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31:39With Jelly Roll, just like the fans that we are, he got bit by the bug once he had a little celebrity spot, that chokeslam. Which was nice. Yeah, which was nice. And he's a dude's got size and all that. By the way, shout out to him for putting in the work and losing so much weight. A hundred pounds. A hundred. Took a hundred off. This isn't a knock on him. I'm just saying in general. But I just want those who are knocking him to understand these details. And the man took off a hundred. That's a feat. At least a hundred. Yeah. And so, you know, when he had another spot and, you know, he said that Triple H said, you're looking real good, man.

32:24You're looking almost ready. And Jelly Roll said, match ready. And Triple H responded, almost. and so he he just want he wants that moment and i do also hear the argument of taking a spot from superstars but then where wwe covers its tracks a little bit is having a drew is having a randy in the match because if that if that spot goes to randy versus drew nobody says a thing So you include it in the match. Therefore, it's still happening right then and there. It's not going to be some 30-minute classic. It's not going to be beyond what could maybe happen. The size of Jelly Roll, not talking with, talking height, the dude's still a lot to handle.

33:19Yeah, he's a big man. A lot to deal with. And when you have a veteran like Randy watching his back and things like that, And I'm sure it's mapped out to be what it's supposed to look like. But, you know, it's not Jon Stewart coming in and messing up the world. You know, he's going through the training that he needed to do, did the sacrifice needed in order to get the approval. And, I mean, it is what it is. But, yeah, Snooki shouldn't have a WrestleMania victory. You know, I love Jersey Shore. It's one of the greatest shows ever on television. Jim Tan laundry all day. What a country. But yes. Cabs are here.

33:59Yeah, cabs are here. Cabs are here. Shout out to the Jersey Shore, bro. I like that. I've re-watched old Jersey Shore three times in my life. I love that. So you want a Jersey Shore fact? Because I know I always hit you with some weird stuff. I need that. Okay, years ago when Jersey Shore first started, right, it was the first few months it was on. You know, a friend of mine, Brett Gursky, he brought all the kids. They were in town. Brett, you know, he was a host for different various clubs. He hit me up. He's like, I got the Jersey Shore kids. I hooked them up with Ashton Kutcher. They came to his office.

34:33He did, before podcasting was a thing, he did a podcast with them. And like I said, Jersey Shore had been on for two months, I think, at that point. So Twitter was still, I want to say this is 0-9, 0-10. The situation didn't have a Twitter. I'm like, bro, you need to get on this. He's like, yeah. He goes, I just, I don't have one. I know there's a bunch of fake, you know, profiles of me. So during that interview, I sat at my laptop and I made Mike the situations Twitter for him. It's the situation. I sat there. I set the page up. Boom, boom, boom. Gave him the password and the login. So that's just my random connection.

35:08I cannot wait to tweet this clip to him. And also, he gave me a nickname that day. Okay. You ready for this? Yeah. The solution.

35:20The solution. Yo, shout out to TJ The Solution. And then he went on Conan O 'Brien that night and gave him the nickname, the solution, but he gave it to me. I had it first. Passing out nicknames like hotcakes. Bro. But yeah, man. Like I said, WWE is always going to be about, there's going to have a moment. Mick Foley was right here and he told us that he lived for stealing the moment. And WWE gets these moments, gets these viral moments. and they also, at the same time, help out their friends. Jelly Roll has been a friend of the WWE for a long time. Give him to the rub. Yeah. What are we going to do?

36:04Nothing. But, yeah, so shout out Jelly Roll. Like I said, it's just kind of like this weird thing I've always had with celebrities getting into the ring. But, look, 15 years ago, if someone would offer me the chance, I would have jumped at it. You know what I mean? But I show speed, he had it right. He got a little bit of offense in with help, and then he just absolutely got busted in two by Braun. And think about if they would have had him toss Braun up or something. That would have been ridiculous. Yeah, it would have been crazy. What they did with him, that was perfection. Have him get a little shine in, and then you realize, oh, I don't belong in here by way of me getting sawed in half.

36:40Then people forget, after the spear, Braun tosses him to Otis. Yeah. Oh, this throws him over his head. Onto the head. Cut his leg over too. Look, I think I should have seen. He got the full stripes. That was a stripes moment. He did. It was like when Seth was beating Dom with the kendo stick. That was an earning your stripes moment. Guy had that earning your stripes moment. By the way, that's another clip from when Seth was hosting. He saw me holding the kendo stick. He goes, I got to be honest. That kendo stick hurts so bad. Yeah. So in case it's Don Bowie who said this doesn't hurt, I don't know, man.

37:17Let me tell you something about Don Bowie. You're a wild boy. All right, we don't know what his pain tolerance is. All right. Shout out to Don in the back. Don in the back. So who you got, who you looking at in that matchup? Come on, baby. Going for the feel-good story? Got to. I ain't losing 100 pounds to lose at SummerSlam. That sucks. Right. It sucks. I've been on my fitness tip so far, and I hate it, and I'm only down 15. 100? Yeah, that's impressive, man. Shout out to Jelly for that, yo. I know. He's miserable at the house. Plus, apparently, he's been living down in Orlando, working out the PC, so he's definitely riding around getting it.

