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00:00Hello, and welcome to the SmackDown Preview.
00:04I'm Adam Wilborn from WhatCulture.
00:05Joined by the Waddley boys, Michael from WhatCulture.
00:08Here's a look ahead to tonight's episode of Friday Night SmackDown.
00:12But before we get into it, if you're a fan of this sort of thing,
00:14make sure you subscribe to WhatCulture Wrestling on Apple Podcasts,
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00:19For a two daily wrestling podcasts, we only review SmackDown.
00:23We also have a show formerly known as NXT 2.0.
00:28Hey, WWE Dynamite.
00:29WWE Collision, pay-per-views, premium live events.
00:31We have interviews, roundtable discussions, and a round-up of the week complete
00:34with a bloody good quiz, of course, on WrestleCulture.
00:37As I said, though, joined by Michael Hamlet to look ahead to tonight's episode of
00:40Friday Night SmackDown.
00:42You all right?
01:03I've been eating, been eating, been eating, been eating, borage with, borage with a fork.
01:11Is that your breakfast this Friday morning?
01:13That's what it is, you see.
01:14It's a Friday morning.
01:15Mm-hmm.
01:16Speak on a microphone instead of on the flow.
01:18Is it your anniversary today?
01:26Yesterday, because...
01:27Well, hey, happy anniversary.
01:28Thank you, yeah.
01:29My anniversary was on Thursday, and as we've repeatedly said, this is Friday.
01:32Yeah, of course.
01:33We're like Rebecca Black, me and you.
01:34We're always getting down on Friday.
01:35This is kind of ridiculous now, isn't it?
01:39Will you start recording this on, like, a Monday?
01:40The lengths...
01:42I think it's one of them sort of friendship things, really.
01:44The lengths we go to, to save Sige from having to talk about SmackDown, I think shows real
01:50loyalty.
01:51There was genuinely a bit of me, and this might still happen, a bit in my brain that thought,
01:56is there any way we can defer the SmackDown review to Tuesday and do, like, a bumper full
02:03gear review so the poor lad doesn't have to suffer through, well, in his opinion, suffer
02:07through SmackDown.
02:08I'm going to say, come by me.
02:09Like, it's not like during this weekend that I'm about... that I'm in the middle of having...
02:14I would miss...
02:15Off yesterday, obviously.
02:17Do you know what?
02:18We can't lie to these people.
02:20The reason I was eating porridge with a fork...
02:23Porridge with a fork!
02:24...was because it's actually quite late in the day on Wednesday.
02:28What?
02:29I know.
02:29Messes with time and space, man.
02:31Emotion and shattered, man.
02:33Thursday, as you may have heard me mention on another podcast this week, is my 15th wedding
02:38anniversary with my wife.
02:40We are going for a night away at the hotel we got married at, because it's a fancy one
02:45and sort of... it's the gift.
02:48B-b-b-boner!
02:50Maybe, I don't know, 15 years deep in the marriage and fouty and nouth of it.
02:54Who knows?
02:55And then this weekend, from that, my brother, who has been over...
03:01Don't press a boner button, who has been over for the family birthdays over the last couple
03:05of weeks...
03:05Not yet.
03:08It's old people, yeah.
03:08Quite morbid, yeah.
03:10We'll be...
03:11Try this one on, yeah.
03:12We'll be going down to London.
03:15Pay attention, please!
03:16That's how if you're on the tube...
03:18Like, mind the gap.
03:19Because he lives in Thailand and he's going to be flying home, but before he does that...
03:23Egg!
03:24As a fellow Sunderland...
03:26Love eggs in Thailand, never.
03:27Right, yeah.
03:28Got a love of it.
03:28As a fellow Sunderland fan...
03:30All right.
03:31That worked!
03:32That was good!
03:34We're going to go and see Follum vs. Sunderland at Follum at Craven Cottage.
03:37You got a journalism for that?
03:38You're going to be joking me!
03:40Well, no, you see, because I won't be covering it, because I won't have to, because my professional
03:43capacity is working as a wrestling podcaster, despite what this may look like.
03:47Well, looks like we've had enough time.
03:53It's time for the main event!
03:59Porridge with a fork.
04:01Right, and so just level that off.
04:03I suppose that needs an explanation as well.
04:04Why am I eating porridge with a fork at four o'clock on a Wednesday?
04:07Yeah.
04:08Because we do have a bit of a time crunch to get this...
04:12These nuts!
04:13...fitted in.
04:15That's it, I think.
04:16And I did need something to eat.
04:18I'm going to go for a little run this evening.
04:20Porridge is great for running.
04:26After...
04:26Oh, swimming lessons.
04:32It's an absolute joke.
04:34And the reason I used a fork was because I didn't want to delay us any longer to get
04:37to these important conversations, and I went in the frankly, pathetically stocked
04:41what culture cutlery for.
04:42It's terrible, isn't it?
04:43And saw two knives and a fork.
04:45And I was like, well, eating it with a knife would be stupid.
04:47We're going to do it anyway.
04:50So it was Porridge with a fork.
04:52And then I said that and made myself laugh.
04:55And then we said, well, let's get going now.
04:58We're on a time crunch.
04:59So that's why...
05:00That's where everybody's going to be.
05:02I think that's everything squared away.
05:03I've been advising higher-ups in this company about expanding the podcast network of future
05:11are sort of overlords.
05:16And what's the secret to your number one UK wrestling podcast?
05:20I can't tell you.
05:21Solid foundations.
05:23If I tell you, you'll lose all respect, any respect you have for me.
05:26I would like to think...
05:28And by the way, I share all that information because to be honest, I think at this point,
05:32like sometimes if you tune into a SmackDown preview podcast strictly for SmackDown previews
05:37here on the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast YouTube channel,
05:39you probably know what you're coming for.
05:42So I can share all that information about my life and about what people are going on with
05:46because we have the most dedicated audience that are coming in.
05:48Don't mind me eating Porridge with a fork.
05:50But understand that this is ultimately the foundational brilliance that has made us
05:54in a warm wrestling podcast.
05:55Put you in those rooms to have those meetings with people about like...
05:59Horse and Hound podcast.
06:01Yeah.
06:01Like, I'll bet you nobody...
06:03I will wager.
06:04I'll give you a million pounds English if anybody in the history of the Horse and Hounds podcast
06:09has eaten porridge with a fork within the first minute and a half.
06:13And the views...
06:13Does that include horses?
06:15Yeah, why not?
06:16Because, I mean, how are they holding a fork?
06:18Yeah.
06:18One nil to me.
06:20Yeah, take that animal kingdom.
06:21You're going to win this at a canter at this rate.
06:23It's good stuff.
06:25I'm like, don't wink at me.
06:26I got it.
06:27I know I made the horse walk.
06:28Where was I going with that?
06:31Oh, yeah, that was it.
06:32Like, that's...
06:34That would be uncharted territory for Horse and Hound podcast.
