty five.

I can only bowl about two games before my arthritis goes crazy and then I can't pay my little miniatures.

So I only played two games.

But for me who averages, like, if I hit one hundred, I'm like yeah, same in golf, if I break a hundred, I'm like yeah.

But with this one one thirty five.

I ended the first game with three strikes in a row into the tenth frame and got the spare Like they give you like a little freebie if you get a strike in the last ten game.

So I got the freebie.

I got a nine and a one, and Boom got him one thirty.

Add the family bowl, you got any bowlers in the family.

Rocky started real, real strong and then started to fade near the end, and Charlotte overtook him.

She got like a one oh two and he ended up with like a ninety seven.

And Sarah got sick of it once she couldn't find a ball to fit her hand.

It kept stretching out her and she's like, man, everything I throw feels like my fingers are gonna break.

So the first game she had like a one oh five and the second game Rocky finished it out for it because her hand was hurting.

It does hurt, it is, Bro, I'm sore today.

I'm sore my hipsword because I have the form right, like I plant the foot and let the back foot kick out behind.

Look all professional like that guy with the bad hair, the pro bowling guy.

And then I don't mean to say bad hair, but but you know who you are, Bro, You know that hair is bad.

And what else do we do?

Took my my son to some race school because you don't wants to be a race car driver and you can get your he's seen license at fourteen before you get a street license.

So he's going for his racing license.

He wants to be F one and he's working his way up to carts like the fast Fast cards.

He already kind of dominates in K one, USA and he has records there on their tracks.

Him and this other kid named Kai.

He's getting ready to do porsches.

That's what he wants to race when he's fourteen.

What the hell?

And by the way, Baron s, don't get your kids into racing because you're gonna have to work ten jobs, and that's all I'm gonna say.

That's all I'm gonna say about that bro.

They started giving me prices.

I was like, oh jesus, i'ma working till I'm fucking eighty.

This is ridiculous.

Yeah, Like maybe he could race priuses instead of Porsches.

Is there a different range for that for price wise?

I'll tell I'll sponsor them all day long.

All right, man, let's get into wrestling.

We're going to give a lot of time to Drew, but we have to kind of go chronologically, so to speak.

I've already sung some mister Rogers, so half our listeners tapped out a long time ago, but you topped, you tapped up.

We're going to start it right now.

Raw flip the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for Netflix's one year anniversary with a full Stranger Things crossover, which Jeff and I were highly critical of or suspicious of, how confused and as to how they were going to pull this off.

Jeff, you texted something that I thought was very accurate, So I'll let you describe your feelings on how you thought the crossover with Stranger Things went well.

I said to you that I liked it because it was so subtle.

You know, they didn't overdo the Stranger Things.

He didn't have a guy in a Stranger Things costume.

You know, it was just very subtle.

But it was almost so subtle it wasn't worth doing because you're like, well, I totally agree, you know, it's like what it's almost like having nothing.

But I do think that I would have criticized if it was too much, so this might be one of the situations where they can't win.

I would have hated it it was too much and I and now I'm saying it's not enough.

But it was so subtle that it was like, this is kind of pointless.

And it did affect some of the intros too, because they were playing that Stranger Thing's theme song, which is really like eerie and driller ish and very like but it's very low key yeah you know, and so like did you hide them up?

Yeah?

Yeah, So like as cool as that music is, it didn't really match some of the parts.

But what'd you think?

I feel pretty much the same way.

I didn't think it was necessary.

At the end of the day, I get what they're trying to do and pull some wrestling eyeballs over to their other shows, which is why they purchased it in the first place.

So I get the philosophy.

I thought wwe pulled it off the best they could, and I can't shit on it because I'll be real with you, I don't know how I would have done it outside of saying, yeah, I don't think we can do this.

That would be or would have been my best advice.

One thing they could have done.

Advice for next time.

Get some cast of the show there.

Totally agree that makes it.

There was any of the show people there.

I totally agree with that.

I hate when that happens, and it's because it's like those people aren't like wrestling heads, so they don't care enough to go and take time out of their schedule, which is busy as hell already to go and watch a pro wrestling schedule and get yelled at for three hours and be like you're not a real fan and get fucking and all that.

So I get up while a lot of people don't go.

But you gotta fucking go, you guys, you gotta fucking go to this stuff.

Movie stars like Hugh Jackman can do it.

You can do it like it's it's valuable to your show.

It's it's valuable marketing.

It might not be your favorite thing to do, but do it.

Just there's so many cast members on that show.

Somebody has to like wrestling or somebody has to be open to it, and you can just even just have them, Like I know that they do the thing where they cut to the people that are like famous people that are on the sidelines, whether it's an athlete or whether it's an actor or whether it's whatever.

But you could even have them at the table, just be like, hey, come.

Sit the thing with the abroad anywhere any kind of involvement is good, even if it's a backstage segment where La Night's like, hey, how you doing, Baby was cracking and they're like, yeah, what's happening in Big Dog?

And anything like that is cool.

But yeah, that was the one disappointing thing.

I think that's a good criticism.

And I guarantee you they tried.

Oh really, I guarantee you they tried.

When I worked there, we always tried to make sure people were the people came for the movies we were selling and try to make sure they were involved.

