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It is the 11th of April in the year of our Lord, 2024, season 14, whoa, something's going
on somewhere.
I'm going to mute Alex there.
It is season 14, episode 24, 659 times.
You have been welcomed to the clubhouse podcast, your one stop shop for all things sports,
entertainment, pop culture, pro wrestling, welcome.
My name is Rob.
I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast and boy has it been a seven days since
last.
We all talk to each other in some cases, literally, but you might be looking at your screen
right now and you're going, Rob, is this the solo adventure again?
It is not.
I wouldn't do that to you people.
I wouldn't do it to me when I do this, Chabuya, or if I do this, Chabuya, where it's
full strength.
That way from me is my co-host and a man who has heard a lot of stories from me over the
last five days.
He is Alex.
Hey, brother.
Might help to unmute the mic.
Yeah, there was some kind of a weird feedback I had to mute you in the intro from my end.
Oh, no, it was it was the audio looping through a separate area than it should have been.
Oh, I should have.
You wanted it.
Yeah, almost, but you know, you're not the only person who can Chabuya.
I know.
That's why I let you do that.
So I don't have to click all the things all the time.
Right.
At the bottom of your screen is the official fact checker of sooner or greater productions.
And a man who watched the movie about spiders.
You may know him is it Buneu, but his mom and even Don Ford, who was in town this week.
So I call him Don Ford.
Hey, man.
We're going to have to tease that, but there is an awesome review at www.covaspodcast.com.
That is our website.
This is riveting.
We appear out of nowhere.
This is like riveting.
That what the kids are calling it these days?
Yeah, just riveting.
Okay.
It was good to see Mama Mama Mama four came down.
Sorry.
And your sister was here too, wasn't she?
Yeah, they both came down for the I call it the ellipse, but the eclipse, but it was really
cool.
We went out to the epic in Grand Prairie and where the big lake is and they're developing
and there's a lot of people there.
And it's kind of cool.
And not too many people and out by the lake and you know, all of a sudden gets pitch black
in the middle of the day.
It's kind of cool.
So they enjoyed it.
So yeah.
I was off that day because I was taking my traditional day after an out of town show
off and I walked outside and I went, oh, look, there's a thing.
And then it's a little chilly outside.
And then I went back and said, but I did think it was cool watching the light go across
my house afterwards.
That was kind of cool.
It was cool.
In our area, we were worried about the weather, but we had a clear sky when we saw it.
So we left out.
That was really cool.
You know, so.
Shout out to everybody that came out to Hill Country Comic Con last weekend in New
Bronfels, Texas had an absolutely great time.
I'm going to have those panels.
I got the video already.
So I'll be posting the panels to my YouTube channel at least one of them.
The other one I've got to do some research on because they're all worth some video clips
played.
And I don't know that YouTube's going to flag that.
So we got to figure out how that's going to work.
I did have a great time talking to DJ Lance Rocks and Joshua Valley from Yo Gaba Gaba
kind of weird two days after the show.
They announced that there's a new version of Yo Gaba Gaba hitting YouTube TV very soon.
I mean, I'm sorry, Apple TV plus very soon.
But I did not know that the guys from Yo Gaba Gaba played Coachella.
That was a weird bit for me.
But DJ Lance Rock, an amazing human, had a blast with him at the after party.
Josh came up and did ice ice baby.
It was a whole thing.
And suddenly I got to talk to Red Brown, the original Captain America from the 70s had
a great talk with him in a kind of a cool moment during that particular panel.
Alex, look, I get a question.
No.
Oh, OK.
The time has already passed.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
I apologize for that.
I can rewind.
No, you can.
Yes, I can.
Moving on.
Moving on.
Last week, we did flip the script a little bit.
And we did wrestling first.
We're going to do a normal order this week, just because there's not a lot of entertainment
stuff to talk about.
But we will be spending the majority of tonight talking about our sport in the last six days.
Because it's a new year in wrestling.
Yes, it is.
And we will talk all about it coming up here in just a little while.
The men's and women's basketball tournaments ended this past weekend.
Great ratings for the way almost 19 million people watch that final.
And I want to say thank you to Don Staley for being the portrait of class and grace in
that post game speech.
I thought that was awesome.
The men's I did not come in last.
I have the bronze medal of the losers podium.
But I did not come in last, however, Alex ran away with it this year.
So congratulations to you, sir, on a well predicted tournament bracket as Yukon goes back
to back.
You know, it's the exact opposite of how it is normally for me.
I usually crush the first two rounds and then everything falls apart.
This year, worst first two rounds I've ever had from a bracket standpoint, still enjoyed
the games, but made the comeback.
And what do we know?
It's not important how you start, it's important how you finish, and it's not whether you
win or lose.
It's whether I win or lose, and I lost.
But great showing by Alex, Yukon first repeat since Florida did it in the late arts.
A lot of people were comparing and contrasting this repeat with Florida's repeat with dukes
repeat.
I think for one that's out in this is in a one and done era where you can do it with almost
completely different personnel, Purdue, I mean, they shut down Purdue with the three.
And if you can do that, you can beat Purdue and Yukon showed that.
I mean, they let Edie score at will because two versus three do whatever you want because
that kid's a beast anyway.
But two great games, two great tournaments, probably the most fun tournaments in my opinion,
especially on both sides of the fence that we've had in a very, very long time.
And I think the reading showed that as well and a great SNL cold open sketch because
of Charles Barclay, who may or may not pay attention to the sport on a pregame, one of
the stronger SNLs in a while with Kristen Wheat as well.
Good question.
Sure.
So like South Carolina went undefeated.
They did.
Congratulations.
Cool deal.
Awesome.
And why do they beat the ratings in the final and all that, you know, they're really,
you know, getting the attention they deserve, you could say, um, I heard of a couple times,
you know, in the women's where they've had undefeated seasons in the last, how come I
don't ever hear that on the man because it doesn't have typically don't happen.
It doesn't happen on the men's side.
The women's happens fairly regularly.
But that's also because they are very top heavy when it comes to talent on the teams.
Okay.
You have had it repeated with Yukon, which under Geno Ariama was always near the top.
Staley has been absolutely amazing at South Carolina.
You had the past summer years at Tennessee with the lady balls.
So you had that kind of cycle going through where you would wind up.
Maybe they don't have any.
This is another interesting topic that if we had more time to get into where there has
been talks of the women's game, not having as much budgeted.
So maybe they don't have the East Coast, West Coast or the international trips that the
men's do at the higher levels in a lot of circumstances.
But that doesn't take away the fact that when they play, they win.
And Alex, keep me honest here.
If I'm not mistaken, Florida was the last team were both sides one in the same year because
I know Yukon's done it.
But I think Florida was the last one to do it.
I am not sure if that's accurate.
I thought Yukon had done it since, but I could be wrong in that scope.
I know you can't.
It is a rare feat, but yes, it's of that of that program for so long.
But again, congratulations to both men's and women's tournaments put on very, very well
this year and shout out to Indiana State for showing why they should have been in the
tournament this year as they ran through the NIT.
So they actually lost in the finals.
But they had a good run up to it in my personal pick your name for Mr. Avila.
He is in the transfer portal.
So we should see him in a bigger program soon.
All right, let's get to NBA standings as the regular season is winding down.
Let's see.
In the Eastern Conference Atlantic Division, the Toronto Raptors, I'm going to go ahead and
say they're not going to make it in the playoffs because they're 37 and a half games back.
They are seven games behind Brooklyn.
Brooklyn is now 13 back on the sixers.
The sixers two and a half back on the NICs.
The NICs have clinched a playoff spot, but they're still 15 games behind Boston, who's
only won the last 17 games all year.
In the central division, the Detroit Pistons, former champs of basketball, they're not
doing well.
They are 24 games back on the Chicago Bull, Chicago now eight and a half back on the
Pacers.
The Pacers are a game back on Cleveland.
