946, Penta, Oba Femi: 3 Things Working & Not Working in WWE | The Fight Game Podcast

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[SPEAKER_00]: it is time for the fight game podcast and I think this is only the second one that I've done since we rejoined fight game media and we were previously doing it on F4W online and I had to bring on Keela Cash from the rap because it's been a while since she's been

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[SPEAKER_00]: on hiatus with the rap and, you know, depending on work schedules, we can just say, it could be a long hiatus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about a prolonged hiatus, whatever you want to call it, but anyways, Kila, what is going on?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing good, good to be here tonight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a minute as we have a lot to talk about when it comes to WWE lately.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we haven't even really talked about money in the bank and I don't think I've talked about it at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we might as well start there, what we're going to do in a bit, by the way, is I ask he let a come up with a few things that she thinks are working fairly well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: in WWE and other things that may not be working fairly well because you know I will be honest and saying

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[SPEAKER_00]: probably since 2025 until now, I think WWE has just been kind of on a treadmill, creatively, they've been just putting out content, but there are things that are peaking my interest, not everything, but there are some things that are peaking my interest in, I thought it would be a good time to talk about those things, but before we even get there, what are your thoughts

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was okay, I mean, the opening match is great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that both money and the bank ladder matches disappointed a bit in terms of action.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know we have some crazy stunts, but I thought that both matches kind of underwhelmed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love the winner for the men's side, the women's side, the wrong choice was made on Saturday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and may the most sense she was over with the people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was a people's choice and then Tiffany got in there and she won and the crowd went mild.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, that was, you know, it was very predictable.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought to have Tiffany win.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought it would be easier to tell stories with Roxette as well, but maybe when it comes to the judgment day, they just aren't ready to tell those stories yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they are ready to pull the trigger on Tiffany and Chelsea green and you know, interestingly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was watching raw and I thought, okay, here's an opportunity to give Chelsea a strong win on television against a really good wrestler in Roxanne Perez.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this will set up this crown jewel match with live and Chelsea.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then rocks and one, it's like, wait, what's going on here?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand this is not normal booking.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So is Chelsea even going to make it to the next PLE or is Tiffany Caching sooner than later?

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a great question.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're about three weeks out from the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the rocks and winning was a way to say oops, we're in mistake on Saturday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And here we go to make things right at the expense of Chelsea Green.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So honestly, don't know what they're going to do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think about Tiffany Stratton.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think about

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[SPEAKER_01]: Possibly Nikki Bella in the mix as well because she's vying for that championship wanting a shot at Chelsea as well So it would not surprise me if Chelsea does not walk into crown jewel as champion by the way Are they doing that show At last check yes will it be in re-od I don't think so

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think the tennis tournament that was supposed to be in Riyadh was postponed according to Turkey's tweet from this morning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they postponed that for like two months.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's happening in like late December.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And just the other day, he praised Canelo for saying that he's going to keep the date to have the the boxing match that he's going to have I think it's like a a week before the WWE show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I thought that Canelo tweet was like a way of saying to WWE.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, if you guys are my friends, you guys are going to still come and do this show, but then the tennis tournament got pushed back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know what to think now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think with events with large crowds, it's a risk right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The airport is a hot target for attacks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you're holding this entire festival for the next six months, a lot of these events are outside.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of these events are indoors.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They are a lot of traffic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So to me, the safe bet is to, I don't know, who will be a vent from the country.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you would think, but

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[SPEAKER_00]: if they pull it, then Turkey has got to admit that something is going on, that is the reason, and I think he said something about the tournament like there was a scheduling thing or something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't even say that it was because of what's been happening at the airports and such.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I guess we'll have to wait and see, but I would not, I am, I would not want to be in the shoes of a Mark Shapiro or an Arya manual or a Nick Con or Triple A right now because imagine telling the powers that be that

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, our talent is pretty freaked out to go right now, like, what are we going to do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you got the other side saying, well, if you're my friends, you guys will make it and I'm paying you a lot of money so you should be here and I'm like, oh my god, I'm so glad I don't have to have any feedback and making that decision.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Me neither, but at the same time, I'm like, well, you guys, you have WrestleMania.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the biggest thing that you could possibly want.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Crown Jewel, we can do something else with that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that they'll find a way out, because I just don't see this being feasible in three weeks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I do wonder with the NBA Cs and starting, Arena's being booked for home games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Where do you go for a Crown Jewel in the United States?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the Atlanta dream in the WMBA figured out how to get at least two of those finals games and state farm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They did they move somewhere around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They said Hawks are going to start at 830 that night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they found a way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is not impossible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Keline, I may talk a little bit about the WMBA finals at the end of this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, what did you think about the men's money in the bank with a lot of the, let's set up these long spots and let's have people going through the top of ambulances.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought it was one of the,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dumber money in the bank matches have ever seen though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I did like the fact that like everyone was Climbing the ladder to get the briefcase and I do think that the right winner happened in that match

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When I thought that it was stupidly put together as well, a little bit to gimmicky for my taste.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that everybody worked hard, but I thought it was one of the more gimmicky money in the bank ladder matches I've ever seen as we're talking right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Javan is still setting up that 20 foot ladder to climate only to fall through an ambulance