I guarantee you.

Netflix was like, hey, please, if you can make room in your schedule, go to the event.

And it was just the actors or the actors publicists saying that's it.

We just don't have the time to do it, or we're not interested in doing it one or the other.

But I guarantee you both sides worked really hard on trying to pull that off.

Just sometimes you can't pull it off for legit reasons or lame reasons, but we don't know.

So let's get into some wrestling, dude.

First up, Real Ripley Baby an EO Sky, two of my favorites.

One can flip all over the place, the other one can legit beat the shit out of everybody.

And they're the new champs.

They beat the Kabuki Warriors, They beat Osca and Kyrie Saane.

They had some really cool choreography for the finish there where they used both their finishes and then you know, dove out of the ring and tackled Kyrie Sane like a fucking football player.

In the playoffs, By the way, all my teams won in the playoffs, shout out to me, oh yeah, we got new champs.

It gives both of them some direction.

Now that story, that chapter in their story of Oscar saying, hey, you're not her friend, where her family?

Get the fuck out of here?

And Rea being like, yo, you don't and nobody tells me to get the fuck out of here.

I'm Rea fucking Ripley.

And then and then Kyrie Sayane hits her in the back, and then he was like, oh my god, what do I do?

What do I do?

That story is done for all y'all that didn't like that story.

It's done so you can be happy and grateful for that, and you can watch these two women kick ass and try to make the tag team titles means something for a little while, until eventually they have to lose them and they put them on someone we don't care about, and then we don't care about them again.

But for right now, I care about them because it's on two studs.

They're both super studs and the match was cool, especially at the end of the match.

And that's all I have to say about that.

The Scott Hall would say.

I'm gonna be old Jeff again, I'm gonna be old.

I love the way Vince McMahon did things, Jeff, because I just I like when a tag team is a tag team and as singles wrestler is a singles wrestler.

I'm getting real tired of how often these is Like one day Charlotte Flair's the person and then the next day she's aired up with Alexa Bliss and we're supposed to believe they're a tag team.

One day that something in my room just talked Sorry, I said, Alexa Bliss, and then my Alexa went so, like the same with the aj Styles and oh yeah, yeah.

It's kind of this going back and forth of being a singles to a tag team always me a lot.

That being said, sometimes I really like the tag teams because I'm just being positive about it, but I wish that the people would stay in singles or stay in tag It's very frustrated.

I think the women's division is having that kind of identity crisis on.

You know, we don't know who to put the belt on, and we don't have a story for so and so pair them up and put them in the tag division.

So if that's whatever's happening there, I'm still enjoying everything, but it's it's a little annoying.

That's fair as Styles slapped the shit out of Gunther, Yeah love it, and Gouther didn't do anything back.

Man, he just like went forehead to forehead.

But he didn't even try to slap him.

Man, he got punked in the middle of the ring by an old man, an old crafty veteran who got himself a match because of this slap.

Go ahead, Jeff, you you have a cool evil smile on your face, so I know you liked this.

I just liked it.

I just think it's no and I don't have much more to say.

I think what Gunther's doing is legendary.

It's old school.

You love old school stuff, and he's coming off real old school.

Man.

I like it too, aj styles.

I know everyone's saying this is the last year of his career, but he looks like he could wrestle for another three or four if he wanted to.

Really takes good care of his body.

Dude still does all this pretty much, all the same moves that he's ever done, does him at the highest level possible.

He hasn't lost a step.

Like I really wish this wouldn't be it, but this isn't it.

This is not it.

I think he can actually get a win over Gunther and surprise Gunther and then kind of take them to a little bit longer of a story, and maybe this is the final story.

But this match coming up, isn't it, Like this isn't going to be the last storyline he gets that's going to be safe for when he is going to retire.

This can just be something really hot and cool and they can put a little fire under AJ now that he's back to being a singles wrestler and not in a forced tag team as you had said earlier.

But you could get him a win because I think a loss slows that down unless that's the story right, which is like I'm losing a lot, maybe I'm losing a step.

Maybe it's time for me to go.

And then you give him like the Jimmy Connors Wimbledon story when when Jimmy was beating all those young bucks on the way to the quarterfinals when he finally lost.

So there's something cool to be done there, and I hope they do it.

Whether it's that or whatever they come up with, I don't care.

I just want it to be good.

But the slap man, he slapped it.

It's so hard for me to watch a man get slapped and not respond like it was hard for me to do it when when Chris Rock got slapped and I was like, Yo, you got it.

You gotta hit him back, bro, And it was hard for me to watch Gooth get smacked.

I was like, dude, play this fool out like you just got slapped in the face.

Man, is really I don't know why, but it's really hard for me to watch a dude get slapped and then not just knocked the shit out of the guy.

It was crazy, brond percent.

I don't know why you didn't answer, but I'm wondering because it wasn't like the storyline with Drew mckintyre where it's like you can't touch me.

But yeah, I was surprised, Like you can hit him.

He just smacked you.

You can definitely hit him back or do whatever.

I was surprised too.

Yeah, man, all right, Becky Lynch, you crafty son of them.

You cheated the last time you won the belt, cheating ass.

You cheated this time you won the belt.

Cheating ass.

I've seen you cheating other matches.