Cleveland's now two back on Milawakay, Milawakay now guaranteed into the playoffs.
Nobody else at this point outside of Boston, New York and Milawakay have locked down a
playoff spot in the Southeast division.
The Wizards won't be because they're 31 games back.
They're five back on Charlotte.
The Hornets are now 16 games back on Atlanta, Atlanta, eight back on Miami, Miami, who just
absolutely fell apart last night, Alex going back to the men's and women's winning in
this same year.
Yes, it has happened twice, both times by Yukon.
Okay, so Florida did not do it.
I thought they did not know Yukon did it in 2004 and 2014.
Okay.
Thank you for that.
In Miami now, two back on Orlando, Orlando's lost two in a row.
The land was lost four in a row, but I don't think that matters in the Western Conference
Pacific division.
The Golden State Warriors, this division has been nothing short of insanity because when
you're in last place in the division and your nine games above 500 and you're six and
a half back, that's a strong division.
They are a half game back on the Lakers.
Now a half game back on Sacramento, Sacramento, a game and a half back on Phoenix, Phoenix
four back on the Clippers.
The Clippers have clenched home court throughout the Clinton division.
I'm sorry, nobody's gotten home court throughout yet.
In the Southwest division, San Antonio, they're done.
There's seven games back on Memphis.
Memphis is now 12 and a half back on Houston, Houston, Houston.
The Rockets eight back on New Orleans, Fly Pelican, two and a half back on Dallas.
Dallas has clenched the division as well.
In the Northwest division, Portland's bad.
They're eight back on Utah, Utah, okay, Utah is second to last in the division.
The top three teams in this division have all clenched a playoff spot.
Because Oklahoma City is 16 and a half games upon Utah.
They're tied with Minnesota, both of them are a game back on Denver.
By the way, Utah's dropped 13th straight for those of you playing the home game.
Playoff picture, you can pretty much say this is how it's going to go at this point because
we've played 72, 79 games.
So there's only really four left, three or four, depending on the team.
So right now, here's your Eastern conference playoffs.
Boston, Milwaukee, New York, all in.
Above the red line, Indiana, Orlando, Cleveland, inside the red zone, Atlanta, Chicago, Miami,
Philadelphia.
I outside of something catastrophic.
I don't see movement because the closest team to Atlanta is Brooklyn and they're four
games behind them.
So I don't really see that happening.
That's one where you would need the perfect situation to occur and there may not even be
enough games.
But you know, we had an eclipse.
So you know, no, in the Western conference, above the red line, Denver, Minnesota, Oklahoma
City, the clippers and the debt and Dallas have all clenched a spot.
The only team above the red line that has not in the Western conference is Fly Pelican,
which is crazy when you realize they're 15 games above 500, which normally, that's
a pretty nice spot to sit in.
However, Phoenix could catch them because they're only a game and a half between them.
So in the red zone right now, Phoenix, Sacramento, the Lakers and Golden State, that's pretty
much said as well because Houston, Houston, Houston is five games back on Golden State.
And I don't see a situ.
I mean, you drop three, they win three, it gets a little hairy.
But I don't see that happening again, perfect storm.
I just don't see it happening.
Let's get to the NHL gentlemen.
In the Eastern conference Atlantic to visual, the visual, because we're going to, because
I screwed that up.
Now I want the New Orleans hockey team.
I want the ice crawdads.
Not only did I screw that up, we're just going to go straight to the Montreal, Canadians.
Thank you, Don.
They're real fast.
So if I can last, going back, last undefeated men's season was Indiana and 7576 32 and O.
Yep.
And then it was 7555 North Carolina 56.
Then UCLA had four undefeated seasons, 63, 66, 71, 72, but since 75, 76, that's it.
Yeah.
Hard to do that, men's.
There's a particular team in that list that I always go back to when you want to talk
about greats.
John Wooden Francisco, have you ever heard them challenging for a national title otherwise?
I was very, very confused in the odds when they would play on Fox Sports net because they
are also USF and the logo was very similar back in the colors game as well.
Yep.
You are correct.
That 55 team was led by one Bill Russell, who just, who dominated the entire college
game.
So Montreal and Ottawa both tied at 72 points.
They are 35 points out of first place.
They're seven back on Buffalo.
The Soberays are five back on Detroit Detroit now only 11 back on Tampa Bay.
Now they're top four in the Atlantic division have all locked down playoff spots, but nobody's
got the division.
Nobody's got home ice yet.
So you've got Tampa Bay, who is now six points back on Toronto, Toronto after winning
three and a row are three points back on the Panthers.
The Panthers now three back on Boston with four to five games to play, depending on who
you are.
Don, where else are we going?
You are absolutely correct, sir.
The Columbus Blue Jackets, they're not going to make it.
They're only, let's see, 46 points out of first place.
They are five points back on New Jersey, New Jersey now four back on Philadelphia, who's
dropped eight in a row.
Philly's a point behind your Pittsburgh, Penguin's Pittsburgh, a point back on Washington,
Washington, two back on the Islanders.
The Islanders are now 20 points behind Carolina.
Carolina and the Rangers have locked down playoff spots, but Carolina's only three back on
the Rangers, which is why the Rangers have not locked down the division yet.
In the Western Conference Central Division, the Chicago Black Hawks.
They're 58 points out.
They are 22 points behind the coyotes.
That tells you anything.
Arizona now 10 back on the wild, the wild six back on the Blues.
The Blues now six back on Nashville, your top four teams in the Central Division.
Nobody's locked down divisions or homies in the entire sport at this point, which is
crazy when you think about it, but your top four teams in the division have all locked
down playoff spots.
Nashville is at 95 points.
Five teams in this division have broken the century mark at this point.
The only one that needs to add to it at this point is going to be Nashville, because
I don't think at 93 points LA can get in.
You've also got five in the Western Conference Tampa Bay threatening to make it six.
Nashville is seven points back on the jets.
The jets are two back on Colorado, Colorado now five points back on the stars.
Winnipeg on a four game heater to keep them where they are in the Pacific division.
Boys get ready because we are going to be talking about the sharks.
They're 60 points out of first place.
They are 12 back on the Ducks, Anaheim, now eight back on the Flames, Calgary four back
on C.A.
Battles 13 points back on Vegas.
Vegas is a point back on the Kings.
Now the only the top two teams in this division have locked down a playoff spot, as Los
Angeles is now eight back on Edmonton, Edmonton is four back on Vancouver by the way Edmonton
is one three on a row.
Alex, do you have a question?
No, I do not.
I was not excited.
I did have something occur to me.
Have we looked up what the most number of NHL teams reaching the century mark in points
yet?
I do not know.
No.
It's an interesting question.
I have not looked that up.
Don, would you mind?
The most number of the centric for like the most in the season with the most game teams
having a hundred points in the NHL.
All right.
So playoff picture right now in the Eastern conference.
Here's what it looks like above the red line.
Rangers Carolina Boston, Florida, Toronto, Tampa Bay, Islanders, Washington.
The caps are in it at 85 points.
Now Pittsburgh and Detroit and Philadelphia are all breathing down their neck because
Pittsburgh and Detroit are only a point behind them.
Philadelphia is a point behind them.
So it's going to be an interesting week in the Eastern conference.
And by the way, there's only two spots up for grabs in each conference currently.
In the Western conference, Dallas, Vancouver, Colorado, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Nashville,
Kings, Vegas.
So Vegas is above the red line right now.
However, St. Louis only trails them by three points.
So with two points for a win, for those of you unfamiliar with the way hockey does their
points, one point for a tie, things could get squarely here in the last four to five days.
Gentlemen, are we ready for North America's favorite game show?
It is time to play.
And more time and then we won't play it again for about a month because we're waiting on
baseball to catch up.
What is the goal differential on the point differential more importantly for the San Jose
shot?
Don.
I'm going to say, negative one thirty eight, one thirty eight for Don Alex.
That was actually one of the numbers I was thinking.