38:00Exactly. And Florida, all that good-ass seafood. Yeah, but it's hot and muggy down there, too. Oh, no, they could have Florida. I've been trying to sell that shit off for years. Also, I just want to say this while we're here. Where's Shinsuke Nakamura? Can I be cool just to have Shinsuke Nakamura, my favorite wrestler? Could I just see him in a match on TV? Do a promo? I don't care. That's just my little reminder that Shinsuke Nakamura works for your company. You might want to use him. Especially with Seth gone now, you can give him his style back. See, there you go. All right. Now let's go to the women's.

38:39championship Mac. Tiffany Stratton versus Jade Cargill. Shea Jackson. Talk to me, man. What are you thinking? I don't know. I do not know. I don't know. But I tell you right now, the internet is going to be watching that match so unfairly close. Every detail. If one of these women hiccups, that's going to make news. They are just locked and loaded. And both ladies need to. That's a great picture right there. TJ, please. Same. It's a great picture. It is a great picture. It's great graphic. You know what I mean? They got the same hair. But so it is going to be the most scrutinized match of the night.

39:23I think both performers know that. And I think they're going to use that as a chip on their shoulder. This is their moment to be able to tell the internet to kiss their ass. and I do not know the direction that WWE is going to go. I feel like we haven't seen a lot of Tiff. She's had her TV moments, but it doesn't feel like as much as they've lifted Jade and as much as Jade has kind of been showcased lately, especially with Naomi even having our world title of her own already before this even happens, but just something doesn't, it doesn't have that, that vibe of a passing the belt yet. It just doesn't, there's just something that doesn't have that push behind it where I think like, Oh yeah, Jay got this.

40:24You know, it just, it, it doesn't feel like it yet. And what they've done great of showing Jade's dominance, showing that Jade is here to play, but I just don't know if it feels like this is a company that's pushing her to take this title. Until about a minute ago. And by the way, just so you guys just know, anytime when I said check out the graphic, just make sure you go to YouTube. You'll be able to see the graphic. You'll be able to see my Gordon or trail teacher? Let me just... Yeah. To the listeners. You know, and that way you can see visually what we're talking about. Until about 40 seconds ago, I was ready to sit here and go, I think Jade wins the match.

41:08But after listening to you, I think I changed my mind. This Naomi thing can't be done. Naomi is just... Naomi's unhinged, right? I'm just going to say this. There ain't no way Naomi lets Jade Gargill win that. I got a feeling Naomi comes out, interferes with the match, and costs Jade the championship. Because it doesn't make any sense. There's no way Naomi's going to just let Jade win. And then would that mean that Jade show up to a Raw? Look, anything's possible. But I just, just now hit me. Naomi, there ain't no way she's going to let Jade win. Success. I also thought that there was no way Jade would let Naomi climb the ladder and get the money in the bank briefcase, and she didn't interfere.

41:50But Naomi's on a whole different level with Petty right now, right? She's on her Tom Petty, her Richard the King Petty, you know, her super Petty with a cape. Right, Petty LaBelle. Petty LaBelle. So if I have to make a prediction, I'm going to predict that Naomi somehow interferes, costs Jade the match, and Tiffany retains. And if there's plenty of whispers of what's going on with Bianca, you know are we gonna get to a point where you know what now that you say that on Twitter I just saw Jade Cargill cause Naomi had commented on something Jade said and Jade said and I quote and I'm just quoting here bitch let it go like move on basically just tell her to move on But you can't tell a champ what to do.

42:48Champ not playing. So it's going to be something to watch if Naomi does interfere. I can see Jay showing up to a raw and jumping Naomi. And then we getting that for a title match. And, you know, they're talking about Naomi versus Bianca. So if Bianca were to fight Naomi and then if Bianca were to get that big belt while Jade has the WWE title, can you see a world where Bianca and Jade are your world champions? And if not, so in a world where Jade and Naomi are the world champions, I wouldn't be mad at that either. everybody knows how I felt about rest in peace to the cocoa butter Avengers you know I thought that was about to be our black lady super group forever and now we're just in a we're in a weird spot see what they do either way I think I think Tiff gets this victory but that will not be the end of Jade Cargill in the title contention by any means okay so you're agreeing to that somehow, someway, Tiffany comes out.

44:07Yeah, but I will be happy to be wrong, brother. And that is brother with an A, not with an ER. Not with a hard ER. We wouldn't do that. No. A hard ER? No. Brother with an A at the end. Alright, so now we'll save the championship match for last. As they do. Let's go to the other tag team match where we have your, mine, our travel chief, Roman Reigns. Faux letters, one word, J-Uso, and they're going to be taking on the bronze. Braun and Braun. Braun and Bronson. Let's talk about it. They quote my man Trick Willie. By the way, shout out to Trick Willie. He ain't got nothing to do with this segment.

