Lucha Talk IX

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Come on, Tommy Antha, Welcome to another edition of Lou
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chack O Macho. This is episode nine. We got a
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little bit of a facelift here. I also cut myself
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shaving today, so sorry about that. But listen, guys, I'm
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so excited to jump on here. As you can see,
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I decided to use my TikTok background as the background
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for this podcast because a lot of my interaction with
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you are done exactly right here in this kitchen, and
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this is exactly where I feel like I have my
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best ideas. So why not jump into this podcast talking
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about three of the most divisive and polarizing stories in
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professional wrestling today. And right off the bat, we're gonna
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start with Cody Roads. And the reason we're jumping into
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Cody Roads is because, well, to be quite honest with you,
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I don't know if WWE is pulling the trigger too early.
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You see, every single one of us wants to see
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Drew McIntyre face Cody Roads one on one. We want
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that because we know that while Roman Rings is out,
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who carries WWE, Well that's none other than MacIntyre himself,
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and guys, to be quite honest with you, I don't
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know if there's a another wrestler that's step up to
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go against Cody and actually take these booze that can
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actually deal with them, or that might actually flip Cody's
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fan base, because a lot of people seem to really
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think that well Cody, that he's just the uber babyface,
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he'll never be a bad guy. And it took me
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a while to jump on board here, But I want
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to tell you the reason that I feel like this
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actually is who now is because I view Cody in
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a different light. You see, I view Cody as eighties
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and early nineties Sting. That's how I view him right now,
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and I think that that's a massive compliment given to
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Cody Rhads from someone like me who talks about Sting
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as if he's the greatest of all time. He is
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my personal favorite wrestler to ever compete in this sport.
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You see Sting. If not for him, I wouldn't even
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be watching professional wrestling. I wouldn't even be doing that.
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I don't know what I would be into. I know
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I'm a massive football fan. I know that I love
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baseball to the point where I played my entire life
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and now my son plays. He plays the exact same
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position that I played. But I gotta be honest with
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you guys. When I look at Cody and I look
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at this baby face run, I think of Sting. I
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think of that Sting that was the world heavyweight champion
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when he faced Ravishing, Rick Rude, when he faced Big
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Van Vader, when he faced Big Bubba Rodgers, when he
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faced Lex Luger, when he faced Rick Flair. I think
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that he was underappreciated because he came up in a
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time in which there were big guys in the WWF,
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and then there were big guys in WCW, and he
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was supposed to be the face of it all. He
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was the franchise. And that's exactly what I'm calling Cody Roads.
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Cody Roads is the franchise. Screw this whole QB one nonsense.
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That is just ah, just ridiculous. I hate the the
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QB one thing. And just for a while there, you
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were the second or third option in terms of us
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watching the business watch this company. You can't call yourself
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QB one. You were more QB one the way Jimmy
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Garoppolo was QB one to the San Francisco forty nine ers, Like, yeah,
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you were the guy, but it was until another guy
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came along and they were waiting for their rock party. So, guys,
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do you think that Drew McIntyre and Cody Rhoads going
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one on one is too early? Because here's what I
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see happening. And I think WWE has done a really
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great job of casing this specific thing, which is I
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don't think they care about wins and losses anymore. I
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think it matters, but just a little bit. I don't
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think that it is the end all be all for
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a great wrestler anymore. I think that when WWE comes
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to wins and losses, they don't want you to think
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of like the rankings like the Jacksonville Company does. They
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want you to just see it as like, Okay, this
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guy's on top, he's winning, but whatever. And the reason
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I feel this way is because I do believe that
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they still have massive plans for someone like Jade Cargill,
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and I think they still view her as a big
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time star. I can't, for the life of me, understand
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why she took that l in seven minutes clean to
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the Sydney sweet of professional wrestling, but I get it.
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They just don't believe she's read my only come with
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that is, for get that Rajo. Did you have her
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win the Queen of the Ring? Then what was the
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purpose you could have literally had Osca put over Tiffany
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the same way Oscar's already established He's an all time great.