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[SPEAKER_01]: Pinto one, Brian Breaker, balled out, and Javan had a viral moment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think that Javan viral moment will stand up against previous WWE historical moments or are people going to go?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Did my man just fall through the top of an ambulance?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think by this time next year with all due respect to my boy, I won't remember that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not a member of the moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not Jeff already falling off a ladder.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not Edge spearing somebody off a ladder high in the air.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was just a stunt and it was cool in the moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: the roof was so fake.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can tell it was made out of paper.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And therefore, I cannot say, I'm going to remember this as one of the greatest moments in WWE history.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just can't go there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, did you see Adam Copeland said 2027's going to be his final year?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw that we're going to go on the retirement tour.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad he's ending things in his terms.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to how many tributes he's going to be using from people he worked with across all companies.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, well, one, I caught his promo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, I know I'm not on the posters of teenagers anymore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, hmm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think you've been on posters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe since 1997, maybe it's be fair.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's be fair, Gigi 2001.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, 2001.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll buy that one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, like I wonder, you know, and in a way to get heat on on Copeland during his retirement tour is for somebody like MJF to go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't love you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like they love John Cena.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like Karimont told Paul Pierce.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't love you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like they love Kobe man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You would be the perfect person to say that only for Adam to give that man an A, A, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's talk about what we came here to talk about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I asked and we'll go back and forth here because you did three of each and we'll start positive and then we'll kind of go back and forth with what's working, what's not working.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I looked at what's working and I really like all three of them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I may bring up some kind of off the cuff as we're talking about it, but why don't you start?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is one of the things in WWE today right now that is currently working for you as a fan?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love everything about 946.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love the crew, I love the swag, I love the different energy they bring to Monday night raw.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The bloodline need to something for God's sake because if you're gonna run it back, let's make it somewhat interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the worst keys, leading this crew has been a great touch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now you're adding Carmelo Hayes to the mix who I think

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[SPEAKER_01]: has been sorely underutilized in WWE, but I think Triple H somewhere laughing on all of his burner accounts saying, you thought that I hated him, you thought I wanted him gone, think again, but I think this crew is definitely adding a sense of danger and excitement and their over and the fans are into it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's something fresh and different that we have not seen before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and the potential of this crew.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And as they continue to grow and multiply heading into war games, I'm here for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm very happy the voice keys has a say in the story who we want on this crew and how they can get themselves over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, when I saw Jada come out was like three weeks ago on raw two or three weeks ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and she was in, uh, in the parking garage or whatever and she came out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought I was like, oh my gosh, like if I was, you know, 18 years old again, like she would be the poster in, in my room, like Jada Parker said, I don't think they make posters anymore, but, uh,

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I was like, okay, so she's here, how do they utilize her, it's pretty clear that she was going to be involved in something about this and they were of course betting on the idea that the super internet hard course know that she and Jay so may or may not be an item in real life and so they're using that kind of like a little bit of edge to it for people to go, oh, maybe she's going to be with the bloodline and then as it turns out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nope, she is with 946, and I think she's a really, really good addition to that crew because I'm not quite sure About OTM necessarily like love their look, but they also have to wrestle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love rice keys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've been, you know, I've seen rice keys For years and years and years just being in the Bay Area like my always what I talk about will Hobbes my story is is that

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like when you are in that space of independent wrestling and John Leroco was booking it, so I would just hang out backstage and just hang out with him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Will Hobbs, like this giant, hooking dude would come up to you every single time and in the most polite way, introduce himself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is a wrestler thing, by the way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm in a guess that will Hobbes must have introduced himself to me at least four or five different times like the exact same way and so you it's like this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: like this really big guy and he's a wrestler and he's, you know, the mean spirited wrestler and then yeah at the same time nicest guy with like the softest handshake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I love that about independent wrestling and sort of the backstage of wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But so I've, you know, I've been rooting for this guy forever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I rooted for him in AEW.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know there were a lot of people who kind of questioned his decision to leave AEW.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't really question it myself because

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he was, he had pretty much peaked an A, W as far as what the, uh, the, the powers that be AKA Tony Khan thought about him, not that Tony treated him poorly or thought low of him, but I think he saw like, okay, I'm at this level and this is a good level, but there's a possibility that I can be at a bigger level.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now he's in WWE, he's in the main of an angle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he still has to get a big W like I would literally have a tag match on a big television show where he pins Roman Reigns.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if they're going to do that because my man is out there doing club Shea Shea and I don't know if you're going to get pinned if you do club Shea Shea that that may make sure that you don't ever get pinned again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, but that's, you know, I think that's kind of what before the war games, or maybe even post-war games, you know, having having keys get a pin on Roman in a way that would really, really set him up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because otherwise, then they become kind of like just the crew of the month.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, we saw this with LA Night, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: LA Night has been crowing for...

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[SPEAKER_00]: three years about how he never got the fair match against Roman and it was always the bloodline and then finally he gets his fair match and I was like, and then you don't even give my man an out, what is he gonna do now for the next three years?

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[SPEAKER_00]: He just pinned him flat like there wasn't even any shenanigans.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully that they can

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, they can continue to push Royce and this crew.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think about OTM as a tag team?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen them in NXT.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're now here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not here because of their work rate necessarily.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Though I don't think that they're bad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're bad wrestlers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But they're here because they have a specific look, big dudes, big jacked up dudes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They look mean.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think about their prospects on the current roster?

