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Charles Richardson | Matt Connarton Unleashed
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Speaker 4: Let me get this up here. We've got Charles Richardson
Speaker 4: from The Charles Richardson Show on the line with us.
Speaker 1: Hello Charles, Hello, test one. Two.
Speaker 4: Oh you sound great, You sound great. How's the how's
Speaker 4: the we haven't really talked? How's the studio?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 4: Your your studio setup, which is it's relatively new, right,
Speaker 4: the new studio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's mostly new. I mean it's basically
Speaker 2: a garage converted to a laundry room slash half of
Speaker 2: its my.
Speaker 1: Studio area sort of. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then Alyssa has her own little corner nook in
Speaker 2: there where she does arts and crafts.
Speaker 1: It's a it's it's kind of cramped, but she's okay
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And everything sounds great, sounds sounds really good. So so,
Speaker 4: of course, Charles, you are here with us because and
Speaker 4: what has become sort of an unofficial tradition before a
Speaker 4: lot of these big events, and of course this is
Speaker 4: the biggest event that WWE has all year, WrestleMania, and
Speaker 4: it is two nights night one Night two, today's Night
Speaker 4: one of course of WrestleMania forty two, emanating from Las Vegas,
Speaker 4: and so very excited to have with us, and you know,
Speaker 4: we'll talk all about it. I should tell you, though,
Speaker 4: I have to tell you upfront, and you probably know
Speaker 4: what I'm gonna say. I've not seen SmackDown yet. I
Speaker 4: don't mind spoilers, it's fine, but Jenny does mind spoilers.
Speaker 4: So Jenny had to leave because she does not want
Speaker 4: to know because we haven't watched SmackDown yet. She does
Speaker 4: not want to know what happened last night on SmackDown,
Speaker 4: telling to.
Speaker 1: Come back in. There's really not much.
Speaker 2: There wasn't a lot of spoilers, okay it I mean
Speaker 2: unless she wants to know who won the Andre of
Speaker 2: the Giant Battle Royal, which I'm calling a gimmick royal
Speaker 2: for people that they couldn't fit into WrestleMania, which how in.
Speaker 1: The hell can you not do that? Yes, two nights
Speaker 1: for crying out loud. Come on.
Speaker 4: Well when I when I say Jenny left, I mean
Speaker 4: she she left, she went home. She's not even in
Speaker 4: the building, so I cannot call her back in. U
Speaker 4: but uh, okay, so she's not even listening. She is,
Speaker 4: she's in uh uh, she's in blackout. She's in communicado
Speaker 4: uha until the end of the program today.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no worries, Hey listen. Like I said, there
Speaker 2: wasn't there wasn't many spoilers. Royce Keys went ahead and
Speaker 2: run the Andre to Giant Battle Royal, which again there's
Speaker 2: no storyline form the in and the the brain trust
Speaker 2: in there and of course, brain trust is an oxymoron.
Speaker 2: Considering how things have gone recently, it's just been a
Speaker 2: downward spyle of for crying out loud and uh. But
Speaker 2: it's like the brain Trust didn't have anything creative except
Speaker 2: what a poor guy this guy was. He grew up rough,
Speaker 2: which if that's true, that's great, but what does that
Speaker 2: have to do with anybody in the storyline. He did
Speaker 2: go ahead and eliminate Tomatonga from the MFT, so there
Speaker 2: may be something going on there. I mean, hopefully some
Speaker 2: then can be created. But you know, Royce Keys, who
Speaker 2: used to be as Powerhouse Hobbs and aw has just
Speaker 2: not been really featured a lot except for the past
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, but against a lot of the backstory
Speaker 2: life his personal story. So hopefully he does get a
Speaker 2: chance to go ahead and showcase what he can do.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: I think it's good though, that I like that they're
Speaker 4: giving us a lot of his backstory. And I'll tell
Speaker 4: you why, because something that I have never really understood
Speaker 4: about professional wrestling is why they don't do more of
Speaker 4: that Because to me, and this is why I love that,
Speaker 4: you know, I feel like we live in an era
Speaker 4: where there's a lot more emphasis on character development than
Speaker 4: they used to be. But I've always felt that professional wrestlers,
Speaker 4: by their nature, because it is such a unique profession,
Speaker 4: that they tend to be very interesting people if you learn,
Speaker 4: like you know, you might have a wrestler who on television,
Speaker 4: they're their character and it's you know, they tend to
Speaker 4: they may be really one dimensional, or maybe they just
Speaker 4: aren't doing a lot with them, but then you see
Speaker 4: them or you listen to them in an interview in
Speaker 4: a shoot interview, so to speak, and you learn about
Speaker 4: them and you realize this is a very interesting person.
Speaker 4: So I think that they kind of miss a lot
Speaker 4: of opportunities with a lot of their performers by not
Speaker 4: sharing their backstory. So I'm glad that they're doing that
Speaker 4: with Royce Keys.
Speaker 2: A lot of it, though, I think is caught up,
Speaker 2: especially with the ones that they are developing or not developing,
Speaker 2: but they're putting on the air about their backstory in
Speaker 2: social media and of course in the Netflix series Unreal,
Speaker 2: so a lot of them, they go ahead, they focus
Speaker 2: on one or two wrestlers each episode, and they go
Speaker 2: ahead and give a backstory about that. Like I like
Speaker 2: Tiffany Stratton's backstory. Actually, yeah, yes, so she was interesting.
Speaker 2: She's willing to do whatever it takes. However, it takes
Speaker 2: very humble girl to go ahead and actually make it
Speaker 2: as far as she is. But that's what you got
Speaker 2: to do. It's like, you gotta pay your dues. A
Speaker 2: lot of people don't want to do that, and if
Speaker 2: they're not being and I'll be honest, and I don't
Speaker 2: think it's a lack of trying. But if WWE doesn't
Speaker 2: take the initiative to dive into these people's backstories, it
Speaker 2: may not be that great. You know, I know they did.
Speaker 2: They're going after Jacob Fatou's you know, jail history and
Speaker 2: his family and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But also he's.
Speaker 2: Part of that Simoon dynasty, so it's like, of course
Speaker 2: it's gonna be interesting. It's interesting that he turned into
Speaker 2: the wrong way of the law but has now cleaned
Speaker 2: himself up, which is why he is where he is
Speaker 2: instead in the indies. Yeah, so it's it's so there
Speaker 2: is a lot of storytelling that's going on for some
Speaker 2: of these backstories. But again, it's very fascinating, and some
Speaker 2: of these people that are not being told stories it
Speaker 2: may not be as great to put on TV.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's their decision.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that. It's funny when you say that too.
Speaker 4: It makes me think about one of our main eventters
Speaker 4: at this year's WrestleMania, Randy Orton, who who they You know,
Speaker 4: there's some things in his past, in his backstory, I
Speaker 4: guess he you know, he was in the military and
Speaker 4: he went a wall at one point, and I remember
Speaker 4: Mick Foley. They did actually make that part of a
Speaker 4: storyline once when McK foley brought it up years and
Speaker 4: years ago and he was feuding with Randy Orton. But
Speaker 4: other than that, they don't ever talk about that.
