Special Edition WWE Battleground 2015

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going to be a battleground. That's all I got. It's not very good, but it's okay. But I'm
not alone for this particular episode. Joining me across the desk as he tends to do is
my co-host. And a man that's got his own little hot box over there on the corner. He is
Chad. Welcome, sir. I'm waiting for Samuel O. Jackson to come up here to let me out to
this thing. It's July. It's Texas. It's ball me in here. Also joining me across the desk
as the official fact checker of this show. And a man who is moving up in the world. You
may know I'm his fun Don Go, but his mom and even Don Ford. I'm going to call him
Don Ford. Welcome, sir. Two weeks from tomorrow, baby. Oh, wow. We have another. I got another
mic ready to go here. Next to Don. One of our special guests for the evening.
And a man who's displayed on social media that was almost 120 degrees in his car today. He
is L.A. Welcome, sir. Yo. Yo. Yo. What's up? On July 10. Wow. And also joining
us next to him just made his way into the studio friend of the show. And a man who also
moving up in the world with a new ride. He is Steven Zimmerman. Welcome, sir. I'm having
a wonderful, wonderful, two-month span. And I'm very thankful for everyone who's been
involved in some form and other. You're including you gentlemen who are all in this room
right now. Hey, and you're, I mean, we're new little good new car. Yeah, I'm busy. I'm real
busy. I'm just, I flew from Frisco just to just now. And boy, you're arm's tired.
Yeah. That's what you guys win. It is the official non official pre-show for WWE
Battleground, which starts in 56 minutes live on the WWE network or people that actually
have it still on paper view. I feel bad for you. Since this is the pre-show, it
will be wrestling intensive. But first, we're going to go to any corrections and boy, do
we have corrections. Last week was a little bit rough. As Don pointed out, the walking
dead is on AMC not A&E. Kelly Rowland will be luscious lion's mom on Empire.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Kelly Rowland. Yeah, luscious. Kelly Rowland is joining the
cast of Empire this year. To be the mom of someone. The lion apparently is the last name
of the family. Yeah, luscious lion. That's what that's what I read is Territ Howard's character.
Maybe there's something else going on there. Maybe there's a flashback. And Tyreys Gibbs
it also will be joining the cast. Do you watch it? Do you watch it? Yeah, do you watch it?
Yeah, do you watch it? Yeah, do you watch it? Yeah, do you watch it? Yeah, do you watch it?
Yeah, do you watch it? I know how they are, but you and I haven't talked about it. Don't
make it a black or white thing you jack. Upon further review, Ken Stable are not in
the football Hall of Fame. Really? He is not in the Hall of Fame. The Maristza
Tell a main movie you were thinking of was spare parts that I was thinking of.
Somebody was like, what was the movie we saw with her earlier this year? It was spare parts.
What me? You were actually thinking of a movie called the rewrite.
Yeah, what did I call it? You couldn't remember the name of it. Okay. The user
called it the writer or something. Yeah. And Don, the movie that you mentioned was
loitering with intent, not loitering on the internet.
What's my great credit? Just keep some coming in. Nathan Petrelli was Iron Man,
Peter Petrelli was a Wolverine. That backwards backwards. And Shyamalan only truly did
only direct the first episode of Wayward Pines. Almost every episode that shows how
to different director. And speaking of, do the 10 show series is not enough. And they are
rushing that thing. But they hit an episode five. It's like when he got out, that's
where they killed. No, that's where I kicked it up big. But that means they killed the
whole point of it going further. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Now that we've got all the
corrections out of the way. And it took, you know, almost two and a half minutes. Let's
get into the week that was at our sports. One match that will not be on the card tonight
is your intercontinental title match right back. Rush to the hospital this week for a
staff infection. I thought the show was on man. What happened with that? If Dave
Grohl was icy champion, he would have cast on. And he would be in a, there's a
big difference there. A staff infection is not something that you want out there
because that's something that can be contagious. Yeah. Staff infection can tell you. If
Daniel Bryan can go down and now I see belt is everywhere else. Then so can
ride back. He needs to lose. I'm just saying Zach Roger still on the roster. Now
they're also. But there is talk now of replacing that match with, and actually
we'll get, there, there were possibly replacing with another match, but I want to
wait till after raw talk because it's going to tie into raw talk. Guys, uh, heavily
advertised for tomorrow night's raw.