That's three goddamn strikes.

Cheating ass, Becky Lynch.

Her husband's name is Seth Freakin Rollins.

Her name is cheating ass Becky Lynch.

Because that's the only way she can win a big match, and that's the truth.

And Maxine dupri is not done.

I don't think this was just a temporary thing, and let's see how it worked, because I think it's actually working, and I think the crowd's getting behind Maxine Duprix, and I think her work's getting better.

On a monthly, if not even weekly basis, you can kind of see the development there, and she's getting better on the mic.

She's had the emotional promo, she's had the confident promo, she's had the reactive promo now where Becky says everything and she's like, what bitch, I kill you all that good stuff.

She just say, that's just my stupid IMPROVM.

But but yeah, man, she cheated again to get the win, so this isn't over.

I think they'll have a rematch at the Rumble and Maxine will get her belt back.

But I really liked it.

I think they're telling a fun story.

Man.

I'd like pretty much everything Becky's in because she's a top dog.

But what about you, dude.

I liked it.

I think it's great.

I think someone's listening to us.

I keep saying this, and maybe I'm just in my own universe ego, But like, I feel like someone at WWE is listening to us these title changes.

With Becky Lynch regaining the IC title on just regular TV, not a pl Drew McIntyre winning the title like on a smack million, We've said, hey, if you want wrestling to be better, make it unpredictable.

Start doing things that these wrestling marks aren't gonna be able to predict every ten seconds.

Have someone win a thing.

You know, if the Royal Rumble goes to someone who isn't like a super top dog, very predictable, obvious thing, I'll be like, are definitely listening to what.

I can't wait for Royal rumbo predictions.

By the way, I can't wait Like now with like Fatu back and him in the mix, I was like, oh no, I don't know if my boy Sammy can do it now.

Maybe it's I can't wait to talk about that, so hopefully we'll get the opportunity before.

But even Sammy's aying is a hell of a prediction.

I mean that is like, that is a wild prediction because it's that that is like someone in the main.

Yeah, I love that Becky regained the IC title.

I thought it was great.

She was wearing a Star Trek outfit.

Shout out.

Yeah, I want to give a shout out to Maxine Dupret.

Everyone criticized her on the internet, and I think their criticism was fair.

She tried to move.

She tried this new move where she had Becky back to back and then she jumped on her butt to like do a thing.

But Becky didn't know how to sell it, and the broadcast didn't even know what the hell they were looking at.

Corey Graves was like, well, I don't even know what that was.

Yeah, for real, you go to Twitter immediately everyone was just trashing it, like what was that?

But I got to give Maxine credit.

Good for you.

You tried to invent a new move, like you try to make a thing.

I don't know if wrestler's duke because I'm not behind the scenes, but I would like to think they're trying to make up new things.

They're not just taking the same moves and the variations of things and learning the technical residence.

I'd like to think we're trying to come up with some new stuff.

So shout out to Maxine Dupre for trying a new move.

It didn't work, but I gave you credit for taking a big swing, but I hope Maxine wins it back.

I'm not sure why they gave it back to Becky, like why what the story ideas are same or like where it's headed, But I'm open to it.

They've been doing they've been doing great, so we'll see.

Yeah, and the internet's a cruel place, man, like, oh, it's Society's just maybe always been this cruel, but we're just more aware of it now because everyone expresses this kind of stuff.

But when you got Quentin Tarantino shitting on like helpless Matt Lillard like this, you know what I mean, Like, you can't take this stuff that as per personally is as our brains kind of want to in the immediate moment, like you got to step back and go, Nah, it's a cruel place.

And they'll get over it until the next person makes a mistake and then they'll shoot all over them.

And because I'm sure they've never made a mistake in their life.

So yeah, man, hopefully that stuff doesn't hurt her and she's just more getting encouraged for taking a chance, and they'll figure that move out.

Maybe it comes back and gets better and better and better, so you never know.

But I'm with you on that, man.

I'm with you, all right, dude.

The main event see them Punk, the world champion versus your boy, the man you think should be champion, the man you think should lead the lead the charge on Netflix, and the man who believes it himself, bron Breaker.

They wrestled for the championship.

I really wanted to see a bron Breaker victory here, but I too in my heart, I knew that he wouldn't lose it that quick, and I told you I stop betting against CM Punk in a championship match.

Period.

We'll see when that changes, but I don't think it's going to be soon.

But yeah, once again he was able to survive.

He survived the power, he survived the spear well, he counted the spear, and he landed his own gts and bron Breaker was defeated, much to my is the word chagrin?

Is that the word chagrin?

I don't know.

That's a five dollar word.

If it was right, If it was wrong, then I owe the jar five dollars.

But yeah, it was a pretty good match.

I didn't I didn't love the finish.

I liked some of the other matches more, to be honest, but I you know, Seampunk's not going to lose yet, and bron Breaker could still get a little bit of polish.

I guess is the argument to make for why he lost shine him up a bit more, dirty him up to shine him up?

Maybe I don't know.

I'm trying to talk myself into it, but I'm not buying it.

What about you, Jeff, Well, the Internet is a cruel place, and we are here live on the internet.

Freddy, I gotta say it.

What does it mean to be punk rock?