Speaker 2: It's probably something that he declared he probably didn't want
Speaker 2: to dive deep into, right right. It's it's listen, when
Speaker 2: you go a wall, that's not something if you're part
Speaker 2: of the military, that's not something you really want to
Speaker 2: dive into. Try like, listen, it's dark, let me go
Speaker 2: ahead and get out of here, and those whole voices
Speaker 2: in his head soundtrack.
Speaker 1: It might be true.
Speaker 2: There might be something that triggers in PTSD and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, so it's like, you know, you gotta be
Speaker 2: you gotta be careful and stuff like that, where you
Speaker 2: know you don't want to. Yeah, yeah, you want to
Speaker 2: dive into the story, that would be great, but it's like, hey, listen,
Speaker 2: you okay with this?
Speaker 1: Then we bring this.
Speaker 2: Whole thing out on doing some promos with making everything
Speaker 2: maybe not. That's why when you saw see him Punk
Speaker 2: and Roman going at it and Punk said I'm gonna
Speaker 2: bury you next to your father, you know that was
Speaker 2: done that that that was unscripted. It was talked about beforehand.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna go ahead and do that on a
Speaker 2: shoe because honestly, on a shoot you get but beat.
Speaker 2: But the person it's like, okay, you're gonna shoot at
Speaker 2: me like that, I'm just gonna I'm shooting you right now,
Speaker 2: and everything just goes Hey why so yeah, of course
Speaker 2: you want to go ahead and you know, talk behind
Speaker 2: the scenes and stuff like that, like can I bring
Speaker 2: this up?
Speaker 1: Can I bring that up?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll leave off that. Some people like John Cena, dude,
Speaker 2: it's a promo. Whatever you want, bring up everything, bring
Speaker 2: my nicky status.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 1: He was good with that, right right.
Speaker 4: It reminds me of a and they talk about this
Speaker 4: in the Wrestling with Shadows. The Brett Hart documentary where uh,
Speaker 4: you know, they were they were bringing up you know,
Speaker 4: he and Shawn Michaels were bringing up things, and there
Speaker 4: was there may have been some miscommunication at one point
Speaker 4: about what was okay to talk about and what was not,
Speaker 4: Like like Brett Hart with his Sunny Day's comment, I'm
Speaker 4: sorry Sean Michael's with his Sunny Day's comment directed at Brett,
Speaker 4: you know, for example, which obviously caused Brett some problems
Speaker 4: at home. But but I've really enjoyed I'm curious your
Speaker 4: thoughts on those, because they've gotten mixed reviews. I think
Speaker 4: those promos between Roman Reigns and Sea I'm Punk have
Speaker 4: been outstanding. I really have enjoyed those quite a bit,
Speaker 4: and I much more enjoy those promos than I do.
Speaker 4: You know, the physicality when they start brawling with each other.
Speaker 4: I've always thought that stuff's kind of boring. Actually, you
Speaker 4: know a couple of guys brawling on the outside of
Speaker 4: the ring. But I love the promos.
Speaker 2: It gets boring when you see the two people brawling,
Speaker 2: like the Brock and Ob thing where you have like
Speaker 2: seventy five hundred people coming out to go ahead and
Speaker 2: they and thirty three thousand people couldn't hold one person.
Speaker 1: Down rightly, It's like, this is stupid. Just get it over,
Speaker 1: just just just cut the let's go to the next thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it does it gets boring because it's so predictable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, But what do you think of those promos?
Speaker 4: So you like the promos, I assume between Punk and Roman.
Speaker 1: Listen see him.
Speaker 2: Punk has always been a talko, always been a pipe bomber,
Speaker 2: and anytime he does a promo, it's gonna be magical,
Speaker 2: it's going to be gold.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Roman has recently was since he's become the tribal chief,
Speaker 2: has recently been doing the promos pretty well. You know,
Speaker 2: he's come a long ways since suffering suck attached. Okay,
Speaker 2: well yeah, but he's come a long way. So yes,
Speaker 2: his his his his promos and his character have always
Speaker 2: been spot on. And I like that they took a
Speaker 2: jab at old I like that, and I like how
Speaker 2: Sam Punk is persevered in that. Yes, because an old
Speaker 2: man dropping a tribal chief through an announced table says something, right,
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah these did and some physicality is okay.
Speaker 2: Obviously when they come in with the security it's stupid.
Speaker 2: But but yeah, uh but these promos have been spot
Speaker 2: on gold. I loved every especially when seampunk is ran
Speaker 2: on Pat McAfee. That's another that that listen. I like Pat,
Speaker 2: I like his show, I like his commentary. I was
Speaker 2: kind of derailed on the show that I'm on the
Speaker 2: Josh Odiac podcast by him and his brother like saying, well,
Speaker 2: he's just he's just a a a face announcer, and
Speaker 2: you can't have two face announcers.
Speaker 1: And it just gets it's it's very.
Speaker 2: Stale, and I kind of listened to what Corey Graves,
Speaker 2: you know, Corey Graves and Wade Barrett, you know, they're there.
Speaker 2: They're the heel announcers.
Speaker 4: Really though, well sort of they do that. They're they're
Speaker 4: tweeener announcers, which is really I mean, you know, when
Speaker 4: was the last time we had an actual heel announcer,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: But they portray it like they'll they'll go ahead and
Speaker 2: disagree with testatory or sure, sure, and that's what it
Speaker 2: was if mcfeel was just always agreeing with Cole because
Speaker 2: you know they were bud buds.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, total babyface.
Speaker 2: Yes, it did get stale to the point where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm listening to Corey Graves kind of you know, rattled
Speaker 2: the cage of Michael Cole and Wade Barrett kind of
Speaker 2: like you know.
Speaker 1: Giving Joe test satory of the business.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that makes it more interesting actually when you
Speaker 2: think about it. But yeah, McAfee, I think is a
Speaker 2: good guy and him turned to heel. I think this
Speaker 2: is probably one of these things that listens as a
Speaker 2: as a huge fan and finally getting the shot at,
Speaker 2: you know, living your dream.
Speaker 1: I think it's always been a thing for him to
Speaker 1: be a heel. I don't like his heel though.
Speaker 2: I think it is it's coming across kind of kind
Speaker 2: of boring, to be honest with you. I do like
Speaker 2: he has some truth that comes out, which Seampunk also
Speaker 2: admits is that tk O prices are just outrageous. So
Speaker 2: he's not really a full heel of be honest with you.
Speaker 2: He's you know, helping Randy. He's but he's also speaking truth.
Speaker 2: So when you're a heel, you kind of stretched the
Speaker 2: truth to your benefit. But this truth, you can't stretch
Speaker 2: to anybody's benefit. This is just this is just truth. Truth. Well,
Speaker 2: Randy and save the business. I don't I think that's
Speaker 2: the far fetched thing. It's like, I think, don't don't
Speaker 2: think the business needs to be.
Speaker 1: Saved, right.
Speaker 2: I think it's it's fine where it I think it's
Speaker 2: it's great where it is. Yeah, he needs to handle
Speaker 2: their their business better to make it more affordable for families,
Speaker 2: and that's where they get out of there. They're getting price,
Speaker 2: they're pricing out everybody. That's the that's the main thing.
Speaker 2: But I think other than that, I think McAfee's heel
Speaker 2: characters is kind of dulled, to be honest with you.
Speaker 4: So here's what I think. I like him as a heel.