Yeah. Well, but they're talking, the rumor is the match we thought would happen
at WrestleMania 32 may happen next month at SummerSlam. I've heard different things
so where might be sting and Wyatt at SummerSlam. I'm okay with that. Yeah. Yeah,
that there's, well, we'll see that for the prediction right happens later with
the Wyatt match. I'm sorry, maybe I was on the rock. I thought sting was gone. No,
but the thing with sting is he's kind of just, he's head. They need to work. I'll work.
But we don't, we kind of have an open-ended agreement. Now there is a brand new sting DVD
coming out this fall that I read about today that's all about the events in his life leading
up to WrestleMania 31. So I'm kind of interested in how that's going to be. I see more of
sting on DVDs and I see sting and ring. I don't have a problem with that. There's only
one match. So, but they're also talking about Undertaker's opponent for WrestleMania 32 being a
Lesnar rematch. No, and now he'll talk. Why? I see it from both sides. No, why?
Take her gets the win back. So it's, it's, it's gone. And it's his last match. Against,
against, lastner, but let him get the win back retire that way. I see it from both sides.
But who else are you going to put him up against? A man called sting. But if you do that next month,
why do we do it in WrestleMania? There's, okay, I'm going to break it. It's spoiler it in three,
two, one. He's going to get involved in the Wyatt match tonight. That's going to be White and
Sting at Summerslam. We'll see. That's one thing I've been here in motivation for that. Why not?
Because Sting is the light of the Zarp. That's heavy.
And I don't be a better, better thing. I think what Sting to use that way, then have
manual take her. And Jesse Sornson, if we remember him from TNA, he worked in NXT match this week.
Oh, they got with the neck. Yeah, that was the, that was the, that was the, that was the Zima.
I owned the Zima, but he worked in match with NXT this week.
Okay, I may have been able to rock again for this one. Where's Joe?
We haven't heard anything out of Joe since he showed up. He's wrestling in, uh, right now. He's wrestling in San Antonio against Keith Lee.
Well, no, he did it last night, but Sumo Joe was in San Antonio. Oh, was he?
Under what promotion? Just to any promotion? Yeah, he's, his contract say, so he can still do it with any
days. He could do this. He could do his 30, his 30 days. Talk right straight into a suit. His 30 days. Yeah.
He could do his 30 days, um, that he signed up previously. They allowed it. He's granted it because he
wasn't on the main roster yet. He was still on NXT. He's had, it was the last time he, has he
made an NXT match? He just beat people. Just the one where he injured Tyson Kim, I think, was his last
one. Was that a actual match or was that a dark match to, uh, is it, it was a superstars?
All right, let's talk garage, gentlemen. Let's go.
As, if did everybody watch raw this week outside of Chad? Yes, you know.
You miss probably one of the greatest segments on Raw in six months. Yeah. Oh, we're talking
about the divins. The divins thing. Oh, I saw that. That was amazing. Yeah. Oh, I want this to stick
around for a little while. But, but the weird thing for me was, it doesn't really help the
Stephanie heel heat thing. No. Are we having her work face in this deal? You know, what they've
been putting Stephanie into a lot of voice stuff lately. Yeah. It's scary with that was weird to me.
It was cool. But it was weird because I was like, isn't she supposed to be heel? Oh, before,
I mean, you think about it before Rawland's got pushed as the main heel. Like, who was more of a
heel than Stephanie at the time? Because last year, if you had her talk, that was, that was money.
That was pure. Oh, yeah. The boo birds were out in the force. But, uh, and somebody did ask
Sasha why she didn't have the NXT women's belt, whether on Monday night. And she said,
about she didn't want to get caught on the edge or something. I didn't know. That's what Sasha said.
On Twitter. No, like the edge, we're going to talk about it here in a while. But, but what I had never
seen Charlotte's finisher before, how she takes to figure four. And then she, she like almost
stands up on it and bridges it back to figure eight. That was cool. That was all, what way to take
your old man's finisher and just kind of upgraded a little bit. I agree. And then we had the,
another appearance by this guy. So Mark Kenries face again. Mark Henry's almost getting as bad as
Alicia Fox. It's like, I'm heel one week. I'm facing another week. But Mark Henry's, I think,
has some relationship with prime time players. Because if you recall, when he was really doing his heel
heat, yeah, prime time players was like back and love the push they're getting. I love the push
they're getting. No, no, no. It's too much face though. It's like tone it down to be it.
They're having fun. Where's Abraham? I watched it.