I'm going to play the prices right version of this game and give myself some birth and
hope he's over because I don't want to be the guy that goes one on top of him.
So I will do minus one hundred.
So let me give you some context.
The high, the worst goal differential in the eastern conference.
Period end of statement is the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Their goal differential to pretty much finish the season is a minus sixty.
In the western conference, there are only two teams.
Now we know San Jose is one that's going to be in triple digits.
If you watch this show, you know what it was last week.
There is only one other team and all of hockey in triple digits and it is the Chicago black
hawks at minus one, oh two closest to that is Anaheim at minus eighty nine.
When it drops, remember Anaheim at minus eighty nine, the closest team to that mark, Calgary
at minus twenty in the western conference.
The San Jose sharks have played seventy eight games.
They are eighteen fifty one and nine.
They are eleven twenty four and five at home.
They are seven twenty seven and four on the road.
They've lost two in a row.
They're two six and two in their last ten.
Alex, if you had done what I thought you were going to you to hit the nail on the head
because not only went one over, they are at minus one thirty seven.
No, no, no.
I said I was going to go one ahead of him, one thirty nine, but when you said you were
going to do the alternate thing, I thought you were going to go the other way thinking
he was over and you would have nailed it.
Oh, no, no, no.
I'm not, I'm not stupid.
I know how the game works.
I'm not giving myself a one goal base, which is going to say minus one just to be a jerk,
right?
So minus one thirty seven, boys, not good.
No, no, it's not all right, who knows, T for later, maybe they sacrificed all their
good for Bayley, moving right along, that's a team of a couple of television notes found
out yesterday.
If you know the name Tim Kering means anything to you or Kring, depending on who you are,
this was the man that created heroes.
We only recognize season one.
But he announces yesterday that he is currently shopping a sequel series called Heroes Eclipse,
which takes place after all of the mess that was seasons two, three, and I think there was
a fourth with a new generation, although maybe people showing up.
But like I said, season one of that show was amazing and then it just fell off.
And then they tried a reboot kind of sort of and it didn't work and there were four.
Yeah, that first season was amazing though.
I think the fourth season was the reboot, yeah, probably.
I remember I remember the first season because my wife had back surgery that year and we bought
the DVD side unseen because so many people thought it was so amazing.
And I binge like half this season while she was in surgery on my laptop watching and
I watched every episode and then I watched that episode with the commentary like I dissected
that entire box set.
Yeah, there was four seasons.
The last one was in 2010 with a redemption.
And then season three was villains and fugitives, which split 25 episodes.
And then Genesis was the first 23 episodes, generations 11 episodes in 2007.
Just watch the first season.
So you need Apple TV.
I believe this is in your wheelhouse Alex.
I believe we talked about this Apple TV plus has renewed monarch legacy of monsters for season
two.
I know I'm moderately surprised about that, but I did enjoy it.
It does let me let me put it this way.
If you have any issues with time jumping, don't do it.
I do know one of the series that I watched, they just talked about the new season premiere.
I didn't realize they'd started was a season two of the big door prize is coming up the
lead next.
You have spoken very highly of it.
It's definitely an interesting ride.
I'm definitely interested to see how season two works because it does have a cliffhanger.
But it made me go, okay, I am prime video announced yesterday that they are, they've given
the night manager two more seasons and Tom Hiddleston will return to start.
They're working with them a while since that happened, hasn't it?
Yep.
Couple years and years and BBC working with prime video on that TV on DVD and Blu-ray this
week season four of Star Trek lower decks available to you as well as the final season and
complete series for Jack Ryan available.
Love both of those shows.
Don I have an interesting assignment for you.
So as I was literally not even an hour ago going through my social media feeds because
I hadn't touched them for four days and you'll find out why here in a minute.
I saw in my Instagram feed a video promo for something called aliens expanded.
Have you heard of this?
No.
This is a brand new documentary that's getting getting ready to be released.
And if I saw it correctly and you may want to fact check this, if you pre-order it before
May the third of the fifth, you could have your name in the credits of the documentary.
The website is aliens hyphen expanded dot com.
You have an assignment done and it looks great like they got everybody there go and apparent
this thing runs deep.
They're calling it the perfect companion documentary.
And they're only doing this through the first week of May.
So you don't you got some time you ain't got a ton of time.
So they're definitely setting up for that next movie.
And I think they're still did the series already happen or is that still coming the one
on that I don't know if it's actually still happening, but I know that it was influx at
one point.
It may have pivoted to the movie, but I don't know for sure that is fair.
That's the only movie headline I've got this week.
I know that the series for fallout started this weekend.
People are raving over it.
Oh, but here's the funny thing.
Have you ever heard of such positive buzz on a show that the controlling entity moves
up the date twice?
I have not.
Okay, because it wasn't even supposed to be out now.
Then it got moved to the 11th.
Then they were like, you know what?
Everybody's so excited.
We're going to do it on the 10th.
All right.
Let's go.
Movie new releases in places you get movie new releases this week.
Little war all star cast taking place in an America where things have gone crazy.
This focuses on a group of journalists.
I missed the trade.
I missed the screening.
I was I had just gotten back from Hill Country and was taking my traditional down day.
Also this week because is Nicholas Cage just trying to work the record for most number
of movies consecutively in theaters because he's got another one coming out this week called
Arcadian where a father in his twin teenage sons fight to survive in a remote farmhouse
at the end of the world.
Rose got a lot of alimony man.
Why am I not in that movie?
Also in the this is a thing question mark department.
We have a remake of don't tell mom the babysitters dead dropping this weekend of friend of this
year.
You're going to work from it a lot.
So that tells me some interesting things that may or may not be a thing of yeah.
I don't you squibb is a name I recognize Nicole Richie is in this miles fowler.
Those are the only names I recognize.
So you got that going for you like I but.
That's one of those movies that needed to stay exactly where it was because it doesn't
work before or since it's just not done what the that thing the alien thing you're talking
about.
They have different packages I think I think the thing with your credits in the in the
DVD and that's only in that's $49.
All the way up to the executive producer which is $10,000 where you and you get your you
will be as a executive producer credit on IMDB.
Okay, that would be hilarious.
There is going to be a lot of these who do nothing.
Yeah, I'm DB a special poster all that's the swag all that I can hear me for the other
room going no.
That's all right.
We're going to have to create our own website called gofundadon.
Can I get to that?
You know that book show you have to show me like you better start selling beaches millions
of peaches and they will also this week the long game.
This is Dennis Quay J Hernandez and Cheach Marin is in this in 1955 five young Mexican American
caddies out of love for the game were determined how to play.
So they created their own golf course in the middle of the South Texas desert.
I have heard very good things about this.
This looks great.
Oscar Nunez from the offices in this Brett Cohen.
I'm looking to see if there's any other names I recognize there are Morgana Shaw is in
this.
I've heard her name in a minute.
It's been a little while.
Also this week the absence of Eden this actually has Zoe Saldana and Garrett headland in it.
An ice agent struggling with the moral dilemmas of border security and an undocumented woman
fighting to escape a ruthless cartel cross paths and work together to save the life of an
innocent girl.
And then we have a foreign film called in flames.
This is a mother and daughter who suffer a tragedy and try to survive malevolent forces
that threaten to engulf them.
Movies on DVD and Blu-ray this week the peasants this is an animated film that took that hit
the film film festival circuit.
It's a sequel.
It's European of some form I'm told it's very long and it's very slow.
Also this week because why half baked totally high.
That's literally the name of this.
I think it's 20 years if I had to guess or close to it.
Wow, why is this not showing up on IMDb?
It's David your pal paid to have it taken down hold on because this is I get my release
calendar from IMDb.
I know this isn't okay this is a movie that's a DVD so Lord only knows.
They're doing special editions of both Fletch and Fletch lives this week and I love both
of those movies.
Also the criterion collection going back overseas for Warrick Meister harmonies this week.
