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0:54π π π π π π M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M Still rooted. Bitch. Mail. Mugger. Bitch. Still rooted. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Oh, oh. Sweet, sweet Peter Rosenberg. Shout out to that guy, Greg. I like delicious chicken. It was repugnant. It's professional wrestling. Whoa, ladies and gentlemen, happy new year and welcome to the world's number one sports and recreation podcast. You hear that? That's how you know it's New Year's. And I am your forever 24-7 champion coming to you from New York City. joining me in Los Angeles, at least for a moment, is 28 to 35.

1:37How are you doing, Dipp? Hey, I'm okay today. How are you? Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Got two days of Happy New Year, and then that's the end of the Happy New Year. That's it. Two days. You know that's not true. By the way, everyone has stolen this bit since Larry David. It's a great... But people have been like, it's like become such a thing. Like he said it. And now it's everyone's. Oh, how long can you say happy new year? How long can you say? The truth is everyone knows you're doing it for at least that first week back at work. People are doing it the first week back. I would. Yeah. I mean, that's true.

2:14I guess. I know. I know. I didn't get as many happy new year texts as I usually get this year. I think people are really done with New Year's. Can we have a conversation? and I say this respectfully because some people could be listening. Can we have a conversation about the people who send all the holiday texts? Like they're there. They're like you don't even I have people in my phone who I only have text from on holidays. Yeah, same. Of course. Christmas text, New Year's text, Thanksgiving text, Christmas text. Well, it's OK. It's a thinking about you thing, and that's fine. that's fine but when you're not close with the person i i don't know what's it trying to accomplish is it just like uh i just really want to be nice i just really want to send positive energy to people is that it yeah yeah you like i want to be um it depends who it's from i let me tell you i i have some listen i i and i try to always go hey you too bro hey thanks but i i don't send them i don't do the hey like now if it's someone i'm really close You're not replying and saying happy new year back?

3:26No, no. Merry Christmas back? No, no. I'm saying, hey, thanks, you too. But I'm not sending those out to people. I sent a few this year. That's it. Family and friends. They're close family and friends and a couple clients. I didn't get one. A few clients. I didn't get one. I didn't get one. I don't need to do that with you. So not that close. What you mean is close, but not the closest. I don't need to do that with you. You need that from me? Let me tell you something. After all we've been through. Close friends and family. I didn't mean close. I didn't mean close. I added close. Let me tell you.

4:05You meant not close friends and family. At this point, if you feel like based on our relationship, you need a happy New Year text from me, you're sick. This is not what I thought it was. Well, you set the standard by going, I sent it to just close friends and family. I know. I know. I don't have to vet my speech. I don't need every word vetted. How do I not vet the speech? The speech? You're the speech vetter of the century. I'm Eddie Vedder. It's got to be vetted. Everything must be vetted. You're a speech vetter. Welcome. Welcome to the program, everyone. We are back. Now, today's an interesting day.

4:42It's still very much part of the holidays. I don't know how many people are out and about listening, but I'm guessing people, you know, some people are back to work today. By the way, what a joke that is. the places that are having you come back for just friday these people these jobs that are making people come back just friday it's shameful dip it's shame give people the whole freaking weekend no one in hollywood oh is is off no one in hollywood is is going back to work today no no monday is fully back yeah i mean it was one of those years where if you if you work someplace that isn't a monster, you can just get the full two weeks.

5:21It's like, oh, look, the way it falls. You got to give people at least this Friday. I mean, it's crazy. In fact, Hot 97 was so thoughtful. They said, you know what? Never come back again. We want you to have vacation. So I really appreciate that. I like the drum thing a lot. You're liking the rim shot? Love. Okay. I'll wait for the right moment for something that you say to get a proper rim shot. Yeah. Here's something. I can't believe how hairy your arms look right now in this lighting. I mean, God. I mean, these are the hairiest arms in wrestling. George Steele of Jace. I've disappeared. I know.

6:03I was showing you my arms. Oh. Yeah. And, you know, your video is such a pain in the ass anyway. Dip has had a computer problem that's been ruining. He's been ruining Emilio's life for months. an entire operation has to be done around every show because Dipperstein doesn't know how to throw away old files I can't wait till you get here I don't know what to do I don't know what I'm doing I can't wait till you get here you're coming tomorrow? yes tomorrow I'm coming so when you get here are you staying in the city? what's your plan? no I'm staying in Scarsdale as if I didn't have enough Tannenbaum you really don't care for me do you?

6:40you sure you want to go straight to the Tannenbaum's house? You know, until the baby, until your baby is having full conversations. You got nothing. No, we were putting the Murphy bed in today. So, but listen, we don't like us. Go to Scarsdale. He needs to be in a house where there's there's this person helping. He's talking to the person about the garage. There's a lawnmower person there. By the way, I got to tell you, that is something I would not like. I'm just being honest. I would not like staying where I have to have run-ins with workers. Oh, my God. They all know me by they know all my habits.

7:23These workers, I know these workers just as much as the Tannenbaum's themselves. That is so crazy. I know the handyman. I know the cleaning lady. I know the nannies. I know every person associated with this. How many people honestly come into this home and do some sort of work? There's always something going on. There's a new step. There's a step in being repaired. There's the light fixture being changed. There's lawn mowing. There's hedge clipping. There's this. And by the way, how is this? This is what it is. Why are people doing this? I never want people around like this. It's like such a thing.

8:06I have to have the guy come today or the kid who helps me out with stuff is coming to put in the Murphy bed even that to me is a lot Bryce Donovan's coming over today Bryce Donovan can't put in a Murphy I mean maybe he can Bryce Donovan helped bring a bar into the house anyways so Dip when you're here though can you just bring your laptop to the city for a day I don't know if I want you going through this laptop I don't need to go through it you go through it i'm going to show you i'm going to just show you what you're doing because it makes no sense now this is crazy you don't get this every day the physically vacationing is here on cheap heat live how do you like that look at this he has made it all the way he's all where are you he's in hawaii this guy yeah what would she beached Where is that near?

9:05What's that near? Honolulu. Honolulu. It's in Honolulu. Yeah. I don't know if it's like a Long Island thing where we go, it's on Honolulu or in Honolulu, but Honolulu is where you want to be to get to Waikiki. Why not Maui or Waikiki? Well, Waikiki is in or on Honolulu, depending on how to local rock with it. I don't know, but I'm going. You should know more about this. You're the one who's lived on the West Coast for a really long time. I've been to Hawaii a couple times. I don't get it. I don't know what's going on there. I don't know what it is. It's a state of Jace, in my opinion, at this point.

9:48State of Jace. Everyone thinks it's a state of Jace, but also state plus. You think state plus? Everyone loves Hawaii. You're the only person I've ever go, I don't get Hawaii. I don't know what it is. I don't know where I'm supposed to go. It's called vacation. It's vacation. Literally, even the people who live there, even the people who live there, basically consider it permanent vacation. To me, Hawaii, it looks just like Boca. It's Boca. Let me tell you, it ain't Boca. I got news. I've never been, but I know it ain't Boca. I've never been to Boca, but Hawaii is so much better than Boca. Yeah, I've been to Boca.

10:24I've never been to Hawaii. It has to be Boca Plus. You getting a good bagel in Hawaii? What kind of bagel are you getting in Hawaii? I think when you get to Hawaii, you're not even going to want a bagel. I had a spam with Subi. What? I like spam. I like this spam gimmick. The pretending that spam is not repug to eat Hawaiian food with the spam is one of the great Hawaiian blah, blah, blah, nonsense bullshit things. And you like it? I do like it, honestly. Yes, I do. SGG, how many trips is this to Hawaii for you guys? This is the second one. This is unreal. This week? This month? Yeah, second one this month.

11:01No, second one this year. Is it really the second one this year? No. How long has it been? This year is not even a day old. Oh, that's a good point. Good touche. Hold on. There you go. You came from 2003. 2022, I think. So this is our second time back. Man, the physically vacationing, dude. The guy lives the gimmick a thousand percent. Yokozuna is from there. Hawaii? Haku, Jeff Cobb, and Mr. Fuji. None of them are from Hawaii. It says that they are. Where are you looking? Yeah. Jeff Cobb is from Guam. Guam, beautiful this time of year. That's not a joke. It wasn't a joke. It really is. It's also beautiful this time.

11:59I'm sure it is. Are you thinking about doing Guam next? Why don't you do Guam? Have you done Guam? I haven't done Guam. I don't think it's on the list. I always wanted to go to Guam. I'm thinking Guam might be something I do at some point. I've never heard of anyone discussing Guam in a real vacation way. But maybe it's time. Well, S.U.G., thank you for making time while you're on vacation to join us. Happy New Year. How long have you been in Hawaii? How long will you be in Hawaii? we got here last night and then we'll be here for for about a week look at you god look at that that's how you do it deb you would understand it's called vacation but my yeah it's that sounds one day one day my my vacation uh this year entailed on the on the last day of work before vacation um finding out i'm no longer working at the job i've been at for 18 and a half years and a surprise phone call.