Speaker 4: I think though the problem is so the last promo
Speaker 4: that he cut, when he you know, came out and
Speaker 4: did his thing without without Randy being there, I just thought,
Speaker 4: like when he shows up and he's backstage and he's
Speaker 4: interacting with Nick Alldis, for example, wait was it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: That was it was eldest Yeah, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: I found funny. He's like, well, Nick, mister Adam Pierce
Speaker 2: or whatever that oh yeah, yeah, yeah, what did he
Speaker 2: yeah whatever it was.
Speaker 1: But he's like, you know, I'm not going to sign this.
Speaker 1: I like to read through my contract. I'll do it later.
Speaker 2: And then like two minutes afterwards, when Randy's about to
Speaker 2: go to the station signs the contract.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that was kind of dumb. Well I did
Speaker 1: you have to say that?
Speaker 4: But anyway, but I liked I liked his interaction backstage
Speaker 4: with all. I like him. I like him as a heel.
Speaker 4: I think he's a good heel. I think the problem
Speaker 4: is he you know, he's not getting heat well because
Speaker 4: it's not making it. This is not making a lot
Speaker 4: of sense.
Speaker 2: And right, that's what I'm saying, Like it's a really
Speaker 2: bad job at the heel.
Speaker 4: I think he could be a great heel. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: do too.
Speaker 2: I think creatively, they got to come up with something better. Yeah, over,
Speaker 2: it's too late now, I mean, unless it is Brandyworton
Speaker 2: loses and then he's done with WWE.
Speaker 1: Which okay, about that, there is a.
Speaker 2: Mild rumor saying that Orton is is playing on an injury.
Speaker 1: Okay, you have to write the script, go ahead about that.
Speaker 4: Because this came up on Tough Bumps, you know, the
Speaker 4: podcast that that I do with Eric Pilcher and Austin Hicks,
Speaker 4: because they were I think it was Eric who was saying,
Speaker 4: well they they kind of already they kind of already
Speaker 4: gave away the ending. Obviously, Orton has to win if
Speaker 4: McAfee is saying he's done with wrestling forever if Orton loses.
Speaker 4: But my counter argument to that is, no, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: Or McAfee's a heel and heels lie, it doesn't matter
Speaker 4: that he said if Orton loses, he's done forever. It
Speaker 4: doesn't that. That's that's irrelevant. Now if he were a babyface,
Speaker 4: then then it would hold more weight. But McAfee can
Speaker 4: say whatever he wants.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's a heel. I don't know a
Speaker 2: lot of heels, a lot of everybody. When they say
Speaker 2: something and it goes against them, it usually holds true.
Speaker 2: To be honest, I don't really see that. There was
Speaker 2: one time somebody said they're leaving the business and it happened,
Speaker 2: and they ever came back unless for a while.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, but but long term all I mean, first,
Speaker 4: I mean, how many how many retirement matches have we
Speaker 4: seen that turned out not to be retirement matches?
Speaker 2: Well granted, yes, but those are retirement matches. Those are
Speaker 2: not like I quit or or I'm done with if
Speaker 2: I lose, Like, yeah, that's retirement matches more like ceremonial matches.
Speaker 1: You're done, regardless of you want to lose. This is
Speaker 1: a stipulation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but even a stipulation, I mean even even if
Speaker 4: it's even if it's a stipulation, it's it often like this.
Speaker 2: You think Johnson, when John Ceen is wrestling his retirement
Speaker 2: match against Gunther, If he won, do you think we
Speaker 2: see him next week on Raw?
Speaker 1: No, he's done this retirement match.
Speaker 4: That's different. That's different though the Sina will never come back.
Speaker 4: I mean he's he's done.
Speaker 2: No, he's hosting WrestleMania, but he's not gonna wrestle I
Speaker 2: don't think.
Speaker 4: No, he's not.
Speaker 1: He may give somebody an if you or something, but
Speaker 1: that's about it.
Speaker 4: I think he's right, right, I think he's definitely done.
Speaker 4: And by the way, that phenomenon, I mean that transcends
Speaker 4: professional wrestling. I mean, how many how many bands do
Speaker 4: a farewell tour, a retirement tour and then they you know,
Speaker 4: they come.
Speaker 1: Back because he run out of money? What's that? Would
Speaker 1: they come back because they run out of money?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Exactly? Exactly. So yeah, so I don't put much stock
Speaker 4: in what McAfee said, But but but it has really
Speaker 4: kind of messed up that storyline by the way, So
Speaker 4: this is something too where I think Eric and Austin
Speaker 4: disagreed with me, but I said, or at least Eric did,
Speaker 4: I said, I really would have liked to have seen
Speaker 4: at least one face to face promo between Randy Orton
Speaker 4: and Cody Rhodes, similar to the promos that we've seen
Speaker 4: consistently between Campunk and Roman Reigns. I think a face
Speaker 4: to face between Orton and uh and and Cody would
Speaker 4: would be really interesting and would do so much more
Speaker 4: to build that story. But we never got it and
Speaker 4: it's too late now. I know it didn't happen last night.
Speaker 4: I did kind of take a peek at spoilers, I know,
Speaker 4: because I don't mind. I know it didn't happen last night,
Speaker 4: So I mean, why don't do that?
Speaker 2: But let me ask you, Matt, what what would you
Speaker 2: expect have somebody who basically turned on a friend, who
Speaker 2: basically went ahead and beat them down so bad. What
Speaker 2: would if if that face to face were to happen.
Speaker 2: What would your outcome be like if you were doing
Speaker 2: if you were in creative and you're like, okay, Randy
Speaker 2: and Cody, you're gonna come out, You're gonna do a
Speaker 2: one on one face to face contract saying whatever, what
Speaker 2: would the outcome be? Like, it can't be good. You
Speaker 2: basically betrayed a friend. The friend fields betrayed wants to
Speaker 2: beat your behind. The other one is basically evil and
Speaker 2: listening the voices that well, they're both listening to the
Speaker 2: voices apparently now so I see your point interesting, But
Speaker 2: I think the way they went about it, it's just
Speaker 2: it's just fine with me because I wouldn't want to
Speaker 2: see face to face to my friendunless.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go ahead and go to battle, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's really you're you're basically egging them
Speaker 2: on to fight. Nothing really to say, because it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, there's the why. Well, the why has already
Speaker 2: been done. Well, Cody gave me permission to go ahead
Speaker 2: and be Randy Orton, and he took it a step further.
Speaker 2: I don't need permission from Cody to be Randy Orton.
Speaker 2: This is on the Friday, by the way, I don't
Speaker 2: need permission for that. And then it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: he gets off stage, Cody. It comes out later in
Speaker 2: the show, which by the way, see him punk also
Speaker 2: joins him, So it's like, and I love that, and
Speaker 2: you'll see this later Towards the end of the show,
Speaker 2: Cody's like saying, uh, and feel free to hit the
Speaker 2: dump button on this one. Cody goes ahead and says, listen,
Speaker 2: if we shook hands and hugged right now, you're not
Speaker 2: going to turn on me and kick me in the
Speaker 2: like everybody us, right, It's kind of smarked. It's like,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people that deserve to be kicked,
Speaker 2: you're not one of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I kind.