06:36Somebody to be eating porridge with a fork.
06:38But what I know is the people that have tuned in to the Smackdown preview will see that
06:43and think, yeah, I'm actually getting what I came for here.
06:46Well, enough about red rum.
06:48Let's talk about the blue brand.
06:50Yeah, right.
06:51Okay.
06:51What other brands might be getting podcasting?
06:54Speaking of blue brands, never mind sad ones, happy ones.
06:58What are the various brands within our...
07:00The Week Junior, for all the kids out there who are into their politics and stuff like that.
07:04Oh, WEE.
07:05Not like a small child that's maybe getting his ears kicked at school and he's like,
07:09I need to find...
07:10Is there any publication I can do?
07:12Podcasting, yeah.
07:12That's why you get one-one.
07:14Have you heard my podcast about you?
07:16No.
07:16Okay.
07:16Fair enough.
07:17Sponsored by Squarespace.
07:18The Week Junior, yeah.
07:23I'm not sure I'm allowed to say any more.
07:24Okay, fair enough.
07:25Yeah, fair enough.
07:26So keep an eye out.
07:29I suppose you could submit one of these, couldn't you, for like a presentation maybe.
07:34Here's an example of what we get up to around the coverage of one of the number one wrestling
07:39shows in the world.
07:39And then just like make a best of, like a clip collection maybe, like some of Brian's
07:43photoshops or Jay's annual tangent infographic that he makes.
07:50It was quite funny last week at the Student Radio Awards that I went to, catch up with
07:54some ex-colleagues and they're like, what are you up to now?
07:56And I'm like, I work for a wrestling YouTube channel.
08:00And they're like, oh, that's nice.
08:01But thinking that that's like, what do you do for a proper job though?
08:05I'm like, I'm doing better than you are.
08:06This, somehow we do the thank you so much.
08:12Just thanks.
08:13Like, we're very aware of what this is.
08:16So thank you very much.
08:17We'll get into SmackDown, but yeah.
08:19You know where they are tonight?
08:20Tonight.
08:20Tonight on Friday for SmackDown.
08:22I don't.
08:23Denver, Colorado.
08:26The Ball Arena.
08:29Is that named after?
08:31No.
08:32Maybe.
08:33The famous Ball family.
08:35Possibly.
08:35I mean, my nuts are full of spunk for this edition of SmackDown.
08:41Ball Arena.
08:42I should have looked this up before.
08:44Denver.
08:47What was the thing called?
08:48The Ball Empire or something.
08:50It was like the Big Baller brand.
08:52Big Baller brand.
08:53That's right.
08:54Love those guys, man.
08:55What's going on here?
08:56I don't want to know.
08:57I want to know where you get your name from.
08:58I don't want to not find out about who you're playing there.
09:01There we go.
09:02Friday night's, mate.
09:02Yeah.
09:02The Ball Arena.
09:05For those that don't know what we might be referring to, an infamous and in this office
09:09beloved segment in which the Ball family guested on Monday Night Raw and kind of took over
09:13in addition to Miz TV to the point where Jon Moxley, then as Dean Ambrose, didn't really
09:17know where to put himself.
09:18It was called the Pepsi Center.
09:20The Pepsi Center.
09:21That rings a bell.
09:22Remember that?
09:25Sorry.
09:27The Ball Corporation.
09:28I don't think it's the one we're thinking of.
09:30Is Denver one of those places where the altitude is so high, they talk about how hard it is
09:35to wrestle there?
09:36Well, you can certainly be high in Denver, but I don't know about the altitude.
09:43Oh, I see.
09:441,000 Chopper Circle.
09:46That's the address of the...
09:48Ew, come on.
09:50What are we doing here?
09:51Chopper Circle.
09:52Chopper.
09:53Denver Altitude.
09:55Two balls.
09:561,600 meters.
09:59The Mile High City.
10:01So you could join the Mile High Club?
10:02No, I don't think it means that.
10:04What?
10:04Yeah, I think it's describing how far it was above sea level.
10:07Can we talk about the Mile High Club?
10:09Yeah, go on.
10:09Is it a lie?
10:11How do you mean?
10:11I don't think you get like a badge or something like that.
10:15Are people doing it?
10:16Like, you've been to the toilet on a plane before.
10:19Obviously, I'm wondering where you're going.
10:21I have been to the toilet, yeah.
10:22Right.
10:23It's not comfortable when you're by yourself using the toilet for what the toilet was intended
10:28for.
10:29And you're wasting valuable time where you could be watching films.
10:31Well, that too, yeah.
10:33I mean, you could apply that to in your own bedroom overnight.
10:35I wonder if the toilet room's got a tally.
10:41The toilet space.
10:44Oh, it's very, well, in the like, you know, normal cattle class.
10:48It's very nice, you know.
10:51I never turn right on a plane.
10:52I always turn left.
10:54Have you ever?
10:55What's the posture you've flown?
10:56I think maybe like one up from basic.
11:02Yeah, I got that once.
11:03Come back from New York.
11:04Yeah.
11:05My cousin Nick, who you love.
11:06We couldn't believe it.
11:07We slept pretty much the whole way because the seats just simply went to a point where
11:10there was leg room and you could lie back.
11:11Oh, my God.
11:11That was great, yeah.
11:12Didn't watch a film and nothing.
11:14Just slept.
11:14The only equivalent I had was with the flight back from WrestleMania LA when for some reason
11:20there was no one on the flight.
11:22It was like 20 people.
11:23Me, Nicholas and Phil all just were told like, oh, you have to spread out and therefore
11:27you get an entire road to yourself so you can lay down like it's a bed.
11:30Put the arms up.
11:31Yeah.
11:31Yeah.
11:32Sex in the Bogs.
11:33I don't think it would be pleasurable.
11:36I think it would be one of the things to do to say you've done but not something that
11:39would be any good.
11:40Yeah, I just, I make sure it's quick as possible.
11:42So you've done it.
11:43Check it off the list.
11:43Oh, I can get there.
11:44But, and then like somebody else coming.
11:47Is Sex in the Bogs the alternative name for that Samuel L. Jackson film about plane?
11:51And that song that was in the charts.
11:53Stop having these motherfucking sex in my motherfucking bags.
11:56I want to have sex in the Bogs.
11:59Alert the flight attendant.
12:01That was like, I feel like that song came out at the perfect time for me to just throw
12:07us to the disco.
12:09Right, I'm excited for this because I know for a fact, because it featured on last week's
12:14Top of the Pops, it came out in the summer of 1998.
12:19Perfect.
12:20So I'm 10.
12:22So like, it's the funniest thing.
12:24You're not really knowing quite what it was.
12:25No, God, no.
12:26Not a clue.
12:27Do you want a very personal slash heartbreaking story about that exact same period of time?
12:31Go on.
12:31For me.
12:32So how many years?
12:33Different to be three, four?