12:54That then turned into, well, we're now launching a podcast, the Ebro Laura Rosenberg Show. Great show, by the way. Thank you. Thank you so much. You get to enjoy any while you were traveling? I did, of course. I think we listened to all the episodes. I think there's four out. Are there four out now? No, six now. There's six? Okay, so I got two more. I was traveling, but then I listened to four of them. Thank you. Smash that subscribe button. Thank you. Yes, you have to smash. You got to smash subscribe. You got to turn on the notifications. we did break we did break 40 000 subscribers in two weeks that's pretty cool so uh so no but i i what i'm trying to say was i guess my plan for quote vacation turned into i'm launching a new sect in my career and we had a lot of work to do every week plus uh we got all got sick the baby got sick for the first time um it's it's been it's it's been it hasn't been what i'd call a typical vacation but i did get to enjoy some wrestling including this past week i got to anger the neckbeard community um the i mean let me tell you the aew obsessed neckbeard community wanted my head on a stick after world's end they wanted my world to end okay listen this is to get to the shock of no one i think you were right right look I don't think that was a fiery take I don't think that was such a hot take that it needs to cause a whole kerfuffle like the take was about to end the take the take was is that they had the Continental Classic match right before the main event Jon Moxley wins the Continental Classic and then gives what I'm sorry I would describe as sort of a rambling brooding speech for about five minutes in the ring and i said hey maybe this moment isn't the best time for this guy to be rambling about god knows what get out of the ring let's get to the main event it's 11 30 for god's sake i was there which is not a bad take yeah but oh yeah i know dip was there i'm texted with dip going what's going on here and dip you said that in the building you found it hard to understand what was being said and what was going on there he was cutting a baby face promo and i It didn't occur to me in that moment that was a babyface turn.

15:17Like, it didn't occur to me. I just thought he went rogue, grabbed the mic, was like, this is my night too. You know, I'm winning the Continental Championship. Classic championship. All of it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I'm just going to tell people, I'm just going to ramble on. I thought it was just a, I'm going to do this if I want to do this type of thing. That's what I felt it was. And we were wrong because apparently that was the big face turn for Moxley, to which I would say feels a lot like the Cena face turn. Hey, I guess what, everybody? If you were in this tournament, then you bust your ass and you love wrestling and you people love wrestling.

16:01Yeah, sure, I've been taking this entire company hostage for the last year, but after this tournament, I just respect the fans so much. anyways sorry wasn't into it but more importantly yeah sug i didn't think it was a super hot take i paid 49.99 for that pay-per-view i enjoyed quite a bit of it i need to go to bed i want to see the four guys i want to see the four stars compete for the damn championship for god's sake and this idea that you could do this on another night i don't think it was that crazy do it on wednesday i did they have a whole show on wednesday do it earlier do it earlier in the night or do it.

16:38That was just the thing to me. It was like a very basic thing. I'm not trying to be like I'm Joe old school book or anything, but if you have a championship match with the biggest names of the company coming up, this fatal four-way with Hangman and Swerve, Samoa Joe and MJF, maybe it's not the moment where Tony Schiavone says to Jon Moxley, this is the biggest moment in your career. A, love Tony Schiavone. That's simply not true. I'm sorry. I know the Continental Classic is a big deal. It was a mistake that he said that. I don't think he meant to say. He probably thought, oh my god, I can't believe I just said that after he said it.

17:11I don't know. I heard some people arguing, no, it really was. You don't understand the importance of the Continental Classic. Those people are liars. Those people are shills. Those people are the people that... That they think I am. They are who they think I am. if if a bucket of poop dropped down from the from the ceiling into the ring those are the same people that will come out and tell you the symbolism of the poop and how it has history in kara quen hall in japan and how you need to know how it ties into all of wrestling life and if you don't get that thing you're not a fan those are the people that you tune out because this man is a wwe champion multiple time aew world champion even this year he was a w world champion The moment that he wins a lesser belt is not the greatest moment in his career.

17:59It can't be. It's not. Listen, I get it. I want to say one thing in defense of all the people who attacked me. Okay, I will say this. I have a tendency to speak positively about AEW on this show and to tweet. If I tweet about it, it's usually negative. I admit that. This is me just being completely honest. Yes. I'm glad you said that because I have something to say about that too. as a WWE person I'm less likely to tweet positive things about it because it just sits out there I'm more likely to use that in a critical way whereas here when I have opportunity to speak and use nuance I talk often about the things I love about AEW and I don't do that as much on Twitter so I get that but those people don't make any attempt to ever hear what I have to say about anything they just know if you work for one of the companies and you say something about the other company that's not oh my god this was the greatest thing ever then you're a shill and a hack and oh my god they went crazy i mean people went crazy yeah i'd say the concessions were very expensive at the event 12.99 for a neutral that's crazy for a while you know you know a little you know white claw 12.99 12.99 for a white claw yeah 12.99 i can't believe they made you pay i didn't i i Sometimes I just I go and I just sit at the thing No, what the hell are you doing with you?

19:26What? You're doing it all wrong No, no, he doesn't have another option If you have access to complimentary There's no complimentary But there's not Unless there's like a party There's no complimentary Once the show starts You could be John Moxley himself You gotta go out and buy a beer Nah But you get the idea someone who would want a beer. I will say I was sitting in the second row of this event. I thoroughly enjoyed the rest the quality of the wrestling as I have always said the quality of the AW wrestling is tremendous. The Moxley Kyle Fletcher match was insane. Agreed. Except for that bump that neck bump.

20:08I was terrified. That was not good. I was I looked at everyone was looking at each other. It was not good. That was horrible. You saw William Regal said about it. He's not wrong. It was terrible. William Regal. I have a thing. I don't think William Regal was actually talking about that bump. You don't know, because on Twitter, William, first of all, in the tweet, William Regal doesn't mention either company, WWE, AEW, hasn't called out any specific wrestlers at all. I think it was just a wild coincidence. And here's why a, because it's William Regal, right? Like if he was going to say something, he, he'd be more direct than he was in the tweet.

20:45And then B, He only follows a handful of social media accounts on X. One of them is an account called Grapple Clips. The last post from Grapple Clips just before William Regal makes that tweet is the video of him breaking his neck when he delivers a German suplex to Ricky Steamboat in 1993. So he's referencing the exact match that they just posted in their tweet that he saw because he follows them and their backup account. did you read this or observe this yourself that's my theory it's a theory but i mean because it's just ill-timed to the complex no i don't think so i gotta look at it again i thought he i thought he made specific reference to like he knew people were going to come after him because it was in fact about a current wrestling product either either way that moment was scary and here's the thing we got to take a break here in a moment we'll come back Got a lot more to get into, but I am glad that we started with World's End here.

21:49So I know there wasn't a ton of room, but they had the two Continental Classic matches up front on the start of the main show. And then they had one, two, three, four, five matches before the next, the Continental Classic final. My only point would be, do it three matches after. it's still 90 minutes later i didn't i didn't mind the timing of it no you don't don't if you're gonna make it massive i just don't think you do it right before the main event just a little oh that's a good point no that's a good point you put it in the middle of the show guys it's this it's not this is where you have to know it's i understand they need a little break it's nice to have them but it's wrestling they really could handle doing it they could do it 45 minutes later he doesn't they don't need the entire night assuming everyone's okay physically you're having a match, do it a little earlier.

22:39They did the promo. He did like that promo before. Did you see that? Like the backstage thing, like the taped promo. And also, you know, on the other side, I want to talk about the main event that I really enjoyed. Also, little thing. They dropped two F-bombs on Saturday. Did Moxley know when he dropped an F-bomb that Mercedes had just dropped an F-bomb? Can someone communicate? Oh, it matters. You can't be dropping F-bombs right and left. I mean, I know it's not meant for children, good lord man well i think two f-bombs is good if the same person dropped two f-bombs then i feel like that's a problem you gotta diversify you gotta throw in a bitch different f-bomb yeah true you cannot no no but i but i when mercedes dropped the f-bomb i went wow oh they're doing f that's an f-bomb that's a big deal you don't you you hear an s-bomb you hear a b-bomb you don't often i i don't recall a lot of f-bombs that i that i remember and then an hour later another the rough bomb.

23:37Can I say one thing before we go? I would say, besides that Big MJF went, the highlight of my night was that I finally had never met him before. I finally got to meet Mark Briscoe.

23:52This guy is the mensch of the cinch. I love him. I want to hang with that guy. He is a great guy. Mark Briscoe. A funny, great guy. I love it. By the way, this is when Emilio comes in. He goes, hey, you got to hang out with Steve? You got to hang out with Steve Briscoe. Ayo. That's a great guy. I mean, this guy, he's got nothing but nice things to say to you. Emilio, you hung out with Mark Briscoe before? I have, yeah. Great guy? Very good. Mentioned the sense. Him and RIP. His brother was incredible as well. No, we call him Chick. See, there you go It's chick Well, that's how They should Use yourself as chick You're chick Why chick?