Tangram and Colorado. I'm going to. I don't know. I could have sworn we talked about this before,
but maybe I'm wrong. Hasn't JBL referred to the new day as the Gleebirds before?
I know. I cannot read. I can never keep over JBL commentary because he's like Donald Trump one week
and then he's bifurcle the next. Yeah, you ain't lying, brother. But I didn't think that was funny.
Call them the Gleebirds. And I wonder if they're not making with this whole art truth. Oh, God.
I think I wonder if they're not making any Burger King references in reverence to lawler
because everybody called lawler that for so long. You know what? It's probably not right to say,
but I think I'm ready for our truth to retire. No, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, I am.
Thank you. For at least get higher this gimmick. Give me. What's the pleasure seeing you over our truth any day?
Yeah, if it when he comes out and said he's gonna be in the latter match and goes oops, my bad.
Okay, they had one funny joke out of his 16 year career. You can't lie though, like I like the
much when when he was kid crushed in our truth and Ron killings and he was putting on the best matches in the early millennium and stuff.
And they didn't make him a stupid gimmick like think of truth in TNA bring him over to here. What did they do to them?
They basically just like the what's up what they made. I mean, it's Vince McMahon kind of he has a watered him down.
I would say it's watered out but Vince has a thing with African American characters.
That's so good. He's not even healed. He's not even current John Cena's more current than he is with hip-hop.
And you know, I hate to give John Cena to me. I know anything.
And he's time you reference whoop there it is. I haven't issued it to you.
And let me say something. They gave almost 30 minutes to that triple threat.
Hey, that triple threat was awesome.
And that triple threat missed that if he's saying Kevin Owens versus Cesaro versus Rusev.
Yeah, all I'm saying is if people who want you know everyone's on this Kevin Owens thing and that's cool.
But Kevin Owens still does not even lace Cesaro's boots.
Sorry, but the last two weeks they've actually let us see that and that's the brilliance of it.
And Cesaro has probably been the most underutilized talent.
And I'll say he should be as a heal. He should be in the main event picture some way like he could talk.
Just let him talk. No, let's talk. He's a face now, though. He's a tweeter actually.
He's kind of tweening. I mean, I mean, I'm no one's better than Cesaro in the WWE right now.
You can bring Joe up. He still is not better than Cesaro.
He's been that way since he's been in the main. He's been basically in the main event the last two
Rawls running. Right. So they're finally they're finally getting him what I think is the recognition he deserves.
Is that triple threat was amazing? He's like a hard-nosed style like he was like strong body
Hard-nosed style of Lance Storm. If you can like picture that because Lance Storm was just an indeed Malinco.
There were just wizards in the ring, but there weren't that size. They weren't that strong. You throw them like seen a string.
And the mic was kryptonite to both of them. Yeah, not to get off subject, but is I think I just brain farted my whole thought.
Easy kill. What that wheel come from. Keep it going. I'll get it back. Okay, and I don't know if you guys noticed during that
when the fins were chaining tap. There were fans in the front row that as they were chaining tap were actually slapping the the safety rail at the same time.
I was like, okay, I'll give respect to that. Not a bad raw this week. Since they took away Orton has Orton came back kind of
me
I think Randy is finally at the point where he's like, look, I'll finish out my career. I think Randy Orton is phasing
himself out of the company. I don't want him to phase out as is a face though. That's not who that's not a diaper.
All of his nicknames that are not happy things at all. The Viper strike first and not a venom and the legend killer.
Yeah, come on. He has no nicknames that makes him a face. He's a pressure guy. He's a guy when someone gets
dropped that they're pushing. They throw him in because they think he's like, you know, the interchangeable part of
But it's a fair point, but he's better. So when you put him in that line like you when you gave him the belt, what did we see?
Gold heel heat with him. You saw everything you need to see with him. He's a pressure guy. And he hears voices in his head.
You they did that with evolution. They gave him the icy totabelt and threw him against McFoly where he was if you're genius.
He should have got you know what we know. It messed him up. It's not getting the gold sparkles back at the beginning of the entrance round.
That's what ruined it for him because he would have stayed great.
Sorry, LA, the conspiracy theorist of our show. The gold sparkles. That's what's doing it.
The gold sparkles. No news. It's fault. It is. Don't you?
And it's with anything initially.
Okay. So interesting. We're going to switch gears right now and do a little bit of impact wrestling talk.
Do we have to? Yes, we do.