12:35Yeah, I'm at 88.
12:36Right, yeah.
12:37August 88.
12:37Three years.
12:38I was 13 going on 14.
12:39I'll not name the lucky lady.
12:41But let's just say I had my, like, first serious girlfriend around that time.
12:46By serious, I mean like holding hands in the playground.
12:49That kind of thing.
12:50It was like, I really, like, I don't know if you know what love is truly then, but I loved
12:58her in my mind.
12:59I want you to show me.
13:00Yeah.
13:00And anyway, she broke up with me, as was her right, and I was crushed.
13:10Absolutely broke my heart into a million pieces.
13:11I was crushed, but I was playing it cool.
13:13You know, I was playing it.
13:13And it's an important lesson to go through, I think.
13:15You don't know that at the time.
13:19There was a song, and it's been on top of the pops, which is why it's really fresh in
13:22my mind.
13:23It really made my wife laugh with this story.
13:26It's by a singer called Lutrition McNeil.
13:28I know the name.
13:29And it's this really upbeat song where she's like, she's done a sad song first.
13:36I think it was called Stranded or something where it was like about being lovelorn and
13:40that.
13:40But obviously in the album, she must have like come through the early stage and now she's
13:43like happy again.
13:45And she's like, she just wanted to tell everybody that love is out there.
13:48And I remember it being in, you know, you just go to town on a Saturday, you know, try
13:52and make your three quid last and then go home.
13:54That was just killing time.
13:55Yeah.
13:56In Woolworths with my best mate.
13:59And I was like, you know, I tend to like try and not like show if I'm down in the dumps
14:04and that.
14:04That's like historically a bit of me, but you could just tell I was proper, proper gutted.
14:09It only recently happened in the school week.
14:10And we're probably in town trying to like take my mind off it or whatever.
14:13But anyway, we're in like the single section and then like blasting in Woolworths, like the
14:18most joyous Lutrition McNeil song of 1998.
14:20And that one ever.
14:20Is it called?
14:21It's called Someone Loves You Honey.
14:24Someone loves you.
14:25No matter what, you'll be there again.
14:29And it's like, no, no, nobody loves me.
14:31In fact, the person I love has decided she absolutely categorically does not want anything
14:34to do with me.
14:35She was really fine about it as well.
14:37She, I, I, I swear to tell you if I could remember the exact words, I can't, but it was
14:42just something along the lines of all, like, I don't want to go out with you anymore.
14:45No hard feelings, whatever.
14:46And I was like, yeah, that's absolutely fine.
14:51Dinner's not going to be on the table soon, Michael.
14:53Hope it's delicious.
14:54That kind of thing.
14:55Proper, very well observed in its own way, that in between a sketch.
14:59Yeah.
15:00It didn't like, you know, at the end, like at the end of it, I think it was, let's say
15:04for example, it was like a Tuesday.
15:05It was, this happened at the end of a school day.
15:07You know, happened on like, but it was like Tuesday, Wednesday, something like that.
15:10But like, fine, because it's in the UK and it would have been 1998 and you only got
15:15to wait a couple of days till Friday night, Raul.
15:17Like, Raul's on a Friday night.
15:18He's like, just get to Friday.
15:20Just get to 10 o'clock on Friday.
15:26Don't care anymore.
15:27Like that.
15:28Oh, look what is always there for me and will never, ever leave me because it always wins.
15:33It's my sports team, the World Wrestling Federation.
15:35Well, we're on the war zone and if you've been broken hearted, don't worry because Steve
15:41Austin's there to f***ing s*** up with The Rock.
15:43Ah, thanks, Jim.
15:45How could we have known this was going to happen?
15:47Are you worried about showing some emotions in front of your friends because the late
15:5390s and that sort of stuff is kind of frowned upon?
15:55Well, Steve Austin's going to kick Mr. McMahon's s*** in the second hour.
16:00Yes!
16:03Monday morning, back into school.
16:05Glass smashing in my head.
16:07Are you all right?
16:08Yeah, I'm glad I'm friends now.
16:11Let's get to next Friday quick.
16:12Oh, God, this is a really difficult time in my life.
16:17If it's not you, it's me.
16:19Give me a hand.
16:24You know, if there's anybody in the United Kingdom called Michael, you know what I've
16:29always found love to be?
16:30A deadly game.
16:31And coming up this Sunday at the Survivor Series, oh, yeah!
16:35Do you still, I'm serious, I know you broke up with me last week, but, you know, now you've
16:46had time to think about it.
16:47Do you still love me?
16:48It doesn't matter if you still love me!
16:51But honestly, no, seriously, I miss you.
16:56But if only you'd have had Friday Night Smackdown instead to comfort you as we were on the road
17:01to war games, the men's teams are set after an explosive, where were they?
17:07I can't remember the show, where the show was actually on Monday night.
17:09Do you remember?
17:09It's way back on Monday.
17:11Oh, God, it's way back on Monday.
17:13Luckily, I can remember because it was the Mecca, the world's most famous arena.
17:17The garden will always be the garden, even all these five days later.
17:21I don't really care on the night about war games.
17:26When it happens, I'm like, watch it, obviously.
17:30Come on, what are we doing?
17:31Like 40, 50 minutes a shot, aren't they?
17:34But then, so I'm there and like, yeah, whatever.
17:37And then they're like, what if we chuck Punk, Cody, and Roman on a team together?
17:43Yeah, I'm fascinated now.
17:45Is it reasonable to say, I don't want to blow smoke up our asses.
17:49When we regularly did the streams of the live, you know, we're not the sort of ones where
17:54you see us featuring on the credits to Raw or whatever, we're kind of up late here in
17:59the UK, but I would say like the most viral, if you want to call it that, you and I ever
18:04experienced was after a Survivor series.
18:06Yes.
18:06It was nothing to do with the war games matches we covered, was it?
18:09Not one bit.
18:10No.
18:10Nobody was like...
18:11Once we got that out of the way.
18:12Yeah, get the cages out of the way because a massive star's coming back, it would be
18:15insane to release.
18:17What we talked about, regular war games.
18:19I'm excited in the same way that I was excited for Blood and Guts, but Blood and Guts paid
18:23off.
18:23So, you haven't probably got around to that yet, have you?
18:25Not quite yet.
18:26It's been...
18:28Nine?
18:29It's been...
18:32Bare Naked Ladies.
18:34Yep.
18:36I was going to say, I think about it.
18:37They were on a...
18:37Sorry.
18:39What was that band called?
18:41Bare Naked Ladies.
18:42Yeah, they were on after Raw on Sky Sports 3, 12 o'clock.
18:45It's been...
18:46Nine days!
18:47Since Blood and Guts.
18:48Yeah.
18:48And now we're ready for war games.
18:50Two more fucking cages.
18:52Two more rings, 20 people.
18:54But thankfully, you know, in this window between Blood and Guts, war games, no more like steel
18:59cage match or anything like that to muddy the waters, right?