24:47Because he Does he raise chickens? Yeah, because they're chicken farmers Yeah, they're chicken farmers I got one more thing to say About my time at World's End Before I go You're not going anywhere Before we go to the break By the way, we're taking a break Save your next thing We're not leaving We'll be gone for two minutes We'll be right back with more G.P. Live. Happy New Year, everyone. You scared out listeners with this. I know. We're not leaving. I know. I'm not going anywhere. I may have a shrink cheese, though. We have a lot more show right here. It's G.P. Live on Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7.

25:19Hello. My name is Iron Mike Sharp, and I'd like to wish everybody out there a very happy New Year. My personal New Year's resolution is I am not going to get upset when people call me a wimp. It's all behind me. I've decided that this is just a psychological tool that the people use against me and I'm not going to get upset Alright ladies and gentlemen welcome back to Chief Heat Live Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7 Happy New Year We're going to take a look back at some things from this year but right now we're just talking about the week that was which I would describe as overall a very, very good week in general for AEW WWE is pretty between any sort of major shows although now you have this Raw coming up on Monday that'll get a lot of attention.

26:07But with AEW having the big title change and the big pay-per-view, I thought that was really well-timed for them. A lot of times, AEW ends up having their big events sort of right between WWE stuff, but they had a nice moment here to kind of take a lot of the conversation of the last week, and I thought they did a good job with that. And I thought the main event, and Dip, we're going to let you jump in because I know you had something very exciting to say. You've had some cheese now. You've had some protein, so obviously you're feeling good. I feel much better. Is cheese protein? Yeah. Cheese is protein, sure.

26:38Is that cheese protein? No, it's probably not even real food. But in theory, it is protein. I did think the main event was awesome. I thought most of the card was a lot of fun. Dipperstein, you said you had something you wanted to get in before you went nowhere.

26:58I I had no idea how good a wrestler Juice Robinson is I gotta tell you he's filling in for Colton Gunn who is injured and they wrestled FTR and I'll tell you right now Juice Robinson a hell of a performer so God bless that's all Juice Robinson he's been around for quite a while if you're sleeping on Juice Robinson's wrestling abilities you're a schmageggy all right well the duly noted i mean he does he does literally he has been around so long that when he was in wwe he was at florida championship wrestling wow yeah he had uh kevin owens debut match actually and kevin owens debut match that's right debuted in nxt he faced cj parker i believe he's one of the great beverages of our time mr robinson that's right how about this on the i'm looking at this on the july 4th episode of NXT.

27:54This is in 2012. Parker teamed with Nick Rogers in a losing effort against Corey Graves and Jake Carter. Wow. Is that one of those people? Juice Robinson? Yeah. CJ Parker. CJ Parker is Juice Robinson. Right. CJ Parker is Juice Robinson. Yeah, he's been around quite a while. Babes of Wrath beat Mercedes and Athena. I do like I will say this. even though I didn't love the F-bomb I like the Mercedes sort of derailing storyline that she was like completely on top and now she's falling apart I do think that's a fun way to go in terms of the different ways they could have chose to go after she wins 9 ,000 titles I like this, the sort of meltdown is a fun thing but like the meltdown in the locker room is I didn't like that the only thing I'll say is she wasn't completely on top though because what precipitated the downfall was getting to the mountaintop and then not being able to win the world title.

29:00But that gives you more story later. Yeah, it does. That you weren't able to get there. The big one is a good story. No, but listen. Mercedes Dip, she has her shortcomings when it comes to mic work in my humble opinion, but I don't think it's really a crazy thing to say. Although, who knows? Rosenberg said Mercedes isn't the best mic she's not the best mic performer in the world um but i do i like that story that's a lot of fun and man i'll tell you what the the babes of wrath are very compelling they're really fun harley cameron is a star or you think harley cameron's a star oh i think harley cameron's a star for sure okay she's super talented she's like she's she's funny she's good in the ring she's like i i think think carly cameron's the whole package i i don't disagree i don't disagree and i think a lot of people feel this way um and i like willow nightingale a lot too like there are times when i think like they're a little too and again this is me being a little bit old school that guy like sometimes i think they're a little too happy-go-lucky when you're trying to be tough i think that's a really blurry line of like where do you need to not be so cutesy and and be badass but that's a that's in the eye of the beholder so this is this is how i feel about greg sometimes he doesn't need to be this cutesy right he's so cute all the time and you're like hey dude i see what you're saying yeah oh by the way what how do you guys feel about me wearing the john cena saturday night's main event merch for the first time it's nice that's a beautiful shirt yeah yeah and the face that he has on the shirt is how i felt about the show he's just kind of staring off into the distance confused it may be how he felt about the show also we don't know we'll never know i've argued with so many people about the damn cena saturday night's main event i mean it's it's been going on for weeks already yeah everyone's everyone still wants to fight about it yeah and but you know and it's going to be it's going to be one of the great debates of all of all it's going to be it's going to be one of the great debates and i attempted to have that debate sgg i attempted to have that debate a lot a couple of weeks ago on our last show before the break when i was in vermont i attempted to have that debate with dip and he basically after you left and he basically had nothing to say and he was kind of like and I went dipped doing away and he goes I'm not kidding dips response on our radio show that we do was I've been talking about John Cena all week but it wasn't on the radio people are asking me about it everywhere I go can you save a little bit of conversation for you know the radio show you do about this not only that what was the best time to cherry pick some of the best takes you know what on the one hand I feel like this and on the other hand but you know i gotta say i also think about it this way and just pull cherry pick the best takes it's a it's a fantastic that's a fantastic point by you that's how you know dip is honorable dip is he said you know i said everything i could say i don't have nothing more to say i have nothing else to add yeah if you didn't if you didn't have a conversation with me in real life you don't get to know my opinion about john cena i've talked got it enough.

32:07It's the most insightful, ghost-written It's the second best take Dip has on the radio besides he hints at something he has a strong feeling about and then goes, I don't want to talk about it here. Those are the two things when he really brings it. I feel like I'm feeling very bullied right now. Oh, wrong button. Sorry. Now, SGG, you were about to win, though, on something, and I cut you off. Do you remember? Oh, no, I was going to say, you know, for as much as Cena in the last five years, like, rehabilitated his career, became, like, universally beloved, I feel like going out in a way that completely split the crowd in this, I loved it or I hated it, the only two camps, even though he stumbled into it, and I don't think that was anybody's intention at all, that was the most Cena way to retire John Cena.

33:05that there ever really was. I couldn't agree with you more. And I think I said this on the show, and I've certainly been saying it a lot. No matter whether you love John Cena, and he's your absolute favorite, whether you hate John Cena, I think we can all agree. That final run was all of it. Yeah. Incredible matches that made you go, oh my God, I love this guy. weird moments when you go what the hell was that like it had all of the good and the bad you got John Cena you got a full you got the full myriad of John Cena stuff now Dip did you get everything off your chest that you wanted to say about World's End yes I did MJF has the title back I think it's back where it's supposed to be he didn't have it for a very long time um it looked like it looked like we're are we getting are we getting Kenny Omega and MJ I don't know well I do you have you haven't watched Dynamite yet he was I haven't watched and I saw I saw the highlights though yeah he was he was interrupted by by Kenny Omega um but I thought I thought the match was really good man I thought all four of those guys in the main event were were really fantastic I think that Samoa Joe is gonna go down as one of the most underrated and underappreciated wrestlers ever when he retires.

34:35That's my feeling on Samoa Joe. Watching him, first of all, he's the sweatiest man I've ever seen in my life. The man is sweating like a pig the moment the match starts. And then by the end, it's just a pool of sweat all over the place. He can't be sweating more than Big E. Big E will sweat that much as walking to the countdown set. No, no. This guy, I've never seen Samoa. He's the sweatiest wrestler of all time. I'm going to put... Nah. It can't be. He's the sweatiest wrestler of all time. I'm putting that chip down right now. And I want to know who you feel is sweatier. Brock Lesnar gets ridiculously sweaty.

35:19He does. He does. And now more so than ever. But Samoa Joe is still on the right. You know what Brock and Samoa Joe have in common? this is deep. I'm hitting something out of the park here. Here's how you know that they know how sweaty they are. Neither of them wear shirts ever. They don't even come to the ring with a shirt. There's never a shirt to be seen. I think I've seen Samoa Joe in a shirt. No, not in years. Samoa Joe comes out in just the towel, like Tyson. He has the towel around his neck. Yeah, of course he needs a towel. He's got the shorts. That might give Samoa Joe the edge, honestly, that he's aware.