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She's a fucking legend. It's not only at the ENDO.
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And that's kind of why I'm talking about this right now,
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is because I believe that WWE could be massive mistake
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in halting Drew McIntyre. But what we saw is the
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guy took two l's to see impunk and it didn't
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hurt him at all, not even a little bit. I
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don't want him to take these back to back to
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back losses like Seth Rollins did to Cody Rhodes, but
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I believe he is in the space and professional wrestling
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that in l wouldn't hurt him the same way it
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would hurt someone like a La Knight if he continued
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to lose every world title opportunity he got. I think
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Drew McIntyre is at a point career where every single
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person that watches him knows that he's a top guy.
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And as much as I wanted this to be true,
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I feel like it's no longer true. I always thought
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to myself, well, Damien Priest is the Underta for this era,
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And no, I didn't think about it that way because
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of the meme that followed him about being the bisexual Undertaker.
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I just thought it because he just he was old
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enough to just be the guy who, Hey, we need
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somebody steady to carry this championship. I need somebody steady
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to carry this feud. And that's where you come in.
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And the more and more I thought about it, I
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was like, you know what Drew is this era's Undertaker.
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That's exactly what he is. He's the guy that you
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throw into a feud if you're really trying to get
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someone over. And to be quite honest with you, Cody
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Rhoades and Drew mckensire, although the stories don't perfectly align,
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it kind of reminds me of stone Hold, Steve Austin
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and The Undertaker. They're feud with each other pre the
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corporate min We're talking like Highway to Hell, like that
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version of their feud. I felt like, is what we're
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getting right now. It's a bunch of fans that love
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both characters. But to be quite honest, I believe that
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the Babyface this comes out on top, and that's it.
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I mean, it's that simple. I'm excited for this feud.
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I think the promos are gonna be stellar. I think
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we've tapped into a version of Cody Rhodes that we
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have been looking for for quite some time, which is
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we wanted Cody to just have an edge. You can
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be a babyface, you can be that white meat babyface,
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but you have to have an edge. You can't get
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torched all the time. And his first run, I felt
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like he didn't win a single promo battle, not a
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single one. That cannot happen again. All right, Just let
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this man torch people the way he did on the Independence,
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the way he did in aw the way he did
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in TNA, the way he did in New Japan. Let
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him just completely shred people because we've seen him do it. Now.
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I brought up a name earlier and I wanted to
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talk about him, and that was Seth Rollins. Now I'm
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under the impression, based on the traffic that I see
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on the Internet, that Seth Rollins is the least interesting
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part of the vision that wrestling fans feel like brown
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breakers smashing people and the shoe La Falla, the tribal thief.
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Bronson Reid are the vision and guys, if you really
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feel this way, let me throw this story out to you.
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What if WWE's they love recycling gimmicks and recycling storytelling
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because God forbid, their creative can just have a little
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bit of a diversity. God forbid, their creative can just
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have some come up with a new story. Since they
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needed to repeat SummerSlam twenty thirteen with Randy Orton cashing
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in on Daniel Bryant right after he won the championship,
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I mean, that's what we're doing, right then, why not
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redo the Judgment day story. Let's have them kind of
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lose a feud and then introduce a new member, only
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to have braun Breaker jump on the mic and kick
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out seth Rawlins, like, get out of here. You're the
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weak link. We didn't need you, we needed your name.
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We got your name, Now get out of here. I
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think that's the best way to keep seth relevant because,
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to be quite honest, I just don't believe that seth
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Rawlins can carry this. When I look at seth Rowlins,
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I think I want to use his words. I don't
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want to use speculation. I want to use ypotheticals. I
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want to use his words. I want to use Kobe
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Lopez's words. He will never be appreciated for what he
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provides professional wrestling because he's coming up in the Roman
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Reigns era. And when we were supposed to go from
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the Roman era to probably the Seth era, we went
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from Roman to Cody. This is the American Nightmare era.