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a big gamble.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think there was more time to be had on NXT.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought they were just getting over as a team after disappearing for a bit from that show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now to thrust into the main event scene on WWE television, I don't think that's a bad thing because you are around season veterans that will help you get up to speed pretty quickly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I do love Brock O'Neighmer, a world of potential,

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[SPEAKER_01]: He does stand out and I think this will benefit them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to learn very quickly how to sync or swim.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Big test for them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a nicely buffed by WWE to at least elevate someone new and different.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a risk that could pay all they need reps in the ring matches on the road.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's essential for them to get over a long term as a viable tag team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I do like the potential of what they could be on the main roster.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then with Jada, like I think Jada is the good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I think she is one of the best prospects that they've had.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you're talking about a company that has just brought up low-of-ice and soul-ruke, though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think soul-ruke looks like a deer and headlight sometimes out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I think also she's been kind of booked poorly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But like there are like some really good prospects on the women's side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and yet to me, Jade is the best one of them all, but but she seems to be playing, actually I don't know what she's going to play.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to assume that it is tailored more like a marina shafir on with the deathwriters, but she is like mean face,

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[SPEAKER_00]: kind of the the woman of the team, but it's weird because the bloodline doesn't have a woman on their side, so it's not actually can face anybody.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not going to have the the man and woman violence necessarily.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it'll be interesting to see what she does.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't imagine she'll be wrestling matches anytime soon, just because it kind of ruins the gimmick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but at some point she will and i think because i think like i just think she's great i think she's got so much upside and but she can also play this role which is gonna be beneficial for probably for the long term for her

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, she's a great utility player.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's a great talker, very charismatic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the talking aspect is gonna be a strong suit for her in this crew.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I do like her in the marina role of being the ass kicker of the crew that when you see her, you know us on site.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When you see her, she's setting the tempo for the rest of the crew.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's gonna be a big difference to make her for her, at least not right now in the women's division, but being the pay center,

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[SPEAKER_01]: In the main event scene, being one of the key mouthpieces for this group, I think it makes sense in a long term.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But as you mentioned, there's not a woman on the bloodline side yet, rumors suggest someone could be coming back soon from maternity leave.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it would be, it would be a great moment because I think people...

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[SPEAKER_00]: sense that it's probably coming and surprises these days are often best when you kind of have the fans anticipating it and then when it finally happens then the fans were feel really smart and they're like, yes, I knew it even though everyone else knew it too but I like that part of you know when you when you when you do create these surprises because fans just feel smart and they

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's almost like, oh, WWE knows me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: WWE or AEW, you know, they get me there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're being really smart.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If I thought about this, and they did this, like, that makes a lot of sense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they, there's a trust there when this happens.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I always like it when they do that you mentioned Carmillo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Carmelo, I mean, you know, I've been a fan of Carmelo since back in the day of NXT.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What was his indie name, like Casanova, something or other?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was Casanova.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Christian Casanova.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it was, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I I didn't go that far back with him, but I know folks who who did you see him on the Indies as as that character, but I think, you know, right from the get go in NXT like, okay, this guy's really talented will his size be a detriment and I thought there were some.

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[SPEAKER_00]: some programs that he did on raw, I'm sorry, on SmackDown, they were really entertaining and he showed off all of the things that he had going in NXT, except it was just in the midcard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like there was the stuff with the Miz that was really entertaining.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had the US title and he was doing stuff with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it was good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then,

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[SPEAKER_00]: they start to phase him out a little bit and this is where people thought you know maybe he's got you know maybe he's not in the favor of tribulation more and then he shows up here i think he'd like blacked out his twitter something on monday before he showed up uh i i think it was really smart to bring him in but they do need one more guy right they need one more player to to match the five

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it makes sense in that moment for it to happen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think WWE played it smart.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can totally see this for unreal season four.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How we play the internet to make you think that Carmelo was on the Alson WWE, the Triple H Aided him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think about Shawn Michaels and he's always going to look out for people his size, saying, listen, I know talent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think this is the perfect.

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[SPEAKER_01]: spot for mellow to shine as a heal as a part of this crew, another very good worker, a great talker as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And on SmackDown, despite the disappearance of him on TV recently, I think back to the feet with Andrade almost two years ago.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Great matches, Ilya.

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[SPEAKER_01]: we know he's going to go eminently, but gray series of matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now I think he's going to benefit greatly on a show full of great workers he can work with and have great matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm trying to think of who could be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: like if they're gonna go five on five, like who could be the fifth?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that they will do put the women in with the with the men.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that they would do that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they maybe they will.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you could be, you know, I guess you could be pretty smart about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, you've watched NXT.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there anybody at NXT who kind of fits the look and the feel of nine four six?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Two people could possibly do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Could be Dionlinx.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that one before, I've heard that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you really want to, like, juice, spice, cruise, Montana.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mmm, that's an interesting one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Huh, yeah, that's a real interesting one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's go with one of the things that is not really working for you these days in WWE.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, God.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The tag team scene across both shows not including NXT because they're trying with the dusty cup, which has been very good to watch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Lord, who are the teams?

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[SPEAKER_01]: The champions are just there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's very undercooked underseasoned.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You release basically half of your tag teams over the last six months.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's depleted.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a mess across the board between Ron Smackdown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have champions with theory and Ron Breaker who've been champs for a hundred days have not defended the titles once in

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[SPEAKER_01]: The MFTs on SmackDown in a rudder list of vision of a bunch of nobody's is just do you guys care about tag team wrestling?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you care to invest in teams?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you care to showcase tag team wrestling on your shows?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because it's not like you don't have the time to do so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's kind of crazy because in AEW, they have a great tag team scene.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, they still have not done the thing that I've wanted to see, which is where the tag team belts are elevated so high that maybe they may invent a show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The women's title have yet to do that with the women's title either, but yeah, it's almost like WWE.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They've kind of punted it until and how WWE will reinvigorate it is they'll have a storyline where a singles wrestler will need a tag team partner and then they'll win the tag titles and like that's all of a sudden the tag division's back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, you know, it's kind of disappointing because, you know, if I, one of the things that we'll talk about in a second is, is Penta, which is on your list.