19:02Well, because you missed Blood and Guts, you might have missed in the middle of the two
19:06cage matches, them booking a cage match.
19:10We do.
19:12But on both women's and men's matches, again, like war games match type, I'll watch it, obviously,
19:19but I'm not like, oh my God, whereas like the moment the ball drops.
19:24I'm saying New Year's Eve, I'm like, oh, that means we're in the month of the Rumble.
19:28Like, so I've got that.
19:30But the people they've chucked in, including potentially, I suppose tonight we could get
19:34further confirmation of like an AJ Lee joining or a Becky Lynch joining or whatever it might
19:38be.
19:39Like, the lineups are amazing.
19:41Yeah, they've gone...
19:42This would be the year, I would say, that...
19:45Especially because they thought it was going to be Wyatt Six versus MFTs at one point.
19:48Yeah, well...
19:49After that, it'd been great.
19:50I was going to say, we've all got big dreams.
19:52Sometimes they're not fulfilled.
19:53Although more on that shortly.
19:55The...
19:56This has been the year where the booking of the war games run-up has not been up to par
20:03in terms of the actual long-term story.
20:06Like, if you go back to...
20:07So it was 2022, Triple H was like, no, I'm doing it now.
20:10We're having war games.
20:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:12Like, that was Sami Zayn proving himself to Roman Reigns at Kevin Owens' expense.
20:17That was a good night.
20:18Like, epic drama stuff.
20:20Forgot everything that happened prior to the war games officially beginning, as I do every
20:24year.
20:24Indeed.
20:26And obviously, you had Owens and the various other babyfaces trying to finally stop the
20:31bloodline and couldn't.
20:32In 2023, again, a match that was instantly forgotten when CM Punk arrived on the scene.
20:37But if you think back, it basically is the start of the setup is maybe my favorite moment
20:42in the entire WWE creative boom, which is that epic conclusion of SmackDown, where the
20:49Judgment Day and the bloodline have made a dirty deal.
20:52And it just requires all the babyfaces.
20:55And like, Cena comes out before Cody, and his music stops, and they start singing along
20:59with his theme.
20:59And that had a big part to play with, like, everybody's theme getting sung.
21:02Yeah.
21:02LA and I, the babyface just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
21:05And Heyman and Rhea Ripley have done that.
21:07And like, oh God, there's really loads of them.
21:10And then all of a sudden, the goodies come out, and Heyman's like, oh, bloodline, that's
21:13the case out of the way.
21:14Like, that.
21:14Like, that.
21:16That, like, an incredible camera shaking stuff.
21:18It's amazing, yeah.
21:19Unbelievable.
21:202020 foul.
21:22So yeah, that was ultimately, what we landed on with that was the Judgment Day and Drew
21:27McIntyre, I believe, against the babyfaces off the back of it.
21:30And then in 2024, which should be the easiest to remember, but is now in fact the hardest,
21:37was in the men's one.
21:39Come on.
21:40Come on, Bob.
21:42The World Wide Web.
21:43It was.
21:44I'll give you a clue.
21:45Cody Rhodes.
21:46Not Cody Rhodes.
21:47CM Punk and Roman Reigns making the deal to stop Solo Sokoa's evil bloodline.
21:52Correct.
21:52The original MFTs, in a way.
21:55Um, so they've all been very drama heavy on the men's side.
21:58In the women's.
21:59That was when Shinsuke last year won the US title and we were like, what?
22:03Excuse you?
22:04Um, in the women's one, it has been historically a bit more thrown together, but there've been
22:08some very nice details and that's what we're getting this year.
22:10My favorite of which was Charlotte and Becky's quite emotional reunion considering how bad
22:16it had gotten between the two of them.
22:18How like the professional jealousy had ruined their friendship and then they kind of reunited
22:22as baby faces together.
22:24Um, that would have been Becky, Charlotte, wouldn't need help and Shotzi versus Damage
22:30Kataral.
22:31Is this what, 2023?
22:32Yeah.
22:33Bianca.
22:34Bianca Belair, of course.
22:35Um, and I just, these women's combination.
22:38That's when the Miz fought Gunther and people were like, Gunther's not drawing the icy
22:41tiles of the Miz, is he?
22:42What's going on there?
22:43Come on.
22:44Um, yeah.
22:45So there's been all these kind of like thrown together women's ones, but they always make
22:47sure EO gets a bin on her head.
22:49And Rhea Ripley's quite good in them, uh, historically.
22:53Who else?
22:54Especially when she's got a broken nose.
22:55Yeah, wears a mask, looks dead dangerous, looks dead hard.
22:58Candice, uh, LeRae's had a few strong performances in them in the past.
23:03So there's all these own little bits of law.
23:05Nia in it last year as well.
23:06Yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:07Yeah, she was.
23:08Who in the heels?
23:09Remind me of the heel match last year.
23:10The whole match, sorry.
23:12Women's war games.
23:13Rhea, Bianca, Naomi, EO, Bailey.
23:15Mm-hmm.
23:16Judgment Day, Liv Morgan and Raquel.
23:18Mm-hmm.
23:18Nia Jax, Tivonis Stratton and Candice LeRae.
23:20Of course, yeah.
23:22Because they were kind of, those latter three there were sort of a bit of a unit on SmackDown
23:25temporarily, weren't they?
23:26Mm-hmm.
23:26Um.
23:27Yeah, that was the briefcase time.
23:28Yeah.
23:29Of course.
23:30Uh, so I...
23:31There's a bit...
23:32There's still a bit of me that thinks LA Knight is joining this men's Survivor Series team,
23:37by the way.
23:38Yeah.
23:38I think Jimmy's making it to, to, um, war games.
23:41Could be taken out as early as tonight on SmackDown, because the war games, as we've
23:45seen, kind of does not respect the roster split, does it?
23:49That's the one time a year.
23:52Where the superstars of Raw and SmackDown can interact.
23:55Mm.
23:55Um.
23:56SmackDown GM and Postman Pierce have kind of been left chasing the tails by all these surprise
24:00returns, haven't they?
24:01Yes.
24:02Caught out by the, uh, the binders and the like.
24:05Oh, my God.
24:05The war games.
24:06There was a binder.
24:07Yeah.
24:08Oh, let me just take a look at, say, say my old John Hancock on that thing.
24:13Um.
24:14I think presumably going to confirm what we saw on Raw as being, right, match graphic,
24:20men's match set.
24:22Question is, do we have to wait until Monday to get the women's one over the line, or will
24:26we get it tonight?
24:28Oh.
24:28And I've just checked on the wiki on today, Friday of all days.
24:32And it says, Rhea Ripley, Eosuke, Alexa Bliss, and two TBA versus Nia Jax, Last Rage, and
24:39Kabuki Warriors, and TBA.
24:40Mm-hmm.