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We don't know how much longer the American Nightmare is
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going to be on top, but what we do know
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is that Seth reminds me a lot of Triple H's
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promo against Edge. Do you remember when they had the
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authority versus like Edge when he was like retired, was
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the top of the ramp and he said, yeah, you
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were a multiple time champion, but you never drew a dime.
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And listen, I know that a lot of us are
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going to say, come on, man, don't be that kind
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of fan. Don't talk about numbers, don't talk about ratings,
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and listen, I'm with you. I'm not trying to disagree
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with you. If you like, that's a stupid way to
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look at professional wrestling. If you feel like that's watching
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wrestling wrong, and you would be right if we were
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talking about literally any other wrestling company on the planet.
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But when it comes to this company, when it comes
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to World Wrestling Entertainment, when it comes to the WWE,
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when it comes to the Big Machine, the E, the Fed,
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whatever you fancy calling them, money is what matters. If
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you can't spike ratings, you're not on TV, you can't
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sell merch you're not on you can't sell out houses
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as their world champ. You ain't gonna be world champ anymore. Now,
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Seth Rollins has one thing, one thing that keeps all
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of that stuff that I said at Bay, and that
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is the fact that he is is a hand guy
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from Triple Ah. That's exactly what he is. He is
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hand picked by Triple Ah, and that's why he gets
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the leeway to continue to be at the top of
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the card even though nobody's buying tickets to go see
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Seth Rollins. The other day, somebody said that his World
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Heavyweight Championship shirt from SummerSlam was one of the top
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selling shirts on WWE Shop, and I called bullshit. Listen, guys,
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you can't tell me that brock Lesnar's shirts are one, two,
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and three. You can't tell me that La Primetta shirt
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is the number one selling shirt in a women's division.
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So that's four spots. That's four spots, and you're telling
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me that Carrian Cross is still tops in the company.
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You're telling me that the MetLife Stadium John Sena shirts
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is the top selling merch So that's at least six
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shirts there, six or seven because Sena has two shirts,
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and all of a sudden, I'm supposed to believe that
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Seth Rawlins World Heavyweight Championship shirt is a top selling shirt. No,
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you spoke out of both sides of your mouth. Let's
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go over it again. Brockleisner shirts one, two, and three
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La Primera Stephanie beck Kerk sure number four. You got
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the John Cena Farewell shirts you have to carry and
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Cross shirts, the CM punk shirt. I mean, Seth Rowlins
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is not one of the top selling merch guys, It's
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just not true. It's just something that somebody that does
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like Wrestle Votes or Wrestle NoMix or something they just
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wanted to throw out there with no actual evidence to
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back this up. Just wasn't true. He's the least interesting
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part of the group. Here's what I will say before
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we move on to our next topic. When it comes
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to Seth rawlins in the vision and be like a
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lot of people are too afraid to admit this when
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he was out with his injury. When he was out,
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everyone was excited about what we were seeing Bronson Reid do,
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what we were seeing bron Breaker do. Even he even
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felt like in one promo one that Paul Hayman put
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over bron Breaker better than he did in three months
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of being Seth Rolin's new wise man. I mean, he
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just they're trying so hard, but Seth will never be
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Becky Lynch. He needs this stuff. This is stuff that
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if he doesn't get he's just gonna fall to the
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waist side. That's who he is. And Seth is likened
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to this era the way Edge was in his era.
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Like Edge was a top guy. He was one of
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the best in the world, probably the best wrestler of
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his era because obviously a couple guys passed away. But
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he was never gonna be John Cena. He was never
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gonna be Bautista or Randy Orton, Like, none of those
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things we're gonna happen. And that's how it is for
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Seth right now. He's not Roman, He's not Cody, He's
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not Drew, he's not Punk. Those are four guys that
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are above him. And now we're in such a great
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era that baby Ria Ripley's above you, My guy, Ria
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Ripley's a bigger star than Seth Rollins. Be me, Lynch
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is a bigger star than Seth Rollins. You would think
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all the time that they spend together on that tour
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bus that she would rub off on him just a
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little bit. He can't catch any aura from her. And
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to be quite honest, I don't know who said this,
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but I would love to credit that person. But if
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you're watching this, please let me know. In the comments.