It means you take the main stream.

You say, no, I'm so punk rock.

Well, there is nobody more punk rock than CM punk.

Because he said, what if I win this match without even being able to do my finishing move?

What if I'm not even strong enough to do my own finishing move anymore?

What if I put guys on my shoulder and we all play along even though we know the knee was nowhere near their face.

There's nothing more punk rock.

It's been been not even wrestling out there, and somehow where you were supposed to believe that you could beat bron Breaker, they should have been filing CM Punk's retirement paperwork.

This second he tried to pull off that pile driver.

It was the most embarrassing pile driver I've ever seen in my life.

Now, I love Sam Punk, We love you Phil, You're You're great, But bro, this was a terrible showing.

I thought the match was Botch City, Botch after Botch.

It was very, very unconvincing.

And I don't know if he was just gassed or up or like what was going on, But bron Breakers should have won that match in my.

Opinion, bron Breaker for life for life.

Friday Night SmackDown, Randy Orton's gonna open the show, people and he gets interrupted by NXT former NXT superstar now current WWE superstar Trick Williams.

Whoop that Trick whoop that he's six fucking five, He's two hundred and fifty pounds.

But while he was saying that, I actually know orton statistics, so I was like, oh, dude, Orton's response is gonna be yeah, I'm six five and I'm fucking bigger than you, bro, Like, who are you talking to right now?

Man?

This ain't n XT, this is the I'm a big dog bro.

So trick response was great.

When they were going to the numbers.

I got, I got three kids and one smoking hot white like his response to the Trick Williams.

Yes, their beautiful response.

It was man he took.

He protected himself in the promo, but he still gave Trick opportunities to get over, and Trick did pretty well.

You know.

It's it's a transition for sure, from NXT to SmackDown.

But he got some good responses from the crowd and had a couple ways to get in and out of promos when the crowd was too too responsive and too reactive and screaming RKO and he had to navigate his way through that sort of or circumnavigate his way through fuck these five dollars words today, through all that kind of traffic to get back on track, and I thought he did a pretty good job.

Man.

I'm excited to see where he goes.

The mis came out, he got r KAO Togain.

He's just getting beat down and now he's got a match up against it.

I think he's actually wrestling Randy, so he can lose that one too.

He get jacked up.

I already didn't.

He didn't win a single match last year.

Shout out to the mis for taking those l's and putting people over.

But he's getting beat down right now.

And then I think the old.

Days, if you lost for a whole year, that meant they were getting you out of the company.

No, instead, they'll resign this fool for ten million dollars because he keeps losing the right way.

He's a pro jobber, like, he's like a high paid job.

I've never heard of.

This, so I thought this was the coolest part of the segment, which was at the very end Randy Orty beat up everybody and he's pointing to his new T shirt.

Buy my new T shirt.

Ander's like, yeah, okay, well buy it.

He looks down and he sees Trick Williams chain.

It fell off during Trick's promo.

He's like, I'm mister three chains or something like that, whatever he said.

When he was doing his math, Randy Orton grabbed his chain and gently put it in the palm of his hand and he tossed in the chain.

He goes, put that back on, man, You're missed three chains.

And then wiped out of that.

I was like, yo, that was gigster, and he also said that.

He also said I think I like you, and he winked at him, which puts Trick Williams over even a little bit more.

And then Trick had a match against Ray Phoenix and he got kind of a shady wind, sort of a Becky Lynch cheating ass type victory.

You see, you have to be a good role model, Becky.

You inspired Trick Williams to cheat.

Way to go.

That's what a champion does.

Jesus Christ.

Anyway, Sorry, I'm in character right now.

Trick Williams got the victory.

Looked pretty cool, looked pretty good.

A big dude taking shots off the second rope and flipping and landing.

I was like, damn, okay, bro, So I'm looking forward to seeing what he does next.

Man, how'd you feel about this monstrous segment that they gave us?

I thought it was great.

I didn't understand why he interrupted him, because they did do a thing shortly into the promo where they were like talking about how they both respect each other, and he was like, he was like, yeah, I respect you as like, you know, you are the guy, and I wanted to brush up against this greatness.

Yeah, he was like, yeah, I think inside and meta.

Yeah, that was a little weird.

Yeah.

So I was like, well, if that's the story they're telling that, like Randy thinks he might that the Trick could be the future.

And Tricks got a lot of like, you know, really positive attributes and he named them all and then Trick realized, you know, hey, well now I'm just trying to let you know that I respect you and I want you know whatever.

So I didn't get why why even have him interrupt him, just have him come out after like a Randy promo, because because it started with disrespect and then turned into and it.

Got yeah, you're right, it got very respectful.

You're absolutely yeah, dude.

But I love Randy and I love Trick, and I love that we're seeing more Randy Orton in things.

I'm glad that we're not forcing him into some strange tag team or like just giving him leftover segment stuff.

Well, he's open.

The show was huge, and yeah, put him in the tournament.

Like yeah versus Drew and all that.

Yeah, dude, I'm pumped about him, me too, man.

And he's talking about, you know, his fourteen championships and how close he is to the to the number, right, so so he's talking about that too, So it makes you want to believe that yeah, oh yeah, he can be champion again.

Man.

He looks great.