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[SPEAKER_00]: one of the things for me that is really working is Chad Gable versus a luchador in the middle of raw.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's almost always the best match on the show and what you could do on SmackDown is you can build some young tag teams and you could let them go for those 15 minutes once a show in the middle of the show and let them have a great match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fraxium versus whomever and just do that on SmackDown like so you have a really good wrestling match on raw and you have a really good wrestling match on SmackDown except on SmackDown it'll be tag teams and like they can do stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know why they don't because what really has reinvigorated raw for me is knowing that I'm going to get a match that I'll be able to invest in, where a strong baby face is going to have a really good match and you could do the same thing on some act then with tag teams and they just don't do it for whatever reason.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and there is no excuse because I don't care if it's two hours to re hours when it was 25 years ago when you had the SmackDown 6, the SmackDown Tag team division was hot and you had two hours and you had showcase matches every single week involving the SmackDown 6.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can absolutely have frax him in a showcase match every single week against the quality tag team to get some teams over and yet and still they don't do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to hear one complaint about, we don't have enough time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have the time, book your division accordingly, and try to make something stay out in your show to make me tolerate three hours every Friday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, 100%.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That has for me, especially on a weekend like last weekend where I was like, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna give them three hours on Saturday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do I really wanna give them two hours on Friday?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll just be good with Saturday and know that more than likely nothing's gonna happen on Friday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if it does, then I'll see it on Saturday anyways because it'll be part of the story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that has been SmackDown for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I would love to have a reason to watch SmackDown or to be forced to watch SmackDown.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this thing is happening on SmackDown.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of have to check it out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then that hasn't really been the case.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know for some people, it's Sami Zayn.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really believe in this story at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I struggle with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm also not really into these CM Punk matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know he likes having these long matches, but my man can, my man, he doesn't quite walk like me, but he's close and

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, you know, I watched some of these guys like that ladder match at money in the bank.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like he and Kevin Owens, I was like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you got you guys don't have to do this like like leave this kind of match to some of the younger guys and you guys just do a different match because I was kind of sad kind of similar though not as bad or this one was a little bit worse, but when Copeland and Christian were in that that ladder match with the young bucks and with with FTR.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just felt bad for those guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, man, you have to jump off of these ladders.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know your body hurts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Copeland tonight said that Christian broke three ribs and broke one of them in multiple spots.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and collapsed as long goes like my Jesus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is not necessarily you guys are you guys will make the same amount of money No matter what and you can just have like a normal tag team match and go 13 minutes and win with your finish and be good But sort of the same thing with punk and no ones.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just thought like why are you guys in this match?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to prove anything to anybody that you don't have to prove that you can hang with these young boys Could you really can't in a match like this anyways just just let leave it to some other people, but

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so I agree with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So pen to let's talk about pen to because I a pen to versus Roman on Raw was one of my favorite matches of the year and had pen to one that match it might have been like a top three favorite match of the year for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do wonder, though, if they could ever run that back with him and Roman and have him win, though, again, going back to Club Sheshe, I don't think Romans losing any time soon, being in Street Fighter and then going on Club Sheshe, but Penta is going to win the world title at some point, and it makes sense to happen on SmackDown.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it'll be off a Sammy, I don't know if it'll be off a punk or whomever it

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm really into him and I remember, so I was at the second ever Netflix Raw, I think.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the first one was in, uh, into it, yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, no, no, it wasn't in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, it wasn't in it and I think the second one was in San Jose.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I remember being at that show and and J. Uso is over like crazy with the kids.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I remember Penta having a match and like doing a long interview and thinking like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: they may actually give him a shot now it's been you know it's been a little while since then but seeing him and where he's how how far he's come until now has been tremendous he's very talented he's George Kiddles favorite wrestler

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just hope that they do not screw this thing up because I think now we know what we know it was with Jay Uso last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We know how hot that felt and everything but

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jay didn't really deliver in the ring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Triple H was getting mad at him for Huffin and Puffin so often on the unscripted show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so now you have a similar opportunity, though, you know, the crowd is not necessarily yeet crazy like they were with Jay, but they're still very much into Penta.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you give another opportunity to take a guy who may not have been your quote

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[SPEAKER_00]: top guy, but the fans are kind of choosing him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to see how far they can go with Penta, but they have to give him wins over top people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the thing that I'm kind of afraid that won't happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But what do you think is the upper limit with this guy?