Alright boys we're going to do wrestling a little bit different we're going to kind of
do it the way we used to do it because of the way last weekend happened.
I want to talk about stuff sequentially if that's all right with you boys works for me.
So Friday night was smack down and smack down had the only thing of note I had from that
was do Lord I get to keep scrolling here.
Bronson Reed winning the Andre.
They did something really smart with that booking though.
I really dug the idea that you wound up with literal giants at the end and two incredibly
talented guys going back and forth.
Not so sure about that rolling thunder question mark but it works and you know what Bronson
Reed is a hell of a talent.
And then Friday night was also super card of honor I actually watched that at my hotel
on Friday night on my laptop no I watched it Monday I watched it Monday that's what I
watched when I woke up before I went to my doctor's appointment.
Vari has joined the premier athlete.
So adjust your roster accordingly.
Black Tarouse is now the beast Mortos and has signed as we spoke Alex reminded me we
spoke a few weeks ago about him having some licensing issues with the name.
You signed with the water.
You're a inaugural women's television champion is Billy Stark there were some shenanigans
in that match where she faked a neck injury and then defeated Queen Aminata for that
title a very interesting backstage segment where she wanted to celebrate with her mom
and her mom was like you didn't win this the right way and so now Athena has adopted
her.
See I feel like that was the most awkward thing I've seen in a while I didn't I didn't
find it interesting I just found it weird.
I watched it right before we went on air because I caught this week's ring of honors
an hour and eight minutes and I watched 42 minutes of it because I'm trying to knock
out as much as I can before the show so I don't have to take my day watching it tomorrow
because I still got to watch impact.
Let's see bullet club gold had an open challenge and out came Lance Archer Alex Zane is now
the sauce.
He has been for a very long time but I'm talking about for a while he was just Alex Zane.
Okay but what I'm saying is outside of NXT and of recent he has gone with the sauce which
is why I have been begging for this for the Japanese dynamic duo of monster sauce to come
state side and they did along with Monoro Suzuki and they and a Suzuki goon throwback.
We just need Shelton Benjamin and we're set and they did the job.
Shelton Castle beats Johnny TV in a fight without honor and a very interesting ending to
that match Don because as we talked about last week the boys no longer with the company.
So as we get to the climax of the match Dalton Castle looks into the camera and says send
me a boy and about nine different guys all came out and did suicide well eight and a half
did Suits my plan just because the fourth one just kind of fell over the rope because he
was a larger gentleman and then the very last one taking his time to get to the ring
was one Paul Walter Hauser excuse me Emmy award winning who came down.
I will say this did you did you get to see any of this match Alex did you see the ending.
I saw clips Johnny TV taking the thumbtack spot face down.
I was like oh no.
Also Athena retained in a great match with Shida if you're going to watch one match from
super card.
This is the one to watch this match was outstanding.
I very much enjoyed it.
It was also Athena's 50th win in a row as she is still your ring of honor women's champion
and Mark Brisco in a match that went 15 20 minutes he and Eddie Kingston put on a pretty
good match.
He is your new ring of honor champion redneck kung fu baby yeah you know she I do you
mind the run with her this long as champion does it bother any of you guys or do you think
it's the right thing.
I think it's time to move the belt but I think they had they've got to have a better
story to tell to do it well I don't even know if it's the story they got to have somebody
else that can carry the belt I mean I wouldn't move it off of her right now but that's also
the should tell you how bad ring of honor is from a perspective and I'm not trying
to give a bias because you know I've said I was sorry before she made it and all that
stuff at you know mpx or whatever but how she could have great matches I remember she
had that one with oska in NXT and that was considered a lot of multiples with oska that
were great yeah yeah but you know that's she could go you know and would you think would
you put her to AEW and put her as a champ there or not because I know she went there
once they didn't do a good with her that first time I don't think you need to rob Peter
to pay Paul right now okay I allow me to answer it from a different perspective yeah
absolutely like from just a pure talent standpoint she can stand there the problem is right
now AEW is struggling with story which has always been her drawback and they're relying
on talent to come up with their own stuff like it's 1994 again and it's not working
in some circumstances it's working great in others and Athena has always been a great
wrestler as far as an actual entertainer she struggles at times so yes I would I would
give her the belt for in ring talent but like Rob said she's in her best position with
ROH now if they can beef up that division a little bit better maybe but you would you
would just it just wouldn't it would weaken that division in my opinion saturday morning
was stand in deliver opening match I had a question mark on and that question mark was answered
on Tuesday night because the wolf dogs retaining was a weird thing for me go ahead Alex
okay I was going to say are we going to just skip over the kickoff match or lack there
of there was still a match I mean I thought it was going to go 100% the other way when
Ridge Hall and attacked Jay Joe Gacy on the entryway but good job Sean Spears making
somebody look better like you always do as he does and boy when Ridge Hall and showed
up on Tuesday night there was a lot of pit sweat going on there for him just a lot of
but the wolf dogs then Tuesday night do surrender the tag chance to axiom and Nathan Frazier
and then are attacked by AOP that surprised me yeah of we have announced Ava announced that
there will be a tournament to crown their inaugural women's North American champion Alex is already
shaking his head I I love the idea of giving more women a goal the problem is this should have
been introduced when you had a good women's division and I'm not saying that the people
in that division are bad but it is a shallow pool and if you're going to be doing the
same thing as Ring of Honor that has no pool it's just bad on both fronts you want to do
something give us a women's I see title or something where there is talent that's maybe
not quite challenging for the world title on raw or smack down give us some because that
is a quality deep division NXT and ROH and a actually nowhere outside of stardom is it
better than WWE right now and that's where your secondary belt should be let me ask you this
because they haven't said when the tournaments going to start next or start yeah I know where
you're going with this I like this question the next two weeks are NXT spring breakers and then
after that is the draft which we know NXT will be involved in do you start that tournament after
the draft perhaps taking some of your mid card and and lower card talent from the other two brands
and bring them to NXT that is exactly the question I thought you're going to ask I think it's a
great question I believe it's spring break in spring breakers is something else with that was a
moving but I think they but I think that I originally called it that and that's why my brain went
there okay yeah I think it's spring break in electric boogaloo okay I'm here for
I mean I'm hoping that's what they do because they know it's time for their next plea
which we would need to correct last week it's not in Savannah Georgia that's where originally
was going to be it is now going to be in the UFC facility in Vegas at the apex yes but no and
that's I okay let's let's take this one step further because I think we're all on board with
that idea of doing it post draft and having more talent that maybe doesn't have as much to do
on the main roster who would be your big surprise in the tournament and who would you have it win
if coming down quote unquote from Raw or Smackdown
if I were to put it on somebody and you're just you're giving me the entire roster not just
the NXT roster right now yes sir I can I I find it hard to believe and the fact that she was in
the audience and they didn't name checker I thought was weird I think Julia's your your inaugural
North American champion I'm sorry who Julia oh yes okay sorry there was a little static on my
end I didn't hear you so clearly excuse me they are sitting with regal I made the main check
either one of them which I thought was strange what do you the only thing Vic Joseph said okay okay no
I was I was thinking of standing deliver when they actually put up her name and highlighted her
but when they first showed her sitting with regal there was nothing and they were just like
with people looking on I'm like can you say who that is please well they got there eventually
because that was that was Russia on the other side of regal too yeah which I just most kind
of strange but that that would be I to me that's betting with house money though because that's
an interesting one I'm I'm thinking more long lines of then I I know I am the minority here but
Liv Morgan doesn't do it for me she's somebody who should still be in NXT learning how to be
interesting but in that same scope you know who I would really strongly consider at least for
your foil for the finals okay Nikki Cross Liker Liker Liker a lot what about you Don
yeah I could see Nikki Cross Liv Morgan and I can't see your point cheeky go she's athletic
and she can play that kind of weird cycle thing pretty well but for me I don't think she's kind
of getting it either you know I'm saying yeah I just who would you have if you if anybody for
more Nikki Cross oh no what I was saying is there anybody else that you would think of to come
from Crawl or Smackdown I could see like Liv too I don't know what I'm thinking yeah I that's
a good one can't think I've taught my head right now my second choice would be Shotsie that's a good