44:53I just like Trick. That's a man. What are you thinking about this? I don't even need to ask you. People who watch this, you don't even need. You know, O'Shea, I can already tell you what he's going to say. Roman's going to win. You think I just came back from having my one, two, three, four, fifth child come here to all of this to lose to the law firm of Bron and Bronson? No way, bro. Paul Heyman, I get you. I see you there. I see you there. Roman got that look on his face like, yeah, yeah, I won. Look at the smirk. Who do you think you are? I'll tell you. The tribal chief, bro. It's just too much good on that blue side, bro.

45:41Jay and Roman, it's a wrap. It's over, folks. And that's not a prediction. That's a spoiler. All right. So it would be easy for me to say, yeah, Jay and Roman. Because you like being smart. But I'll just say this. based upon going back to my our Obafemi video what was the name that was repeated over and over and over and again in the comments where everybody told me I was wrong and it wouldn't happen Braun Breaker I can't maybe somehow some way the Bronzes kind of would make sense for them to come out on top in this match I would think by hook or by crook because they do have the numbers game.

46:29Paul is there. Paul's there. Plus, we're all assuming that this group isn't, this isn't the final form of this group, right? I fully expect maybe if Seth really can't go, maybe somebody else joins. Maybe there's another member lurking, hiding, waiting. Yeah, because, I mean, the bloodline, the bloodline was Roman and the twins. And then Roman and the twins turned into Roman and the twins. And Sammy and Solo. And then Solo. Yeah, so like they could be still adding. If they did, I would be annoyed beyond belief. I would be angry beyond measure. I might cause a couple of victimless crimes, but I, you know, as it's laid out, I can't go against Chief and his first PLE back.

47:20Okay, Chief. Stop it, bro. I then, just for the sake of argument and the sake that this faction still needs to kind of have a mark made, especially with Seth not there, I'm just going to go out and let him say somehow, someway, Braun Braun comes out with a dub in this match. I'm not saying I want it to happen. I'm not saying I don't want it to happen. I'm just saying for storyline purposes and everything else, I think maybe they should go over right here. All right, man. I almost called you a slur. But not with an A. But with an A. Not an ER. Because that's not what we do here. That's not what we do here.

48:05And now. Oh, man. Yes, sir. Let's get ready to wrestle. We have for the World Heavyweight Championship. Gun-ta! The ring and a rope. Gun-ta! Taking on Charles Montgomery. Cookie Monster. Chicago made chick magnet guest number 001 on the no contest wrestling broadcast can I get a hallelujah hallelujah come on man world championship match I need Phil to do this I need Phil to do this so bad because not only is there all the whispers and the talks of the Seth Rollins thing and everybody knows how I feel about that. And Seth has caused John some... John. Has caused Phil some title opportunities like he did against John Cena and all of them.

49:06He's also... He might have caused Seth some opportunities as well. You think? It's an argument. It's an argument. But yeah, so everybody knows I got to go for Phil, man. That's my dude. I would love, I need to see him with a title on this WWE run, especially against a discourse from another brand. I would love to see it. Oh, man. I would just get such a good kick out of that on Twitter. But yeah, I gotta go with my dog. CM Punk Wakanda forever. I mean, I know it's the same thing. Need parts fast? O 'Reilly auto parts as fast. Need them now? We've got Now, no matter what you need, we have thousands of professional parts people doing their part to make sure you have it.

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51:45And I think strictly for that reason, I feel as though somehow, again, he's going to get the dub. Someone's going to come in and mess with Punk. I don't know if it's the Bronson, Braun and Braun. I don't know if it's Heyman. I don't know. I don't know who. But I just feel like there's going to be some type of, to use a Bret Hart word, a schmazz going on. and I feel like Gunther is going to retain this title. I'm not saying I want Punk to lose because, you know, I love Punk, but I don't know if taking the title off of Gunther right now is the right thing to do. Hold on one second. I just need to check some math.

52:27Checking his math right there. But who knows? It's going to be a feel-good thing if they close the show and Living Colors playing and Punk's holding up that world title. But I just don't know if that's what we're going to get. Listen, okay, so that's Saturday, right? Mm-hmm. That will be 49 days after Jay lost his title in 51 days. So I think that's just the right amount of time. I think that's perfect. So I got to go punk. Once again, if Seth is faking the funk or if he makes a call like, hey, yo, Braun Breaker, I need you to use my suitcase and I need you to stop punk from getting that title.

53:20Then what? If Seth is like, I need you to do everything you can to make sure that title does not go to punk and cause Braun to use the briefcase. I've only seen one time where the winner of money in the bank wasn't the one to use the briefcase because for whatever reason, they may Otis win just for him to lose his briefcase to Miz, which was crazy, by the way. What a weird, why are we doing that? Yeah. Like that's enough. We got to make a graphic for it, but let me have, let me have this again. Wasn't that weird? Wasn't that weird for Otis to get the briefcase fair and square. and then has to have a match where he loses it.