24:41And Charlotte, surely tonight, Charlotte goes, oh, yeah.
24:45Sorry about that.
24:46Sorry about that.
24:47Yeah.
24:47And then, maybe next week you get AJ and Becky, like, Becky confirmed.
24:52I know she just, she, pronoun boy Charlotte Flair, just looked like she was breaking character
24:58and pissing herself when he hugged Rhea.
25:01But what was the point of that, before Charlotte just laughed and kind of undercut the whole
25:04thing, to show the visual symmetry?
25:06That it was a very funny thing in the moment.
25:08Yeah.
25:09Just grabbed her and hugged her.
25:10What was the idea of a visual symmetry?
25:12Was Charlotte looking at those two, and was it supposed to be, hmm?
25:15It's like looking in the mirror.
25:17Yeah.
25:19If you two can have that.
25:20I thought, I don't need you anymore, Alexa, underwater Charlotte.
25:27What if Charlotte did reveal the fourth person on the Women's Wargames team?
25:36Her friend, Ken Dillstick, because that was their ringside as well.
25:39Indeed, you could see it back.
25:41Yeah, yeah.
25:42No, Charlotte presumably has seen the bond between Rhea and Io, and will say, look, just
25:48because I don't trust you, Io obviously does, and all's fair, in love, and Wargames.
25:59Ah, yeah, that works.
26:00And yeah, yeah.
26:02Wargames and peace.
26:05What about if she gets an entire arena of people in the ball arena, the ball center?
26:08Ball town?
26:09Like, it's everybody in Denver.
26:12I don't know.
26:13Wargames!
26:15It's the anniversary recently.
26:16I know.
26:17Oh, I know.
26:18Becky.
26:18Oh!
26:20Oh!
26:21Speaking of anniversaries, I'm just going to use an abuser's position once again.
26:23I would like to, I was thinking about this just last night.
26:26Tony Khan, sorry, on Tuesday, when Tony Khan was on El Helwani.
26:31Shh!
26:32It's a secret.
26:33Way back on Tuesday.
26:35I can barely remember it.
26:36When he was talking about how it's been like this full gear is now like this.
26:40Yeah, it's been seven years since the first full gear.
26:45Where the hell did you store them cogs, Tony?
26:47I really wanted to put the cogs back up.
26:48A bunch of screens are really fucking boring.
26:51Why are we talking about AEW?
26:52Because, I'll explain why.
26:53Okay.
26:53Because Tony Khan on El Helwani, all the way back on Tuesday, days ago, was saying,
26:58it's been like, this is going to be the seventh full gear.
27:00I can barely believe it.
27:01Yeah, it's wild, isn't it?
27:02The passage of time got me thinking, passage of time.
27:06This week, I went and double-checked the old date skis.
27:09This week, nine years ago, was when I first submitted my first articles to what coach got
27:18and was subsequently offered a job.
27:20Right.
27:21Yeah, and immediately let go.
27:23Don't ever write for this.
27:24Don't ever darken this company again.
27:25But I didn't give up.
27:26No.
27:27Very kindly offered a job.
27:28And I, nine years doing this.
27:31That's very much.
27:31And again, I feel like this is the place to say that, because anybody that has, A, joined
27:35this podcast, but B, is stuck with us past the infamous porridge with a fork gate.
27:42It must be in for keeps.
27:45Yeah.
27:45So thank you all very much for watching and listening and reading and whatever.
27:51Because, I mean, it's ridiculous, isn't it?
27:53Yeah, it's rad.
27:54I'm going to hit a decade of destruction in 12 months' time.
27:57And then, hopefully, two decades and 20 years and 30 years and 40 years.
28:01Me and Sid's mind palace moment where we were two night-year-olds on a porch.
28:04And then you just get back, hello.
28:06And the three of us are just sat on rocking chairs, podcasting about nothing in particular.
28:12It might just be like a little dust ball going past or the sun's setting.
28:15But, you know, the one thing that'll still be on is Monday Night Raw.
28:19Well, shit, what did you think of Raw?
28:21Or is it the same nursing home?
28:23All right, the go-home show, the great balls of fire.
28:302050.
28:32How old would we be there?
28:332050?
28:34Not old enough.
28:35We were saying we would be 90 if we were never allowed to.
28:38Oh, yeah, sorry.
28:38I'm going, like, 70.
28:40I don't think I'm seeing past 70.
28:42How?
28:42I was going to ask a very sort of, like...
28:44Actually, I'd be 62, so even that I'm short.
28:47You got an age you want to get to?
28:48Not really, 69.
28:49And then I'll just go like that.
28:55Suck yourself off, die.
29:07Buried, doing it.
29:08That's a good coffin made specially.
29:10What's that shape for?
29:11Oh, it just says, like, a victory.
29:15And the world won't bust away in his sleep at age 69.
29:18Get it?
29:19And then, like, an emoji.
29:23What's that in his mouth?
29:24Don't move the body.
29:29Please bury me with my fart machine playing occasionally.
29:36With your finger just pressed on it,
29:37so it's constantly, like, pressed, like, number eight.
29:39Eight was his favourite laugh.
29:47He loved fart number eight.
29:49So, who advances in the last time he's now tournament?
29:57Open casket if you perform in South Felicio on your 69th birthday and death day.
30:04We can all go pay our respects.
30:06Should we cover that up?
30:07No, it's not.
30:09It's specifically requested we all see it.
30:11It's the final...
30:12Would you like to do a tributary press of one of the fart balloons?
30:16It's the final round of the first round.
30:19Yeah.
30:21We need to get down to the elite eight, don't we?
30:23Yeah.
30:24We're cutting down from 16 to 8.
30:26I didn't realise the later rounds are already set.
30:30What?
30:31Hang on, wait a sec.
30:32This tournament is ace.
30:33No, I've gone on two different websites and they've disagreed,
30:37so maybe it isn't set.
30:38Because you've never seen a bracket.
30:40I was trying to find it and I was like,
30:41oh, apparently it's Rusev versus Jey Uso and Sheamus.
30:44Look, Rusev versus Jey Uso and Sheamus versus LA Knight,
30:47according to CBS Sports.
30:48I'll just double check that.
30:50Oh, it's Rusev versus Sheamus and LA Knight versus Jey Uso,
30:53according to this.
30:54So, who knows?
30:54We'll just do the first round matches for now,
30:56because that makes it easier.
30:57Time is now a tournament.
30:58You can't see it.
31:01Mello versus Bronson Reed.
31:04I think Mello's getting the win.
31:05I think you might be right, you know.
31:06I think Bronson Reed can suffer the consequences of his actions of late
31:11with interference by somebody, some babyface or other,
31:15pick a pick,
31:16or the fight just breaks out, whatever,
31:19and Mello gets the big win.
31:20It's presented as a bit of an upset,
31:22but what they're doing with Mello
31:23is an onwards and upwards deal,
31:25and however far he gets in the tournament,
31:27because God knows who he's facing next,
31:28we can't work it out.