Interesting situation with Hernandez this week. We talked last week on the show that
There were some problems where they were having to edit a lot of the BDC content that had already been taped.
No, we didn't talk about this. Oh, no, we didn't talk about it. Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me here.
You noticed last week on impact. They took an entire segment and showed the Magnus
No disqualification. Exactly. Here's why that happened. They had taped a bunch of BDC stuff.
But what TNT and A gets a call from Lucha Underground going hold on. He's still under contract with us.
After Hernandez had told TNA that no, well, I'm good. I'm done with my contract with them.
You can sign me we can get this thing rolling. Apparently he was it. He was still under contract with TNA.
So everything they taped with the BDC had to be edited completely out.
Because he was under contract with Lucha Underground, which is why you had what you had this week.
Super TNA is on book. Correct. Today, today we find out MVP has left the company.
Which most people are saying is because of the Hernandez incident. My personal feeling is
I think he realizes that this is it and he's getting out while the getting still live in a pretty good.
Yeah, I say he shows up at rumble. It gets his little 15 minutes of WWE sparkle again and hotspots to Japan.
I mean, that's just, that's just the spot where to go. He's not going to MVP. Yeah.
But dude, that show was, oh my god. But that's part of the reason. It was hate show when it was terrible.
How do you not edit it correctly? And it's, hey, because it's TNA.
Because it's TNA. Because there was no, and now they're working with the video production coming. That's run by the Bashum brothers.
So figure that one out. Sure. Yeah, they read their own production.
We got Hyden Reich and stuff also back there like a no name. Kurt Engel was rushed to the hospital this week after
Labored breathing and numbness and his body following the surgery where they removed the tumor from his neck.
What they found was there was build up a fluid in his spinal cord, which it, which can be a risk from that kind of surgery.
He's doing better now. But now we don't, yeah, well, because if this truly is it, you will never see him on impact resting again.
Right. So that's, that's tough to swallow. Because man, I'll say it is a low breath heart.
But the greatest in ring rest level time is that man. But they made him into, they made him into just a
Brock Lesnar of today. Yeah, you know, to this soup like soup list. That's not who Engel is.
He was in Jerry. But those wars were Jared and AJ. Oh my god. You know, you want to talk the best match ever saw live.
Technically, he was been why in Engel, WrestleMania say, hey, hey, you don't mention that.
Yeah, we don't. Yeah, we don't. Yeah, we don't be. He never went into the world with a man. Who is that?
Management currently telling some of the destination or some of the talent that the destination America deal is done.
It is they are going to get canceled at the end of Q3. Apparently what they're telling people is that the overseas money can
carry them until a new domestic TV deal was done. And oh my god, network is going to pick them up.
DIY. But Vixie is saying that there's a big bound for glory announcement coming for next week.
You're assuming bound for glory is going to happen. Dude. And why is this whole big thing about
them teasing the Hall of Fame inductee? You said it three weeks ago. It's going to be Jared,
who should have been your original Hall of Fame inductee. Oh, what is TNT and they is the worst wrestling company.
Dixie Joe. Dixie is a moron. Dixie just thinks that she knows everything.
And you guys know me. I am a very, very proud fan of TNA, but over the last two years.
So you're on the six of them getting it's getting harder. It's getting harder to defend.
I have DVDs in my living room of Raven versus Rhino and AJ Styles versus Christopher Daniels versus Joe.
And then since she versus Sanjay, it's stuff like that. And I'm still saying they missed a golden opportunity.
They missed a golden DVD opportunity of not putting that best of five series of beer money
and the goal, the momentary city machine guns on a DVD. And I even tweeted that straight to Dixie.
Dude. I'm like, how do you not? Those were five of some of the best matches I've seen in the last 20 years.
I see why everybody's leaving. And I see why they carried up and got the bill on the golden boy before they
got out of here. Well, let's talk about impact itself. Dixie's speech at the beginning.
She makes Stephanie McMahon look like Sally Field. This promo was so bad. I was like,
you may as well have just had to script in your hand while you were reading it. It was set up to be
bad last the week before. And then like, how can you say things are surprises when you tape
three weeks ago, three weeks in advance? Now Chad, I don't know if you know, but Dixie's brought
a new lawman in a town that's going to run things. Okay. He's back. And he's signed full time.
What? Full time for what? The next three months. Yeah, for the next three months.
You were, I mean, I liked that pop. I liked the bubbles. I liked the bubbles promo. It was
better than hers. That's why I felt the scars back then. Well, I think it's the other way around.
