Rey Mysterio Retirement - The Rock's Music Career - New Day Announced for First Post WWE Appearance

Name: Rey Mysterio Retirement - The Rock's Music Career - New Day Announced for First Post WWE Appearance
Uploaded: 2026-08-12T16:57:45+00:00
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00:15What?

00:18What?

00:20What?

00:22Bang!

00:23That's all right with us, he is back in the air!

00:27Whoa!

00:27Pro-Pro-Wrestling Podcast

00:30Just when they think they got the answers, I take the question

00:35A breath through breath

00:37Yeah!

00:39Woo!

00:40UD-LV! UD-LV!

00:45Who are you to doubt L-Fan?

00:47Because this guy's a serious professional

00:49Can you do it?

00:50Oh!

00:52Oh, it came down!

00:54Unbelievable!

00:55Unbelievable!

00:56Too hard to handle

00:57Into cold air

00:59And I am

01:01My dear pain, you savage

01:04We are!

01:06We are!

01:09Oh, Austin Podcast

01:11Such a mouth of thong-wearing fatty

01:14I said WWE stands for

01:17For

01:18For

01:21It's me, Austin

01:23I will never retire

01:26For

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03:16Tonight, we are going to be bouncing all around the world of pro wrestling because there's

03:20so many different things to talk about.

03:21I almost feel frustrated that I have to cover this first thing, but yet another Bayley update.

03:28And this one comes from both WWE side of things and AEW side of things.

03:32So apparently, Bayley does have a contract offer out there from WWE to stay with the company.

03:39She has not made up her mind yet.

03:41Her contract, that's the other thing, is confusing.

03:45If you listen to Wrestling Observer Radio and you hear Bryan Alvarez talking and Dave Meltzer,

03:50they seem to have the belief.

03:52Meltzer, I believe, thought that the contract was up in October, whereas Alvarez thought it

03:56was in January.

03:57I don't know when her contract is up, but I find it wildly interesting that WWE still has

04:03a contract offer out there that creates the possibility for her to return, especially when

04:09you factor in her recent tweeting on X about All In and the workout montage with Mercedes

04:15Monet and things like that.

04:16It's very interesting.

04:18And now from the AEW side of things, executives and backstage people in AEW were said to be

04:23very shocked and surprised at her tweets because they know that she is currently under contract

04:29and there is absolutely no chance for her to appear in any kind of capacity at All In,

04:35despite the fact that she used the song called All In as the backdrop music for the video she

04:41put up.

04:42So very confusing stuff.

04:44Is this just Bayley trolling the fans?

04:46Which, if that's the case, I love it.

04:49I find it thoroughly hilarious.

04:51If this is some other situation, maybe WWE letting her out of her contract early, whatever

04:56it is, that would be wildly interesting too.

04:59Can you imagine if she showed up at All In?

05:01Again, I don't think there's even a 1% chance that happens.

05:05I think she's under contract at least until October.

05:07So I think All In is out for this year.

05:10Moving on from there, if you listen to Busted Open Radio, one of the things that I always

05:15love is when somebody gets frustrated and really goes at it, invents their information,

05:20gives their perspective.

05:22And sometimes, even though I'm not the biggest fan of his personality in real life, on the

05:27show, he gives great insight in some things.

05:30And that would be Bully Ray talking about the booking of LA Knight from Monday Night,

05:35Monday Night.

05:36I say Monday Netflix Raw is what I've been saying lately.

05:38Let's stick with that.

05:39When you see LA Knight a week ago going toe-to-toe with Roman Reigns, he looked like a main

05:45event

05:45talent.

05:46He spoke like a main event talent.

05:48Bully Ray pointed out today that there was no follow-up to that this week, that he was

05:53talked down to by Jacob Fatu.

05:56At the end of the promo when Fatu hit all his taglines, LA Knight looked like he was

06:02like a deer in headlights almost.

06:03He just took it all.

06:05The tongue lashing.

06:06It did nothing about it.

06:07Especially when you think about it.

06:09Just put this together in your brain.

06:11There's a storyline angle right now where nobody in the bloodline is allowed to touch

06:16him except Roman.