31:30Actually, I think these are set.
31:33Winner faces Gunther.
31:34So, Mello versus Gunther could be fun.
31:36Yeah.
31:37Yeah, Mello versus Gunther.
31:38Good heel, babyface combination.
31:39Again, somebody that's on the rise,
31:41who Gunther can ultimately defeat.
31:43If you want them as you can have him,
31:45but you don't necessarily need him for interference.
31:47But yeah, one and...
31:49Former NXT champions?
31:51Who?
31:51Mello and Gunther, yeah.
31:53That's a very nice detail,
31:55but probably won't be brought up
31:56even by the WWE commentators,
31:57so you're so in the NXT bubble,
31:58you're like,
31:59can we just get this flagged?
32:00They both held the biggest belt previously,
32:02so...
32:03I like the Mello character a lot.
32:05I liked his attempt to let bygones be bygones,
32:09so you can go get the hell on,
32:10and then Miz kept it rolling,
32:11and he's like,
32:12right, I got business,
32:13proper business,
32:14John Cena business.
32:15I haven't forgotten now,
32:17I tried to be the bigger man,
32:19Miz.
32:19And in 2026,
32:22I'm going to ruin the year of the Miz.
32:24Hoorah.
32:25No.
32:26It's not going to be your team.
32:28I mean, it'll be our team,
32:29but not for Miz.
32:30Okay.
32:31And also,
32:32we have...
32:34Is that something as well?
32:35Yes.
32:35Penta versus Finn Balor.
32:38You don't go here.
32:39Neither of you do.
32:40Neither of them do.
32:41Should have been on Raw.
32:41Don't know it doesn't work.
32:43I feel like I've seen this a lot,
32:45even if I've never seen it ever.
32:46It's that,
32:46like,
32:46the Raw mid-card.
32:49Winnerfaces.
32:50Go on,
32:50take a guess.
32:52Do you want to guess?
32:54LA Night,
32:54yeah.
32:57Jey,
32:58so.
32:58Go on,
33:05give me this.
33:06Oh!
33:07That's right.
33:11Here's Solo.
33:13So,
33:13Penta versus Solo would be class.
33:15I mean,
33:15Finn would be good as well.
33:18Holy God.
33:20What is going on up there?
33:22Never know.
33:23Penta wins.
33:24Yeah.
33:25Right?
33:26Who,
33:26on this very show,
33:28will be involved in a match against the MFTs.
33:30Oh my God.
33:31Oh my God.
33:32Oh my God.
33:33It's happening.
33:34Tongans versus Luchas.
33:36Once again,
33:37the MFTs
33:38have made this mid-card
33:39a class card.
33:46That's one for the YouTube viewers.
33:47Yep.
33:47my famed
33:49Solar Sokova impression.
33:50Look at one more time.
33:53I had too much arse there.
33:54Hang on.
33:59Wiggle in the old
34:00junk trunk.
34:02Also,
34:03tonight,
34:04on Friday,
34:06it's
34:08former NXT
34:09Tag Team Champions,
34:11Axiom,
34:11NERD!
34:15A native
34:16raider.
34:17Well,
34:17I'm playing in
34:18windows.
34:19Versus
34:20DIY.
34:23Anything for that.
34:28Uh...
34:28Uh...
34:31Versus
34:32DIY.
34:34Does he have no conscience?
34:35Does he have no heart?
34:37Do you have no soul?
34:38You son of a bitch!
34:39Is Jim Ross cheering me up
34:41after my breakup?
34:43Does she have no conscience?
34:44Does she have no soul?
34:47Uh...
34:47No,
34:47she was fine.
34:48Nice person,
34:49actually.
34:50I've got a...
34:51Could do better than me.
34:51I've got an idea
34:53for this,
34:54but it's sent us around
34:55something different.
34:56Okay.
34:57So tell me what your thoughts
34:58are on this match.
34:58Fraxium should win.
34:59Aye,
35:00Fraxium can win.
35:01Could,
35:02when Fraxium win,
35:04could they do a bit
35:04where
35:05Ciampa's so
35:07flustered
35:08by the
35:09smattering of
35:10jackass chants
35:10that they've played
35:11because the fans
35:12don't care,
35:13get a bit distracted
35:14and get, like,
35:15rolled up or something.
35:16Something fairly
35:16non-committal.
35:17And even
35:18Johnny Organa's like,
35:20Man,
35:20I don't think it,
35:21but you can't
35:22affect me
35:22like a jackie.
35:24And then
35:24Ciampa's just getting
35:25wound up to the point
35:26where, like,
35:27you think he's going
35:27to be like,
35:28I have,
35:29like,
35:29you're about to
35:30meet with,
35:31I forget where he's from,
35:32Cincinnati's maddest man.
35:34And you think
35:34he's going to go
35:35for his title shot
35:35against
35:36Elia Dragunov,
35:37but in fact
35:38he just snaps
35:39on Gargano
35:40in a couple of weeks
35:41and he's like,
35:41Tommaso,
35:42you're never going to get
35:43and he just destroys him.
35:44Now who's a jackass?
35:46No, I went a bit dead
35:47by that.
35:48Well, I thought,
35:50I like that as an idea,
35:51particularly the,
35:53stop saying jackass.
35:55Fans chanting things,
35:56I'm not used to that
35:57during DIY matches.
35:58Every single fan
35:59in the crowd,
35:59like,
36:00their mouth
36:00could not be flatter.
36:03Ha ha,
36:03ha ha,
36:04wait,
36:04they're all chanting
36:05jackass.
36:06They just try and work it
36:07so they're like doing
36:08interviews before the show.
36:10Hi,
36:10WWE.com here
36:12with some fans.
36:14What's your name, pal?
36:15You're all right,
36:16my name's Jeff.
36:17Hey,
36:18hey Jeff.
36:19Jeff,
36:19can you name your
36:20favorite
36:21stunt-based
36:22US MTV show
36:24starring Johnny
36:25Naxville's
36:26and Steve-O
36:27that you enjoyed?
36:29What do you mean,
36:29jackass?
36:30Oh!
36:31And then just isolate that clip.
36:32We got him!
36:32You said at the end
36:33of the word mean,
36:34mean jackass.
36:37They're all
36:38saying out that.
36:44Can we get a chant
36:46going
36:46for TV later
36:49of how we might
36:51describe
36:51the bottom
36:52of the pirate
36:54from Pirates of the Caribbean
36:56but only using
36:57his first name.
36:58I'm referring to
36:58the Johnny Depp one.
37:00That's right.
37:01Jack's ass.
37:01I mean jackass.
37:03They've got
37:04the two clips.
37:05Jackass
37:05and Jack's ass.
37:08It's massive.
37:12I needed a name.
37:19Looking for a quiz question
37:20here from a truly
37:22committed wrestling fan.