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Someone once said this about Seth Rawlins. He's a song.
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That's what he is. He's the song right now. That's
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the only Gokay. That's why they haven't changed his theme.
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So many fans have wanted for them to change his
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theme song so that way we can boo him properly,
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because it's like, like, you don't need to do that,
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Like that's what happened with Roman, Like they got rid
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of the shield theme. He made that shit his own,
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and then they were like, nah, let's give him the
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tribal chief theme, right and as soon as they did that, Yo,
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he hit that up or H like he was in
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god mode. Son, that shit ain't happening for Seth. It's
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not happening for Seth because without that song, he's got nothing.
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Because Paul hen is genius. But Seth Rawlins will be
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looked at as Curtis Czarrow the Big Show. Those are
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the kind of Paul Hayman guys. Like, not the Paul
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Hayman guy is going to be rock and Roman and punk.
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Those guys are just unique. They're special. They're a different
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kind of wrestler. They're a different kind of professional. Now, guys,
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I don't mean to throw a therapy term at you,
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but what I have come to realize is that our
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fan base, our professional wrestling fan base, has jumped up
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and decided that they want to guess people. Now, I say,
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I don't want to throw a therapy term at you,
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because that's exactly what gaslighting is. It's a therapy term.
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I'm not saying it's not a valid term. I'm not
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saying it's not a real thing. It is absolutely a
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real thing. And to prove that it's a real thing,
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just listen to talk about wrestling after SummerSlam, Dave Meltzer
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literally jumped on his show and you could find the
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clip on YouTube, and he said that everything he was
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hearing was that Seth's injury was a work. It was
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a work. All of your favorite content creators that talk
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about professional wrestling called the exact ending line for line
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on how it happened at SummerSlam. But guess what happened
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Sunday morning right after that ending. Oh my god, the
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rules of the century. I can't believe Seth did that.
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I really thought he was injured. I got you're so
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full of it. Nobody bought that. Nobody we knew right
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off the bat. That's what he needs to get over.
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He's grasping at straws. He's playing the old hits. That's
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what he's doing. He can't stay relevant without it. There
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are too many big time names right now that are
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just above Seth in terms of fans that he needs
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to do shit like this to fake an injury. He
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even said it himself. He's like, sometimes we have to
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go above and beyond, and that right there told me
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all I need to know, Puppy, you needed this. You
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can't do else. I thought you were one of the best.
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I thought you were underappreciated. Maybe I thought you were underrated.
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You know what, maybe you're properly rated. Because if you
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need to fake an injury and you need the gaslight
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people by having people believe they actually injured when people
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were calling that shit out right after Saturday Nights mein
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event my got Maybe you don't belong in that spot.
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Maybe there's a reason why Vince didn't keep you in
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that spot. Maybe there's a reason why Roman was picked
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out of the group. Maybe there was a reason why
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as soon as Cody came back they had you job
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to him oh to three. That oin three line makes
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more sense for him than it did for Charlotte. Shit. Anyway,
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speaking of the IWC, do you think the IWC has
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any impact on the business whatsoever, Because here are some
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things that turned out to be really true this week.
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The IWC has been screaming on TikTok, they've been screaming
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on here that they didn't want to see brothers so anymore,
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he didn't belong in WWA Wwe probably heard all that.
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I'm sure they have somebody that's paid specifically to watch
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all this nonsense, all of our videos and stuff like that.