I think she signed and he followed. Yeah. One or two. But I love the rain. But it's a very
difficult line you walk when this happens on impact. And then an interview comes out Thursday
where you're saying you don't know why you and your brother haven't been called by WWE for another run.
Because debate it. Both of them are in the best shape. They've been in a decade.
Especially, he was at the rumble. If you anyone saw the rumble, he had the last pop, which could have been
and they could as Jericho, like that could have, outside of the Jericho, one for two years ago.
The Jericho could have done a legend still with the guy. You're at least something after the rumble.
I mean, WWE had the chance to get the guy. Well, who's hurt from the Wyatt brothers, like
Rowan, Rowan. Give it time. Yeah. But you know what, next due to vote. Next due to vote. I want to play.
I want to play LA for a minute and do my conspiracy theory. Yo. What if Bubba Ray leads the next invasion angle?
Yeah, that would be the top of it. Are you talking WWE in vain? Yes. Okay. First of all,
what? You don't have an attitude error-ish WWE yet for that to be major yet. No, but you have a
crap ton of great in-ring talent on TNA still that you messed up the first time. Well, you realize
who all they've lost since slamming a version. Everybody. Yeah. Magnus is out. James Storm is out.
But it's the people WWE put faith in previously, like Drew McIntyre. Matt Hardy. How about
him getting a title shot on Wednesday night? Derek Bateman, aka EC3. You have a chance. Vince already
knows these guys. So there he's like, all right, you know your TV deals going out in about three
four months. We know we can purchase that. We can give you some airtime. Don't worry about it.
Then we have Bubba Ray who we've just currently worked with over there. You bring everyone over.
And then you really get that talent. It's kind of like they had their own developmental system
from far away. Right. And then they'll go. That's somebody else pay for it. They're like, okay,
let's let's go. And I really enjoyed. I really enjoyed that battle royale for what it was and
Drew and Drew Galilee wins to get the title shot. Why not? I love that. I love the angle of that.
But I'm thinking you already have three hours that you're doing. You're going to have about
all these top talents you're trying to show that you're grooming your grass rooting talent. How can
you do NXT merging into that and then take DNA? Well, see, that was my concern. That was my concern
with raw and I meant to say this ring raw talk. With them moving all those divas across, what is
that due for your NXT women's division? That worries me. Right. Because I think you're robbing
from peer to PayPal. Yeah. Nope. So here's the idea. All right, what did they do in Japan?
They had a house show televised on the network. Oh, well, two weeks ago, the piece of these. They have three
house shows going on at the same time in different cities. Televised one of the other ones each week
with different talent. So it's almost like you still are on the main roster but doing house shows.
And then you have a way to have all these women that you have groom them. You could put them on a
house show or have hell. Even like on the Thursday night or like a Wednesday night,
women's Wednesdays wrestling or something and just let all the divas do it out for two hours or an hour
and a half. Which, Tanya, tried to do early this year when you were going to do your total knockouts
episode and you do that. Yeah. You can do that. It's half the time they have the network which,
you know, can really get a float if they start putting products on it to watch regularly. Right.
Now they have just a bunch of like DVD vault stuff and then they have a bunch of old paper views.
And then, you know, they have like two series that takes like two weeks to get an episode of on.
But if you're doing these live streams like this three, four times a week, you got, you got financial
growth with your, with your network. And then you also have more products out there for people
to watch and you have all the talent doing something. But, but again, the index, there's still
trying to push NXT ratings and they're having a tough time with that. Now you want to take over the
whole week. These TV shows and these and Netflix and everything, everybody's volume right now for
spots on prime time TV, let alone. They have their own. They need to put NXT on a cable channel
but they're doing it right because your next step is to do it what they're doing. Take it on a
national tour before you take it off the network and put it on broadcast television. You got to
make sure it's viable across the country. And that's smart. Right. I just don't think they have enough
and put it on Friday night. So there's no night for, uh, I love the idea.
Can I not compete with the WWE? I love the invasion idea. Love it, but you're going to have to
do like you did with the WCW and you got to pick the litter of which ones you want to make it
in the WWE. And get rid of the bell, let's see. Who do you think's the first person they signed?
Storm. Jeff Hardy. He's still the highest paid wrestler in wrestling today because of TNA.
Well, but, but, but, but Jeff's contract's not up yet, though. No, that's what I'm saying. When
I'm thinking of the guys that are currently out there. I think Storm's the first character side.