37:23Mr. Tunney's first name
37:26followed by the surname
37:27of a character
37:28played by Billy Gunn
37:30that loved his
37:31butto.
37:34Jackass.
37:35Boom!
37:35Got him again!
37:40I'm looking for
37:41the phonetic
37:41pronunciation
37:44of the German
37:46way of saying
37:46yeah
37:47and also
37:49the surname
37:50of
37:51Calvin Klein
37:52off
37:53of
37:54Big Bill
37:55back when he was
37:56working here
37:57home in NXT
37:58just a surname
38:00though
38:00so can I remember
38:01can we say
38:02yes Bill
38:03if you were German
38:04but phonetically
38:07how it's written
38:07down assholes
38:09I couldn't have made
38:10that clearer
38:10in the explanation
38:11okay?
38:13No!
38:14It's phonetic!
38:15But what I thought
38:17was
38:18so like
38:19what's it called
38:19Golden Ratio
38:20Axiom's Finisher
38:21or like
38:22some mad stuff
38:23from Naked Fraser
38:24basically
38:25like
38:26Ciampa gets
38:28absolutely battered
38:30right
38:30and then
38:31literally
38:31because it's not
38:32been advertised
38:33literally
38:35he's there
38:35like
38:35Dragunov comes out
38:38and is like
38:38go on then
38:39here's your title shot
38:39do you want it right now?
38:41I don't mind that
38:42like
38:42because a bit of a
38:43dick move again
38:44he keeps making up
38:45the rules
38:45of what this
38:46open challenge
38:46business is
38:47doesn't he?
38:47Yeah
38:47or he says
38:49alright
38:49I'll be a challenge
38:50right now
38:51and then Ciampa's like
38:52I'm in real pain
38:54and then somebody else's
38:55music hits
38:56and he's like
38:56oh dear
38:57open challenge
38:57and then
38:58Gorgon goes like
38:59no I'm not
39:00I've just
39:00got a concussion
39:02Gorgon's like
39:03he'll take it
39:03and he's like
39:04Ciampa's H-bombs
39:06and he gets
39:07H-bombs
39:08that's the move
39:08I like that
39:09Gorgon's holding him up
39:11Gorgon thinks he's
39:14helping
39:14he thinks he's
39:16helping
39:16then
39:20you got it
39:23it's the only thing
39:28we didn't
39:29when it happened
39:29him and Cans
39:31the very weekend
39:31at Bernie's
39:32with Jumaso Jamba
39:33oh it's good stuff
39:37we get silly
39:39on these Friday mornings
39:40don't we
39:40I'll tell you what we do
39:41yeah do you think
39:44we're gonna
39:44just a couple of things
39:45that aren't advertised
39:46but obviously
39:47a fallout from last week
39:48Sammy's NMFT's
39:51what is this
39:51is this the
39:52go home show
39:53ahead of the
39:53go home show
39:54for Survivor Series
39:55which on that show
39:56will feature a traditional
39:57Survivor Series
39:58yeah they'll probably do
39:59some sort of video package
40:00where it's like
40:00Survivor Series
40:01by the numbers
40:02you can get
40:04there's five of them
40:04and then there's
40:05five of them
40:05and you can get
40:06eliminated by
40:07pinfall submission
40:08count out
40:08or disqualification
40:09next video
40:11I was trying to
40:11remember the best
40:12friends of Sammy's
40:13and I forgot
40:14Shinsuke Nakamura
40:15in there
40:15who actually
40:16probably has
40:16the most history
40:17with
40:17yes
40:18Nakamura
40:19Phoenix
40:19and the
40:20Motocity Machine
40:20got iconic
40:21kind of iconic
40:22rivals
40:22and then that
40:23bizarre period
40:24where they were
40:24partners and
40:25wrestling manager
40:26co-intercontinental
40:27champion almost
40:28yeah was that
40:29the era where
40:30Sammy would like
40:30just dance
40:32as obnoxiously
40:33as possible
40:33to Shinsuke's
40:34music and that
40:34was his whole
40:35gimmick
40:35and then didn't
40:36he just win it
40:37on a show
40:38it was like
40:38right you'll
40:39defend it
40:39against me
40:40who's obviously
40:40on your side
40:41and like
40:41Braun Strowman
40:42and then what
40:42if I just
40:43won it
40:43what if I won it
40:44like he was
40:45just like
40:45angry
40:46Shinsuke
40:46was Shinsuke
40:47that was his
40:51whole bit
40:52wasn't it
40:52it was like
40:52angry
40:52dancing
40:53took no
40:54bumps
40:54for like
40:54six months
40:55but he was
40:55angry
40:55skanking
40:56every week
40:56he could have
40:56like torn
40:57his knees
40:57or something
40:57was that
40:58electric chair
40:58time as well
40:59or was that
40:59different
40:59I think that
41:00was slightly
41:01late
41:01I believe
41:01electric chair
41:02way back
41:04on Wednesday
41:04whoa
41:05yonks ago
41:06um
41:07jay cargill
41:08meet chin
41:09feels like
41:09that's the
41:10next match
41:10for her
41:11squasher
41:11ass kick city
41:13um
41:13I suppose
41:14they'll set
41:14that up
41:14for next
41:16week
41:16yeah
41:16go home
41:17show
41:17you got
41:17well you got
41:18a survival
41:18series match
41:18and a world
41:19title match
41:19it's a
41:20b-fab wasn't
41:21for the title
41:22was it
41:22it was just
41:22I'll kick
41:23your ass
41:23you know
41:24maybe um
41:25meet chin
41:25like jay's
41:26like all right
41:27we'll fight
41:27I'll beat you
41:28up any time
41:29you want
41:29and meet
41:30and somehow
41:30goads her
41:31into defending
41:32the title
41:32and then still
41:33gets her ass
41:33kick
41:33it doesn't
41:34really matter
41:35title
41:35non-title
41:35he's still
41:36still going
41:37home in a
41:37body bag
41:38and jay
41:38like kind
41:41a lesson
41:42more than
41:42happy to
41:43put the
41:43title on
41:43the line
41:43because to
41:43her it
41:44makes no
41:44difference
41:44now one
41:46thing that
41:47is advertised
41:47tonight
41:48which is
41:49I don't know
41:49why I find
41:50so funny
41:50but it is
41:52from what
41:52I've read
41:52online
41:53chelsea
41:54greens
41:55championship
41:56celebration
41:56with pyro
41:58yes she
41:59requested that
42:00specifically
42:00on gm
42:01didn't she
42:01I'm looking
42:02forward to
42:02what his
42:02name is
42:03now
42:03um
42:04I
42:05loads and
42:06loads of
42:07red white
42:07and blue
42:07pyro
42:08maybe pyro
42:09that becomes
42:10the shape
42:10of an
42:10american flag
42:11yeah you'll
42:12like this
42:13uh you've
42:15got a family
42:15things you're
42:16a really
42:17doting father
42:18and husband
42:18in a way
42:19thank you
42:19yeah like
42:20going to
42:21york this
42:21weekend
42:22case in
42:23point
42:23fancy
42:24it's fancy
42:25york isn't it
42:26too fancy
42:27too fancy
42:27for me
42:28my cousin
42:29went to a
42:30fireworks display
42:31around fireworks