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They heard all of that, they saw every tweet, because
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that's what we've come to realize in twenty twenty five
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is that a lot of these workers actually do see
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our tweets, they do see what we say about them,
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and they decided we're gonna bring him back. We're going
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to bring him back at Summerset. And you know what happened.
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Within twenty four hours, TikTok had a meltdown. YouTube here
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had a little bit of a meltdown, people calling out
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WWE for despicable, just money grabbing headlines, seventy five million views.
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All three of his shirts become the top three selling
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shirts on WWE Shop. His Best of has been streaming
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NonStop on YouTube now. They just released a top ten
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brock Lesner Moments that within the first twenty minutes got
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thirty thousand views. They also released the reaction of the
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fans that we live in attendance because clearly we were wrong. Clearly,
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the IWC and for those who don't know what that means,
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the Internet wrestling community was wrong, absolutely wrong about the
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brock Lesnar coming back. That day. I follow some people
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on TikTok that talk professional wrestling, amongst other things, and
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that day people were calling, oh tonight Brock's coming out,
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and that day people were like, why take Mount who sesshit?
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You're a terrible person for asking for this that day
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that should happen, and ww didn't care. Not only did
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they not care, Roman Rings said that Brock's's favorite opponent
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he's ever had. Cody gave a very clear statement on ESPN.
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Paul Hayman went on the Aerial Hawane Show and told
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everyone that you can't cancel Brock Lesner. If you're mad
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about it, get over it. He's here to stay. WWE
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doesn't care about the Internet wrestling community. They don't care
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about It's like myself. They don't care about what people
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rant and rave on in the business. I'm gonna remind
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you of a great story that Big Sexy Kevin Nash
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told us a while back, and that is he's wrestling
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the Heartbreak Kid, Sean Michaels, and the crowd is split
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down the middle. Twenty thousand people, ten thousand cheering for Sean,
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ten thousand cheering for Kevin Nash. Vinc ac Man was livid,
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absolutely besides himself. Big Daddy Cool walks to the back
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and says, what's your problem, man, that crowd was hot.
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Would you rather twenty thousand people cheering for the both
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of us or ten thousand cheering for him in ten thousand? Quiet?
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And Vince very plainly looks him in the face and says,
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ten thousand cheering for him and ten why? Because I
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fucking booked it that way. WWE does not care what
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the Internet Wrestling community has to say. TRIPLEH has made
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it very clear over time that he thinks the IWC
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is worthless, which is why they're trying to price us
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out by moving over to ESPN. By people have to
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pay to watch ples. Again, we had three pls four
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years and y'all weren't fucking happy. WWE gave us ples
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on Peacock. Some people had six dollar Peacock accounts. They
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were getting to watch wweples with a couple ads sprinkled
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here and there, and they complained so fucking much. They
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were like, Oh, you can't take what we gave you, Fine,
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We're going over to ESPN. That's what they did. They
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jumped over to ESPN. They're pricing out the ideas. And
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as much as I want to sit here and say
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that sucks, because we made this business what it is today.
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The people that spent their entire paycheck to go watch them,
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The people that don't make a shit ton of money
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but will spend a month's more on WWE merch and
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tickets and getting all of the platforms to be able
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to watch them on Netflix, on Peacock, or on Sling
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for smack them. They don't care. Reached the point where
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the IWC has become it's actually become a nuisance to them.
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And I gotta say, as someone who does this, that
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some of you's deserve this happening to you. To be
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quite honest, I've said this so much, but the way
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Charlotte Flair was treated to the point where they had
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to work in a reality series for Netflix just so
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you can see that, Hey, this woman is a real person.
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She's not just Charlotte Flair that we see on TV.
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She's actually Ashley Flair, and she's got feelings. When you
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guys are talking about, you know how flat she is
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from behind, when you're talking about how you think she's
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been through so much cosmetic surgery, Like what the fuck
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does that have to do with professional wrestling? Like, I don't,
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I don't, I don't any videos talking about how ugly
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guys that Sammy's ain't are. I don't see any like, yeah,
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we see some thirst trap videos and stuff where people
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are like ooh, Roman is good looking or so on
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and so forth, But like, WWE had to create a
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series to get you, guys to stop hating on Charlotte personally.