Maybe Magnus. Because Magnus has finally started to come with AJ Styles leave it, you know,
you're going to honor the AJ still a risk, I think. And by the way, congratulations,
ring of honor. They're 200 episodes this weekend. And I'll like you. You talk about your blog.
Because I want you to commit to our, our, our OH. I really didn't follow our each because I didn't
really see it or have access to it. That show did what you kind of talked in the blog saying,
here's some history. Here's some past stuff. Here's what's kind of going on. Yeah, that's
some of their 200 episodes. Yeah, they're trying to, you know, I think they did that one right.
And that's, that's why I've been watching it for so many years back in TNA. And now we can actually
watch it again. Yeah, and so I'm going to take away. So let's say, way for you to segue.
Dude, Tigray. Oh, we're not to Tigray, you know, yet. Oh, we're not there. You know, because I got to
do my racking on Josh Matthews. Um, you ever, you're bragging on Josh? No, my racking on Josh
me. I'm sorry. Um, first of all, Josh Matthews. Did you say you were live at ringside, but when they
cut to you, you're in this studio. Yes. Yes. Yes. And if you're going to do the studio thing,
at least plug wires into the monitors. So it looks like you're actually watching the product
and tell Pope to take the sunglasses off because there's nothing reflecting in them. But I love
and then you have that piece of black electrical tape over the del logo, which is raised up from
the monitor that you can still see anyway. But I love it. It's like dude, try this is not a music video
in the 90s. Go to the Michael Cole school. Do you have a rock casting or what? Do you remember
all those music videos in the 90s where you'd have like a wired mic on a stand and they were
treating it like a wireless mic and you can see the XLR prongs coming out of it. Come on, man,
try. But I love Pope, though. I love Pope. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy his commentary, but
it's the little things, man. I'm hating him almost as much as Michael. You know what? No,
I kind of like the little Josh Matt. And another note, another note to Josh Matthews,
a Hall of Fame class consists of more than one person, even the even the graphic read in
Duck D. Singular, not plural. Even Montana, they have three people graduating in the class every
year. Happy three, but it's more than one. This is working without a net, okay? He's working
without a brain. He's all he can't shake his WWE rules, okay? And I, I championed this guy when
he first came in and then he went on nutso and I was like, dude, what are you doing?
Because he's trying to be the voice burning the bridge. He's burning the bridge and he's
probably going to have to try to walk back across. He's making Michael Cole look like
our buttercrunk guy. I don't know. You're not ever put Michael Cole, Walter Clark,
I understand. You kind of have to, in this point of Josh Matthews, that's bad. Okay, so yeah,
work, but not walk the clock stick in guys. Now let's talk about the exhibition map or
extra isn't match. When did the color of the belt change? Oh, yeah, this, this the Josh
Matthews made a nice statement when they had that division. It was a show after what's the
paper view after Slime of Versailles? No, the one where the destination has? Yes, the show after
Josh Matthews opened up the show saying, oh, we're going to have a new extra vision champion.
It's the same belt that's just green. Yeah, Dixie says you want to be green with envy.
Yeah, that happened. And by the way, I wasn't a bad match. Why do we need tea great Uno
releasing a statement about Donald Trump this food? That was a horrible match because tea great Uno
can't even hit his own finisher. He's misted every time he's done it. Who's better,
ever since they moved yeah, well, I'm in on the lucha dragons. I'm in. I love them.
Teague ring Uno needs to get fired and sent to tag with the original
thing car in the worst wrestling Federation championship. Except we're not going to talk with
the with Ray Mysterio as your GM. Yeah. Oh, wow. Brook is your new knockout champion, but I knew
that three weeks ago. Yeah, that was a tough, that was a tough match to watch. That was trash. Oh,
and I'll tell you what more than normal last week their pumped in crowd music is so badly done.
Like you're here. Right. Every person that's on camera is just standing there. Right. Like,
oh, so the crowd noises coming from TV side. I'm standing there. They're sitting there. It is so
badly edited. Oh, yeah, it's like it. And let's let's go back four weeks.
Smartest man alive. I called that Eli Drake heel turn a month ago before.
That's the first thing I thought about what had happened. I said, boy, he's right again. Why? Why do we?
Why do we need to do that? I like the rising stuff. I really did. And especially when BDC is over,
what's the point now? That was a great feud. Well, I can't control now.