Speaker 1: Of found that funny. And then the crowd found it
Speaker 1: funny too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Actually the crowd said, yes, I think they're turning on
Speaker 2: Cody'd be honest with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they see it. Well, they're they're their loyalties are split.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the other challenge with Randy Orton as
Speaker 4: a heel. And I knew this was going to happen.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they did. Maybe they should have,
Speaker 4: but you know, Randy Orton at forty five years old,
Speaker 4: at this point in his career, they really don't want
Speaker 4: to boo him, you know, I mean, no matter what
Speaker 4: he does, no matter how evil he is, they don't
Speaker 4: want to boo him. It reminds me of when the
Speaker 4: very last time that yeah, well, oh yeah, that's a
Speaker 4: great example. But also going back significantly further the last time,
Speaker 4: and this does go back quite a way, but the
Speaker 4: last time that the Undertaker was ever a heel, you know,
Speaker 4: and it was he was still doing his American badass
Speaker 4: immick and stuff at that point. But the last time
Speaker 4: he was a heel. I just remember at that time,
Speaker 4: and again this was years ago, this was like maybe
Speaker 4: fifteen years ago. I remember thinking, ah, did they really
Speaker 4: want to boo Undertaker at this point in his career
Speaker 4: and he really did kind of struggle to get over
Speaker 4: as a heel at that point a little bit. I
Speaker 4: thought they didn't want to boo him. So, you know,
Speaker 4: there's a segment, there's a large segment of the fan base,
Speaker 4: maybe most of the fan base, that does not want
Speaker 4: to boo Randy Orton. And I think what will be
Speaker 4: particularly interesting is the crowd reaction to because they're going tonight,
Speaker 4: they're the main event tonight, and I won Randy Orton
Speaker 4: versus Cody Rhodes's I think it's going to be a
Speaker 4: very split crowd and it might even be a pro
Speaker 4: Randy orton crowd at this point.
Speaker 2: I think so, I think it is. I think also
Speaker 2: in the point that you're making that he's having trouble
Speaker 2: getting over, I think that's why Pat was coming in
Speaker 2: to go ahead and get more heat on Randy.
Speaker 1: But it just hasn't happened. It hasn't worked right.
Speaker 4: Well, whatever heat there is, it's on Pat's not on Randy.
Speaker 4: It doesn't transfer.
Speaker 1: Right, right.
Speaker 2: So, uh yeah, when when I'm watching tonight and I'm
Speaker 2: watching the wrestleman, I'm probably gonna hear, you know, when
Speaker 2: they go back and forth with punches, which they'll eventually do.
Speaker 1: I'm sure.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's gonna be a very very mixed reaction
Speaker 2: on both ends. Yeah, but I think it's going to
Speaker 2: be more booze on Cody because I think I think
Speaker 2: we're done with Cody. I think we're done with WW
Speaker 2: trying to force Cody down because I think it was
Speaker 2: a horrible, horrible decision to have Drew drop the belt.
Speaker 2: Really you think so, oh it was horrible because I
Speaker 2: think Drew number one, you basically are again dump button,
Speaker 2: You're basically screwing Drew. He's been he's been doing what
Speaker 2: he needs to do. He's been a good employee. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: and then you're basically screwing him possible main event at WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: Last time he made an event at WrestleMania was when nobody.
Speaker 1: Was in attendance, right, I mean, it's it's it's it
Speaker 1: was horrible.
Speaker 4: He's still got a high he's got a high profile
Speaker 4: match though against Jacob Pa too.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's it doesn't matter though, that's listen, at
Speaker 2: the very least having a triple threat with Jacob. I
Speaker 2: think Jacob has earned the right to at least get in,
Speaker 2: get in some type of title.
Speaker 1: Maybe not world title, but or ww title, but still.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like he'll get there.
Speaker 1: The Drew McIntyre thing, I think it was just a
Speaker 1: horrible idea.
Speaker 2: It's like, why are we giving it back to somebody
Speaker 2: that's gonna go We know he's going to shoot movies.
Speaker 2: We know he's not gonna win. And if he if
Speaker 2: if Randy does win and there is a legitimate injury
Speaker 2: going on, they're gonna play him like they do Jade.
Speaker 2: They're gonna go like three months with him not defending
Speaker 2: the title. And it's it's just it's just, it's just
Speaker 2: it's a mess. Drew should have been the one to
Speaker 2: come in there and face Randy and walk away with
Speaker 2: the title still strong.
Speaker 4: They made him look we see I think to me,
Speaker 4: Cody Rhodes versus Randy Orton is more interesting, is more
Speaker 4: compelling because of their their shared history. But again, that
Speaker 4: takes me back to my other point, Like I was
Speaker 4: saying earlier, I don't think they've done enough about that.
Speaker 4: You know, they haven't talked enough about Legacy, the the
Speaker 4: stable that they were in together. They haven't. They just
Speaker 4: they've They've they've left a lot on the table, which
Speaker 4: the opposite, the opposite of what they've done with seam
Speaker 4: Punkin and Roman Reigns with with those two, they put
Speaker 4: it all on the table. But I feel like they've just.
Speaker 1: Let me correct on that one were in Legacy, those
Speaker 1: Triple H Batista.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, not like not legacy. Uh wait, what am
Speaker 4: I thinking of?
Speaker 1: I think you're thinking when they were they may have
Speaker 1: been attack team when they were up and coming.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: But but the point being, there's a lot, there's a
Speaker 4: lot there and they've just left a lot on the table.
Speaker 4: And I don't understand why.
Speaker 2: You're not going to go ahead and talk talk about
Speaker 2: their legacy, uh or they're history, especially if it comes
Speaker 2: down to a friend turning on each other. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's just not I mean, there's no real purpose
Speaker 2: for that. I mean, there it's been brought up that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of history between them too, but it's
Speaker 2: been talking about, it's been talked about separately, but there's
Speaker 2: not really Again, like I said, there's no win win
Speaker 2: in that type of promo. You have a guy that's
Speaker 2: bent on destruction of hurting people, punting their heads for
Speaker 2: that matter. Yeah, versus somebody who is the defender who
Speaker 2: needs to go ahead and avenge himself for what was
Speaker 2: done to him. You're not gonna talk. That's there's no talk, now,
Speaker 2: I understand. I understand your point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's talk.
Speaker 4: Uh That's basically what Eric said too. Here's here's the
Speaker 4: other thing though. I think they did the Orton turn.
Speaker 4: See they could have done it. If they hadn't done
Speaker 4: the Orton turn almost immediately, they could have held that
Speaker 4: off a little bit. Let that tension build. Do do
Speaker 4: that promo. Do that promo establish that tension and that promo,
Speaker 4: you know, in that promo, you know, maybe Cody says
Speaker 4: the thing about, you know, you gotta listen to the
Speaker 4: voices in your head. I want you to be the
Speaker 4: viper and all that, and then the next week that's
Speaker 4: when the turn happens. But they could have so they
Speaker 4: could have gotten that promo in, or they could have
Speaker 4: taken that the contract signing and use that as an
Speaker 4: opportunity to dig deeper, you know, because there was that
Speaker 4: there was the contract signing that they did, and I
Speaker 4: guess there was a little bit of that, but but
Speaker 4: they could have done a lot more with it. I
Speaker 4: think they did the turn too early.
Speaker 2: I yeah, I think they could have. They could have waited, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think. I don't think there would have been much difference.