42:32time you know
42:33remember remember
42:34the 10th of
42:35may but also
42:35sometimes the
42:365th of
42:36november
42:37and uh
42:38it was like
42:39in support
42:39of i guess
42:40like uh
42:41not
42:42and also
42:45like for
42:46people
42:46my son's
42:47one of them
42:47like kids
42:48that like
42:48respond badly
42:49to the noise
42:49yes yeah
42:50like uh
42:50various like
42:51sensitivity
42:51issues and
42:52things like
42:52where he's
42:53like his
42:53ear defenders
42:53and the
42:54like
42:54fireworks
42:55but the
42:56entire thing
42:56was drones
42:57the drone
42:58show
42:58oh
42:59so i've
43:00seen
43:00basically
43:01create the
43:01exact same
43:02effects of a
43:02firework
43:03display but
43:03their drones
43:04what about
43:05if there's
43:05pyra
43:06the air
43:06kevin
43:07national
43:07nitro
43:08and spinny
43:08things a lot
43:09but then
43:10like the
43:11drones come
43:12into formation
43:12to make an
43:13american flag
43:14and then like
43:14a massive
43:15chelsea green
43:15face
43:16oh
43:17an american
43:18flag
43:19a chelsea
43:19green face
43:20that morphs
43:21into the
43:22maple leaf
43:22and that's
43:24the formal
43:24introduction to
43:25the main
43:25roster of
43:26ethan page
43:26because you
43:27know i was
43:28thinking matt
43:28cardona may
43:29be showing
43:29up for his
43:31wife's
43:31celebration
43:31zach rider
43:32because they're
43:33dating
43:33well they're
43:34more than
43:34dating
43:34they're very
43:35married aren't
43:36they yeah
43:36who's that
43:38hard young
43:38date you got
43:39there my
43:39husband is
43:39several years
43:40oh
43:40i was trying
43:44to think who
43:45crashes this
43:45because that's
43:46what happens
43:47that's a good
43:47point yeah
43:48it's not
43:49going to be
43:49julia
43:50no
43:50um
43:52is it
43:52thea hale
43:53oh
43:54and this is a
43:56call up and
43:57they just they
43:57just go for
43:58it i don't
43:59know
43:59didn't you
43:59have to
43:59necessarily be a
44:00call it can
44:00just be like
44:01oh they've
44:01been fighting on
44:02nxt and now
44:03what if
44:04is there
44:05anybody
44:05that other
44:07than
44:07it's
44:07matt
44:08jm i can't
44:08remember his
44:09name even
44:09though she
44:09mentions it
44:10every week
44:10who chelsea
44:11green has
44:11like a beef
44:12with in the
44:13men's division
44:14because if there
44:16was a man that
44:16could come out
44:17and almost like
44:18comedically be
44:18like chelsea
44:19rubbish and
44:20forget some of
44:25the otherwise
44:25excellent let's
44:26be honest fantasy
44:27booking we did in
44:27the diy thingy
44:28match uh chelsea's
44:31doing a celebration
44:31and it's all like
44:33americana stuff and
44:34it's a little bit
44:34obnoxious there's some
44:36kind of stuff thrown
44:36in as well and then
44:37the music hits and
44:39out comes ilia
44:40dragunoff and he
44:41says i might not be
44:43from america but it's
44:45not pyro and drones
44:47flags and maple leafs
44:49that make you a
44:50united states
44:50champion it's
44:51actually defending
44:52the title like i
44:53won it and in the
44:55first eight days of
44:55me being champion i
44:56defended it twice
44:57yes like you've
44:58held it for the
44:59first ever second
45:00time and you don't
45:01even want to defend
45:01it you're just more
45:02worried about this
45:02this light show and
45:04she's like uh
45:05shut up and then
45:07he's like no you
45:09shut up and then
45:10before like anything
45:11else happens ethan
45:12page hits the ring
45:12and decks him and
45:15he's like he's kind
45:15of like holding his
45:16north american title
45:17his canadian title
45:18over the united
45:18states champion and
45:20we get check it out
45:21now funk soul
45:22brother on the go
45:24home nxt north
45:26american champion
45:26taking on the united
45:28states open challenge
45:29in ilia dragunoff
45:30i like page dragunoff
45:31only dragunoff spelt
45:33on the line
45:33tonight page shall be
45:36your entertainment
45:37is that anything
45:39it's something and
45:40then you could go by
45:41ethan payne if you
45:42wanted that's like
45:43quite a good indie name
45:44isn't it if you're
45:44wanting to train to be
45:45a wrestler
45:45ethan payne do you
45:50know what when i
45:51used to go watch the
45:52indie shows and the
45:52social clubs and i'd
45:53like to introduce you
45:55to my brother t yeah
45:59yeah he's there there
46:02was a great northeast
46:02wrestler called harry
46:03payne i know on paper
46:06you're thinking what he
46:07was honestly he was
46:08like almost pack level in
46:09terms of ability and i
46:10just think he knocked on
46:11the head he had this
46:12obvious natural gift for
46:14it it was just like
46:15yeah i'll be paying
46:17out i'll take my
46:19porridge with a fork
46:20and that that we've
46:24come full circle here
46:25on this smackdown
46:26preview on friday let
46:29us know your thoughts
46:29ahead of smackdown
46:30tonight of course in the
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46:52podcast me and sid will
46:54be here later on today
46:55uh obviously later on
46:57today to preview aew's
47:00full gear pay-per-view
47:02this weekend well
47:03tomorrow of course
47:0424 hours from now and
47:05of course later on today
47:07got wrestle culture and
47:08i've got to tell you when
47:09i wrote this quiz and
47:10song last night on
47:12thursday night i was
47:14blown away by my own
47:15brilliant so check out
47:16that one i know you
47:17could have said the
47:18total opposite and
47:19being like don't have
47:19high expectations it's
47:20rubbish but instead you
47:21put mass pressure on
47:21yourself yeah well
47:22pressure makes diamonds
47:24mate so pressure's a
47:25privilege
47:26um what do i do now
47:30yeah uh tell them what
47:32we've previewed yeah this
47:33has been smackdown
47:34preview where we've
47:35talked about chelsea
47:36greens championship
47:37celebration potentially
47:38another us title open
47:40challenge for all you
47:40dragging off
47:41fraxian versus diy who
47:44advances in the last time
47:45is now tournament and the
47:46road to war goes
47:48the smackdown preview it's
47:51got all this and my
47:53porridge with the fork has
47:54fallen on the floor
47:55see you soon
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