Sure. Well, I did use great impact in the same sentence. Um,
congratulations to the country of Malaysia. What the? Okay. They now have the network.
Did you give us an ending? I don't think they're running. So there's that. Love the music.
I love this song. I just had to put it in there. Oh, stop. Seriously. Whatever said that I'm that. You're
welcome. Oh, so fans of the flash, which I don't know. Are you caught up?
I've watched. I'm like two of them. The villain Adam smasher joins the cast this year and will be played by this man.
I'm hoping that the awesome. Is this the original? This is a very original. Yeah.
My wife had a big crush on him. My wife loved Edge and she goes, I was totally out when he started talking.
When he was quiet, I thought he was gorgeous and start talking. I was out. But he's going to be
joining the flash this year. So congratulations Mr. Copeland. Let's see. Interesting thing that we're
hearing about the down of the smack, which I got the new theme song, by the way. There's a lot of
people are calling it right now. They're calling it what they're calling a lame duck show because with
the move to USA in January, a lot of people are feeling that on the sci-fi thing that at WWE
just mailing it in. I'm like, welcome to the last five years on that show. Five. When SmackDown
is being turned into a raw recap show, if you take out the recaps, SmackDown's about an hour
long. It bit this the wrong way when Paul Hayman took SmackDown and it made it so popular.
That's a great interview. That last interview he had with Stone Cold that wasn't on the
network that what he did from that rooftop in LA, when he was like, look, yeah, we took it to
mode. We were killing raw on the righty. Yeah, and that that that rug Vince the wrong way. He
almost wanted to kill SmackDown, but couldn't do it as a business man, but man, he did everything
in his power to at least make it unrelive it, like not relevant at all. Yeah. Come on now.
And we also found out this week, NXT takeover in Brooklyn the night before summer slam is sold out.
So congratulations to NXT. Dusion Thunder Lager will appear. I know. I saw that and I lost it.
I was like, good to take it. Dude, he's so he's still got it. He's watching him on ROH.
When they when they do the the the new Japan crossovers, that dude still got it. He, uh, he's amazing.
Still like he's 50 57 and he he works like he's, you know, 35, 36 well-rounded still got it going.
He just he doesn't he doesn't. He doesn't tamper with the ropes nearly as much. That's the only thing I know.
Just but he's still very loose. Yeah. His grapples are very like crisp with every very scientific.
Amazing. Uh, just one note on SmackDown for Cesaro. You missed that upper cut by a mile and a half.
Absolutely. It's like Frenchy has trainer on that. Wow. That was bad. But it still was a good match with
him and Rusev. I very much enjoyed that. And it's still was way better than everything that TNA put out that same.
I can't debate that. And then you're going to get more of it because with them,
editing out all the BDC stuff, you're going to get more slam a verse reading.
You know what, I want to say was waiting so long for AC 3 to get the bill and they completely are
ruining it for me. You know, you know, this goes back a little bit to Cesaro. They're missing it.
And we were talking about teachers. I would love to see Cesaro versus William Regal.
Well, you know that the, the, the, the juition thunder lagger thing was at the request of Regal.
He's the one that that personally invited him. William Regal is amazing. And I can't wait till they
whip up in the company to do a little more. He's got such a mind for the business. He called you
such a fan. I hope so. All right, gentlemen. Let's run the card real quick because we are 24 minutes away
from WWE, Battleground Live from St. Louis, Missouri tonight. We're in Randy Orton Country.
I hear boys. The pre show match going on probably right now. Christian Cage versus Eugene. King
are truth versus King Barrett for the crown. Chad. Oh, God. I wish I cared. Is it
immeasurable? How little you can. Yeah. Yeah, why do you have to start with me on this?
Well, because you're the first match on the first person. Oh, God.
Huh? Yeah, Barrett. Barrett. Oh, I. If it was a retirement match, I would definitely want
Barrett. Because I want our truth gone. I say our truth wins. They just do that. I think
they do that to us. I think Burger King wins because that's where everybody will be going during
the pre show to get their food for the pay per view. I'll pick. I'll pick a hunt. Sure. It's probably
already happened. Roman Reigns. Again, this is not in any specific order. It's just the order.
I think of the important to the matches. Roman Reigns versus Bray Wyatt Don. I did talk to Jeremy
and California today. How's he doing? How's he doing? He's not the Jeremy in the
behind here. I asked him about the couple matches. He thinks Roman Reigns is going to win this.