54:01And then Miz cashes in and becomes champion. Isn't that weird? We got to get a wasn't that weird graphic going one of these days. But, you know, Don Bowie, a wild boy. Don will probably pop this up in a second. Right. Exactly. How do you spell wasn't that? Wasn't that weird? Wasn't that weird? But, yeah. So, it could be a number of things. It just doesn't feel like every time I've seen punk get close, BS follows. And BS has changed its initials to SR. And I just. So you're picking punk. No, I'm picking punk because I'm listening to my heart. But I have a quote. If the heart ever had a good idea, they'd probably call it the brain.

54:53and my brain is telling me that something's going to happen to screw Punk but please let my heart win this one. So you're picking Gunther to win this match. I will on the record I am picking with my heart and I'm picking CM Punk against my better judgment. Alright cool. Alright. Sunday. Sunday. Sunday. Sunday. Let's move it. We got the Intercontinental Championship. Oh yeah brother. Freak out. Freak out. Yeah. We got dirty Dom Mysterio, yeah, I'm talking to you, Dom, yeah, against the phenomenon of E.T. Styles, brother, yeah? Yeah. I think they got to keep AJ happy as much as I would not like that.

55:34By the way, can we talk about my dog, Dom Mysterio, had them screaming like he was John Lennon. Just your dog? That's my man, too. All right, bro, so you can say that. I'm just saying, I'm getting like a little speech off, bro. They had Dom Mysterio come out to AAA, and they screamed for him like it was the second coming. Right. When he pulled that off, and the lady saw the mullet, women fainted. There was gambling in the streets. It was getting crazy in there, bro. I heard a few babies got made that night. Yeah, it was getting crazy in there. The man was a megastar that we know he is. and kind of threaten somebody over there for their title.

56:22Yeah. So, you know, I would love, you know, the dom, the two-belt dom, you know, the double title dom, whatever you want to call him. But I just feel like they want to keep AJ happy right now. And AJ, just like Nakamura, has been a little where you at. Where you at. And remember, when AJ returned, we was like, yo, AJ yoked. Yeah. AJ is yoked for that Cody match in France. And that fan response in that match was... La la la la la. La la la la la. He is phenomenal. And the way the ring was just... Yeah, the camera was shaking. Yeah, so... And AJ didn't know... You look at the look on his face. He didn't know what they were chanting.

57:09He didn't know how to respond. And the crowd was just like... That was a dope moment. Yeah, shout out to my dog. Hang Em High. Hang Em High was in the building that night. The master of the Sonic rings. They steal your memes all the time. You got to get some money for it. But yeah, so shout out my dog, Hang Em High from France. And yeah, bro. So you're picking AJ. Got to go AJ. Got to go AJ. Because Dom got the group. Dom got the ladies. Like how Godfather said when he had the Intercontinental title, you don't really need it. You a star without it. We need somebody who's going to bring it a little, you know, give the title a little nudge.

57:51I think that's AJ. I think that's AJ Styles. And, yeah, especially because they got Dom. They've had Dom cowering all, you know, the last month or so. And Bud Judgment Day does have the numbers game, but I'm going to pick AJ Styles. And, of course, we know, obviously, if the match is going on, that means Dom has been medically cleared, which he wasn't to start with. That's a valid point because how dare you question his medical record? Yeah, I mean, you're not a doctor. Who do you think you are? And you don't play one on TV. You know, the paperwork says so. Listen, here's the deal. Judgment Day got the numbers.

58:29They got all the gold. Dom with that pop that he got. And if you haven't seen it, you could probably check it out online. Dominic Mysterio at AAA. That being said, I don't see Judgment Day allowing. How are you going to let your top champion in Judgment Day, he's the only one who's got a singles title, two tag team champs? How are you going to let your singles guy lose his belt? There ain't no way. Because Finn a hater. Well, that's okay. No? That was going to be the second part. How are you going to have him? Well, maybe Finn has a little bit of jealousy. But the fact is Finn's got a title. So I think he's good right now.

59:07I just don't see Judgment Day allowing Dirty Dom to lose. So I'm going to pick Tom to go over. You know, I see a world where, you know, my man Finn Balor, he might make a mistake. It's not. That's also possible, too. It's not on purpose. You know, I just I tripped on my way to stop that count, bro. I'm sorry. You know, these titles are heavy. And by the way, that's not out of the realm of possibility. Something like that could happen. I just kind of feel like, I think the women's tag maybe give us an idea of what's going to happen. Like if Raquel and Roxanne, if the hard ours, if they happen to lose, then it would, like, are you really going to take all the belts from Judgment Day once you just gave it to them?