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They had to create a series to get you to
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stop hating on cmpunk personally. They had to create a
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series to get you to understand that they put j
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Usso in that spot because of life attendance the IWC.
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These are three people that they are the worst towards.
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There are people that will post on TikTok right now,
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I don't give a fuck what cmpunk does. That kid
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could save five kids from a burning building. They're never
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gonna like it. And that right there tells me all
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I need to know the fact that you believe cmpunk
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is the real person. You forgot that Phil Brooks is there.
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So yeah, do I believe that WWE unreel is a
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complete work on I don't think that there was anything
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that was like that wasn't true, that wasn't down there.
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But I think it was designed because the IWC sucks
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the Internet wrestling community sucks. The way people talk about shit,
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like even now, the way people are talking about Lyra Valkyria, Like, guys,
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she's the I don't know, like the ben Wa of
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this era. She doesn't have a ton of charisma, but
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she's phenomenal in the ring. Like that's what she is.
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I don't I really don't understand why. Oh they're trying
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to push her so much and get her up there.
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Hey man, eventually you're gonna have to deal with it.
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They're not gonna push the people you want. They're gonna
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push the people that get reactions. And I've said this before,
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I will say it again. I will stand on my
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soapbox and scream it from any mountaintop you want me to.
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The people that pay for the tickets matter more than
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the people complaining on the internet. I said that. Somebody
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jumped into my comments and said we should have the
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right to complain. Yeah, you have a mirror, you have
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a significant other, You have a group of wrestling friends
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that you guys go live on TikTok together. Complain to
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those people, but complaining for all of the world to
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see so you can get twenty thousand views of you
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trashing this company because you're unhappy with a booking decision.
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That's not being an actual fan. I think WWE just
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wants us to be Marx, just be Marks guys. Not
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all of us need to dissect things. See, my platform
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is designed to be controversial. I am here to talk
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about the things that most wrestling fans don't want to
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talk about because it's in a space in which it
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bothers them, it makes them uncomfortable. So I'm going to
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talk about the lack of representation of black men on
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the main roster, in the main event scene. I'm going
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to talk about that shit because that's what I want
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to do with my platform. I want to give that
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shit to them, because you know what, some of us
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that aren't a part of that community that want to
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fucking see Carmelo Hayes compete for a world title, compete
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for a United States championship. There are those of us
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that want to see Obafemi come in and have the
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two thousand and two Brothers that's the run. There are
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those of us that believe that Trick Williams could be
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the next Dwayne the Rock Johnson, and I don't want
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these guys to get pushed down the card and it happens.
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It fucking happens. It's been happening for a while. You've
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just been blind to it. And it's because that's what
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WWE has designed it to be. Now, I made a
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video a couple of weeks ago talking about the lack
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of representation for black men in the main event, and
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I said, this makes no sense. And the first fond
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that was thrown at me was, okay, so what that
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guys should be in that space? I can't answer that question,
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you know why, because if you don't believe it, then
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and it's not true. And that's what WWE has from
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the beginning. Yeah, they'll give you like Big Eie winning
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and having like a five month title rain, or Kofee
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winning and having a six month title rain, or Bobby
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Lashley winning but not really getting taken so seriously, where
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like his feud with brock Lesner, all the should have
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been Ultimate Warrior versus whole cog and it turned out
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to just be I don't know, just two muscle bound
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guys just throwing each other around. Quick. Let's go back
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to the core four. That's what I like to call them.
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That's brock Lesner, Randy Orton, John Cena, and Batista. That's
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the core four. Did you know that there was actually
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five guys that trained in OVW like that. Did you
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know that Shelton Benjamin was a part of that group.