He's better on the mic than he's ever been.

His matches are still tope as hell.

He makes everybody look like a superstar that he wrestles, because he's I told you this a lot time ago.

I watched him wrestle Primo Cologne in like a five minute match, and for about forty five seconds, everyone in the arena went, oh my god, Primo's gonna beat Randy fucking Orton.

That's how good Randy Orton was or is so?

Anyway?

Moving on, moving on, Oh, we saw Matt Cardona.

I wanted to bring this up because you were right and I'm wrong.

I was talking Matt Cardona in the in the in the hunt for US titles and Intercontinental titles and setting guys up, and you were like, nah, dude, I see him on a bigger scale, Like I see him this is his last chance and he's going for the big the big time.

And I was like, oh, that'd be cool, but I didn't believe it.

Well, he was backstage and he walked right up to Cody Rose and was like, hey, dude, I love you, but I'm coming after that fucking belt.

So you were dead on and I was dead wrong.

I just wanted to bring that up right.

It's good to see Man and Cardona is in that tournament, which'll be great.

Yeah, new one contender, so we'll see.

That would be crazy, crazy, crazy if they pushed him like that in a good way.

So Carmelo Hayes everybody's new favorite United States Champion, maintaining the Open, the Open Challenge.

We're going to see who we're gonna get.

You know, we're gonna get a great match, and it's Shinske Nakamora.

These guys kicked ass.

I love shins K.

I like Carmelo more and more the more I watch him.

I didn't know at first, but I like what he's doing right now.

Sometimes you can see he's still a little bit green, but he's a little bit green.

That's okay, Like he's still super new to the business.

Always got to give these guys and girls time to time to develop.

But I think he did a pretty good job with his backstage stuff, especially in the ring, with his wrestling, and he sells the injuries really really well.

Man, he sells like sinchk was fucking up his leg and he sold a leg the whole match.

It's frustrating as like a viewer when you see a guy's leg and he's like limping, and then when he has to run, he's like he's Carl Lewis out there, and you're like, yeah, I mean, I thought his leg was jacked up.

This dude limps when he runs man like he's somehow limps when he jumps like it's it was really really cool.

And I like when when wrestlers do.

He's not the only one, but I like when I Anyway, those are my thoughts.

He won the match.

Obviously he's not gonna lose right now.

They're seeing what they got with Carmelo.

It's gonna made him look great.

They shook hands at the end show of respect.

What'd you think, Jeff, I love it.

I think there's nobody.

There's nobody better.

And when I say that, I realized that I keep talking about bron Breaker and Obafemi and Jacob Fott too.

There's a lot of young guys DOMINIQUEUSTERI there's all these young guys that are like the next class, and I think Carmelo Hayes is in that for sure.

He's Yeah, he is Mike where.

Everything I think he's He's definitely top top, top, top, top tier, top tier.

But also when shins K came out, I was like, good, Yes, where has he been?

Has he just been in these locker rooms the whole time?

I kind of forgot that he was on the roster, So I was super happy to see when his music hit.

I was like, yes, crap, he's still, you know, he's still.

I don't know how old he is, but I do feel like something's gotta something's gotta change, either he's gotta retire or get in the picture somehow.

And this was great.

It was good to se him on TV and it was good to see him in the picture and he looked awesome in the ring.

So but it was all positive for that.

But I was very excited to sit when his music hit.

Can we talk about the Japanese entrance and how it's like watching like an eighties rock star come out, like when they get introduced on stage and they're the only ones that especially him, especially especially him, but Eo too.

EO's probably number two, and then Kyrie number Kyrie comes out like a pirate, So maybe it doesn't apply, but Oscar does the same kind of vibe.

But they all come out like rock stars that just drank like a fifth of bourbon and they're like, yeah, go fucking rock it for three songs, let's go, and they just come.

Out all it's so good that music.

Yeah, everything about that.

They're really nailing the intros.

Yeah, man, their intros are dope as hell.

All right.

So there was an intro announcement from general manager Nick altis, the most respectable general manager in the game today, and he announced four qualifiers.

We're recording this, so some are gonna happen tonight and we'll talk about all of them.

But we got the Randy Orton versus the mis Randy Orton's gonna whoop that ass.

We got Cardona versus Trick Williams.

That's gonna be a hard one to call because they want to push Trick, right, But you just got Cardona too, And is Cardona just there to give a good match or you're gonna give him some shine?

So I'm actually gonna pick Cardona on that one.

We got Priest versus Socoa Priest.

We got Zaye versus druganoff Zayne.

What do you pick?

Who do you think is gonna win these matches.

Ah, this is gonna be tough.

So I definitely got Ordon over Missa for sure.

I'm gonna pick Cordona over Trick, but I could see it going either way.

But I think I think Cardona's who I want to win.

And so, hey, Trick just got here.

You know what I'm saying, So you.

Can afford a loss?

Right, Yeah?

Yeah, it's okay, like you're still you've been up here for an hour.

Priest versus ZICOA, I got Damian Priest Zaye versus Draggon off.

I'm taking Dragon off.

Come on, man, you gotta go with so close go all right, Okay, here we go the main event, Three Stages of Hell with three macin tires.

They're in Berlin.