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[SPEAKER_01]: He should be world champion sometime between now and early next year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that is where they need to slot him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's a big vote of confidence for him to win money in the bank.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think Mexico was a revelation of, oh my God, this guy is incredible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's over the people adore him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if he won that night in Mexico, my God, the return money you would make from life in that country would have been incredible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they missed a boat on that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But now you have to kind of do the remix and see what we do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you can do with a secondary coronation, which I'm totally fine with, but you only get one shot sometimes to make a true star.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it doesn't mean they still can't do it in a different way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love Penta.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's been one of my faves for a very long time dating back to his work in a W. Several years ago.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And his first night on Monday night raw.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nearly two years ago in San Jose.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember the match against Chad Gable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember the promo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I knew then that the people locked in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They loved his passion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They loved his work rate.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's so over to the point that dude has

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[SPEAKER_01]: that's how over he is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm happy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess the thing about it, because it always makes me go back to when Stephanie McMahon was like, you know, we knew Daniel Bryan was the goods all along and we just set that whole thing up because we knew I was like, no, you didn't, you guys had no idea.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think Triple H is smarter than Vince was with this stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he can sense this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a little bit ear to the street, then Vince was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, you know, he's had his own troubles with stuff over the last couple of years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think as a as a someone to get behind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And for a feather behind Triple H just cap, this would be a good one for him, especially with the Hispanic market because as we know, the new television ratings, they are, they, they, and Neil says they were undercounting the Hispanic market.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, you know, put, put, pen to over on that show and let's see, let like let, let's see it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then,

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[SPEAKER_00]: yo you know what you also have your back pocket when we can go back to this tag team thing that we were talking about you can bring you can put the lucha bros back together and pentas hot like crazy and they will mean a lot if you book them strongly as well so i think it's just a win win just put them over there now just put them on uh put them on smack down and let's cook man like a cupian back in the day with Eddie and Ray on time

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[SPEAKER_01]: And those viewership numbers in the Spanning population with sky high, like we need to run it back to those times, it'll be a great mix.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I do want to acknowledge WWE and probably Mark Calaway for booking AAA for getting Ray Phoenix out of the vortex of nowhere and getting him back on television.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now he's so great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They say, well, now you can be on all shows, sir, and just deliver bangers across all shows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: three nights a week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have at it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's another one that is not working for you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh dear.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The women's division collectively across both shows again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a booking mess for the last year or so and it's due to injuries.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's due to champions who are not over, due to bad booking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is at the feet of Paula Vek, aka Triple H, because I think that he relied so heavily on Rhea and EO for so long, and then when Rhea goes out, when Bianca goes out, like, what do you have?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you have pieces.

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[SPEAKER_01]: there, but you're not utilizing them properly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the biggest dunk was your own television partner before SummerSlam telling the world that your women's world champion live Morgan had not had a single defense in a hundred days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is an indictment on you, sir, and your team for not doing your job.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and the fans want to attack the talent when they should be attacking the people booking set talent because you have them doing nothing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have challengers not on television.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have people not being used at all and you wonder why the division feels cold because you're not utilizing what you have to your fullest potential.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not because of a lack of talent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're just not pushing them accordingly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, give me your top three who would you be pushing really, really hard right now that you believe could get over now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Reus coming back at some point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When she comes back, I think she's going to be, you know, lightning hot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's been away for a decent amount of time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you think of

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ria, EO, I think Becky has lost a little bit of Luster.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Stephanie Vicar has lost a little bit of Luster, but who would you actually add to that top mix?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, let's let Charlotte and Alexa chill in the tag team because I think they're good there and Charlotte.

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[SPEAKER_00]: kind of getting back into the main event mix would probably there would be some backlash there because you know the the way that she normally is booked I think people have a problem within and it will stop her from being the baby face that she is right now so let's remove her out of that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jade is will will be back in the mix as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So but who else would you put into that like top four or five?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would push J.C. Jane from SmackDown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's United States champion doing Jacknata, nothing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She is so much better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, then I ever imagined.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, she would be from NXT.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, this woman is so good in her character.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you know, the wrestling is solid.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think she can still improve, but the character is awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Her character work is some of the best.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think in all of WWE,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, immediately low device, I think has turned into a great worker and can get over easily.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I still believe in soul.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's had some yips on the main roster.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I still believe in soul.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Lyra Vakiria, I do not love this new character, but I think she's so great as a wrestler that I would push her alongside Roxanne.

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[SPEAKER_01]: These are people that you can heat up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think about Julia too, and Blake and Blake Monroe from SmackDown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Great workers, Jordan Grace, what are we doing there?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's heat people up that can work and can get over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: yet you know going back to the thing about having that one good match like if you let the women have a good match and you know you worked with them and you and you put it together help them put it together in a very smart way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Lyra is a really good wrestler.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just think her character right now is just too over the top and yeah I'm not a fan of it, but I just you know, there's so many there's so much good talent there And they're all just in the middle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's you can't have everybody in the middle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like somebody's got to be hired in the middle But everybody's just in the middle and nobody is sort of allowed to get beyond that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if they're just like well

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, no one could get hotter than Rhea and Rhea's not there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we might want, we're not going to waste that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, I don't, I don't understand, like, you know, going back to the booking, Stephanie of a care had something when she came.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But doing stuff like having her call out to other women and adding them to a match where she is now

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[SPEAKER_00]: in a handicap position, and then having her lose that match, that is how you destroy baby faces.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if she face live one on one, as much as I hate this judgment day stuff that they do with all the interference, at least you give Stephanie Vikaran out to say, oh, yeah,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not, you know, in this way where you call your shot and then you lose.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like that is just such bad booking of a baby face.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So stuff like that just kills these wrestlers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know why they do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, LA night, lost, clean, 70 of a care loses.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Looks like a goofball, those type of,

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[SPEAKER_00]: performances.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like I know WWE is like, well, they're over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they'll be fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, yeah, but they're not going to be as over as they were all because of the decision in which you had them lose.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's the part that I don't like because like there's this talent.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's so much talent there and they book them as if they're not important.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's my biggest issue too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Stephanie, I think it might be a combination of bad booking in injuries, pulling up a bit, still not having like you know the reps needed to get back in the spring of things because she's been out for a while now and you have these staggered matches here and there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the bad bookings Saturday, like you call your shot, as you said, and then you miss.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you want to cry about it on Monday night, raw to Becky, you can't because you made this decision.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you wanted to want to one match, you pick Becky, you pick Liv, you pick one of them, and then you fall in your sword.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what you do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But because your book like an idiot, no thought of your own, people are going to care less about you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the higher-ups wonder, why aren't you over because you book them like fools?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's your fault.