35:57But Brock also, Brock comes out. He never has a shirt that he takes off, right? No. Sometimes a vest. A cowboy vest. When he's being funny. Which, by the way, I wonder if we're going to get that funny version soon of Brock Lesnar. I wonder if we're going to get babyface. Because everyone's saying now, the rumor out there, and these days, maybe my number one problem with WWE these days, is that everything we hear rumored seems to happen. that may be my biggest pet peeve of the moment and what we've been hearing rumored is i've been hearing some gunther brock lesnar rumors have you guys heard this as well i have heard that yeah yeah if we're gonna get that don't we need uh scg babyface brock

36:47i don't know i really enjoyed babyface brock though yeah but i mean if you know he does his best work as a heel i feel like gunther can go to that babyface side but then gunther can't be retiring people no gunther ain't going babyface right now they're trying their hardest to make it you got to make the cena thing worthwhile and the way to make the cena thing worthwhile is to have gunther continue to get booed out of the building yeah him beating our truth i feel so manufactured though i gotta say yeah it does like i like gunther i like that he retired cena i like the way he's going about it but like it feels like they're trying to replicate reactions that they got from other people and in this case it just does not feel natural because he comes in and then he walks out and then he gets on the table and he taunts the crowd.

37:31Like with Dominic Mysterio, there was no taunting the crowd. He tries to speak, they drown him out. With Roman that night after WrestleMania, there was no taunting the crowd. He would put the mic up to his mouth and they would drown him out. With Gunther, he starts to say something and then he stops and then he goes out the ring and then he comes back and then he stands on the table. It's like it's too much of a back and forth for it to feel as natural as it felt with those other other guys. And I don't feel like that lightning in a bottle element that they would want is there just yet because he's doing too much to play it up.

38:08Let's talk about Austin Theory. Wait, real quick before that. Can I just throw it, add this in before you're doing there? Is that is that how you feel about the the whole bitch thing? I don't mind bitch. I like a bitch. No, no, me too. I like a bitch. Once in a while. No, no, me too. I like a bitch. But don't you feel that... You forgot something there. Don't you feel... I like a bitch once in a while. Don't you feel, though, to the point SGG was making, that they're trying to get a certain thing out of Gunther. They didn't want to take any chances that he wasn't going to get the booze that they hoped for.

38:50So they were like, also just call John Cena bitch over and over again. Yeah. Like an insurance policy of like, we're getting the booze. We're saying bitch. The bitch is an insurance policy. You throw in a bitch. You know, you're getting booze. Bitch equals bitch equals booze. Bitch equals booze. That's what bitch is an insurance policy. That's what I'm saying. All right. Austin theory. Austin theory has been revealed since we last talked or it happened maybe right before we last talked. and we've now had a couple of weeks of Austin Theory and the Vision. How are we feeling? First of all, they shouldn't have shaved his head.

39:27Okay. He doesn't like the shave head, folks. No. I don't like the idea that he's just wearing black trunks. Doesn't work for me either. You have to give him... I've said this repeatedly. He is a great talent. Now, Austin Theory, I have been a fan of Austin Theory since the Indies, since the moment he stepped in the door there. Okay? However, making him generic is not enough. He needs, if you're going to give him this heel persona, there needs to be a reason. I need more of a reason for this guy to exist other than he's maybe not had his shot or whatever. whatever. I'm, I'm, I'm looking at these, all these vision members right now, and they're all in a row.

40:20And I'm like, this is a great group of, of, of individuals and with Heyman, it gets even better, but just having each other's back, them being the future. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not there right now yet. Again, I need a little more Austin theory needs to be there for a reason. And maybe that reason will reveal itself at some point, But wanting to have their back and could be the future is not enough for theory to be in the position that he's in. And maybe this will reveal itself over time to be something better and bigger. Great. But just like giving him new music and a new entrance and sort of shaving his head.

41:01Shaving his head. Yeah, shaving his head. You know, is not. He's had a beautiful hair. He's a great looking guy. You don't want to shave his head and make him less good looking. yeah i don't know if i i i feel you i feel you on this and we just went through this by the way and i maintain to this day that the lack of change in john cena was one of the major flaws of the heel turn i don't care what anyone says give me all the reasons why they couldn't do it oh it didn't make sense he should just wear the no the keeping has looked the same except she Like you got to come up with something that's discernible, whether it's a look thing, not just necessarily shaving a head or the impetus for why they're doing it.

41:46What is different about this Austin theory besides the shaved head? Nothing. I mean, he's not he's not in the corny Grayson Waller tag team anymore. But that's a change. But I need a little I need a reason. Give me a reason. I think that's what my problem is too Is that they look good together I like the blacked out trunks actually Because it reminds me of what Braun Breaker and Bronson Reed And all of them, they all have the blacked out Black on black trunks so Aesthetically he looks like he belongs with them But they need a reason for the four of them to be together And whether that reason is that They are the future and they feel like They're being held back and they don't want to be held back Anymore so they're taking what they want Or whatever, something as small as that needs to be there and it needs to be a focus for all of them because yes they're all saying oh we're gonna we're gonna be the wrestlemania main event in the future it's like okay it's two nights are you gonna main event against each other how are you gonna do that because then that that seems to me like it puts you guys at odds with each other and then all of a sudden everybody's taking a back seat to braun breaker and he's gonna face cm punk like that type of stuff doesn't make sense to me for four guys who want to be the future like there's one spot at the top what what they're not What they're failing to do, in my opinion, is give is the cop.

43:06The perceived common cause. Is for them to become the future. But what they're the common cause should be, in my opinion, today. Is to destroy CM Punk. However, CM Punk is not the title run is not. effective enough and doesn't feel big enough for them to need or want to destroy him. That's how I'm feeling about the whole thing. Like the Heenan family's common cause was to destroy Hulkamania. But Hulk Hogan and his title reign was so larger than life and so significant at that time that it was the number one thing anyone could ever think about in wrestling. But the CM Punk title run has been a little bit of a bore, in my opinion.

43:59And sometimes I even forget he has the title. That's the issue. The common cause for this Heenan family, this vision, needs to be universally to destroy one entity. And so they need to beef up Punk a little bit. And by the way, the one thing that this has done really well is force Braun Breaker into the title picture to become a main event guy. and his mic work, especially on Monday, a few days ago, has improved significantly over the last six months. He really is living up to it, in my opinion. He is. I'm a huge fan. So that's what it's accomplished, but it hasn't accomplished a common goal that is enough to make me really compelled.

44:47I feel like I like what you're saying about them needing a common cause, but it shouldn't even just be to destroy CM Punk, right? Like if you're the future, but you're not going to wait for the future, then it's not just CM Punk in your way. It's all those legacy acts. You need to kill off the Usos. You need to kill off New Day. You need to kill off CM Punk, Rey Mysterio. You need to be the big bad on Raw, not just in the world title picture, the same way like the bloodline took over SmackDown and even like Nolo's new bloodline and even the way people felt about the vision when it was led by South Rollins and how they just were like the big bad on Raw, they need to be that.

45:27They need to be somebody that not just CM Punk is worried about. They need to be a group that everybody on Raw in the men's division is worried about. And if a woman joins the group, then the women need to be on notice too, all up and down the card. Yeah, no, I like that. I like that. I mean, they should put that. They should. I guess you could do Fury and Logan versus the Usos for the tag. Don't you dare. Don't you dare put them back here, the Usos again. Enough. That goes against, I think, exactly what SGG is saying. We need to diversify the people they go after. Can't just be CM Punk and J.

46:05The titles. And L.A. Night. I know, but I just like I don't want to see the vision in the Usos anymore. I know. How many episodes ended with a schmazz related to the Usos? I know, I know. I need to mix this thing up for God. They've kind of backed themselves into a corner going, I mean, what are they going to do with this? Well, listen, another thing that I think we should talk about in hour two, which we're about to get into already here on GP Live Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7, is the Usos of it all. And the Usos are tag team champions again. So this is obviously a decision that has been made about where we are going.

46:37And I'm curious to get you guys' thoughts on whether this is a good thing, a bad thing not a thing whatsoever but i also agree with you sgg about finding a way to make the vision a bigger story throughout all of it because and also another thing for us to discuss an hour two what's going to happen in this brawn breaker cm punk title match i mean my assumption is cm punk wins and continues to hold the title but like how first of all like from a realism standpoint like i'm not trying to be that guy but like we're trying to build braun breaker to be this thing why would he lose to cm punk he has the vision he has paul hayman he's younger he's stronger he's tough he's everything my guess is that it's gonna end in a schmazz they're not gonna you're right that they're not gonna let that happen so so what so they're gonna someone they're gonna attempt to interfere and then other baby faces get involved and the whole thing ends up just like a no finish yes it could be one of those things where like his own hubris is what costs him right like he's just he toys around with cm punk so much that he could maybe get a roll up people would hate that but it would be his own hubris that costs the match or like he's just beat cm punk down to the point where he's gets counted out can't continue champions advantage now in addition to those topics something scary has happened in the world of pro wrestling and none of us are immune from the ramifications.