06:17So LA Knight should have been going off in this segment.

06:20He should have been saying whatever he wanted to say because Jacob can't touch him.

06:24But he didn't.

06:25He sat there and took it.

06:27And he looked like a punk for doing it.

06:29You take a guy who like, oh my goodness, how many times are the fans going to jump behind

06:34this guy as a top-tier talent only to have him squashed basically by the fact that they

06:40book him in such terrible, terrible segments?

06:43And why wasn't he on the show in a bigger capacity?

06:46Why didn't he come down in the main event?

06:48Why aren't we seeing a lot of things?

06:49Heck, in that show, let's be honest, we didn't see Roma, but we didn't see Seth.

06:52We didn't see LA Knight actually do anything.

06:54There's so many people we're not seeing do anything of substance right now.

06:59Why?

07:00And Oba didn't get physical.

07:01So, and really, Braun Breaker didn't really get physical either.

07:04It's like, all your top stars aren't doing anything.

07:07That, to me, hurts the product.

07:09I didn't hate the show, but I have to agree with Bully Ray.

07:12There was no follow-up.

07:13And it's just, it makes Knight look like an upper mid-carder at best, not a main eventer,

07:19following up on a week where he looked like a bona fide stud.

07:22From there, let's jump over to the, let's call it the independent scene.

07:27It's not really, but let's call it that.

07:28The New Day, formerly Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods, now just going by Kofi and Austin Creed,

07:36have officially been announced for the Chris Jericho Rockin' Rager at Sea.

07:40They will be on the cruise.

07:42And I think this is, most people will assume this is like a precursor to them going to AEW.

07:49I think a lot of people have expected them the whole time to go to AEW.

07:53But the fact that they're announced for the Rager before going to AEW, I almost feel like

07:58that pulls a little bit of excitement away from their arrival in AEW.

08:02Now, I get it.

08:03The cruise isn't for a little while yet, but you have all in and all out both before then.

08:08And I'm sure they're probably going to show up at one of those two shows.

08:11The problem I have is just by announcing the Rager means you've taken away some of the

08:15excitement because anybody who is questioning whether they were coming or not now basically

08:21has had the, you know, for sure had the cat out of the bag.

08:24And now they're just waiting for the formality.

08:27And I don't really love the way that plays out.

08:29I really wish they had held off on this until after all in at least, you know, just so we

08:33could, if they are coming out at all in, they could have really shocked the crowd and had

08:37that big moment.

08:39Let's talk about shocking stuff.

08:41That shouldn't be.

08:42The guy's an egomaniac.

08:43The Rock, in the news today, wants to start a music career.

08:48Are we serious?

08:49This guy who's already, you know, he's been a wrestler.

08:53He's a film star.

08:54He's been an athlete in football.

08:56He's done all these things.

08:57He's got all these other side ventures and businesses, his alcohol, everything.

09:03All the stuff that he's involved in, now he wants to get into music.

09:05And, you know, for anybody who obviously watches children's movies, you know, he did

09:09the song in Moana that he performed.

09:11We've heard him sing on Raw a few times.

09:14We do, he did do some collaboration with Wycliffe and Tech N9ne.

09:18So he has some experience doing that.

09:20But what he was saying in an interview, and I apologize, I don't have the source, was that

09:25it was when he made a song called Your Dad for his daughters that he felt like the urge

09:31to really, you know, make a go of this.

09:33He referenced that he's all about like real country music and that that would be what he

09:37would target.

09:38So he's looking at the options and how to best make this happen, make it a reality.

09:43And look, if that's what he wants to do, more power to him.

09:45I mean, from the minor samples that we've had, from You're Welcome in Moana to the singing

09:52to Vicky Guerrero on Raw when he was mimicking the Eric Clapton stuff.

09:58I mean, he could probably sing pretty well, I would imagine.

10:03So hopefully not too much auto-tune because that drives me crazy.

10:06But, you know, whatever, more power to him.

10:09If that's what he wants to do, you go, you go, girl.

10:11You do your thing.

10:12Let's move on to Rey Mysterio.

10:14Rey Mysterio has made it clear that he is definitely winding down.