one yeah bring it back down because I like Shotsie a lot I'm a big fan always
doing much with her right now either well the problem is on the other two brands you've got
so much going on in the women's division which tends to happen especially this time of year when
the draft happens and we deplete NXT and then reload it it wouldn't I think it I think she's
good for that tournament you know who would be a really interesting one and has yet to wrestle for
the company Scarlett held titles everywhere she's been hasn't even wrestled with WWE yeah the
only thing she's done her dark matches and how she shows she hasn't done anything on TV and as
we know TV it doesn't count but no yeah I agree with you 100% there because she's got skills and
she can go we just haven't been able to see it yeah and I figure with AOP coming down and final
testament we might be seeing some teases of people being moved into NXT shout out to Riccardo
who just gave us a thumbs up thank you brother uh Roxanne Perez wins the title back
from Lyra Valkyrie in a match I kind of surprised they put that belt back on her
but she's doing great heel work and she said she's having the time of her life doing it
so uh also shocked at and still your NXT champion
well I I have a theory for both belts but I think it's going out the window with the draft
and I thought we were about to get it on a later show where somebody is no longer with NXT
so it has the traditional aspect of going up above a ladder with multi people
and as we know I was thinking that for both
as we know uh as I didn't I missed this when I watched NXT but apparently this coming week we
are getting as part of spring break into electric boogaloo uh we are getting Carmelo
haste trick Williams in a cage I saw no no no no it was real easy to miss because there
wasn't anything on air it was during the attack at the end and Carmelo just said it oh okay
fair enough um I thought overall a good show I thought the triple threat was good not great
adding ivar to that mix and of course Biggie's influence all over that segment
I like ivar I liked that he didn't come out in all the garb which I can't remember the last time
that happened I can tell you it was still as a tag team yeah I miss warm machine uh but I think
that'll be a fun I like how you're taking these guys that we all know can go and giving them spots
in NXT again we we know it should be a third brand we've always said that we know it at some level
it will always be developmental because it's a good place to do that but getting you know this
is crossing the streams I don't mind because how long is the uh ivar's partner from warm machine
how long is he gonna be out for now he was expected to be out a year and a half that that
and it's been and it's been probably about 11 months now but that's part of the reason they gave
him this king ivar thing was so that he was able to do something because I wish I could remember
who the producer was but it it was somebody who might not even still be with the company
and they were like all right who do we throw out versus and I think it was ricochet at the time
and they're like did you not watch our wage that dude can go and that's how ivar got thrown into it
and it became a thing i'm a big fan same and oba femy did a great job i can't you know what that
was that was that was a star performance very early on for him because that was what he's 12th match
yeah they said that's a monster of human yeah it is so um let's talk collision real quick because
collision is as close to saturday night's main event that we're ever going to get because it was
on in that time slot um ftr advances to the finals of the tag team tournament we'll talk about that
here in a little while and i i don't like the dust and roads thing saturday night that kind of
angered me i was like that's not necessary stop it right don't you know oh we have team not
stream it's actually i'm sorry that that that line popped me from that
well and i think if i'm not mistaken on rosla on on raw last week it is recorded okay cool um
i it or was it on mania no it was not no it was on smackdown or wherever ricochet you know
because ricochet you had to be on rock as it was macapy when he was he referred to the puma
so that was a few weeks ago yeah yeah so um but yeah i just thought that was the the dust and
thing was not necessary but you know it is what it is let's get into night one of mania
let me get back i got it i should have done this differently on the run sheet
night one of mania first of all new signature intro and i like it oh we have to
have to call a thing right i'm so sorry um the ringside seating i thought was cool
i thought that maybe it's because there was no stage and they just needed the the real estate
because usually that stage set is a little deeper on each side but i dug it
because you have the space by the entry that didn't exist today a little
a little shock yeah a little shock that hamen started the show but you know
source me and of course that that speech was gold absolutely we can't repeat a bunch of it but
and neither can be caught because i watched it and beat fall over the place
yeah they need to handle those crowd mics better um you know how my setup is Alex and those rear
speakers were like so yeah work on that wwe plus philly being philly and wow i didn't care
about the people's championship no i still i mean it's you could tell there's craftsmanship
that goes into the belt but it's like it's a beautiful belt but that should have just been
growing stuff against the wall yeah give it to him in a case take it home put it on the wall like
yeah like we know that rock was something that is selling the internet and stuff now another belt
um i don't think that's on shop it is not currently but it looks like the rock legacy belt
which was supposed to be a belt for him originally and it got lost in an airport somewhere we all
noticed so saturday new signature intro and i dig it i like how they had a little thing at the end
too that they're only i guess using for please because this has been a special presentation of
yeah dug it very much here for it um shout out to the guy that did the vio for the open saying it's
the 40th annual WrestleMania so he didn't have to hear 40th anniversary because it's not not
next year it's uh i thought becky's entrance was fantastic with the book i don't even think she
had the best entrance in that match but it was cool oh both of them did i love both of their
intros because you and i talked about this yeah and and and as i want to reiterate i'm going to
get it out of the way off the top motionless and white was great and as much as we defend a pat
McAfee and deservedly so in many instances McAfee's take on this can go suck it
but i loved becky's entrance and it took me a while so she was in the ring and i could see that the
the skirt was modeled after pages of the book like i thought that was really really dope and it was
on her knee pads and select areas of the gear as well that was really cool and something we talk
about quite a bit when these things happen rhea Ripley kind of bucking a trend with having her theme
play live which i was like uh oh uh oh because as we know normally if they play your theme live
you're not coming out with the dub and rhea did in a great match and Alex i will defer to you about
this because you're the one that told me this story and i thought it was one of the coolest
things i heard of the weekend now and it it it's obviously second hand from us there was a lot of
talk about how becky was under the weather wasn't feeling well and it it drew a lot of the focus
there for whatever reason and there is no shame in this kudos to rhea coming to becky's defense
against the iwc talking about her dragging rhea down rhea coming out to say opening the show or
the live performance or all of it coming together gave her a panic attack because she had never
opened a mania like this especially with a crowd and becky is the one with her experience dealing
with people who have had issues in the past was the one that was able to work with her get her to
calm down get her to the point where she could go out and be rhea bloody Ripley and as i've heard
multiple people accurately say maybe it's not the best match those two could have put on but it
was still a mania match and it was still good it's a great match very much enjoyed it of
di-y finally embracing the dexness of it all in the ladder match and i we have it boys we have what i've
been hoping for it happened we have split the tag titles uh because kind of surprised did i get
did i get my ep credit on night one i just want to know because you're welcome for the idea
well and i loved i loved the match i thought it was a lot of fun uh
kind of surprised to see a town down under get those smackdown tag titles
but again you swerve me you got me because that was not where my betting money would have gone
i feel like that's that's what we're going to have to start referring to as a meltzer special
in the industry somebody says it to him like oh a town down under is going to get replaced in this
match it might be by the hearty or something and it's so off base that we just have to go completely
against the grain well the rumor i had heard was they were still going to try to put pretty deadly
in it and that didn't happen yeah that was one of the other ones they got spun off of the
a town down under being replaced quote unquote uh and then your new rock tag champs awesome truth
with our truth getting his first mania win which was an interesting stat that i didn't know uh and
this was still shocked it was their first win and first tag titles and a great match
like yeah this was a fun match to solid matches coming out of the gate for wrestle mania and i
was i mean because i watched both nights in one day i watched i mean i took a breather in the middle
i took a breather in the middle i had to fortunately it was during this era and not a past
area you'd probably still be watching and i didn't watch the pre-shows because i'd still be
watching television but choose solid matches out of the gate done if you guys had the book
in the checkbook for a year would you have split up the titles that's my first question
about you you out what i've been having before for what i was waiting we've been calling for it
for a long time i was waiting to let you finish your sub parts of the question in case they