48:01If you have not heard about what has happened, you've been busy the last couple of days. It was New Year's. It happened New Year's Eve. You were busy New Year's Day. You haven't taken a look yet. Don't make light of this. We don't want to make light. I got a text from Dip. Don't make light of this. He was very upset. He expressed his anger and his sadness and his fear. No, I have to read the text. No, we have to read the text. So we'll get into this, something that is rocking with the professional wrestling world. We'll do that in hour two, right here on GP Live Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7. My name, as you all know, is Sergeant Slaughter.

48:36And I'd like to take this time to wish you all a very happy New Year. You know what my New Year's resolution is? Cobra Corrin 84. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to GP Live on Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7. I am Peter Rosenberg, coming to you in Los Angeles. You have the great dip pristine in hawaii honolulu to be exact you have the physically large and physically vacationing stat guy greg we are here for another hour to talk pro wrestling as we get ready for the big uh monday night raw from barclay center on monday also i'm gonna say this i'm gonna put it out here it's listen if it doesn't happen you can you can blame someone on this show uh sug i've just been told uh 3 30 on monday on the don hon and rosenberg program uh a visionary is going to be a guest in studio the great seth rollins on don rosenberg coming up on monday studio that's right that's right i i pulled some strings made it happen i was i was hoping to get big time becks but big time becks has a big time match as she's going for the intercontinental championship by the way her content recently yeah her attacking maxine dupree wedding week becky's use of parentheses is some of the great by the way her by the ways her insane by the ways in parentheses are so amazing i gotta tell you i have one real bit of a one real issue these days i have to admit I'm incredibly jealous that Sam Roberts has the nickname Scam Roberts.

50:17It's so good. I got to tell you, I think it's going to change his career trajectory. That's how good Scam Roberts is as a nickname. It's fantastic. I mean, Delusional Dave is good. Scam Roberts, though, is perfect. And to be honest, she doesn't really have – I don't – you can't really come up with an alliteration for me that I think works nearly as well as Scam Roberts or Delusional Dave. If you were a ref, she could call you Cheetah Rosenberg, but you're just a... But you're not a ref. You're not in the ring. You're just a countdown show. You just recap your unbiased broadcast journalism. That's a great point.

50:57That's a great broadcast journalist. That's a great point by you. But yes, congratulations in order to Maxine Dupree and Anthony Luke. They got married on New Year's Eve. I got to say this. I said to Natalie, I loved our wedding in every single way. I love how we did it. If I had to do it one other way, I think the New Year's Eve wedding is a stroke of absolute genius. I think it is one of the most underrated and awesome things imaginable. Because everyone needs plans on New Year's Eve. and no one wants to deal with it but people want to dress up they want to go to a party they want to do something and when you do the new year's eve wedding everybody gets that yeah plus a wedding plus a wedding it's a bonus either way you get the you get the champagne toast at midnight if you were there for the wedding if you were just there for the new year's eve festivities you get the wedding and the reception and all that.

52:06I think it's a brilliant plan. I mean, there's some controversy. I saw that Jackie Redman and Tiffany Stratton wore the same dress. So there could be some heat in WWE there. But yeah, congratulations to Maxine and Anthony Luke. Very cool. He's going to be popping up on Evolve in the coming weeks. I've been impressed with what I've seen. All right. we just were getting into the Usos of it all I'm trying to decide how I feel about the Usos winning the tag team championships I heard I heard Bully Ray on our own network making a really interesting point on Busted Open with Dave LaGreca, DeLulu Dave was it with DeLulu Dave or was he on with someone else I think it was DeLulu Dave he made the point when you've done absolutely everything there is to do as a tag team, it can be a little bit hard to motivate.

53:07You know what I mean? Like, what are we doing this for? Like, we've done everything there is to do. So, SGG, was your reaction excitement to the Usos getting the title again, or were you sort of like, uh-oh, where do we go from here? It wasn't an uh-oh, but I am curious about where we go from here. I had my own guess that, you know, Jimmy was going to cost them the match after spending weeks, you know, not necessarily talking down to Jay, but like trying to big brother him. He brought up the times, all the times that Jay Uso lost this year in a promo and then like Jay's confidence is down. And then he tried to big him up.

53:43But then for him to be the one that cost them the match, I thought would have been an interesting turn. So when they didn't do that, you know, I'm curious to see if it goes that way or what happens. I'm not upset that it didn't go that way But Now it just feels like I'm alone for a ride Because I didn't guess where they were going to go So I'm curious to see where they go Dipp I hope this sort of like settles the yeet thing a little bit Settles it down a little I'm yeeted out I'm yeeted out I hope this is an avenue to launch Jimmy Into something bigger That's what I'm hoping that this is I mean even in the backstage thing that they did F like before the match I was like Oh like Jimmy Needs something This is like I'm like where What is going on with Jimmy He's like Deserves a push The only way that that could happen Though is if this leads To an eventual breakup right good I hope This is what I hope it leads to a breakup And I hope that that that You know how much more yeet merch can they sell they've sold it all okay i mean i you know it's all it's all out there okay turn jay usso make jimmy the baby face and come up with some other fakak the thing you know maybe maybe it's maybe he starts schmitting you're you're sensing schmitt yeah schmitt i like the idea of having instead of yep yeah schmeet schmeet is questionable i like schmeet is crazy i i i'm into i think schmeet will start doing schmeet shirts schmeet glasses all the kids will be schmeeting schmeeting and schmeeting the shirt says schmeet yeah forget yeet is dead now it's schmeet that's what i'm hoping happen i gotta tell you i i'm gonna say this right now i'm stepping on a limb i think there's a very low percentage chance this happens and and instead of the hands going down like this they go up like this schmit schmit the opposite this is eat schmit is it yeah this is yeah schmit or yeet schmit i think that could really catch on i think i could really catch on you just throw your hands up and shrug.

56:07That is the schmeet. But the thing is, they were so close already to a breakup. Like, I just don't know how you then go put the titles on them. You know what you do? Now we have to sow the seeds of dissent again. You know what you do, Jay? Shave his head. That's all you got to do. Yeah. And call it a day. Shave his head. Do you know who is have I ever told you, Dip, that Natalie is one of the biggest call it a day people in the business? oh she's saying call it a day anything can be happening but if she wants to simplify it she just adds something to it and go blah blah blah and call it a day if you say call it a day it's over like for example you're saying you shaved the guy's head you just said it didn't really do anything for Austin Theory I know it was being ironic but by the same token if it's something you're looking for shave his head and call it a day once you call it a day you move on So anyways, I think Dip is right.

57:09The good news is they're going to maybe stop trying to like – they've squeezed enough juice out of the yeet of it all, and we'll get to whatever the next thing is going to be. SGG, you're shaking your head. You don't think so? Yeah, I don't think so because you got to remember, Jimmy is down with the yeet. So now you're getting double yeet. It's not going anywhere to the point where – He could do a whole promo where he goes, yeet Schmeet, and then Schmeet catches on and becomes the next thing. Yeet Schmeet. They didn't even change the theme song back to the tag team theme song because they still want people to yeet, even though people would be able to yeet with the tag team theme song.

57:54It's still just me, even though now he's a tag team champion. It's still just me, Us, because they still want people to yeet. I got to tell Heyman. I'm telling Heyman to say he needs to be the guy that starts the Yeet Shmeet thing. Yeet Shmeet. That's genius. Who would be the right talent, though, to then be the person who's fighting Yeet with Shmeet? It's Breaker. It's Breaker. It's Bronson Reed. It's Bronson Reed. If you're going to go Yeet Shmeet, you got to go with Bronson Reed. Why? He's the Shmeetiest of the whole vision. You think he's the shmeetiest? Is that what you think? He's the shmeetiest baller.

58:37But you're saying you're making it meat. I'm not saying anything about meat. I'm just saying it's shmeet. You're adding S-C-H-M to yeet. That's it. Yeah. Nothing to do with meat. There's no A. It's two E's. S-H-M-E-E-T. Shmeet. Ronsarita is definitely going to change a letter. He changed chief to thief. Yeah, tribal chief to tribal thief. He's going to change. he's gonna add a he's gonna change the heat just me dip i have a gimmick for you that we've never talked about i just experienced it today and i'm telling you're gonna have thoughts i'll be shocked if you don't have thoughts so i told you we went to this lovely restaurant in the neighborhood where there's a peckerhead who works there it's a really great place and we got to go there sometime when you visit um we went for brunch they have a very nice brunch and i don't know i wouldn't normally indulge in this but it's new year's day my friend chauncey is visiting we had we hung out with ballard it's a whole thing lots of farting going on i'm actually farting up a storm i got here you go let's see if he has a thought on it i ordered the bottomless mimosa oh let me tell you something you want to talk about a gimmick i had four mimosas nothing oh yeah yeah you need 30 40 mimosas so they feel the effects to hit rock bottom with these with these you have to have 30 40 maybe 50 mimosas there was they were literally i think they were just taking like orange juice and pouring seltzer in it and handing it to me.