59:55I don't see any reason for that to happen right now. So I kind of feel like Dirty Dom's going to take it. And also because, like you said, he has been cowering over AJ. What better way to kind of establish him to go like, yeah, you faced your fear and you beat this dude. So just a thought, just a thought. Let's look up the U.S. title match now. Solo against Jacob. Solo Sacoa against Jacob Fatu. What you got? Solo. Solo? Solo. They're stacked. Yeah, I think that's, I mean, I think that's pretty much it right now. You know, you've got Solo with what the MFTs or whatever, my family tree. You know, you've got Tala Tonga.

1:00:35You've got Tonga Loa. Toma Tonga, there's probably your return that's going to happen. Toma Tonga comes back, does something. I mean, you can almost predict this. And then they're going to sell you another shirt. Jacob's probably going to be on the verge of winning, and here comes Toma Tonga back out. Plus, you've got JC Mateo. So just the numbers game is going to make it very hard for Jacob to regain that title. For anybody, even the Samoan werewolf, fighting a pack of wolves is hard to do. Yeah, so until he gets some backup. But he's got Big Jim, right? Some Big Jim's on his side. We'll see how that plays out.

1:01:12But even so, the numbers game is so on Solo's side. But. Oh, my God. My God. So, yeah. We getting it again, folks. You got Roman and Jay. You got Jacob and Jimmy. and you got solo tripping. Oh, I'm going to San Diego. I'm going to San Diego. I will survive. Oh, man. You're getting ahead of yourself since Survivor Series. We're still on SummerSlam, G. DJ, I was blind and now I see. Yeah.

1:01:51We're getting a little ahead of ourselves, but that's Survivor Series. That's a little preview for you. All right. Shay's so happy. We're both thinking Solo's taking the dub in this, right? Yeah. Okay. Let's move over now to the Intercontinental Champion, Big Time Becks against Lyra. You know, I'll give you a little – I don't care. I'm going to go ahead and say it. A few weeks ago, like I said, when Seth was co-hosting, it was right after that Monday where Becky came out wearing yellow and red, right? Yeah. And I say to Seth, she should just lean in this whole thing. Yeah. Like we need to see some Beckamania running wild t-shirts.

1:02:29Becky mania. Now I would say right now we probably won't get those shirts because I don't know if it's a good idea, but I just wanted to throw that out. So if you see those shirts, just know that your man may have suggested it, but I don't know where you go with this one, man, because bird bird lady, man, I told you I was a fan of Lyra from day one. I never even seen a wrestle. It was the vignette. And that's why vignettes and introductions to wrestlers can be so important. How about that? How about that? How about that? You show me a video of someone I'd never seen before, and I instantly became a fan.

1:03:07That's what happened with Lyra. I love Lyra, bro. I do. But this, man, Becky, Becky low-key, and I said this to you on the phone the other day, and I want everybody to kind of pay attention to this. One of the, I think, underrated feuds right now in wrestling is Becky Lynch against the metal detector at the beginning of every night. Low key, like I said. I don't know if I mentioned this before, but just watch almost every time they show Becky coming in, something happens with the metal detector that she goes through. Like, the light comes on and she looks at it stupid. There's always just little things.

1:03:40Now that I said it, it ain't gonna happen enough. Of course. But you've paid attention. You've seen it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's gonna happen, bro. They ain't not watching us. This won't air until 6, 7? Yeah, so. So Becky against Lyra, I just feel like Becky's still the man, and this is still her time. And I do love Lyra, but we also got to take Bayley into consideration. I feel like we're going to have another run in. I feel like Bayley is going to cost one of these two women the match. I think that's – I don't want to say it's pretty obvious, but that kind of to me, that seems where this is going.

1:04:16A bit of a given. I'm going to pick Becky to retain. yeah uh and i've i've really started to really appreciate lyra after that uh that money in the bank the spot she was taking and zoe man zoe i hope you you're doing well uh right now but zoe started i became fans of both of them after that money in the bank and yeah it just kind of feels like there's a side story happening between Lyra and Bayley that makes me, once again, the same thing that I felt with the Tiffany and Jade match. It doesn't feel like it doesn't have that changing of the guard feel of a match yet. So, I feel you with the Becky pick.

1:05:05I kind of agree. Shout out to Lyra though. And what I said when Becky first came back and people were complaining about her beating Lyra. Becky Lynch has, and now Bayley, they've elevated. That's what I'm talking about. We're talking about people making the next generation of stars. Obviously, Lyra has put in her own work, right? She's a very talented performer, very good at what she does. There was a little bit of, I guess, personality lacking there. Seems like Becky has bought out a full new personality of Lyra. Now Bayley's in there helping her. They are building Lyra up to be a star. And, you know, her time is coming.

1:05:46She's going to be one of the best for a long time. So, you know, shout out, Lyra. You'll be fine. I ain't worried about you. Naomi. Yeah. World Championship. Women's World Championship match. Naomi versus Io versus Rhea. Yeah. Talk to me, man. Come on, man. I got to proceed with caution on that one. Jeez. She just got that pretty thing. And I don't see her losing. Unless you want a ride on your hands. Unless you want no contest to come to the offices and move some furniture. I know how this match better in. Yeah, dude. It's got to be Naomi. It's got to be Naomi. I just don't see a world where it's not.