Speaker 2: I think doing the turn at the contract signing is
Speaker 2: the only way tables are going to be broken, because
Speaker 2: if you go ahead to shake his friends and walk out,
Speaker 2: everybody's gonna boo you, like, what is it not a
Speaker 2: contract signing? Contract signing has pen paper and splintered wood.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, but there's not going to be any
Speaker 2: splinted wood if we just shake hands and part of friends.
Speaker 4: But but it wouldn't have to be that. It wouldn't
Speaker 4: have to be shake hands in part as front and
Speaker 4: and and part as friends. But you could have still
Speaker 4: done that with maybe maybe it looks like, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe it looks like Orton's going for the r k O,
Speaker 4: but but then he doesn't quite hit it or something.
Speaker 4: I mean, you could have done things to really build
Speaker 4: that tension.
Speaker 2: You know, there needs to be broken table. I mean,
Speaker 2: how how else make their money?
Speaker 4: Well, that's true, you gotta break that slim gym table.
Speaker 4: You gotta snap, you gotta snap into that table.
Speaker 3: I guess crazy.
Speaker 2: It's crazy, all that money that they're making and they're
Speaker 2: still pricing people out.
Speaker 4: So what do you think about I I kind of
Speaker 4: get the impression that you're going to agree with me
Speaker 4: on this, but but I'm curious because you know, you
Speaker 4: reference all the money that they're making, and financially speaking,
Speaker 4: professional wrestling has never been healthier than than it is
Speaker 4: right now. I mean, they're they're making so much money
Speaker 4: and and so in that sense, it's more successful and
Speaker 4: it's ever been, even if it doesn't occupy the same
Speaker 4: space and popular culture that it did you know, during
Speaker 4: the eighties, during Wholecamania, or during the nineties Attitude era,
Speaker 4: into the very early two thousands, et cetera. But it's
Speaker 4: but financially they're doing fantastic. But there are all these
Speaker 4: naysayers and doomsayers because of the situation where ticket sales
Speaker 4: for WrestleMania are softer this year than they were last year.
Speaker 4: But I think that is a lot a lot of
Speaker 4: that is owed to they You know, they took a gamble,
Speaker 4: and no pund necessarily intended, although it's very appropriate, they
Speaker 4: took a gamble running the same city, in this case
Speaker 4: Las Vegas two years in a row, and I think
Speaker 4: that has hurt them as far as ticket sales this year.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the take on that one. You know how
Speaker 2: they're running their model for placing WrestleMania now right, highest bidder. Yes,
Speaker 2: obviously nobody's really wanted to play the bidding game, and
Speaker 2: Vegas came in hop again. Yeah, why do you think
Speaker 2: it's going to Saudi Arabia?
Speaker 4: But the thing is, though they already had New Orleans
Speaker 4: locked in so much so much so and I don't
Speaker 4: remember this ever happening before, so much so they did
Speaker 4: the press conference, they had the announcement, they had the
Speaker 4: Rock come out and do the announcement WrestleMania New Orleans,
Speaker 4: and then within what a few weeks maybe a month,
Speaker 4: they pulled the plug on New Orleans and recommitted to
Speaker 4: Las Vegas. I mean, that was weird. I've never seen
Speaker 4: that before.
Speaker 1: What are their chicks bounced? I mean, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do?
Speaker 2: It's it's really it's not about let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: diversify WrestleMania. Yeah, let's not. Let's go ahead and you know,
Speaker 2: place it in a new city. It's never been there before.
Speaker 2: It's not about that anymore. It's not it's about money.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and that's the big problem to you know.
Speaker 1: It's money. Now. I get you.
Speaker 2: You're gonna pay you know, you're you're you're paying these
Speaker 2: wrestlers about the same that you were, not less because
Speaker 2: they've actually salaries. But how much money do you need?
Speaker 2: How big are your pockets? I mean they're more pockets
Speaker 2: than pants.
Speaker 1: By this point. How big are your pockets? Come on, man?
Speaker 2: I mean by the amount of money that you are generating,
Speaker 2: you should be giving these tickets away, the floor seats,
Speaker 2: giving them away. And they're not doing it, doing this
Speaker 2: twenty five percent off ram truck event whatever.
Speaker 1: That was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's twenty five percent off a five thousand dollar ticket?
Speaker 1: A thousand bucks?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh great, I get to sit in the nosebleed section
Speaker 2: for not five thousand, but four thousand.
Speaker 3: Weak.
Speaker 4: Yeah that was. That was super awkward too, because then
Speaker 4: they have Pat McAfee making that announcement. So here's a heel,
Speaker 4: he's supposed to be a heal. He's coming out telling
Speaker 4: it almost came off like they were mocking people for
Speaker 4: not for being too poor to go to WrestleMania or something.
Speaker 4: It was really that whole part of that too. That
Speaker 4: was very strange. That was very strangely handled.
Speaker 2: I like how, I like how mcfee's going hend soud,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna save you dirt bag some money or whatever
Speaker 2: names he's calling them. Yeah, you don't deserve it. But
Speaker 2: here's twenty five percent of go book wrestling. And it's
Speaker 2: not even just from now till WrestleMania, it's now till
Speaker 2: the end of Raw. Like, so bizarre time limit on
Speaker 2: this thing?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Is that eleven pm Eastern time? And the Raw? I guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it's on Netflix.
Speaker 2: What if what if they do a short show because
Speaker 2: they don't do three hour shows on Netflix. Right two,
Speaker 2: it's two hours fifteen minutes, two hours thirty How do
Speaker 2: we know, Well, hopefully it's not. Hopefully there's some extra
Speaker 2: time on RAW so I can go to the adio
Speaker 2: website and put my ticket in.
Speaker 4: It's so strange. The whole thing was so bizarre, the
Speaker 4: way they handled that.
Speaker 1: It wasn't.
Speaker 2: I think McFee should be cursed, if you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. Oh oh oh oh, I think McAfee needs
Speaker 2: to be cursed. So, yes, since we last talked that
Speaker 2: mystery person in the crate, I'll have to I'll have
Speaker 2: to admit I was surprised that it was him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not surprised it wasn't Jericho because obviously have his contract dispute. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would admit has been a pleasant surprise that I
Speaker 2: am a dann Housen fan.
Speaker 4: Now, oh, I think that's the general feeling. Yeah, Jenny
Speaker 4: and I love him.
Speaker 1: He's been amazing.
Speaker 2: And I'm talking about like there was like a pin
Speaker 2: drop when he came out. I mean, I do those
Speaker 2: there was an applause like yay Dan, like the people
Speaker 2: that knew him. Yeah, but like, I'm like, what a creep?
Speaker 2: What a what is this dudeist like going on? And
Speaker 2: then I'm seeing him on his social medium, I'm seeing
Speaker 2: him do backstage and impressions. Just the first one with
Speaker 2: Adam Pierce with his note being dropped.
Speaker 1: In the toilet.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's okay, I get that.
Speaker 2: And it's like ever since then, it's like, yes, this
Speaker 2: is the conoric relieve I've been waiting for.
Speaker 4: And apparently his merch sales are huge.
Speaker 3: He's not.
Speaker 1: I think he's the number one merch guy right now.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't surprise me. Yeah, I think he's not. If not,
Speaker 2: he's number one, he's very close. He's definitely top three.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I've been a huge as you can tell
Speaker 2: on my title here, I'm now going by Charles Housen.
Speaker 2: So it's it's uh, it's basically, don't cross me, I
Speaker 2: will curse you.