1:00:17I'm like, oh, so I thought a couple. I thought by the third mimosa, I'm feeling something here. Champagne is strong, man. Champagne gets you. That's what I'm saying. They're putting nothing. If you just hit a splash of orange juice in the champagne, which is what a most supposed to be, then you will get got by the third. What kind of nice restaurant has bottomless mimosas? Is this an IHOP? What are you going to here? What are you talking about? Lunch places in Manhattan. They do bottomless mimosas. It's a very common thing. When something is bottomless, you have something bottomless. There is no way it could be that high end.

1:00:53OK, every nice high end place has a bottom. There's no bottomless. This is, by the way, I'm wrong. He's not entirely wrong. Well, it wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't a it's not a fancy restaurant. He's going to lunch at the Olive Garden. That's what he's doing. You want to update it? You want to know? Fine. If dip wants to throw haymakers, dip like shitty food. How about that? Dip has a bad taste in food. You have the most undiverse palate of anyone I know. You just go and attack, attack, attack, attack. Roy Cohn taught you how to argue. Okay. What an insane take. What kind of nice place has bottomless mimosas?

1:01:36Places that do brunch do bottomless mimosas. And by the way, dip is in no position to argue because the place we went to last time, which I'm not going to mention because I like the place and I'm not going to disrespect it. But Dip loved it. And they decide. No, no. That's why I'm not going to say what it was because it would disrespect it. But Dip will admit that I'm right. They specifically trashed up the menu a bit and Dip loved it. He loved it. They trashed up the menu. They might as well have added a toy. It comes with you. Dip loved it. This is what I'm talking about. They had a kid's meal.

1:02:12They added a kid's meal to the menu. And I won't disrespect them because I love them, but I was disturbed by some things on the menu. Alright, so Dip sent us a text earlier. And this was... The funniest part about all of that was that we are about to fight, but you just fought about something that we were not going to fight about. No, I'm not going to... No, this isn't a fight. I'm making fun of Dip because the way the language he used made it sound like something really, really horrible what happened he wrote dip wrote our group chat and just wrote everything is gone from peacock zach replies correct most is moving to netflix if not there already and dip said no not there yet a few pay-per-views but there's no there's nothing else um sug said oh yeah they got pulled at midnight zach says the ball dropped and so did survivor series 91 and then Dipperstein's next text is and I quote I'm very worried and angry about the state of the peacock

1:03:19and SGG said why and he said because I don't know I don't know where and when it will appear again and I watch it every day

1:03:31I think it's reasonable I'm concerned before we get into it I was laughing and so I read that part of the exchange to Crystal and she felt bad for you she genuinely was like you know well what is what is but that means he read it to her he went you got to hear what this lunatic say but it's true she wants to know I can't have it disappear indefinitely until some deal is made it needs to live somewhere other than nowhere I agree Listen, I will tell you, if this continues on while I'm making fun of Deb, if this continues on, I will be very worried. We've talked on this show for years and years about how much we care about the network.

1:04:18And we've played a game called, what price would you pay for the network? And we've gone up as high as like$100. I'd pay anything. I think I've topped out at$500 a month. $500 a month. I said$500 a month I'd pay. You would pay$12 a day? Absolutely. Yep. I'm at least watching Survivor Series 89 and WrestleMania six at least once a week. So is that worth$12.99? I have all these other things, this, that, plus this, plus that. I have 10 ,000 streaming things I don't watch. I watch barely anything that I like anymore. you know and and and uh yeah i would pay just to watch survivor series 89 and wrestlemania 6 12.99 a month uh no i said 12.99 a day though to get us to 500 a month or so oh so 12.99 a day just for those two events yeah seems fair no so so are we so if you go if you guys haven't looked yet and and you go on peacock you will see that most everything is gone the scariest thing is is that when you go to the WWE menu, the first thing that pops up, it's like WWE evil and then like raw talk and a picture of Sam and Megan.

1:05:34It's like, whoa, what's... So, what is going on here, folks? So, let me tell you. So, I turn it on yesterday for the first time. And I turn it on New Year's Day. and um and i i go to the continue watching thing and it's and and i see capital combat 1990 great everything seems fine yeah so it's there so i i click on capital combat and it plays but then if you search wcw nothing's there but it's remained in my continue watching weird saturday night's main events are all still there too you know you just killed it off right yeah you might have just by saying it's not gonna be there when you when you go back for it saturday night's main event is there dip i saw some other 80s stuff like some like challenges maybe there's like some random stuff there challenges are gone are you sure i think so i'm open i'm opening up I also had watched Mayhem 99 or whatever and Mayhem, whatever that for cocktail pay-per-view was WCW.

1:06:44And that was also in continue watching and was able to be watched. But even the button, the WWE thing that said WWE is not even there. Yeah. By the way, where, where is that? It's gone. When did that go away? Well, on my phone, it was there earlier. Now it's not here. It's gone. Everything's gone. When you search, hold on, hold on. I searched, I search WWE. I see World Championship Wrestling. I'm sorry. I see World Class. World Class? Yeah. WCCW. Yeah, there's two seasons of WCCW. Oh, my gosh. This is like random. I see two one-night stands. Last week, there were four one-night stands. Now, there's two one-night stands.

1:07:36It's been taken away from me. things have been taken away oh my god Dip even when you go to Saturday even when you go to Saturday night's main event I don't the John Cena one it's like the last two no they're still there I'm looking right now they're not oh my god I see two so it's just the ones that are a part of the new Peacock deal since they moved to ESPN NXT Deadline is here NXT TakeOver Miz and Mrs NX Mercy. Smackdown is here. Where is this going to go? What are you going to do? I need to do something. I need something done. Can you do anything? I might be able to. You're very powerful. I know.

1:08:26Call everyone dip. You just have to. Now Capital Combat is in TV for you. They know me so well. And it's still playing?

1:08:42Yes. Okay, I just searched. Capital Combat is still there. Capital Combat 90 is there. Mayhem is there. So coincidentally, are you on my peacock? I know. Isn't that weird? No, they're there. I searched. Wait, so... What if Backlash? I'm searching for Backlash. the return of robocop uh backlash is not there there's nothing called backlash oh god this is crazy i mean when but there's valentine's day massacre is there this can't go on forever what is happening we know the people we can ask people i feel like stuff is moving to to netflix and then what i don't know might end up on youtube because they have been beefing up that WWE vault channel.

1:09:33By the way, I turned on the vault. I turned on the vault this last week. The Ultimate Warrior footage is fun. I saw. And then they have 40 minutes of only the Royal Rumble backstage promos, which I, of course, watched. And I've seen them all. I could recite them. But you still sat there and watched. All right. When you go to WWE on Netflix now, they have Raw, of course. they have wwe unreal of course i see they have they have these roads on the way they have these roads to wrestle they have these raw classics like best of john cena best of angle best of whatever right they have legend profiles attitude era backlash 2002 wrestlemania 18 royal rumble 2002 what am i typing in to see this stuff you you had to go to wwe there's like a how did i get there there's a categories category under categories yes what's that what's it what's that under categories look for wwe i don't i don't have categories what's categories it's there no i have home shows movies my netflix home shows because this you're on the you're on your tv yeah because i'm looking on my phone and there's a categories i don't know what that is um what happened to the good old days when i was able to type in great muta and see every fucking match it's ever had i'm down jesus that's the family show the search the search was never that good raw vaults what the hell is this he's he's folks dip is close to losing it folks oh come on come on oh tuesday in texas is on netflix there you go mate i've seen it thousands of times you think you've seen it thousands of times i mean oh what's this oh by the way i should i'm going to add i'm going to add to my this this relates to the food conversation oh the wrestling classic is that interesting not only not only does dip not like any food he doesn't like any entertainment either he only likes what he's saying right now out loud are the only things he likes in the world old wrestling pay-per-views it.

1:11:50There's not a movie. There's not a TV show. There's like three restaurants. He really is just like white trash from Philly who wants like his jalapeno poppers and to watch this Tuesday in Texas and call it a day. I've always wanted to order jalapeno. Jalapeno poppers. I've always wanted to order that. I've never ordered jalapeno poppers. No. Well, I mean, my stomach can't handle jalapeno poppers. Because of the cheese and the jalapeno. It's a lot for you. Yeah. But if you get them, Dip, call it a day you know what i mean you got the jalapeno poppers let me tell you what happens after i eat jalapeno poppers i'm schmitting for days it's gonna be eat schmitt all over the place let me tell you right now this is a reason for real concern though hopefully we it all pops up on netflix in the next couple of weeks there's just there's just a thumbnail big picture of razor ramon and if you click on it it says in your house yeah but so so this sug i think it's very possible that the same way we're watching like it loosely leave peacock we're gonna watch it loosely appear on netflix now there's a thumbnail of dlo let's let's click on that what's that over the edge over the edges there over the edge interesting choice um by the way say goodbye to something to wrestle with that i used to watch randomly you know once in a while you know i'd put it on and it's gone i mean i assume they're not adding it anywhere well here's here's the thing this is not not to like get to to to veer too far into like entertainment you know uh minutiae but if anybody saw the news a couple of weeks ago that netflix just procured all of this podcast bragging rights bragging rights is there oh great so do you want to you want to blow your brains out Watch it.