The crowd was very pro Drew McIntyre and about sixty forty anti Cody Rhodes.

They loved the European, they hated the American in Berlin, and we know why.

I'm just kidding.

So Drew McIntyre comes out wearing Dusty's gold Rolex and he's like, Yo, it's time, motherfucker get out here.

Cody comes out there, He's ready to fight.

He looks like all might for my hero academia.

He's pissed though he's not smiling like almight.

He's pissed off.

He gets in a ring and they start to show and they beat each other's ass.

Cody's taking the lead like seventy thirty probably whoop an ass.

This is just the first one, the straight match who's the better wrestler, And they're fighting fist fight, boom boom, wrestling move boom boom, and then blow He gets kicked right in his nutsack and the ref was trying to fix the turnbuckle, and more ref foolishness takes a claim our boom one, two three.

Everybody in the crowd was like, what the hell just happened?

And they were popping big like they were excited they thought their guy was gonna win.

Second is is uh false count anywhere?

So they're fighting all over the place in the arena, out of the arena.

And now, as fans, we need Cody to win this.

Because yes, sir, you better not rob us of.

That hell in a celf.

Oh wouldn't that be the shittiest booking ever.

If you literally were like you, Because now even if you hate Cody, you're like, well, you better win this one.

I want to see the hell in the cell round.

Yeah, totally.

It just ends after two.

You're like, what, like what but you ship that fucking thing out here?

Bro?

How much did that cost?

All right?

The second one, yeah, obviously Cody wins.

He did a crossroads through the announced table, which meant poor Joe tessitour Wade Barrett had to call it with no desk to rest their elbows upon.

They had to sit up with good posture for the for the steal cage match, which was a good quick match, but still a good match.

They beat the hell out of each other.

There was blood in Cody's platinum blonde hair, so it's starting to like leed through his skull.

It looked pretty great.

It looked pretty great.

Drew just taking a beating.

He took way more punishment in the match than Cody did.

And then he's about to get out and this hooded man, Jeff swings open the gate and grabs Charles Robinson, who they call baby Flair, and he throws him.

He throws him to the ground.

He throws baby Flair and everyone's like oh, and he takes off his hood and he's wearing a mask.

We still don't know who he is.

Oops, And so then he takes off the mask.

Haha, I tricked you.

I'm Jacob Fatu and Drew McIntyre's like, oh shit, which lets us know storyline wise, Yeah, it was him that injured Jacob Fatu backstage, son of a bitch.

And so Jacob gets in the ring and he gets revenge on Drew starts beating Drew's ass.

Cody Rhods is like, yo, man, what the hell are you doing in my still cage Matchtu's like, fuck you too, Fam bunches Cody Rhodes beats his ass too.

While he's beating his ass.

Drew McIntyre's capes and the crowd goes bananas, like eighty percent pro Drew at this point, maybe a couple booze, but they were thrilled to Drew on the match.

Jacob Fatu is officially back in the WWE.

Jeff, how did the Three Stages of Hell affect you emotionally?

That was great?

Well what'd you think?

Were you happy about this?

What'd you think about it?

I want to hear your opinion.

I think Drew McIntyre makes an awesome WWE champion, So I was even though I was wrong and who I thought was gonna win, I was happy either way.

But I was really happy to see Drew win.

I think he can be a good shitty heel champion who is gonna cheat and hold onto this thing for a little while.

And I want that.

You know, Drew's been like his his story's real, man, Like he's gotten ft over so many times.

Every time he gets the title, we're close to it, then it's like he's owed a long, worthy run and it would be hysterical if he lost it at Rumble, and it's like, son of a bitch, I just can't it just but that would suck, man.

So I think they're gonna let him keep it for a little while, which would be cool.

Which makes me think Randy Orton's not going to win the tournament because you don't want Randy to lose against Drew.

You want Randy to win against Drew.

But what do I know.

I don't I haven't worked there in fifteen years, sir.

So yeah, man, those were my thoughts, what were yours.

I love this.

I'm not gonna say too much about the match itself because I thought it was phenomenal.

It was great.

I love Cody's move.

I love the crossroads.

It looks so good and like it's such a great move and a move you could do for your whole career, as far as it's not like a feat of strength, it's just this really great looking move.

So to see it on the outside, to see it on the table, to see it on the concrete, to see it on the ramp, like it's such a such a bad thing.

Where he jumped off the crowd and that was sick.

Dude onto the table.

I mean, this match gave me everything I like.

I think it's a perfect match.

I thought it was so cool, cool idea.

I've never really heard of this type of match either before this week.

I loved it, loved it, loved it.

Few criticisms.

It was funny when the mask I came out, I was like, is that Austin theory again?

Like I'm like, for whatever reason now, when I see someone in black, I just sit always Austin theory.

And then I was like, no, maybe it's seth rawlins.

And so to see those Jacob Potuo genuinely surprised me and I was like, wow, this is really I just I really fell for it, and that made me like it even more.

Here's the thing maybe nobody's ever said before, but it's something I was thinking about.

Why the fuck is there a door on a hell in a cell or a cage.

And I know since the beginning of time there's been a that that's been the thing.

You have to escape, or you have to pin, or you have to submit or go out the door.

But why did they put a door on it?

Even from day one?