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[SPEAKER_00]: can't agree.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, what is your last thing that is working here?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oprah Famie, you know, I think they've hit gold with someone that is sincerely over with the audience.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's also someone that's very charismatic can talk and he's such an easy talker that he can make some corny stuff sound cool and so keep smooth and I love that about him and I know they're just biting their time into WrestleMania and it's going to be like

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[SPEAKER_01]: sizzling, heat it crowd like we were having the USA.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be inside of your Arabia and they might care somewhat but not enough for me to really say, hey, this is his moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They'll try their best.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They'll shine up, they'll shine up the best where they can.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But despite that, despite that future in the present, he's just over and I like him so much and I think that he is the next guy up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is such a breath of fresh air.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The thing that I worry about, and I'm comparing him to Brock Lesnar from 2000 and 2000.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because Brock was very much pushed the same way, except I don't remember him losing, like before he got to the rock at Summerslam.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There is a, there's going to be a time where the anticipation for over to win is going to turn into the fans going like, oh, we actually want Roman to win this match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: like that's just how fans are today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so there's going to be like this interesting and how he deals with the shift maybe in in some of the naysayers being like, okay, WWE forced him down our throats and now we're going to turn on him a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I sense that it's coming only because I don't think that they can keep him this over this long until next March or next April.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He has made a couple of like really tiny mistakes, but they're really not his own fault.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is just he is very young in the business and he's a little green.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think there's going to be a little bit of backlash on the road to WrestleMania.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Roman is so slick with his promos.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to get some of that fan base, but then again, who knows?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because it is going to be in Saudi Arabia, and it's not going to be in front of a US or a hardcore international wrestling crowd.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I do sense that there's going to be some people who just kind of want Roman to win that match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Michael Jordan versus Magic Johnson in the finals when it was like Michael's time, and there was still a little piece of me that was like, but magic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What about magic?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think there might be some of that with this match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But of course, the smart business decision is to have oba beat Roman.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Brock Lesnar was maybe the greatest single wrestling prospect that I'd ever seen in my life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and over the time of him getting to Somerslam to face the rock when he got there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like

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[SPEAKER_00]: But do I want him to beat the rock?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not quite sure I want him to beat the rock here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think I just think there's going to be some of that with Roman.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So nothing, they've done almost everything right, except for having a Brock beat him that one time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I did not like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think Brock needed it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think the story needed it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think we needed three matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But since then, it's everything has been, I think pretty spot on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we'll see where they go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got, I'm sure he's going to go through.

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... the rest of the vision at at some point um... though that they'll heat folks up maybe maybe drew macatyr comes back to it to raw and you can have him versus over as like a early uh... program or late twenty twenty six program before roman rains like i think that would be a good thing because drew with such a such a great wrestler and he'll have hill uh... help oba step his game up as well on the way to get to roman so

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything is going right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just hope that they can keep them momentum going to WrestleMania.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Your fears are valid because I will share the same concerns you have.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I do fear the potential backlash because people think

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[SPEAKER_01]: maybe you're being overpushed, and this is too obvious, and I don't want it, and I'm going to be defiant, and I'm going to say, go Roman, go at WrestleMania.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is a possibility.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the biggest mistake outside of Brock winning that one match earlier this year to even the series for whatever reason, which was dumb, but we got a continued story to get to the trilogy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They kind of put themselves in a pickle by having over when King of the Ring, because now we have the warrior rumble to consider an Arizona in February.

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[SPEAKER_01]: is he going to win the warrior rumble even though technically you already have a shot at the title that you already relinquished.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then we have elimination chamber.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it kind of muddies the waters as to how do we get to our other championship match of WrestleMania because technically Oba can cash in this shot anytime he pleases, but they've kind of warmed it down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I also wonder, I think it'd be really cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if they would do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if they think that this would kind of take away from Oba's moment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But what if you had someone like Brownbreaker on the other side do sort of the same thing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you have two young world champions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know that in the future, they're gonna be each other's biggest foe, for years and years and years that John Cena versus Randy Orton kind of feud.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I still want, yeah, and this is where kind of like we were talking about pen to like we're just pen to fit in these plans like they they are obviously pushing over and have been pushing over and brown breaker as thought for future main Avengers for a while now, but then you kind of get this thing with pen to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, now we got a strike with the air and hot here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Does that throw off any plans.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I still think.