1:13:44Judgment Day. Be quiet. Please stop just yelling out names of pay-per-views. I'm trying to make a point for Christ's sake. The point I'm trying to make is this. If anybody paid attention and saw the news that Netflix procured the rights to all of these different podcasts, what that tells me, SGG, is the whole way Netflix is going to present content is about to change. They're going to have to have new categories. They're going to have a new way of showing things in categories. They're clearly trying to compete with YouTube. They want to just get you in the Netflix world the way people are in the YouTube world.

1:14:17That's why they went out and got The Breakfast Club and Rory and Mall and Barstool Sports. There's a reason they went out and got these things to get people to operate there. They're going to have to find a new way of when you open up Netflix where you're going. It has to be redone. It can't be the way it is now where it basically just looks like movies and Monday Night Raw. Yeah, it's going to be tough because Netflix is casting a wide net. And that bubble, I mean, God bless them. We'll see how long it can last. But that bubble feels like it's going to burst if they do video podcasts, which is going to pull people away from the audio version of those same podcasts.

1:15:02Exactly. Live sports, movies, because they tried to acquire the studio, TV. That's a lot. That's a lot. I got news for you. nobody's beaten YouTube in my opinion it's gonna be very hard with what you things I'm seeing things if you type in WWE or even whatever you say now on the TV on the Netflix app now survival the Survivor Series are there every single one oh okay with interesting new cool thumbnails that I've never seen before interesting okay and it says in regular text WWE Survivor Series but then every single WWE pay-per-view has a random thumbnail of a different wrestler from the era. I'm looking right now.

1:15:45I want to check in, though. You said earlier you were very, very worried and angry about the state of the peacock thing. I'm so worried now about the state of the Netflix. I'm thinking they're figuring out how to ease it all onto this thing. Great balls of fire is there. Oh, thank God almighty. You were on that show. I damn right I was. Bad blood. There's just a picture of Edge. It was a good show. And it's insurrection. Fastlane 2023. Something's going on. As long as WrestleMania 39 is there, I'm good. This is so interesting. So all of the old PLEs. They're all going. They're all going to go to Netflix.

1:16:30Is what it looks like. WWE. So far. okay so all the wwe ples are going here but the new ones wait hold on wrestlepalooza is there i know yeah there's gonna be some kind of lag i don't know what it is i know with uh like you know with raw it'd be like three months or three weeks or so and then it would go completely unedited on there's uh but here's my but here's my question sgg if oh there all the one night stands are there folks and if anyone listening right now battleground great Fantastic. For everyone listening right now, if you're interested in One Night Stand, Natalie and I did a Patreon watch-along of One Night Stand 2006.

1:17:13She had never seen it. And watching that John Cena-Rob Van Damme match was a lot of fun. So if you're not a Patreon subscriber, head over to Patreon. We did that last week, me and Miss Hatton. So SGG, they're going to air the pay-per-views. The PLEs will air on ESPN, but then they'll end up on Netflix shortly thereafter? That's what it looks like. Because like you said, Wrestle so Palooza is there. I hope somebody is dealing with this immediately. They should get you on this. Why don't they just throw you a little bag as a consultant and get you in on this? Because I feel like they need the voice of the fans with also somebody who can facilitate this and just get this done properly.

1:17:54I need Capital Combat on Netflix. He needs Capital Combat, folks. He cannot miss the return of RoboCop again. Great guy. do you guys remember do you guys remember from 2019 WWE stomping grounds yeah you remember that this is when I was gone I was not with the company during the stomping grounds era Kofi Kingston battles Dolph Ziggler in a steel cage match Universal Champion Seth Rollins takes on Baron Corbin big fan yeah wow because remember they were feuding and then that led to the great moment where uh baron corbin hit becky lynch with that end of days wow as she gee look at the stat guy look at the stat guy doing stat guy things wrestling and baron corbin history it's it was fire that's bishop tired of you and me yeah bishop died he did what he had to do though wow all right well listen we are making some progress uh with regard to this when we take We're going to take a quick break, come back, and get into Raw.

1:19:04We have, first of all, guys, tonight, the first three-hour SmackDown is back. Eh? Eh?

1:19:14And Monday, we have Raw from the Barclay Center, the first of the year that they're making a big deal about. We'll get to that card as well. All right here on Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7. Happy New Year. This is Captain Lou Albano out there, and I want to make a new resolution. I want all the little kiddies of America to look up to the captain, and I want you to follow in my ways. I want you to idolize me. I want you to do what I do. I want you to walk down the street and say, I want to be another Captain Lou Albano. That's my resolution to set a fine example for all the little punks of America.

1:19:47I want them all in my corner. Captain will show you the way, brother. Take a look at my face. Just imitate the captain. Do what the captain does. All right, guys. We're going home. Time to go home here. Final segment, cheap heat live pro wrestling nation, 24 seven, Peter Rosenberg's that guy, Grant Dipperstein. Tonight, three hour SmackDown is back. I didn't, I, am I naive for thinking SGG? We were never going back. I thought we'd, I thought we'd done it. I thought we'd covered it. I thought there was nothing left to do. Yeah, same. I thought we were never going back to, I was like, you know what?

1:20:21I was in the exact same boat with you. So I can't call you naive. I thought we did it. we realized that you know that might have been a lot of wrestling on friday night we dialed it back to what i thought was a sweet spot but uh no somebody said we needed that we need that extra hour back and the timing is such that it's right when joe tess is moving back to smackdown correct correct joe tess and wade barrett back to smackdown can you imagine can you imagine when joe test and wade barrett found out there's we're switching it to three hours just as they're moving back to smackdown and graves and goal now move over to raw yeah and the thing is in the netflix era there has not been a three-hour raw they've been like two and a half at the most so yeah it's it's it's gonna be interesting i am a little bit i'm a little bit surprised that this is uh what's going on but here we are now we have the big raw premiere we haven't talked about this at all so so a card is coming together they got they got a few things lined up already of course for uh for this big matchup uh i mean this big uh card on on monday night also it's like completely tied in with stranger things like at first i heard it was like oh stranger things and then guys as time has gone on is it me or did it go from like there was like a loose connection to stranger things to like it's completely co-branded with stranger things yeah i don't like it not to sound like dip go ahead i don't like i don't like it i don't like it at all man just i could see if they want to throw stranger things logo in the ring cool send some of the stranger things kids to sit in the if they are still kids right now i feel like they are they're like 40 but go ahead yeah like put them in the front row sure but you got the graphics package and then like wrestlers are turning into like monsters that are and there's weird shit going on and like no no i know that pro wrestling comes with some suspension of disbelief but I've suspended it to the max like Undertaker's gone if you want you do it do a Wyatt 6 Stranger Things something like that keep the spooky contained but that is ridiculous to me Netflix is going to get their ish in okay folks let me tell you something and they're going to get their ish in and call it a day they're giving you every comedian who has a special you know the random movie stars the people are in a show that you've never even heard of that they announce in the arena and then you feel awkward when they show the crowd and they go, oh, look, it's so-and-so.

1:23:11And the whole crowd's like, I don't know who the hell that is. And it shows that I don't watch. I watch the Upshaws. Is Mike Epps going to pull up to a Netflix thing? You like the Upshaws? You're an Upshaws guy. Big Upshaws. Wow. I have never met someone who watches the Upshaws. People watch the Upshaws. Is it still on? Yeah. Final season coming up. I'm going to cry when I hit play on that last episode. I have no idea. Now, listen, I haven't watched Stranger. I'm a couple seasons behind on Stranger Things, but you got a world heavyweight title match. Of course, we mentioned earlier, CM Punk and Braun Breaker.

1:23:46You got the rematch between Maxine Dupree and Becky Lynch. A lot of build-up to that. You have a women's tag title match, the Kabukis and Rhea and Io, which, by the way, you want to talk about a story that has gone on forever. How long have we been doing the Kabukis and Rhea and Io? Rhea and Io, in the anniversary of their story, at the anniversary of Netflix. I think they fought on January 6th, Rhea and Io. Did Rhea win the title from... Didn't Rhea win a title that night? Rhea did win a title that night. I might be mistaken. I'm so kabukied out at this point. You've had enough kabukied? I'm kabukied out.

1:24:33Raw Netflix premiere. yeah I'm just a little frustrated that you know here's my feeling I know I've said this before on the air guys if you wanted to sort of cool Rhea down and for the record it was Roman versus Solo Rhea beat Liv for the title they gotta come back to that at some point Jey Uso beat Drew McIntyre CM Punk beat Freakin that was last year's premiere which they made a huge deal of I've said it before and I'll say it again right now I have no issue with Rhea getting a break. Guys, they should have just given her a break. They should have just taken her off TV. If we were going to cool Rhea down and have her not be a part of the biggest thing cooking, her being in a long-term tag storyline with the amount of mileage she's had put on her body over the last couple of years, guys, the broken nose, always something she has to work through.