Why are we putting the door?

I don't care if this dates back to the seventies.

Don't put a door on the cage.

The whole point of a cage is you're gonna be locked in there.

Oh, but also there's.

A door if you need to get out.

Yeah, just but also there's a door if you're locked out.

You're like, that's that's the whole point.

Lock them in, try to get them to escape.

It drives me crazy that also there's a door.

That's kind of like not having a cage at all.

And so for this finish to end up with True just slinkering out the door and landing his exhausted body on the on the concrete.

Yeah, for the wind is insane to me.

I would have loved it while Jacob was beating the crap out of Cody that Drew would have went over the side, you know, because I don't want there to be a door.

But other than that, it was.

It was absolutely perfect.

More of a criticism on the.

Cage, shitty cage.

All right, it's time to go from Berlin all the way back to the States to the lovely and I mean this, I've been there.

I had a wonderful time there, the lovely city of Tulsa in the state of Oklahoma.

I was just there.

It's it's a good little town man.

First Dynamite of twenty twenty six, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

You know.

I was just there as well.

I wish you guys would have wrestled there when I was working.

That would have been fun to see you.

But you guys were jerks and decided enough too to come to La instead of San Diego because I'm not going down there.

So the show opens, we get Jr.

Everybody, good old Jr.

The bounty attack gets revealed.

Here's what happened, basically, excalibur tony Shiavanni.

They welcome to seeing Jim Jim Ross gets all that old school love that he gets, and Renee Piquette breaks the news that Jet Speed and Mike Bailey, Kevin Knight and Mike Bailey, Sorry, the team of Jets Speed were attacked earlier today and Don Kallis, He's like, yeah, twists his mustache.

He didn't have mustache, he has no hair.

He introduces Jake Doyle, who was formerly known as Jake Something, Jake Something.

Oh no, that was his name, Jake Something, Just kidding Jake Something that was his real name from TNA.

And he's alongside Mark Davis, Kyle Fletcher's ex attacking partner, and they leave Jack.

They beat their asses in there out for the night.

So Jack Perry scrambling, he's got to find two partners for tonight's tree match a w the King of Trio's matches.

We learned kind of the callous families growing.

We've seen them, you know, get stronger now with this new dude.

Elidolo's back andrad My daughter trips out.

So when I speak Spanish, I try to have a proper accent when I speak it, and my wife, out of respect, tries too.

And my daughter goes at dinner the other night she said, ma, because my wife said tortilla right.

My mom goes, Mom, it's okay when dad does it, but you're not Spanish at all.

You can just say it the normal way.

And she goes, no, I want to show respect.

She goes, well, that sounds disrespectful.

Yeah, it sounds like you're mocking.

That's how I feel, Charlotte Great think.

I think if the sentence has the word, like, if you're saying the whole sentence in Spanish, then you have to do the accent.

I know you're going.

But if if you're if your sentence is in English and just that.

Word is, what are we doing?

Now?

That's English?

She don't go can you please pass me a Yeah?

Yeah, that's what That's how I do it.

Bro.

I'll be like, hey, can you pass it tortills please?

And she'll be like, yeah, crazy, you don't like it.

Yeah, my daughter isn't my son in school with it?

My daughters, he's not having it.

She's not having it at all.

I like that.

She pleased your wife on it.

He did.

Mike Win does it.

She's sixteen, bro.

She polices both of us whenever she can.

All right.

So the ae W Continental Championship Eliminator was on Wednesday night and it was John Moxley versus Shelton Benjamin.

This is my matchup the week outside of that Three Stages of Hell, which was technically three matches, so that's cheating.

But just as far as like regular TV matches go, these two crushed it.

I can't believe what Shelton Benjamin is doing twenty five, thirty years into his fucking career now, I mean, how long has he been wrestling at this level?

It's just crazy.

The dude's in excellent shape now, he's training jiu jitsu like every dude in their forties.

But yeah, man, this match was awesome.

I forgot who I thought was gonna win a few times because both guys convinced me they were gonna win multiple times.

It was a really cool match, cool finish with the triangle choke into a pin for the win, and they shook hands at the end of the match, like, yeah, he got me, Bestard, but I'll get you back, and he's like, yeah, you'll fucking try a pal.

But I love this match.

I love the stories they were trying to tell.

John Moxley's the man.

The dude I feel like he wrestles three hundred and sixty five days a year and he still put on matches like that and he'll try to bleed in every single one of them and shellt in Benjamin.

I just loved the dude.

Man.

He and I didn't exactly click when they tried to get me to work with him at WWE, like my writing style just clashed with how he wanted to execute and perform.

But he was still respectful and cool, and so I always was with him.

But that guy to be doing what he's doing now, he's one hundred and twenty seven years old.

As they said it coming to America.

But yeah, man, it's just it's crazy.

So this was my match of the week.

Man, what'd you think?

I think it's great.

I'm slowly creeping over to being a don Caallous believer.

When they first started doing it, I thought, oh, what is now that Jericho doesn't have the Jericho family.

They're doing like the don Kallis family whatever.

I was a hater at first, a little bit or at least a little reasonably skeptical, but I'm on board and I get it and I see their vision now, so I like it and it's good.

I'm happy.

I'm happy.