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Did you know that Shelton Benjamin came to the main
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roster more red even all four guys that I just mentioned,
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This man went on Monday Night Raw and had one
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of the most amazing wrestling matches. And then on top
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of the wrestling match being just absolutely phenomenal, he had
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a and when I say generational, this is what I'm
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talking about. He had a finish so good that people
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are still talking today. People are still talking about it's
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still trying to replicate it. When he wrestled the Heartbreak
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Kid Shawn Michaels. Then he wrestles Triple H and beats
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him clean with one of the coolest, dopest suplex finishers.
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I mean that that fucking supplex finishers is amazing. And
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what they do. They dyed his hair blonde, and they
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brought his mama out. They made him the gold standard because,
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as I've stated before, the black men on the roster
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are used one of two ways, in comedic roles or
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to help put other talent over WWE, uws black talent
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as good enough to be in the Tag division or
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those two things that I just mentioned. They don't view
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them as single stars, they don't view them as moneymakers.
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But here's what I do know. Lebron James is the
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most polarizing athlete on the planet. Patrick Mahomes is the
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best football player walking the earth. The guy behind him.
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You would think there would be some white quarterback. Nope,
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it's Lamar Jackson. The best running back in the game
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is another black man, and that is Saquon Barkley. We
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are talking about the face of the NBA, and a
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lot of people want it to be Luca, but it's not.
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It's SGA, It's Anthony Edwards. These are the guys that
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are mentioned. Every other sport has a great representation of
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black men except for WWE. Carmelo Hayes literally had a
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feud with the United States Champion right now in NXT.
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Some of the best promos we've seen in quite some time.
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And people don't even know that. And there are people
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that actively watch SmackDown that think that Carmelo Hayes can't
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cut a fucking promo. Going you can't be fucking serious.
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You can't be serious just that you didn't watch NXT.
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But don't be going out there throwing lies at the
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fucking wall trying to get other people to retweet you,
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because that man can cut a promo. That man is
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everything he is and I say this as serious as possible.
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He has the goods to be this generation sewn Michaels,
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and I promise you they give this man a shot.
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The sky's the limit. This guy's the fucking limit. He's
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got it all. He has one flaw. Carmelo Hayes has
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one flaw, and it's his finish. That's it. The fact
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that John Cena does that move is why it's so dumb,
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like it's just a leg drop to the back of
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the head. It's like, I don't know, it's you trying
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to do a fame ask, dude, you don't need that shit.
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Do another fucking move. You don't need that move. We
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get it. You can fly. That's his only flaw Other
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than that, I promise you, Carmelo Hayes can be as
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big as what bron Breaker is right now. The reason
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I brought up the Core four is because well, bron
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Breaker comes up to the main roster, Tiffany Stratton comes
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up to the main roster, Lyra Valkyria comes up to
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the main roster all about the same time. They all
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came up with Carmelo Hayes. But he was the first
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overall pick. And he's the guy that's not being utilized
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right now, Before you come at me and say he
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was given an opportunity, how long was that man's fucking leash?
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Because Lyra Valkyria was still in a feud with Becky
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Lynch going into SummerSlam. She is still currently in a
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feud with Bailey. Tiffany Stratton was made Yeah, sure she
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was made a lackey for Naya, but they had plans
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to skyrocket her to the top. They even just announced
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she's undefeated in her last what couple of months. She
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hasn't even lost a match. She's beaten everybody. She beat
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Charlotte Flair clean at wrest Soulmania. Brown Breaker is essentially
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the best part of the Vision. And for the people
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that are like, oh, there's nothing great about Braun, it's
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just nostalgia. Who gives a fuck? Who cares? I promise
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you that if I if I went back in time,
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you probably liked Ben Wah and he was a complete
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ripoff of Dynamite Kid. You like Chad Gable now right,
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He's a complete ripoff of Kurt Angle. So if bron
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Breaker is a ripoff of the Steiner Brothers, who gives
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a shit it's working. It's clear that the Steiner Brothers
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in this era would have worked as well. People appreciate
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actual athletes being in those roles, but all three of
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those people I mentioned got this long leash to actually
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make it. Mello got his match against Cody, he got
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his best of seven against Andred, and then he got
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to win the Jobber Battle Royal, which was the andre
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that John in Battle Royal, which we know that Battle
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Road doesn't do anything for anybody that shit the job
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or that's just the way to get you on WrestleMania.