Speaker 4: So I have one worry with Dan Housen. I'm worried.
Speaker 4: I'm worried he's gonna get overexposed. They're going to overexpose.
Speaker 2: Him, maybe, but you know what, you can't overexpose somebody
Speaker 2: that doesn't do anything in the ring. I mean, besides
Speaker 2: that one appearance that he came out. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's overexposure. It's very short, five minute clips. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: on social media, which is blowing up, and of course
Speaker 2: he's he's Hey, listen, when you hand out free T
Speaker 2: shirts in the middle of commercial breaks, that's not a
Speaker 2: bad thing, right, that's not a bad thing. Go ahead
Speaker 2: and give me free T shirts. But I don't have
Speaker 2: to get cursed. I enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I really hope we see him at Wrestlemanium. I know
Speaker 2: he's not scheduled for a match or anything like that.
Speaker 4: Oh, they'll they'll find something for him to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's that. That's that's him.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be that goofy character that's just gonna annoy
Speaker 2: a lot of wrestlers.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The only personally he hasn't annoyed right now is our truth,
Speaker 1: which he him, and our truth I think should do
Speaker 1: attack him.
Speaker 4: Honestly, they probably gonna happen truth thousand or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, honestly, our truth just is Oh man,
Speaker 2: Damien Priest's facial expressions right now.
Speaker 4: Oh that's what that's what Jenny always says too. She
Speaker 4: she always points out that it always looks like Damian
Speaker 4: Priest is trying not to laugh.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's doing a good job.
Speaker 2: He's not laughing, but you know he's he's doing as
Speaker 2: like a what the heck are you talking about type attitude.
Speaker 4: But yeah, and I like the way too they build
Speaker 4: that on when you know, when when Damian Priest was
Speaker 4: still in Judgment Day and our Truth was trying to
Speaker 4: be in Judgment Day, and and and Amian Priest was
Speaker 4: always the one person in the group who kind of
Speaker 4: had a soft spot for Truth, even though Priest was
Speaker 4: still technically a heel. You know, you could tell that.
Speaker 4: I always appreciated the subtlety and the nuance of that
Speaker 4: where you could tell he kind of liked Truth. He
Speaker 4: was trying not to like him, but he did kind
Speaker 4: of like him. And I like how they sort of
Speaker 4: built on that with this new this new chapter with
Speaker 4: them as Tag Team champions. I'm really enjoying that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it kind of makes me a little bit disappointed
Speaker 2: that they don't have a tag team championship match at WrestleMania. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's disappointing where these two aren't going to be on
Speaker 2: there you don't have did did There's.
Speaker 1: Just not.
Speaker 2: You know, like Eo Sky, How can you not have
Speaker 2: a match for her? And where is Bianca? What is
Speaker 2: going on with Bianca?
Speaker 4: Well, she's been she's injured, right, Oh.
Speaker 2: She's not injured. She's came back. So they they just
Speaker 2: haven't had anything for him.
Speaker 4: Well her and the street profits too. So her husband
Speaker 4: has also been on the sidelines Monteste for and I
Speaker 4: don't think there's any injury there.
Speaker 2: Maybe he might be right, yeah, sheree parfits that. I
Speaker 2: have been kind of very quiet. One thing, I will
Speaker 2: go ahead. Let's let's let's talk about this one here,
Speaker 2: the the gunta not excuse me, the Sammy's Ain Trick Williams, Yes,
Speaker 2: number one, another bad move deserved? Oh yeah, and Sammy
Speaker 2: getting this much heat with Trick, who is also technically
Speaker 2: a heel. It's it doesn't make sense. You know, Melo
Speaker 2: should have came up Melos and Trick should be in
Speaker 2: this match. That's that. That's another bad move. I see,
Speaker 2: w W what are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 4: I so, I am intrigued with what they're doing with
Speaker 4: Sammy Zain, who I think is basically becoming a heel.
Speaker 4: And I This is something we disagreed about on Tough Bumps, Uh,
Speaker 4: Eric and I think Eric and Austin both would prefer
Speaker 4: Sammy z Ain as a babyface. But I actually I
Speaker 4: think he's more interesting as a heel. To be honest,
Speaker 4: I think he's more entertaining as a heel. And I
Speaker 4: like what they've been doing with him. Trick Williams, I
Speaker 4: think as a tweeter, I mean, he's he basically acts
Speaker 4: like a heel, but there's nothing like, what can that
Speaker 4: guy ever do that's going to actually get him booed.
Speaker 4: I mean his music hits and there and everybody goes
Speaker 4: nuts and they're chanting, whoop that Trick And you know,
Speaker 4: I mean he's like, he's kind of like the Rock.
Speaker 4: And this is not an original idea. I've seen other
Speaker 4: people make this comparison. He's kind of like the Rock
Speaker 4: when the Rock was a heel. But people loved him,
Speaker 4: you know, during the Attitude era, even when he was
Speaker 4: a heel. You could because you couldn't help it. You
Speaker 4: couldn't help but like him. And that's what Trick Williams is. He's, yeah,
Speaker 4: he's supposed to be a heel, but you cannot help.
Speaker 4: But like him. It's impossible not to like him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's really You're right, it is really really
Speaker 2: difficult to do that.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think they're they're.
Speaker 2: Trying to put Samy's I think Sammy San is actually
Speaker 2: being forced into a heel role. Yeah, because of how
Speaker 2: they how they did this, because he basically screwed He
Speaker 2: basically screwed Carmelo or eccually me, he didn't screw Carmelo,
Speaker 2: but you know, just having the match, Uh, Carmelo won
Speaker 2: fair and square, right, and like, you know, he should
Speaker 2: be the one to go to WrestleMania to face Trick
Speaker 2: and Sammy you know, kind of weaseled his way in there,
Speaker 2: and it's like, yeah, it's but you know, it is
Speaker 2: what it is. I don't I kind of like to
Speaker 2: see how it plays out. But Mellow should have been
Speaker 2: somewhere in there, even a triple to that.
Speaker 4: No, No, I agree. I think Carmelo Hayes is incredible
Speaker 4: and uh and I really like, you know, I thought
Speaker 4: it was a I thought it was a good heel,
Speaker 4: but I really I've enjoyed him more as a babyface.
Speaker 4: I think he's kind of a natural babyface and uh,
Speaker 4: and very marketable, and yeah, I think they'll get to
Speaker 4: I know they had a they had a long there's
Speaker 4: a lot of history there that they can capitalize on.
Speaker 4: In terms of him and Trick, Trick Williams and NXT,
Speaker 4: they're not always great. Actually, more often than not, they're
Speaker 4: not great at doing that on capitalizing on the main roster,
Speaker 4: on capitalizing on history that these characters had in NXT.
Speaker 4: I kind of understand why they don't bother to an
Speaker 4: extent because obviously it's only a small portion of the
Speaker 4: audience that's watching NXT. But still, I think they could
Speaker 4: do better about that. But I think they will get
Speaker 4: to that with Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes. But I'm
Speaker 4: intrigued to see where they're going with Sammy's ay and
Speaker 4: I I think I'm in the minority on that.
Speaker 1: But I don't.
Speaker 2: I kind of want to see how they spend it too,
Speaker 2: I really do. Yeah, I see Trick winning tonight or
Speaker 2: not today?