1:06:34And it's because of she's doing the best work of her career right now. Yeah, I mean, it's just like, and not just on camera, not just what we see, but what we read. The Twitter game is so amazing. Like, I make it a point just to check her Twitter. Like, she'll say some stuff like, if you don't say hi to me by nine, you know, you're getting, you know. You just made the list. And that's just little things, man. And then you see her riding around her little scooter with her suitcase thing and snatching bottles of water from craft service. It's just little, little things, man. Too much entertainment happening.

1:07:07She's so good right now. It's too much entertainment. And again, I know I said this before, but I think at some point, maybe this week, we'll talk with the group. We got to get that 20-minute Naomi interview out because I rewatched it. Before the power went out, it was really good. Like I said, it's a little bit old because she cashed in the briefcase. But she deserves it. Her fans deserve it. I know they've been asking on Twitter. So we definitely need to get that out. But yeah, I think Naomi's in her moment right now, man. And you don't dare mess with someone's moment. She just, things are clicking.

1:07:37Yeah, things are clicking. Things are moving on all cylinders. I think Rhea is at the point now where the pop she gets is so ridiculous that Rhea is someone. She don't necessarily even need the title. Bro, Rhea could have a segment where she's watching somebody talk and get a pop. Not say a word. She is. People love her. Man, she's scorching right now. Yeah, there's no doubt about that. I'm always going to love Io. I mean, now that I get to that one, you guys know how I feel about Io Sky. Seth Rollins found out. He was like, oh, you like Io? And I was like, Io! Yeah, you guys know Io's already proven she's one of the best in the world.

1:08:21So I don't think she needs the title right now. I think all things considered, I think this is going to be a banger of a match. Maybe not quite as great as the WrestleMania triple threat match. But I feel when it's all said and done, Naomi's probably going to come out on top. and then we're going to France. We're going to get Naomi against Stephanie because Stephanie won that battle royal at Women's Evolution. So remember that's what's coming next. Unless, now I don't see Naomi losing but unless they want to try to finish the EO Stephanie thing because we haven't gotten a clear cut winner but I kind of feel like what would be kind of funny is if they just keep giving EO and Stephanie matches throughout the next year or so.

1:09:08Something weird happens every single time. Until we get like a WrestleMania type match with those two. Shout out to Sister Trin, man. I'm going for Naomi. Jade got something to say. That's true because if Naomi costs Jade on Saturday, I don't know. Like I said, this is good. We don't know what's going to happen and that's quite frankly why we watch. But much love to the sisters. And that's sisters with an A. Not with a hard ER. Because we wouldn't do that. We wouldn't do that. Not the hard ER. That's not what we do. Not us. Next up. We got to have the world championship match. Yeah. John Cena.

1:09:58Taking on Cody Raheem Rhodes. Yeah. Talk to me, man. What are we seeing here? Is it over for Cena yet? Is this it or is Cody taking this belt? I am listening to my brother, Chris Van Vliet. Okay. And I'm going with Cody. What? Yeah, I think it's over. Really? You made him fight three times and Cody lost two. So again? Again? What's three? Seth lost three times to Cody? I wanted Cody to lose. Never mind. I'm not going to go there. WrestleMania 40 happened. You all were very happy about it. So you got your joy. Yeah, Cody winning. You really think? Okay.

1:10:48It's another one, man. Okay, here's the deal. I was just about to say they got to send the crowd home happy on Sunday. But to a great group of fans, seeing the women would make them happy too. because even though he's the heel, he's still getting cheers. There was a little clamoring online about with the contracts. First of all, the whole contract signing. What was that about? Cena's exhausted. You'll get your match, but not now. That was kind of weird. And then how Cody responded. They're making fun of the way Cody did the splash. But he had to do it like that because he had the contract. The boy hit him with that sting splash.

1:11:29He had to control the contract. I don't know why people didn't get the way he splashed them the way he did. Made Cena sign the contract when he's knocked out. Man, Shay, I don't know. My initial thought was Cena goes over. But now, I don't know. I'll tell you the one thing. The one thing that would change it. What's that? And that's only if. If. If. because that's the one thing that can change everything when it's all quiet in your hair that is the only thing and we have been waiting for this since Wrestlemania for those who don't know that is the split second beginning of the Rock's entrance music 3, 2, 1 and when you hear that it's just a natural pop that I want

1:12:31So there's a point in the match where it looks like Cody's about to get the job done. And then suddenly, then it's over, bro. It's over. That's the only way John getting out of there. There's been no whispers. There's been nothing. Somebody put out a fake thing. I don't know if it was fake. I didn't do my research. But that The Rock had posted something. And I never saw traction on it again. So that's why I thought it was fake. Well, that is the only thing I can see helping John because it definitely ain't Travis Scott no more. Yeah, right. You know, because you're picking Cody, I guess I'm just going to take the opposite end.