bled over yeah and then my thing is i think often awesome truth was a good for one of them
i still like the idea of one because it kind of lowers them down a little bit when you just
have one versus two because like who's sad take to it's kind of like a unwritten just you know note
on the side but okay awesome truth i think we all agree was a good pick who would have been your
other pick on the other titles if you if you're the book in checkbook for a year
would you put pretty deadly or would you left it with a town or somebody else or
you know what i i would not have fought a town down under was a logical choice and i apologize
Rob i wanted to jump in on this one i love both of those guys i know i'm not supposed to
because they are such thorough heel but they're good guys and they know how to work they go
they're good at what they do yeah smarty champions that you want where they beat lie cheat steel
and get it through but with an accent if you if you're asking me to pick a smackdown team my
original thought was going to be new catch republic here's the other part about that and we might
have to get some explanations coming then we may not get one until the draft i don't know they'd
had to be smackdown champions because it's just whoever wins the smackdown belts like i agree
but i'm just saying if if you were going to follow that logic now don to answer your first question
about the tag splits what are the two you this way how many times in the last year or as long
as judgment day has had those belts how many times did they defend them on smackdown
i don't know that's the problem they were only defending them on raw so you had the tag
division on smackdown had nothing to care about as this is why splitting them is the right thing
because you have two separate rosters you should have two separate sets of champions i've never been
a fan of the brand split but i get it you having universal tag champs unless you're defending them
on both shows on a regular basis it doesn't it does it's not good for the product i'm just saying
that and now that i have to a tag team with belts on both shows now both shows tag team divisions
have something to shoot for say i would have done pretty deadly an awesome truth for the two winners
i would have threw them in because they didn't get with you as the nxt champions i think they
i 100% agree with dawn that they can be champions but i was going to stick with what was in the match
pretty deadly as a team if you're going to have put those belts on them which they've been nxt they
i believe they've had both uk and nxt they have they're a team that you want to put them in a
featured match because they're such good they're another team are great heels and they can't do
good heel stuff in a match like that you know they can do heel stuff but not as good as you
would put them in a in a two on two match in my opinion but your other quite problem with pretty
deadly and i'm curious your response on this they're getting dangerously close to what we refer to
as the Jake Roberts territory you're never going to be a champion because you're entertaining
without the prop but now i think you're going to see more of them now that there is a prop because
again there's something for tag teams to go for and now that you have that you can feature a team
like pretty deadly in a title picture do they have to win it no but to put them in that highlight
match and if you don't think they're going to be vying for those titles at your next plea given
where said plea is you're out of your mind that's your that's your smackdown tag team title match i'm
saying it now it's going to be eight and it's going to be heels versus heels and i don't care
because you're gonna have eight pound down under versus pretty deadly and it's going to tear the
roof off the place okay can i can i break your brain for a second because i was having a very
similar thought i think you had wind up with a four way at the next plea and you have the heel
teams being eight down down under and pretty deadly new catch republic and fill in a fourth face team
and there's simultaneous pins and you wind up with eight pound down under pretty boys
and you have the new free bird rules that is just the yes boy rules and any of the four can you
wind up with austen theory and get Wilson or elton fritz and grace and wallar and it just goes
absolutely mayhem because there's so many of them to cheat the good face teams i want this
booking let me book this tag division right now and it's france oh see i was waiting on dawn to
do the thing right match i said france don't france so you could go ha ha ha no you can say
Montreal hall right but that's french canadian we just figured you'd do it anyway no no no no no
because it originates with france that is true we are from france um i wasn't on trail hall last year
two two solid matches then we get to the tag match which was much better than it had to be
when you have now what work if you don't see the writing on the wall here we have a carlido turn
coming oh absolutely what's going to happen is it's going to be carlido that did the attack because
he was kind of but hurt when on draughty decided he was going to help ray the one thing from this match
and i'm not sure but i don't think walking wild has landed yet after that slingshot off the middle
rope holy cow that was ridiculous like to the point where i stood up and went whoa what just happened
here that was amazing very much enjoyed that uh another thing i called because i had to talk to
Alex about this because i was just like did i miss this damage control changing the entrance music
because they don't have baili Alex told me that's been actually happening for a little while
but this was the first time that that that song was on like was more prevalent because maybe a level
uh baili came in it was i don't know if the explanation graves gave was the actual background on her
entrance it was a great cover if it wasn't but i thought her entrance was cool she only was able to
name check one of the four guys because somebody asked who they were and she only knew the social media
for one of them but she did she did say no that's not who you thought it was but they were all great
and i was very thankful i thought her outfit was cool no we've jumped off too quickly
Ricardo once again is correct but it does give us that endless meme of hey ray we want to put
over these young guys if them kids bring bring me philadelphia eagles well one for bring me philadelphia
eagles i did like raise mask i thought it honestly i thought it was both Kelsey's and i was like
ooh Travis got Pudgy oh nope Lane Johnson but i did like raise mask at the hall of fame another
solid mask out of him hit his movie collection and knew i mean i thought i think our predictions were
pretty solid i i think we were we got more right than we got wrong uh and new intercontinental
champion in sammy zane again showing it doesn't matter who you are goonther made a great match with
someone he very much was much larger than sammy zane one of the great wrestlers of our time but
just like he did with ilia draganoff he knows how to take people that he has a severe size of
engine because that's most of the planet and he knows how to work with them on a good match i
loved this match Alex i love sammy i will always love sammy even edel sammy but there is an
interesting rumble and you know how it's almost impossible to deploy the iwc and usually it's just
all bill yep within those waters that came to me over the last week there was a very well thought out
and explained explanation why sammy was the wrong guy and it was the fact that every time we've had
some kind of magnanimous champion then it has been a big deal of them getting to throne it's been a
up-and-comer to launch them into a stratosphere like somebody who needs it where i sammy's already
in that beloved range now i have zero issue with sammy winning the ic title because i've been calling
for gumther to be world title level for years but i want to hear your guys's thoughts on
if you could go back do you would you replace sammy with somebody who has it had a singles title
and i'm not necessarily saying specifically gable so let's throw the low hanging fruit off the vine
but is there somebody in that young sphere that you would have thought could have benefited more from
dethroning gumther that's in the current top rosters and not that anywhere you're the booker right now
okay so i'm trying to figure who's young to who hasn't hasn't hasn't had a single title
who's on the top rosters right now i'm trying to figure who that is
who would be who hasn't had a single title well i'm i'm saying somebody who hasn't had a
title in wwe is my starting point yeah i don't know who's had a title that's on the rise like a
ricochet that's what i'm looking for yeah but i'm working she had it do you know what i would have
done go away don't get me wrong um i would young there has been a great champion i would have kept
the title on him but what i'm saying is is not just this match who would you who would you think
benefits the who would benefit the best slash most by dethroning gumther i would well here's
what let me say this and because i want to make a point on this what i would and i would have
Sammy in the match but i'd have him lose and then i would have made gumther champions still
for another year then he taught then he he goes in in title and he goes for the championship
at WrestleMania next year kind of like a you know Hulk so you give him the warrior aspect
yeah okay in title versus title whatever both you know it's my turn now i held this for
well you know seven hundred i mean i want you know at that point at nine hundred nine hundred days
you know i want the title now it's my turn um but who i if i had to get my somebody who's young
um i wouldn't say gable because he had somebody shot it it already zen zen was good i'm trying
to think of gosh i'd have to think on that one rob do you have somebody locked up loaded
here's the conundrum in a in a situation like that i'm not doing it at mania
mm-hmm that i if i if i'm going to do that at a major that's a summer slam moment
um Ricardo has a really strong case just now yeah
brawn is definitely on that list because and we've said this once now that he's going to be moved
up you've got to but the problem is he's on smackdown but that's logistics