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, Ron Breaker and Obofemi and even trick Williams to an extent though, you know, I don't know that they've been doing a great job with him, like those are kind of the three guys on the men's side that you're kind of circling as like your future top guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, maybe you can throw Penta into that mix.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that's the stuff that I'm interested.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, who do they believe are next?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because, you know, CM Punk and is great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's always gonna draw.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't necessarily need to see CM Punk wrestle often.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I've seen him wrestle enough in my life in this version of Punk who struggles athletically to say the least.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't a great athlete when he was young, but guys like Punk and

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[SPEAKER_00]: as much as I like KO, like sort of similar, like I've seen so many KO matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure that he means a ton, even though I thought him coming back at Summerslam was fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a great story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, but yeah, like I think they need the, you know, they need the, these new, these new guys coat how long is Cody going to stick around Roman is already, you know, not there often though he is there often enough because he still gets the DJ get to pop, and he's he's really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, the kind of the future is is interesting to me on the men's side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, what is your last one for not working?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Triple H second guessing everything in the last year and a half.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it goes back to the bra and breaker of it all dating back to this year's Warrior Rumble because we could have had the bra and breaker push this year dating back to the first Monday night raw of 2026 when you could have had him beat punk for the championship.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we could have had the bra and breaker won it run.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and he would not be in the shadow of Oprah family today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know injuries happen could have been preventable perhaps possibly maybe, but you had an opportunity at the top of this year to do everything you wanted to do to push Braunbreaker.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Paula Vack on Unreal says, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe the people will turn on him really.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I doubt it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see it like dude get out of here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Second guessing Roxanne Perez is victory at money in the bank.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A slam dunk that would have had her I don't know cash in during the trip with the right match to screw over the lips so we can finally blow up judgment day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That kind of second guessing everything leading up to WrestleMania this year was filled with second guessing and doubting oneself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Trust your first instinct.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's usually right and don't swirl just to think you got one over on us because it's a detriment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Lady B, I'm laughing because

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why do you think he's growing his hair out after all this time?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, maybe he doesn't want to be called a ball fraud, but star.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You cut your hair because you knew it was going to receive at some point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Give up the ghost, shave your head.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think that it's possible that he is seeing guys around his age and he may even be a little

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like John Cena, Tom Brady, Tom Cruise, he's actually younger than Tom Cruise.

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[SPEAKER_00]: These guys are all of a sudden have this luscious head of hair, kind of out of the blue in some cases.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder if he thinks like, hey, man, like, I need to figure this out because, you know, when I do this unreal show, you know, I need to look and look my best life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if we remember the Triple H character from back in the day that man had his hair in a ponytail half the time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: what if he's trying to get back to those days?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let it go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, listen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He made a business decision back in 2012 when he went corporate and he put on a suit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You made the decision to shave your head because you saw your best friend Sean Michaels increasingly go bald and he fought it until he couldn't.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You were proactive.

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[SPEAKER_01]: do not backslide now and brace bald.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is beautiful, sir.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It has worked for you for the last 15 years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why are you trying to change your mind now?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Leave the Turkish airplane alone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Please.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Or what if he's like the rock is now bald?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Stone Cold Steve Austin is now bald.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I need to zag.

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[SPEAKER_00]: like I need to stand there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a rug.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just just weird to me now as this is why I don't like I can't find fault with him because, you know, he's a few years old as me, but I like I have all my hair and it hasn't gone gray yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: thankfully I'm like I'm not someone who's like oh I can't you know I can't go I'm going to go gray when it goes gray it just hasn't yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm not in his shoes to wear, you know he had to deal with this before and maybe he's had issues with having to be bald maybe he doesn't like shaving his head every day maybe he's like you know he wants one more run he knows he can't wrestle so maybe it's a hair a hair run but yeah I don't know

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, you see a lot of the women in wrestling today wearing the extensions or Jays has talked about the wigs that she wears.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My man could get a piece or a wig or something, like show some solidarity with some of your wrestlers there and just like, comes out with a silver, silver wig, like Jays, that'll be kind of cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The the next show, which we're not sure is going to happen as crown jewel.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I think it's war games after that, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think you and Scott are going to try and get to get get back together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we'll just do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If I can make sure I'll have to check my schedule, maybe we'll all just do it together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That would be that would be kind of fun to do it together again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I missed that dude, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like he, you know, he's in the discord.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Discord Scott is not nearly as funny as podcast real life Scott like Discord Scott is a look like he I think he feels like he's got a like

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[SPEAKER_00]: he's got to like hold it down for for WWE and so he gets a little defensive about stuff but like podcast got like he's cracking jokes and he you guys have your your chemistry.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I miss that and so maybe we'll maybe we'll bring it bring it back together after Summerslam that that weekend or sorry survivors here is that weekend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That would be fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I guess we got one more thing that I want to talk about, which is not wrestling related.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you are not down with the WNBA, though, you should be, you can probably turn off the podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, but my Golden State Valkyries are in the WNBA finals.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And only their second season in the WNBA against the Atlanta dream.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Kila, how long have you been following the WNBA as a fan?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Since his inception back in 1997, so I've been through the early rough lean years, and now I am here for the Bloom period.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the Atlanta dream, uh, you know, they have had a really good season overall.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I thought that they were going to get out of that side of the bracket.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Though I think they had as good of a chance as anybody because I like I was just trying to pay attention to the Valkyrie side of the bracket because I'm like, oh my gosh, the link.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Aces.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was just hoping for Caitlyn because I have like, I know it can smoke the fever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was just so worried about that side and then I was like oh my gosh, Atlanta dream undefeated in there first two playoff rounds like this is this is an incredible story and I almost feel like

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're kind of Valkyrie's ask a little bit in the way that they play.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like if you look at the numbers and such, like both teams play really good defense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The turnovers for both teams have really been down this playoff series.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you have the Valkyrie's who went five and one and the dream who went five and no.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the Valkyries did beat the dream all three times during the regular season, but I feel like that was a different dream team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a little bit of a different Valkyries team, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What are your thoughts on the upcoming seven game or that starts on Saturday?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think the dream have a really good shot to win this whole thing?