1:13:09I'm going to stay with Cena, and I'm going to pick John to go ahead, retain that title, and we'll see where this goes. I'm taking John. You're taking Cody, and that's it. That's our SummerSlam preview, man. How about that? I think the way you and I booked this, if it comes to fruition, this is going to be a good card. This is going to be a good two-night. It's a lot of possibilities that can happen. Anything can happen. And you know you're always going to have the random run-in, the random hill turn. SummerSlam. SummerSlam, something weird is going to happen. We're not talking Fastlane here, folks.

1:13:43This is one of the big foes. On the tray. Something's going to happen to steal the internet. I just said, undo Trey Uno. I said that. I went back to one. I ain't mean to. Bro, I call Stephanie Vicarra Primavera. I ain't trying to hear nothing. All right, I'm happy for you no matter what. All right, so that's the SummerSlam preview. Remember, you can watch everything on our YouTube page. And before we go, you know, it came up with this idea, you know, because so many moves in wrestling are used by so many different wrestlers. And the thought was, man, well, who does these moves the best? Who uses the move most effectively?

1:14:20Who do we think looks the best? Whose move looks the best? So we decided that, you know, going forward, we're going to pick a move every, maybe every week, every now and then. And we're just going to give, we're going to give five wrestlers who we particularly enjoy, who we feel does the move most effectively or looks the best or however, whatever the, you know, definition of it that you want to use. So today's move is the dropkick. Yeah. So O'Shea Jackson, let's talk about the dropkick. Who do you like? Whose dropkick are you a fan of? Now, we have two people, two same guys on our list, so we should just knock those out.

1:15:00Knock them out. You get the one, I'll take whatever the other is. Yeah, I'll go ahead and take Randall Keith Orton. Now, Randy Orton is, and I've spoke to him about this, he's been an inspiration for me as a number of wrestlers have been, of somebody who took on the family business, went on and took the family name to different heights. And it's just something that I aspire to do with my film career. And when I see people do it, they naturally become somebody that I look up to. And Randy just got it. He just got it. The it factor, the athleticism, the look, the charisma. And that dropkick was, it's just one of those moves that, you know, you got to know the fundamentals in his.

1:15:52that young Randy dropkick, bro. That the height on it, everything about it. So Randy Orton's on both of our lists. Randy is definitely. But, you know, at 280, 290, Randy isn't really throwing that dropkick right now as much as 240 pounds. But, you know, he did the elevation and everything. It was really nice. And another guy that you and I both had or have on our list, man, the rainmaker, Kazuchika Okada. Drop the coin. The AEW Unified Champion? Yeah. Like I said, we didn't love the name, but the belt is beautiful. I got to see it up close. That belt's amazing. And, you know, Okada, he's simply like the perfect combo of great execution and timing.

1:16:36If you watch enough New Japan matches, I don't know if they really hit it the way in AEW, the way New Japan does. But when Okada hit the dropkick, it was something that was built up throughout the whole match to him to get to that point. and everything about his drop kick, the elevation, the way his body horizontally is just perfectly straight, the power that he uses. Could have been his logo. Could have been his logo, exactly. Could have been his logo, because when he kicked a speedball out the air, that was just disrespectful. That was crazy. But yeah, for him, it's always like the drop kick comes at the right moment in the match.

1:17:16and like I said, Okada is quite frankly one of the prettiest out there. So Randy Orton, Kazucho Okada are on both of our lives. Okay, now somebody who I feel like doesn't get a lot of praise, but I will say that this dude probably had the prettiest dropkick I had ever seen. Shout out to Maven. Maven? Maven, bro. Maven had a sweet ass dropkick. I think he used it to eliminate The Undertaker. Oh, he dropped him in the back. He helped him eliminate the Undertaker in the Rumble, which was a huge moment, but for the character, a terrible decision. But yeah, because Undertaker did not like him after that.

1:17:59But yeah, bro, shout out to Maven. Nasty, nasty dropkick. So salute to you, sir. I do like Maven. It was a good one. Here's another guy. This dude, very underrated performer out of TNA. We got to meet him a few times. but his drop kick is a thing of beauty, especially when you consider the size of the man in the form, the execution moose. Yeah. Moose and TNA. Yeah. I think Moose has one of the best drop kicks out there. Just like I said, I'm just the size of moose, the execution, the way it looks. I put his drop kick up there. Some for somebody who don't like heights, he get up, right? That's for sure.