i think there's the draft right i think he's a very strong candidate for yeah i see so i would have
let um gunther have it for one more day but i said the same thing
because he had it six hundred and sixty six days given one more day please uh i see but i think
you know breakers probably your clubhouse leader in that particular arena
because it's all so jumbled i just don't know that there's not somebody that there's
somebody else that i'm willing to put in that picture i had a realization while i was listening
to you guys and it's completely a different path okay we've had two guys recently rumored
to have signed with the company one is already full polished the other one i just love watching
wrestle what if it was somebody who isn't hasn't been seen in the company yet and you hot shot
atama tonga or jacob fa two that was the one i was going to say i thought you were referring to
because i didn't think of tomatonga because he is older he has held almost every belt in japan
but i was thinking of jacob fa two and it's like how else do you make somebody coming in look like a
big deal do it the same way you did with umaga maybe with less face paint but still just
have somebody go right in and it's like if you create a monster it's that the only time goldberg
was ever interesting was because he beat broccalesner in six seconds or whatever it was so you have
something like that but we we all agree that sam he's not dropping that title next Monday
you know what there was something said earlier uh and i got to give Ricardo credit for this
because i was i was watching the chat the heel turned forgable if you have him cheat to win
in montreal to dethrone sammy on a short ic run the heat in that building will melt steel
oh god i think i can see that i forgot some montreal uh not the best rock entrance ever but it was
still pretty cool i was really hoping that kody would have done that with his mask shape on sunday
just to set take the shot but it was pretty cool and yeah Ricardo i just saw Ricardo you
you have to put him in an armored truck to get him out of montreal uh won't you kind of want that
though it's that's news and cable can handle himself to an extent um the main event french what are
they gonna do it's slapping the main event definitely went long for me yeah um especially since night
one was an almost a full hour longer than night two uh i mean it was still entertaining so you didn't have
the i before we get too far off so you didn't have the same punny note that i did from dwayne's entrance
go ahead dwayne growl oh yeah i saw i saw you too you had mentioned that today i giggle but i
wasn't gonna steal your thunder oh no no no i genuinely thought you would have had the same thought
well because my first question was did they put him on the kody vader
i don't think he came up is it looked like it at first but then i looked at more and i'm like
nae i don't know because it looked like it might have been too close to the flames yeah there there
was video of him walking out i believe okay and the the actual brama bull closed in around him before
lighting on fire well if he had come up on the kody vader i thought that would have been a very
interesting heel move you know but i it was a good match to say that was probably my least favorite
match of night one says a lot about night one because that that entire four hours of my life
i was fully entertained there were a couple of matches i was just not as entertained by but overall it
was very good so let's get into sunday let's roll opens up the very first words spoken
as the match starts is cm punk using the word sacrilege and i can't say i disagree perfect heel move
by drew mac entire to have an entire bagpipe ban playing pipers theme i was like this is a ball see move
and i appreciate it uh well and you saw the social media post apparently he was supposed to have a
much bigger outfit yes but you know what shout out to the costume designer who stayed up until six
o'clock in the morning getting that thing ready absolutely so um but i liked i liked the outfit i
thought looks cool yes it did uh and then the mothers happen yeah that if you're going to open a
mat well did you notice something coal said and it reminds me of marty grottis and colgo and this
reminds me of a guy from nxt and i went oh they no way oh say it go that wasn't no way who's
a that that was that was the rose buds well no because no no way Jose had had that too right but i
i took it as the rose buds because that all of the how the dress up and everything whereas no way
Jose was just people doing a conga with one guy dressed as a burger if Ricardo says his dad wonder if
that was new warlands great entrance um don't be 11 years and then stop popping me in the comments
bro and then drew wins runs his mouth to punk punk then showing he is cleared nox mackid tire out
and here comes damian priest see i didn't take that as him being cleared i just took that as him
being opportunistic with a weapon and the social media that has followed has been cold
have you heard the woman yelling at mackid tire the for like a solid five minutes in a very
profanity-laced anger first well i wouldn't have heard it because by the time i they would have
bleeped it all out no no this was completely independent mackid tire reposted it today oh wow
and you know what i dig it yeah you know and did you notice did you say something on raw that i
said i'm sorry i need you to repeat that question i was not prepared for what you just said
he said something on raw that made me go we did it first
because a certain chant hit his ears when he hit the ring
you're gonna have to tell me i missed it you're damn right i deserve it
we did it first that's that was my reaction we did it first
yeah um but that was a great moment i very much enjoyed it i thought it was fun
you think i mean mackid tire do you think he's cool with that whole thing with the booking on that
he had to be i think he i think he sees the money
i mean it's this is going to be i still don't know that i think that that title rematch happens
with priest before backlash um probably or or mackid tire moves this mackdown what does it do
well that's you know because he did he kind of got robbed of his WrestleMania moment
goes to covid and now he finally gets the title at mania and he does the thing
do you think that was the right move do you think he i know they may say what do you think about
this do you think in real life he was cool with the booking or do you think i got to take it because
i'm getting a paycheck even though i don't like it Alex yeah i think that drew mackid tire is
far too intelligent to have an issue with this because there's two ways about it
number one he did get his win in front of a crowd including his wife who he got to hold the belt
number two that will be remembered far more than just winning the title number three
he knows that the big money fight is with punk and you don't need a title for that and that's
the kind of program people remember and talk about okay and the way the story is told
it's real simple if he doesn't hang out and run his mouth he doesn't lose his title
because if you get hit that's the profanity laced woman yeah if he if he takes the title and
just goes backstage he might still have it but because he chose to run his mouth at punk
when he's running his mouth at punk and push punk to the point where punk knocks him out
well that's why you had the belt for five minutes and forty you get a picture of this i want it
framed yeah that was funny that made me go i did pop it uh
snoop on commentary it's snoop my favorite go ahead my favorite one liner from that was
this is my new favorite thing a wwe hall of favor who doesn't understand wrestling or what moves
are doing commentary snoop you do whatever he wants i'm good with it he's that is fair
bubble ray as your special guest rep for the street fight very much enjoyed that
of not a great street fight but it was enough to kind of get us ready for the next thing it was a
good breather yeah and it gave us a break from just consecutive regular matches of a j's theme got
remixed oh he's been teasing a new theme altogether for about a month and a half now i don't
you know how land for me well and you know how i feel about theme songs where the person talks at
the beginning of it outside of book or tea hmm not a fan the music the music speaks the music
that's what the music's supposed to do uh we got to talk about the golf cart
god bless you Kevin Owens god bless you Kevin Owens first of all him explaining the t-shirt on
smackdown was just pure joy for me okay i was angry at Logan Paul for spoiling that set for me
early but my favorite part of that golf cart and i i test out me if i'm gonna steal your thunder
no not at all is him driving all the way to the ring to realize oh wait Randy's still back there
and he walks really slow so i have to go and the exchange was like no get on and he's like
yeah i was like no get on the golf cart come on like there's there was one piece of that missing and i
don't think Randy trusted him or whatever they should have had a belly brace which is what you would
use in some of those jerk circumstances so he could just do the pose the entire way and just stay
there like the reverse of a hood ornament and for those you wondering what we're talking about that's
that's what jaden then used on Saturday night because they were on that platform so basically the
the thing Randy was holding on to it would have been behind him with like a belt that he could put
around him so that there's it stabilizes jade and neomi uh and bianca actually had that that was a
cool entrance to by the way uh you know what there was one thing that spoiled that for me though
they had a bad angle and you could see the lights right through and i'm like yeah just a
basic scissor lift underneath it all right still cool um the pop up power bomb into the rko
it's not the curb stomp but dear god it's close
that was a great that that was that was a fun match better than it had to be as well
uh although somebody tell speed he needs to not say certain things or yeah and i think i know he's
not the brightest but well i also think they didn't pull the pins on that table so he landed on it
just to say hey welcome to our friend uh let's see uh and new ww women's champion in bayley
in a good match uh really good storytelling i thought in that match really enjoyed that as well