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[SPEAKER_01]: They have a really good shot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is your best shot in a very long time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If not ever, because they have the team, they have the shooters, they have the defense to have the coach to really possibly win the whole thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm very happy for this team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I will be very bold in saying they want the greatest trades in a Lannus sports history was getting injuries.

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[SPEAKER_01]: what a difference maker she has become for this team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now she's shooting threes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Watch out, league.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's shooting the deep ball and she's hitting it accurately.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's making her free throws.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, come on like her game is becoming fully complete and I love the fact that we're so big now we're going to stay far.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank God, because 3,500 people in college park is not the move, but I'm glad we moving back up to stay far from we got the arena for the first couple of games of the playoffs, but best of seven series is new territory for all of us as WNBA fans.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I expect a great series.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we're going maybe six potentially seven.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I expect one of these teams to still a home game in this series, and it might be the dream.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am contemplating going to game two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what those tickets are going to look like yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If I see a sticker price, I may not contemplate that long, but my goal is to be out there and to just kind of be hitting the refresh on the ticket apps until game time and see who's like, oh my gosh, I can't sell this ticket.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to give it away for a decent price.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I've never experienced an NBA finals.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've been to Warriors playoff games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I went to one San Francisco Giants World Series game in 2014 and they lost, so maybe I might be bad luck.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Never been to a Super Bowl.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Never been to, I've been to sharks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: trying to think of a verb in a shark's playoff game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I might have been in a shark's playoff game, but like a long time ago, but I've definitely been to shark's regular season games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So this might be the opportunity to go to a finals game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm really thinking about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to take my kid.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I might be out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do a Valkyrie's podcast as well, that thing is going through the roof, like it is incredible how many people are out there who just want to hear Valkyrie stuff and really it's also because there's not a ton of it like the Valkyrie's as hot as they are right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the warriors and the 49ers and the giants are still a little bit of a higher echelon to like the casual fan base in San Francisco, but to basketball fans, like basketball fans have noticed the Valkyrie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's been it's been awesome to watch the season and like whenever when can you ever say that you've watched every single game of a franchise, because I've watched every single game that they've

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's only been two years, but I've watched every single game, so it's like telling this origin story has been a blast too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm dialed in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm ready to go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm ready for angel to get on my nerves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm ready for her to foul one of our players and knock them down and then go up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My bad, I didn't really mean that, Brianna Stewart, let me help you up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then at the same time, just grab every stinkin' rebound, possible and, you know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do wonder how they are going to play her in the corner with those three so are they going to let her shoot them like every other team does are they going to go like no we're going to defend you out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because you know she makes it and she's shooting the bow on the whole bench on the other side and she you know I we just did a show and I said she's the X factor for the whole series because in the three games that they played in the regular season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She had some good statistical games, but her plus minus was uh, was not good for all three games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if she plays like she played in that game three against New York, or I'm like, she's making shots, she's getting rebounds, she's shooting three, she's running the floor, she's beating everybody down the floor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's getting John Quell Jones so mad that John Quell Jones wants to like chess bumper out of bounds like she's doing a lot of stuff and you know, she kind of reminds me a little bit of the way that Dremon antagonizes other teams from the warriors.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that stuff works and and Dramon is a really good player and Angel Reese is a really good player so when you can back it up it works even better because the other team is mad that you're antagonizing them and then mad that you're busting their ass and it's like double mad so I mean I'm looking forward to it and I guess at least you're gray her fingers going to be okay it's going to be okay so it looks tentative she should start hopefully game one I'm looking forward to it because you need her points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You need a point stab a fighting chance shooter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He needs shooters man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hurren Howard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and Jordan Canada has been playing really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, very impressive in this series against New York stepped up big time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, Kayla, we're going to have to continue to have these conversations offline during the series, and who knows, maybe I'll maybe somebody will not be around.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you want to jump on for a little bit and one of the one of the, one of the Valkyries shows and give the dream side of things until one of my one of my other co-host makes it because he's covering the show are covering the game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's got to stay through.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the he's got to stay through all the post the post show pre or the press conference stuff after the game and because of the playoffs that stuff is extended because you have more media there so it just takes him longer so if you have some time after after game one let me know and maybe I'll bring you on just so we could talk about both teams but okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for doing this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so glad that we were able to talk to WWE.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't talked to you about this stuff in a little while and I missed it and I'm so happy that we were able to do it now the next things just got to get Scott back and we can do it to the three of us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a pleasure as always.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The plan is for Skyt and I to come back together Force of our series were games Thanksgiving weekend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you can join in as well, it'll be a party.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll talk about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe we can pop the 946, beating the bloodline in were games in Houston.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There we go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks to everybody who was checking us out on YouTube.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also on the audio feed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fight game podcast is back on the fight game media audio feed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And tomorrow night, Paul and I will be back on take down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Saturday, Jeremy and I will be back on the fight game podcast talking about Russell dream.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So lots of stuff in this feed and on our YouTube

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[SPEAKER_00]: Forkila, I am WG.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We will see you when we see you piece out.