1:18:43So shout out to moose. Now, When I think of kicks of any variety, I got to think of Mr. Monday Night. Rob Van Dam. Damn. You didn't do it right. I'm sorry, bro. I mean, I had my eyes closed. Rob Van Dam. Yeah, bro. Rob Van Dam, bro. He's my king of kicks. And that's somebody we got to have on because like X-Pac, he also had that reverse. so I know you done caught a few people bro oh absolutely you done caught a few people and from what we know about Rob Van Dam if he did catch him there wasn't nothing they were going to do about it Rob was a real one leave that boy alone so I gotta have Mr. Monday Night Bro Rob Van Dam you know a dude's bad when he goes up to someone in the locker room and basically says pick which hand I'm going to punch you with I don't know if you know that story right or left that's crazy if you like yeah let me just use only my left so uh my my next pick here is a tag team okay two guys okay because how many people use the drop kick as their finisher there's only one i can think of that's ricky morton robert gibson the rock and roll express from back in the day you know they they really got busy in the 80s the rock and roll express and nwa wrestling you know some of the greatest tag team matches of all time.

1:20:13Rock and Roll Express against the Midnight Express, against the Russians, against the Road Warriors, against, you know, the Four Horsemen, Ole Anders. Not even Ole, I'd say, but Tully and Arne or so. But, yeah, the Rock and Roll Express, Ricky Morton, Robert Gibson used the double drop kick as their finisher. So, of course, I had to put them on because, you know, it was a thing of beauty and it won them multiple tag team championships. Absolutely. you always are good and I know you I know your picks but you you're always good at the throwbacks always good at the throwbacks because you got it because you know history man we can't we're at a point in life right now where kids now they they wanted just they wouldn't act like Michael Jordan wasn't the goat they wouldn't act like Eminem wasn't a good rapper you know they wouldn't act like all this stuff and it's like I feel like we're almost gatekeepers and historians at a certain age you have to be able to remind people that like, yeah, what you see in the day is awesome, but there was, you know, this all, that today came from somewhere, and that's like what I love to do and you love to do, like to show love to some of these old school wrestlers, man, who, you know, really were the ones who got me into wrestling.

1:21:22And that is where the balance of our show comes together. It's stuff like that, if you guys couldn't put it together with the balance of the show was. But, as you guys know, when we do these lists, my last pick is always a little controversial. It's always a little like, alright, I'm going to give him that one. I'll give him that one. But I gotta go Shane O'Mac. Shane McMahon, bro. Shane? Bro. That Wrestlemania 17. Him versus his father. He placed that trash can on his dad and went coast to coast. I remember as a kid thinking there ain't no way he's about to do that. That's so far. And he hit that.

1:22:09And coast to coast, it's a drop kick. It's a drop kick, bro. I gotta go Shane on that. Shout out to Shane. We'd love to have you all, Shane. I would love to get a second generation conversation. Third. Third generation. I would love to get a generational conversation with you, Stephanie, as well. But Shane on that, bro, you are in my Hall of Fame of dropkicks. Okay. That came out of nowhere. I like that one. For me, it's a guy who I just, you know, those that know, know, this dude was one of the best of all time. Yeah. Everything he did was crisp. Yeah. Everything he did was technically sound.

1:22:47Everything he did was pretty. I think you could dare say everything this guy did was perfect. Ooh. That is Kurt Henning, Mr. Perfect. Go back, watch a Mr. Perfect drop kick. There was nothing the man did not do. First of all, his name wasn't Mr. Average. No. Okay, his name wasn't Mr. Okay. His name wasn't Mr. He Almost Got It, right? His move wasn't Mr. It was just about there. No, no, no. Mr. Just About There is crazy. It was just about there. No, no, no. His name was Mr. Perfect, all right? Perfect is my perfection, and I will select, and if it's not perfect, I will perfect. Perfection. That's Kurt Henning.

1:23:27That's Mr. Perfect. everything he does and did. Rest in peace was perfect, but that drop kick, man, would take your head off. Yeah. I mean, Mr. Perfect, bro. What a name. That's something with Jerry West with Mr. Clutch. Mr. Perfect. Well, Jerry West has one of the illest quotes of all time. Let's just be honest. I love ending with a Laker quote. Please go ahead. Jerry West said, you know, back in the day, everyone called themselves a dog, right? He goes, okay, but I was a wolf. All right? I ate dogs. that man from West Virginia oh my god anyway so that was it we're not saying that these are the greatest drop kicks of all but these are 5 or 10 or however we had because we had multiples in there drop kicks that we find aesthetically pleasing that we found effective that we like so of course when this video goes out drop in the comments tell us who we missed because I know you will and let us know.

1:24:24And if there's a move you want us to pick next, we'll do it. We got a whole, well, you want arm drags, you want arm bars, you want flying elbows, you want super kicks, you want full Nelsons, you want clotheslines, whatever you guys want. We're a show of the people, for the people, by the people, because we are the people. That's right. And we, the people, are done for the day. So, TJ, can you please let these people know where to find us? Oh, yeah, man. So if you're on Twitter on X, you can look us up at there's no contest. Now on Instagram and TikTok, we're at no contest wrestling podcast. Cause I couldn't get anything smaller than that.

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