Speaker 1: Is it tonight or tomorrow?
Speaker 4: I cannot I cannot remember. I see.
Speaker 2: It looks like it's Sunday. So I see Trick winning
Speaker 2: to win the championship. I think he deserves it now Again,
Speaker 2: whether creative things that way. I don't know, we'll find out.
Speaker 4: There's no hurry. He's very young. Oh yeah, yeah, there's
Speaker 4: no hurry. You know, there's no rush with him. I agree,
Speaker 4: But Sammy.
Speaker 2: Sane has got a lot of belts under his belt,
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, the one that's eluding him is
Speaker 2: the World Championship or the w W Championships. That's the
Speaker 2: main one that's eluding him. So I think, uh, we
Speaker 2: leave him of the belt and lectric run electric, run
Speaker 2: wild on it. I think he should be just fine.
Speaker 2: You're talking about NXT guys, how about Obama massive, dude massive,
Speaker 2: and he is completely manhandling brock Lesner. Yeah, and handling
Speaker 2: him and that could go one of two ways because
Speaker 2: Omas also.
Speaker 1: Handled brock Lesner.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Look how that turned out.
Speaker 4: Well that Yeah, but that that's when Vince was still
Speaker 4: in charge.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I am hoping that the rule or rules. Yeah, me too,
Speaker 2: and I think he will. But I also think supplex
Speaker 2: City is going to be on the road to the
Speaker 2: rule of winning. So I think there's well, we're gonna
Speaker 2: see how he feels about that, because I think he
Speaker 2: has been suplexed a couple of times and he just popped.
Speaker 1: Back up and it's like right takes him down. So
Speaker 1: I'm liking Oba in that match with Brock which will
Speaker 1: open by the way, Oh yeah, both nights. The first
Speaker 1: hour from six pm Eastern to seven pm Eastern will
Speaker 1: open on ESPN one and two, respectfully.
Speaker 2: The first night tonight is on ESPN Tomorrow night, the
Speaker 2: first hour is on ESPN two. Okay, So even if
Speaker 2: you don't have ESPN Unlimited, which you know a lot
Speaker 2: of sicklers just don't want to do it. But a
Speaker 2: lot of cable companies if you subscribe that you get
Speaker 2: ESPNU limited already.
Speaker 1: Not YouTube TV. Thank you very much, YouTube TV.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that you just stick us with the with
Speaker 2: the forty dollars bill every month, but that's okay, I
Speaker 2: pay it. But yeah, if you want to see WrestleMania
Speaker 2: free of charge and you're in ESPN or ESPN two subscriber,
Speaker 2: first hour between six and seven, Oprah, Femi and brock
Speaker 2: Lesnon will be on Sunday part of that first hour
Speaker 2: and also on part of that first hour.
Speaker 1: Which is kind of an interesting match that I'd like
Speaker 1: is the Vision against the U Show in La Night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's interesting the Vision with I Show Speed, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Which he is, I show his true colors apparently, uh,
Speaker 2: just just he didn't want to be he didn't want
Speaker 2: to be a heel. Yeah, but you know he got
Speaker 2: in the way of Dan Housen and started cursing. So
Speaker 2: that's what That's one of the things I read on
Speaker 2: Dan House real quickly sidetrack. Yeah, Dan Housen apparently cursed
Speaker 2: a lot of people in a w but it just
Speaker 2: never followed through. I guess that was just creative. But
Speaker 2: now when he cursed somebody does actual meaning to it.
Speaker 2: Oh wwe oh that's heard.
Speaker 4: The best was when he cursed as a Dan Englert
Speaker 4: the referee and when and when Angler goes to do
Speaker 4: the three count.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that was so funny.
Speaker 4: He played it perfectly to the sound he made when
Speaker 4: he went to count. It was so good.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 4: He could not have done that better anyway.
Speaker 2: So the vision with I Show Speed, whereas their new
Speaker 2: I guess he's a new member of the Vision right
Speaker 2: he hasn't been formally introduced as against the usos who
Speaker 2: are seems like there's cracks at the seam. Although then
Speaker 2: last time we saw him it wasn't. But I think
Speaker 2: Jay is becoming full of himself with l A Knight, which,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, it is a travesty that
Speaker 2: el A Knight is.
Speaker 1: Not in a singles match. Yeah, old, yeah, it's try
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 2: I want to see the usso's win, but I have
Speaker 2: somehow figured out that the Curse of Danausen is going
Speaker 2: to stay alive and the Vision will win. Oh, so
Speaker 2: I will take the vision with I show speed getting
Speaker 2: in the way somehow some way of just oopsie and
Speaker 2: they go up for a quick for a quick count.
Speaker 2: But yeah, or something happens with Jay and Jimmy where
Speaker 2: they're bickering. Yeah, because that's not completely a cohesive unit.
Speaker 4: No, No, I can see a possible heel turn for
Speaker 4: the USOS, maybe a reformation of the bloodline. Maybe they
Speaker 4: go heel and Roman Reigns goes heel and they reconstitute
Speaker 4: the bloodline somehow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he did.
Speaker 2: There was one part of that last promo that and
Speaker 2: did is and new WWE Champion where the Tribal Chief
Speaker 2: takes back.
Speaker 4: So I'm like referring to himself as the tribal Chief.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, thinking of that. So what do you see
Speaker 1: in the vision in USOS though, what do you do?
Speaker 1: Do you agree?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that makes sense. The scenario you laid out makes sense.
Speaker 4: They probably want the vision to go over because obviously
Speaker 4: the Vision has had a rough time with it in
Speaker 4: terms of injuries, so to keep the vision strong, they
Speaker 4: probably want the vision to go over. And I don't
Speaker 4: think the USO's or La Night are at all hurt
Speaker 4: taking a loss in a six man tag, So yeah,
Speaker 4: I think you're probably right. I like your scenario too,
Speaker 4: that the Dan Housen curses involved, Yeah in this happening,
Speaker 4: and yeah, I like it.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna go with your opp prediction there.
Speaker 2: The second match is scheduled for tonight on ESPN. One
Speaker 2: is fought to and McIntire this unsanction match, which, well,
Speaker 2: why just not call it a no holes bard match
Speaker 2: or street fight? I mean it's it's the same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not means there's no referee and you guys just beat
Speaker 2: somebody until they're they're dead or something like that.
Speaker 1: That's don stationed.
Speaker 4: I this is an unpopular opinion, but personally I don't
Speaker 4: enjoy those types of matches very much.
Speaker 1: It's it depends it depends on how creative they can be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because when you had an unsaid these type of matches,
Speaker 2: gimmick matches where everything's involved, you know, you have to
Speaker 2: have somebody from Jackass come in with a big, big
Speaker 2: hand knocking you over or something like that. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: makes it funny. But listen, when you can go ahead
Speaker 2: and break some tables chairs, not so much, Kendostick's not
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 1: Tables is my thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tables and my thing.
Speaker 2: If you can go ahead and be creative, No, not
Speaker 2: just do the same thing everybody's done before.
Speaker 4: Right, because I feel like I feel like it's all
Speaker 4: been done well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's like they're some things that still look
Speaker 2: good and everything's been done to a point. Matt, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, you know what what looks entertaining really, But
Speaker 2: in this one, man, this one, I kind of.