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It's just a way to get you that big moment.
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That's it.
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This is what they do. If you don't view them
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in that spot already, you're never going to view them
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in that spot. They have to be given the same
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opportunity that the white dudes get. They're just as talented,
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if not more talented. It's wild, it's absolutely atrocious, but
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that's what I'm going to use my platform for and
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that's what I've been talking about with fans over and
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over over the past couple of weeks, because this is
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a conversation we all need to have. Guys, it's a
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real one. It's a real conversation we all need to have.
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If you're not having this conversation, I don't really know
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if you appreciate professional wrestling. Now, let's touch on something
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that I think was completely unexpected for twenty twenty five.
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You see, WWE has a bunch of champions right now
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on hand, they have a bunch of champions, but none
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no champion is having a better run than Becky Lynch's
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the Intercontinental Champion. Now, I'm a little confused because I
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really thought the whole objective of her winning the IC
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title was to get Lyra over. But it seems to
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me that maybe the objective was to get the title over.
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I think we all looked at it the wrong way.
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I don't think that the Intercontinental Championship was viewed as
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a top title. I think Chelsea Green did a marvel
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job with her United States Championship run. I know a
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lot of people felt like it was a little underwhelming,
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but let's be serious, guys. She did a great job.
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She just didn't really work the title a lot. But
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she was on TV all the time. That title was
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always present, and anytime she did work it was great.
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I think Zelena Vega's kind of she didn't get a
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proper run, And yeah, I'm playing the wait and see
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approach for three more weeks with Julia before I call
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her run a failure. Because Julia might be the most
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talented woman on the roster not named Bianca bell Air.
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So I don't know why she's not being utilized more.
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But I'll tell you one thing. At Julia versus Elena
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Vega match on Friday Night SmackDown should have been on
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Summer Slam over Sammy and Carrion. I stand on Business
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ten toes down. That match was fucking amazing. What a great,
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great match. Getting back to Becky Lynch, yeah, I believe
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that's what her title reign with the Interconnal Championship is
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designed to be. It's designed to get the title over,
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the championship over. It's not designed to get a person over.
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I think we are looking at this the wrong way.
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A lot of us felt that she was going to
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redo what she did in NXT, which is go down there,
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win the championship, and then drop it clean to an
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up and coming talent that would typically be viewed as
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a mid card talent. Now, from the outsider looking in,
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I thought to myself, well, this is just a quick
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way to get Lyra to the main event, to get
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her to the Women's World Championship feud with Naomi and Nope.
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I'm glad I didn't actually say that stuff until now,
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because now that I'm looking at it, now that I
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can see that they are using Becky versus Nikki for
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the Intercontinental Championship, I can see right off the bat
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that this was designed for the championship to get the
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championship over and I love that. I think that's great
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because listen, Naomi right now, the best character in all
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of professional wrestling not named Tony Storm. The two best
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characters in all of professional wrestling are women, and they
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work for different companies. Tony Storm and Naomi are killing it.
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They are absolutely original, They're great at what they do.
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Their in ring work is crisp, it's clean. Their character
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and their story the way they present it is just perfection.
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But in saying that, I have to be very honest.
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Becky Lynch's run as Intercontinental Champion is the best title
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run in the business right now, and I think that's
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something that we didn't realize was designed to be. But
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I'll meet our guys. I kept you here long enough
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from New Brompton, Canada, former podcast me because without him,
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I don't get this far. I want to thank d. D. Rotten,
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the producer of this show, because without his, you know,
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