10:19He said that he's always trusted his body to tell him when it's time and his body's starting

10:23to tell him that it's time.

10:24It's obvious that Rey Mysterio is in a twilight of his career getting ready to retire.

10:28And I'm going to go there and I shouldn't because it's going to sound so disrespectful and

10:32superficial, but I recently saw a video posted on, I believe, Instagram of a young man who

10:39got a video with Rey Mysterio without his mask on.

10:43And just being honest, I felt like time has definitely, obviously time catches up to everybody,

10:51but it really hurt.

10:52There's the last time we saw Rey without a mask, he was so young.

10:55And now this time we've seen without a mask and he's not so young anymore.

10:59It's hard for a guy like me as old as I am to see that.

11:02And it makes me all the more understand why he's thinking of retirement.

11:06I really do hope he gets one last really big push right before he goes out.

11:12Even if it's in AAA, give him a run with the mega championship, have him beat Dom or something.

11:16But yeah, it sounds like we're winding it down for Rey Mysterio.

11:21And what an incredible career.

11:22That guy is obviously, he earned his spot in the Hall of Fame a few years back and he's

11:28done so much for the industry, revolutionized the industry, started wrestling, I believe

11:31they said it, like 15 years old, maybe he's 13, I don't know, really, really young in Mexico

11:37with psychosis often.

11:40And it's going to be sad to see him go, but he's brought some beautiful influence into

11:44the business with both Dominic Mysterio and now his daughter Aaliyah going to the Performance

11:49Center and getting ready to become a WWE performer.

11:51So if that is indeed something in the near future, hey, maybe we'll get another Gunther

11:56retirement moment.

11:57I don't know.

11:57We'll have to wait and see.

11:58And this last thing I got to touch on tonight, it actually grosses me out.

12:02I can't believe I'm going to say this.

12:04Patrick Clark, former wrestler known as Velveteen Dream in NXT, is going to be making his professional

12:12boxing debut on August 29th at a show called Dual Arena in a cruiserweight match at the Kia

12:19center in Orlando, Florida.

12:20And he is going to be going, he's fighting the host of Pillow Talk.

12:24I'm not familiar with the show myself.

12:25But the fact that this guy who, if anybody doesn't remember, he had some very serious

12:30allegations levied against him about inappropriate contact with a minor online.

12:35Um, a wrestler also came forward, said that he, he witnessed him grooming, um, a minor and

12:41things like that.

12:41Just some really distasteful stuff.

12:44Things you don't want to hear about anybody in the business, um, was released from WWE

12:49in 2021, uh, tried very hard in 2025 to come back.

12:53They obviously did not do that.

12:54Um, he's had some other legal run-ins, some drug paraphernalia here and there, got into a

12:59physical altercation at a gym where he was, they, somebody claimed that he bit somebody.

13:03So just a lot of strange stuff going on there and to see him getting an opportunity in another

13:08like spectacle event where you're like, uh, you know, I don't, I don't know, even, even

13:13up a spotlight that really people who are involved in some of the things that he's accused of.

13:17I mean, again, accused, he obviously hasn't gone to jail for any of them.

13:20So I mean, look, maybe he's innocent.

13:22He pleads innocent.

13:23I don't know.

13:24But, uh, just, it, it just leaves a worrisome feeling in your stomach.

13:28You know, I'm a father of three and I, I would not want my kids to see anything that's

13:32this guy does until I hear an exoneration, not just his claim.

13:37And I know that's counterintuitive in the United States where you're innocent till proven guilty.

13:41But when you're a parent, you got to protect your kids.

13:43You can't take chances.

13:45You know what I'm saying?

13:45And, uh, I don't think these allegations came from nowhere, but, um, I don't know,

13:49you know, how much validity there is to them or what the context was or any of that.

13:53So in fairness to him, he may be completely innocent and lost his wrestling career for nothing.

13:58And I might be upset about him boxing for nothing, but I don't have a way to know that.

14:02And there was no major investigation or anything like that.

14:05So we'll, we probably will never know.

14:07And it's just, uh, just leaves a weird taste in your mouth.

14:11You know, just not something you really want to, really want to endorse.

14:14You know what I'm saying?

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