1:25:34right none of the injuries you know thank god have been something that have like sidelined her but she's had her share of stuff she's had to deal with and she just keeps working and keeps keeps working as she gee i would have taken her off tv for three or four months let the girl rest send her home rest and come back for rumble season but like she has to show up at tv every week but i feel like ria has not been ria because that's the thing about being in a tag team when you're a superstar it's very hard to stay like the max level of superstar when you're a part of a tag team Sorry, it's just how it is.

1:26:04Yeah, it's true. Even with, like, the thrown-together tag teams. The problem for Rhea is when she's healthy and you have, like, you know, Naomi's pregnant, which doesn't make her unhealthy, but she cannot wrestle. It makes her unavailable. Right, Bianca's injured. She's not available. I don't know where Tiffany Stratton is, but when you look around and, like, people just haven't been around, and you look at somebody like Rhea and, like, we need you. we we we need you you cannot take this break and unfortunately that's where she is yeah i'm kabuki down no i get i get it all right well dip is kabuki down now one thing we have we haven't talked about though that was a bit exciting hayes has a championship around his waist finally finally love him happy to see it um amelio amelio sparks had a strong feeling on this you were not into the ilia dragon off carmelo hayes of it all no i just wish that they gave us a little bit more so that way it can be a lot sweeter that carmelo hayes is now the united states champion yeah i know i don't disagree but at least he's got something i mean him winning something is something i wouldn't say it's something something but how is something something when it doesn't that does not a full something you're just getting like smidges of something because the whole point you don't know that you don't know the definition of something all right go ahead define something it's something but it's it something is like is like a concession to like not something you know i'm saying yeah yeah it's not nothing and it's right something not nothing right it's something sure so if there was a big story that built him up to whatever that'd be something plus but i something it's i just feel that there's a larger issue glaring with their secondary and tertiary championships it's just they it just doesn't get going like you had ilia dragunov champion for months did several defenses and just couldn't get the crowd to rally with him I feel this way about the punk scenario.

1:28:13I'm like, I forget he's champion. I don't know. The only secondary title that's gotten a truly something treatment is the Maxine Becky story. Right. Yeah. And this is just me. I think right now the women's secondary championships are better booked than the men's because there's so much emphasis on what Chelsea Green is doing. and Becky is just on the run of a lifetime right now. So everything that she's doing, top heel in the company. Yeah, I don't think I'd argue with that. I don't know who would. Yeah, she's incredible. But I think you make a fair point, Emilio, that the secondary men's titles are like it's haphazard.

1:29:02And even the Carmelo thing, it's great for Carmelo. But now what are you going to do? I mean, are we going to turn this? we got to find a story for him i assume maybe the miz thing gets revisited and he defends against miz yeah i think that works but i i want to see like to bring it back to even when dip was having a conniption fit over you know the the peacock of it all um remember when championships were booked like you cared about the intercontinental championship back in the day because there was a litany of just beasts that they were that anybody could have been champion but there was also no other championship right it was the wwe title the intercontinental championship and then the tag team title so those three all if it all felt like heat when you were going for a title because it was just your gold your silver and your bronze yeah but they have separate brands though but they have separate brands what are you talking about so no but that's why you need one tag title one world championship and then your the the u.s title could be the smackdown's main title the ic title could be raw's main title but like the other big titles muddy it all up like i agree you don't need two women's world championships you don't need two world tag team champions you don't you don't need any of it on the risk and you run the risk of having instead of having from a a streaming and network thing netflix wants their own and then usa network wants their own.

1:30:27I don't know. Whatever the case may be, forgetting the business of it all or the network shit, there should be wrestling is hurt by the amount of titles that exist in WWE and AEW. There should be one champion, there should be a WWE champion, there should be a tag team champion, and there should be an IC champion. If you want to throw a truly like lower card thing in there, like the cruiserweight championship or the hardcore championship, like a real gimmick title. Fine. That's it though. There shouldn't be us. There shouldn't be, you know, other things. There shouldn't be continentals and universals and and, and Schmeet titles and Kabuki titles.

1:31:16There should be just the regular amount of titles. There's a Schmeet. There should definitely be a Schmeet championship. Yeah, there should definitely be a Schmeet. So here's what we have just in WWE. God forbid we get into the AEW of it all. We don't have a lot of time. You have the world heavyweight champion, CM Punk. You have the women's world champion, Stephanie Viqueira. You have the intercontinental champion, Dominique Mysterio. You have the women's intercontinental champion, Maxine Dupre. You have the Usos, the world tag team championship. So those are all the world titles, and that includes the IC titles.

1:31:50then you have on Smackdown the undisputed WWE Championship my number one pet peeve of all time of course is that they had the opportunity they decided to change the world the word and instead of calling it the Universal they called it the undisputed it makes it's disputed it's a thousand percent disputed someone else is disputing it on the other show but whatever they didn't like Universal which I actually thought kind of worked they made the Universal work and then they dropped that language but um so you have the undisputed cody roads you have the wwe women's champion jade cargill i mean god they're trying to differentiate between world women's and women's whatever uh u.s champion carmelo women's u.s champion chelsea wwe tag team champs the white six and i forgot about that yes and the women's and the women's tag team champions the kabuki warriors and that's the only one they do right because those float they go everywhere i agree that's the only one they do right and then you're forgetting too let's not even say forgetting but nxc has 93 titles too by the way yeah then they have the speed championships and talk about one that was the speed thing what are we doing here what are we doing with the men's and women's speed championship and then of course the only titles that actually matter you have the evolved championships uh jackson drake and uh and kendall gray all right amelia thank you i'm glad i brought you in there i wanted to get your uh wanted to get amelia's passion for the carmelo hayes of it all but yeah we've we've this is one thing i think the three of us have always agreed on the amount of championships is just at a certain point it goes from being their effective tools to building characters to like i can't keep up with it yeah i mean it's very hard like at any point if you were if I was doing a countdown show and at any point they would name every champion right now I mean unless you're Sam Roberts who every night when he goes to bed gets on his knees says his prayers takes his vitamins and then reads the Wikipedia page every night otherwise how can you remember off the top of your head all of these champions it's crazy it shouldn't be it shouldn't be trivia when we were kids you know how easy it was to name who had every championship immediately immediately now you'd have to think about all of these and guys you're going to forget one of them at least one's getting forgotten and and like i said aw's championship i forgot i mean i love jade cargill but i forgot about i forgot about jade cargill i forgot about the y6 y6 for sure i i love jade cargill you know i feel fan for life but well that but that's a problem that means you're you have not been dialed in with her what is it me chin story yeah that's yeah injured yeah there's there's something that it was a weird we finally got to jade cargill's championship run and it like didn't seem like they were ready for it or something i know it needs to feel this jade cargill is so mage in my opinion it should feel dominant and big and there should be a big story this is your story who should the jade cargill opponent be for wrestlemania as we sit here in January now.

1:35:12We're on our way to WrestleMania season. Who's Jade Carrier? Whoever wins the Women's Rumble. Great. Love it. But that's a fantasy. But she's out. She's been out. None of us have any proof that she's ready to come back. So, I mean, that's the story to tell, obviously. That would immediately make it interesting. I agree. Bianca vs. Jade is actually what they need. I really hope that Bianca is healthy, obviously, because I love her, but also because, man, they need to inject Bianca back into that story. And as I just mentioned a few minutes ago, we got to get Rhea and EO. I mean, I'll say one thing about the Rhea-EO that's positive.

1:35:56They've turned them into such friends that now one of them turning on the other would kind of ignite their story again. I hope it's Rhea. EO Sky is not a heel. Okay. no she's not it's not gonna work no it's not gonna make sense smiling smiling and pointing to yourself and being fun loving it's not you can't go from that to heal whereas whereas ria can always push that button and yet she'll be cheered as a heel so what let her be cheered as a heel it would still make a lot more ria ripley as a as a heel right now makes more sense than neos guy um anyways all things to think about as we head into tonight the day if you're listening on Friday, the three-hour premiere of SmackDown 2026.

1:36:40And then Monday night, SUG particularly excited. It's the Stranger Things themed Raw debut on Netflix. SUG, I hope you enjoy it from Hawaii. Have a great time with Crystal. Safe travels. Dip, I will see you when you get here in New York. We're going to fix your computer. We're going to get some bottomless mimosas and have a good time and call it a day. All right. I want to hear about these bottomless mimosas. it's going to be great. We'll go to IHOP. We'll get the bottomless mimosas. And when I say bottomless mimosa, I mean one mimosa, but I'm wearing no pants. All right, everyone. Happy New Year.

1:37:14We love you. Shout out to Emilio Sparks, Kelly, Zach, all of the different people who have helped produce us last year. We're excited about another year here on Pro Wrestling Nation 24-7. Stay mage and enjoy yourselves. Yeah, stay mage. Take it easy, man. Happy New Year.