All right, sir, we're gonna not all the matches were hits, So I don't want to like trash on stuff.

I know our fans are sensitive about their wrestling, and I get it.

Art's a sensitive thing.

Artists are oftentimes are very precious and sensitive about their material, so the fans of artists can be precious and sensitive as well.

So I'm going to move on to Bendido versus Sammy Gevara.

Sammy Gavara when he bleeds looks cooler than any other wrestler in a w He had blood coming out his nose, it got in his mouth and his teeth, and he looked at Bandito and gave him the double fingers and was like, fuck you bring it just full on.

So that's not me improving for once.

I think that's actually what he said.

And it was the most badass moment of the night.

And then he gets and then he gets beat for he loses the match on top of it, so it just tells even more of a cool story.

But I love that.

But the story was Maxwell Jacob Friedman.

It comes out the best.

Thank you, he said it, not me.

Now see now other people are saying it now, other people are out there saying it.

They're already done talking about John Cena.

What what just happened?

Yeah, it's not just me saying it.

Sports Illustrated says it.

That's right.

It's not just wrestling with Freddy says it.

That's right.

Everybody see talk to your friends, they'll say it too.

Anyway, he walked out, he does his sort of condescending praise, like.

Oh, yeah, you're amazing, you're so great.

But wait, oh someone's someone's better.

Oh yeah, that's that would be me.

And he doesn't even call himself a better wrestler.

He calls himself a better luchador, which is legend.

Yeah, Luca legend, that's what he said.

Yeah, it was just awesome and just crazy disrespectful, just like it's those nuanced things that make us kind of love MJF because it's not just a shit talking promo that you could tell.

He's very thoughtful about what goes in.

Anyway, he brought a translator to make sure Bandido could understand what he said more disrespect and then he tries to dirty dog Bandido and Bendido ducks out of the way and the poor guy gets just gets fucking decked and then Bandido gets over on Max and he steals the ring and he steals the belt, and he's like, yeah, look what could happen.

Ain't never gonna happen.

I'll tell you that right now.

Great segment.

I loved it, But hell no, Bandido, you cannot beat MJF.

He will cheat.

He will becky lynch his way to a victory quicker than you can spell Becky Lynch.

And it's not no chance.

And put if you can bet on this match on one of these websites that don't pay us, bet on him.

Put it all on MJF.

Unless you know Tony Kah hears this and then bets against it, then that would be kind of a dirty inside politics.

He probably go to jail, so that won't happen.

So bet at all on MJF.

You'll be good.

I love this segment, though, Jeff, and I know you did too.

For sure.

MGF is the goat, he's the greatest.

Every part of it's hilarious.

I feel like, now that they're doing the Grande Americano thing, it's gonna always feel a little reminiscent when anytime like a guy like MGF calls himself like a Loocha Ledger.

You know, it's like I feel like it would have been this could have been a bigger, cooler thing if we didn't have something somewhat comparable.

I guess, like I don't know, like I don't know, I don't even know if anyone else made that comparison.

But I love MGF.

I love what he's doing.

I think it's hilarious and there's just no chance anyone's gonna beat MJF and.

No, hell no ever never for seven years.

It'll be the seven year Reign.

The main event was hang Man, Adam Page and Swerve Strickland now Broskis now they're total Broskis, former enemies now brohemes for life, and they defeated the Ops, which consisted Time of Hook, who I really really dig in.

I like that they're going slow and taking their time with him and not you know, pushing them to the moon before he's ready, and Powerhouse Hobs, who I love just because he's humungous and could just crush everybody and snap them into but for for like real snap them into.

So they all had to get in there and get it on, and there were no rules and an aaw.

That means they're going to get a staple gun and put staples in your face, your head, your ball, sack, your arm, your shoulder, your feet, your bait, your pinky toes.

Probably I bet, I bet Adam Page is sick enough to do that one day, if he ever wrestles, if he's in a if he's in a match with Speedball Mike Bailey and it's a no rules match, Speedball Mike Bailey, who wrestles barefoot and throws those kicks, he's gonna get stapled in his pinky toes straight up.

Anyway, they threw a chain around Hook's neck, threw them over the top rope, and tried to murder him, so he gave up before the murder happened, and they won that protect sa Samoa Joe for not having to be there, and now he can start targeting them and they can have some stuff to do while Kenny Omega deals with MJF and Bendito deals with MJF or should I say loses?

Should I say loses?

And that's it?

Man, That was ae W, That was WWE.

This was the Week in Wrestling on behalf of Jeff Die.

Oh wait, no, what do you have any closing thoughts, anything that you want to say, or just say peace to the people because I jabbered there for a long time.

No, no, no.

I love Powerhouse Hobbs and I love Folk.

I don't think they'd be a good tag team.

Kind of like what I was going to say earlier, you know, like I don't like them together.

There's two different things going on.

I love all you guys.

Thank you guys for talking wrestling with me all week.

All week, I think about wrestling all week.

I watch wrestling.

So when you guys correspond with me on the internet about it too, it makes me happy.

And that's it.

I'm happy to be on this pot and I'm happy to talk to you though.

That's Jeff.

I'm Freddie.

I'm bad of our producer Alex who rules.

Thank you, see you next week.

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