Speaker 1: Want McIntyre to win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of want McIntyre to take take over
Speaker 2: and just discontinues because you know, again, he's what do
Speaker 2: you do with McIntyre after that?
Speaker 1: You're gonna go after after the world title again?
Speaker 4: Or isn't isn't he isn't he going away?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 4: Isn't he gonna? Doesn't he have to film the Highlander,
Speaker 4: the Newer whatever, whatever it goes.
Speaker 2: But there's no gold to this stuff. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 2: I can see what you're saying. Yeah, everybody's you know what,
Speaker 2: this is the problem with booking these matches. Everybody's doing
Speaker 2: a movie. Stop doing movies. What's your career is over
Speaker 2: or you know, at least take a vacation after the
Speaker 2: story ends, right end at WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: This should be new ones. She whiz, I mean, stop
Speaker 1: making movies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if it gives you an excuse to have
Speaker 4: fat go over strong and you know, and because because
Speaker 4: that guy that that's a he's a future WrestleMania main
Speaker 4: eventor no doubt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, you talked me, and do it? Okay,
Speaker 1: I want?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do?
Speaker 1: You want?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's the first match, but you got
Speaker 2: for care against liv Morgan, which, by the way, since
Speaker 2: she didn't watch SmackDown Live, have you seen Liv Morgan's
Speaker 2: music video?
Speaker 1: Yes, oh my god, don't tell my wife.
Speaker 4: But dang, yeah yeah, Jenny and I saw it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think she's spectacular, not only audio but visually as well.
Speaker 2: If she ever does do a music career, and if
Speaker 2: it's backed by T K O, W W E whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she can make it big. I really do.
Speaker 2: She doesn't have to go the way of Nadia and
Speaker 2: going into UH OnlyFans or anything like that. She can
Speaker 2: just go right here into uh the music industry anyway.
Speaker 2: The care has held it, She's done a great job.
Speaker 2: But I think Live Live needs to go ahead and
Speaker 2: get some gold. I'm gonna say Live.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with Stephanie Vicare just because I'm so
Speaker 4: impressed with her. I think she's amazing. They're both amazing, though.
Speaker 1: They are, I think they're both good and competitors.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely.
Speaker 2: I think Vicaire is held onto the belt and you
Speaker 2: know what, Yeah, I Live Live doing it, and I
Speaker 2: think maybe there's more all right this one here for
Speaker 2: the woman's in her continental ajlay Becking Lynch. Is AJ
Speaker 2: really worthy of holding onto the championship or do we
Speaker 2: needed to go back to somebody that's had a more
Speaker 2: of a steady hand sort of speak. Basically, this should
Speaker 2: be the end of this rivalry. Yeah, and I actually
Speaker 2: would like to see AJ keep it.
Speaker 4: I'm a big Becky Lynch fan. As long as Becky
Speaker 4: Lynch as a heel as a babyface, I think she's
Speaker 4: quite boring, but I love Becky Lynch as a heel,
Speaker 4: although if she loses, that gives her more reason to
Speaker 4: be angry and and angry. Becky Lynch promo, which is
Speaker 4: really every Becky Lynch promo as a heel, is amazing.
Speaker 4: I love her promos, love her promos. I think she's
Speaker 4: great in the ring too, But honestly, I just love
Speaker 4: listening to her talk.
Speaker 2: I'll take a look at the time, and I know
Speaker 2: we're running short, so let me go ahead and just
Speaker 2: breach through these yere.
Speaker 1: Okay for the fiddle fourway. By the way, I do
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and let you know Nick Kella
Speaker 1: is out.
Speaker 4: She is definitely out.
Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, she's taking her place at least what I
Speaker 1: heard Page.
Speaker 4: Oh interesting.
Speaker 2: She's been signed to WWE confirmed all of a social media,
Speaker 2: but it has not been made official on SmackDown. There
Speaker 2: was no drop or anything of that.
Speaker 4: That'll be a cool surprise, So it would be brief and.
Speaker 1: Page going up against everybody else.
Speaker 3: But I.
Speaker 2: Want to see the irresistible forces keep it. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and say irresistible forces, what about you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree. I agree they should have a longer
Speaker 4: run with the title.
Speaker 1: Seth Roylins and Goonther. I think it makes Seth look
Speaker 1: very weak if you lose.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it makes him too weak, but
Speaker 2: I think there needs to be a reason why Gunther wins.
Speaker 2: If it's interference, fine, but if it's just straight up,
Speaker 2: I think Seth should win, and I'll take it because
Speaker 2: division is very light right now, so I will go
Speaker 2: ahead and just say Seth wins. Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't have a prediction on that one. I think
Speaker 2: I could go either way. Cody and Randy. I think
Speaker 2: Andy saves the business and he will go ahead and
Speaker 2: win that his fifteenth. I think it's just too much
Speaker 2: build up and then and just such a disappointment, and
Speaker 2: of course Cody filming a movie.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think so, I agree. I agree.
Speaker 2: I already said O. But over Brock, I think that's
Speaker 2: gonna happen. Yeah, the six pack ladder match, dude, I
Speaker 2: want Javon Evans.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Would that be such an awesome moment for that kid. Gavan.
Speaker 2: I know he's young, and I know if he loses,
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be a big deal. But man, he's
Speaker 2: my pick because I think Dragon Ray shouldn't win. JD
Speaker 2: what is he doing in there? I mean if he wins,
Speaker 2: that just solidifies the judgment day even more.
Speaker 3: Russev.
Speaker 2: I don't even think he knows how to climb a ladder. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I think it comes down to Javon and Penta.
Speaker 2: Really it might be Panta. They're big on Panta right now.
Speaker 1: They are You're right, You're right. But yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick Javon. I'm just gonna go off the deep end.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say Panta, Yep, Jade and Rhea.
Speaker 2: I think Ria just takes back where it was rightfully
Speaker 2: her as Jade has not done anything with that title.
Speaker 1: Rear could definitely make something happen.
Speaker 2: Uh already said trick over Sammy Yep, Finn Ballot Dominicu Mysterio.
Speaker 1: But Finn is coming back as the demon. You don't
Speaker 1: mess with the demon, it's Finn.
Speaker 4: Agrees. Yeah, Finn goes over.
Speaker 2: Yep and Uh seem punk Roman reigns this one. I
Speaker 2: may need this last sixty seconds to find to figure
Speaker 2: this out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't call it. I don't know what they're
Speaker 4: gonna do.
Speaker 1: I think I think if I do everything right, I
Speaker 1: think CM Punk drops it. Yeah, I'm gonna yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go Roman.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Gotten in to my head. I would also go Roman.
Speaker 4: But but uh but I but I think this's I
Speaker 4: think there's gonna be some sort of a surprise that
Speaker 4: were that we don't see coming during that match.
Speaker 2: That's that's usually when the poll there's listen time's up
Speaker 2: at WrestleMania, it's like either you do it now or
Speaker 2: don't do.
Speaker 1: It at all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, something's coming.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate you talking with me with WrestleMania, I
Speaker 2: know it happens once a year. And these po's they
Speaker 2: are mostly interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Did they pass like gas sometimes?
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Speaker 4: Very good, very good, well Charles Richards, and my friend
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Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 4: Will let you go as we are approaching the top
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Speaker 1: Absolutely look forward to it. Thank you.
Speaker 4: All right, Charles, you got it, Take care, I'll talk
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