uh i did stumble on the main event win but i'm really glad i was able to avoid everything
leading up to it normally a match booked like that annoys me same but the way they did it
i was just like you know what i am enjoying this i and i purposely stopped peacock
right before kody's entrance because i was watching that in my office i'm like the rest of this
i want to watch on my big screen it's fair and i'm glad because uh and for those of you that are
wondering kody's mask was made by the same people who made the fiend mask which i thought was cool
i i did have notes on that mask go ahead it should have had the paint like the tattoo if they
wanted to sell the fact that it was the tattoo they should have not left it as just a plain white
skull i thought it looked cool and brandy very thankful of the pop she got when she walked out
did you see what they what uh i didn't see the picture up what it was but kody got a special
presentation this past weekend that i think he would be very interested in i am not aware of this
they prevented him with a special pharaoh edition of the game nice there there was a fan
makeup of that so yeah i there was a tweet but i couldn't click on the video but yeah apparently
they did that for him nice i thought you would very much enjoy that uh but that match was literally
everything but the kitchen sink and it all worked like there was no like okay we just did that
to do that like it all worked into the story which i thought was really really the booking and did
that match was brilliantly booked in my opinion i very much enjoyed that match
yeah big shout out to michael haze and bobby rude for booking that yep great job by them
it was it what do what bobby rude booked that one with michael haze he produced he produced
both main events both i do not know i don't know bobby rude and it's on that one
yeah i know yeah you've been working as a producer now for three or four months at least and
that yeah i i read that the next day and was like wow let's go bobby well and the the only other part
about that was people being like oh i thought stone cold was showing up like and the rumors that he
was supposed to be the undertaker spot and i'm like it kind of works better with taker to me yep
and with both of them disappearing afterwards too clearing the way for the end of that match and
it was a true back and forth it was it was it was even for as long as it went i very much enjoyed it
i thought it was well done i thought the celebration after was great uh did you see the video of
hamin and roman at the top of the ramp i read that i said yeah that that was that pulled at the
heartstrings but it made me wonder one of two things is roman done is he full blown hollywood at
this point or is this just one of those that they know that this is the end of that chapter oh i
know that he's taking time off what they didn't say for how long he and Seth both are
and for those of you playing the only thing when you think he'll be back though
oh i have a book i have a fantasy booking that la will hate and i know because i told him
well one thing i i uh i found out on that him calling out triple h and brewed
furniture after the match yeah that was that was not scripted that was no prompt you
but that's also part of this new era they're establishing because if it if it was somebody else
back there it wouldn't have happened but there would have been oh yeah we said no they would have cut
the beat it wouldn't have happened before now with triple h he actually you know he allowed
and i thought that's cool that he did that you know and he actually came out but you know that's
kind of a prompt to and i think you know they're talking about the new new era and stuff like that
who know you know i didn't i didn't know that that was like not scripted but that was really
cool that even triple h did come down you know um Ricardo asked a very valid question i did not cry
but i got uh got a little i did to get a little emotional because i thought it was the story was
really well-called and for those of you wondering now you're you're currently your longest reigning men's
champ champion is Logan Paul at 159 days which is crazy no everybody else is less than fine
to now get Roman question i definitely cried there there was there was waterworks no doubt
did Roman beat um Hogan's record no it would have had to go on three other days yeah okay
so now that it's happened great the card boys and we're going to run a little over tonight
for WrestleMania um a minus for WrestleMania a minus for a plea i would say a plus
Alex i had really high hopes with the a ahead of time and i don't want to say it disappointed me
but it wasn't as solid so i agree with dawn on the a minus as a mania but as a plea this is a good
jumping on point for a new storytelling with the new era i'd still stick with a solid a as a show
in general i said b plus going into it because i was being cautiously optimistic i can't say a plus
but i can think about it a lot definitely a solid a best overall mania in my opinion since they've
gone to two nights uh fantastic from beginning to end i i am still exhausted uh just after watching
everything i mean literally for the last four days i've been watching television from a time i
got up until the time i went to bed outside of having meetings uh Ricardo says a a minus and an a
i think that's probably about right although i did i light night one a little bit better night two
had more surprises uh but all overall very much enjoyed mania this year a lot of fun very rewatchable
as well uh raw after mania i love triple h we had to bootleg it a little bit and apparently
and Ricardo reached out to me the other day and this is going to be the set for a while and i'm okay
with it i like this set uh Ricardo and i also talked about this i don't believe it is actually going
to be i think that's one of those reports we're going to get something between the larger tron
and this so they're still going to be an entryway but they are definitely going to be prioritizing
ticket sales scale it back yeah because you sell more tickets because you don't have the big screen
up there um uh that Cody tribute was amazing loved it oh my god okay that made me cry harder than
the win not even joking and i feel like there needs to be an asterisk on something uh oh
so you can say all day long 201 924 people i think the actual terminology should be
we sold 201 924 tickets i'd say what you're doing there because unique humans
would mean you emptied out the arena and put a whole new group of people in there which we all
know they didn't right we can all say first hand that they didn't
i think you can say 201 924 tickets sold now snoop dog snooping sneaking a 420 in there in his count
was a bit of a different thing but yeah i mean still 201 thousand almost 202 thousand tickets
that's still impressive well and they don't have to just specifically say tickets they can get
cutesy with it in some way they could say 201 that are 211 thousand people coming through turn
styles or turn style turns or something of its ill i also noticed something and Alex keep me
honest on this i'll try when we went to the super store that was a quote on quote ticketed event
but you didn't have to pay to get in correct oh no you had to pay to get in oh what's it because
i saw when they were talking about tickets on sale now i'm like i don't think it's select at
select times you had to pay to get in okay okay fair enough of the live market share shot looked
a little stiff she might have aimed a little high on that well i think with they're getting more
familiar with the tossed chair not having the conclusive impact and they're just seeing what they
can do and let's be honest she was probably told to hit real with a chair and rea said you know
go for the head let's do oh Brian's checking in hey brother's good to see uh but again overall
a great weekend um i don't really want to talk about dynamite because that's
people have beaten that whole thing into the ground and i'm kind of done with it um
it went down to my last night yeah yes it's it's just trust me don't it's not what we're talking about
okay i think it's the big big thing everybody's causing a ruckus over it's just it's a non story in my
opinion oh i think i think it's one of the more hilarious things i've seen and that's not just
because i've always been on team punk yeah so but again an overall great weekend for the sport
of professional wrestling this is the reason i love mania and i want to say thank you to everybody
that really went out of their way to not spoil things for me because it really helped me enjoy the
weekend the things i stumbled on i just stumbled on that were you know when bob and tom were talking
about it and it was briefly but i heard of wrestle mania pause i'm not listening any further
it's i just love i love our sport you know i want to add something in about the
whole if i was triple h and this is the quote new era sure this is what i would do
say this is how it's going to be from now on for bottom and charge or whatever number one is friday
night smackdown it's just a hall of fame smackdown is a hall of fame only yeah come in i agree
there that's a long night for people that have not been through it yeah and that way it still
gives prominence with the stage but our smackdown yeah done uh before you get too far into this i
kind of have a a a request or an idea on this yeah should we because we're going to have a lot of
downtime between mania and the next thing should we tease the idea when we're doing a more full show
since we're already running really late each of us come up with ideas what we would have in this new
era because i love that idea done yeah but i want to have more time to talk on it than just
okay negative five minutes yes in for another show yeah no but yeah and they will all contribute
on that one but don yeah your your EP credit on that segment i got a couple other things which i
think would you know and let's yeah let's have a talk we have more time because i don't know about
your work from tired but again a great weekend of professional wrestling of i'm ready for 41
but you got one other question how long does kody keep the time
so i'm gonna let's save that for next week let's get through okay let's get through and get to next
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