I think it's going to be big schmaws. Something happens. What's shenanigans?
Shenanigans. Shenanigans. Shenanigans.
I know what he's saying. I know what he's saying.
Sting shenanigans. L.A.
I got to give a W to Roman only because he's dropped like the last three.
Something wants you to won't ever do.
And you know what? Because Bray can handle all the time and still bounce back.
Steven. I'll go with a stiff seven moves. Maybe three a couple punches here and there. I'll take
Roman. I'll take Roman. I'm going to say Roman, but they're definitely will be shenanigans.
I just, we're going to have to do a Jesper just walked in. We're going to have to do something with
Bray. Bray's starting to to win a little bit. I've got to get him.
Help man. Give him a belt.
And another non-title match because we have to fill a card. Randy Orton versus Sheamus. L.A.
I'm going to go with whatever he says.
Fellow. Okay.
Steven. I got to go with Orton. There's just a bad history of money in the bank guys.
Jobbing for months on in before cash. Yeah.
Yeah. I'll go with Orton. Orton because it's a hometown. Oh, well no, then, then I'll go with Orton.
That's a loss. Never mind. That logic is a loss. That's WWE copy written in all. I think Sheamus
wins this just because of the two. He's the only one getting anything that resembles a bush right now.
Off the cliff. WWE champion champ on the line of the United States of America.
Can we just kind of hate this belt? John Shayna. Kevin Owens. Steven.
Tonya Cesaro. I'm running. I'm going to go Kevin Owens just so.
So new champion? Did they make a scene of shirt with the US championship? Like,
like, it's the champions here. Why? I didn't want seen Owens. All right. Chat. Yeah.
seen Owens. Me and Jeremy both say that it's going to be fight. Owens fight. Kills.
All right. LA. Good. We'll see that give his all freaking field. That's where I'm going with it.
It's the WWE for three months. I don't care. I'm so over it because I'm just so over it. Let's
say the win again. Okay. WWE tag team championships on the line before we go. It's been three months
since the last scene of shirt since he won the title. And every three months is a new one. So he's
going to drop this shirt and it because as new one coming out, still drop the belt. Okay. Oh, that's
prime time players versus LDL in the wave. Chat. I can't take these off the prime time players.
This quick. Okay. Don. Noings of dollars millions of dollars. LA. Oh, clubhouse. Don't you
damn be sour. Clap for your new tag champs and feel the power. And we don't know which two it is,
do we? They haven't said yet. No, if free bars rules. Okay. All right. New. New. New.
New. Killing. New. Killing. Killing. You can't say that because LA's black. So it's not a race.
Well, I thought he's better than our chat. Just keep it. Well, it's not like the prime time
players are any longer than the day. That's like the day. I ever would chat. I don't think they're
going to take them all prime time players this quickly. They're going to have I think they might
carry it probably till night of champions. Give them another paper. Get it. Let them let them have the
major. And in your main event, WWE World Heavyweight Championship on the line Seth Rollins,
Brock Lesnar Don. I'm Jeremy says Seth Rollins keeps a belt. I'm actually going to go see
what the heck can go for Brock. I know Matt for the early. I'm just going to go my gut and say Brock.
All right, LA. There's no there's no guessing on this one. The Undisputed Champ is going to stay
Seth Rollins. Stephen. I would love to say Seth Rollins, but I think there's just going to be
a bunch of crap because you got Triple H that's going to turn. And so I think Triple H turns,
but then that opens up the window for shameless to cash in. And then you can do this quick.
Yeah, you can get Brock moved away. You can get Brock moved away to do what he's doing with whoever
shenanigans, whatever. And then Triple H and Rollins are a few. And once I have a bank
account point. So Chad, I would think that maybe if if Lesnar was going left or a stronger opponent.
I'm not saying that Seth Rollins is weak. I'm just saying a bigger opponent. Somebody that would
put him through the ringer physically. He's a sleazy, slimy, weasel, paw haven't said.
Yeah, I think. Hey, Skunk smells his own whole first. That's all I'm saying. So I'm
Rollins also. I think I think Rollins wins because I think he wins it at the major. He
loses it at the major. I think that there's going to be shenanigans. You have the rematch
at Summerslam. That's where Brock gets the win back. I know that the the feud with Triple H is
coming. And then only thing that really really tells me that when you watch the graphics for battle
ground and you see Lesnar and Rollins, are you reading the graphic? Finisher, pedigree.
I think H is going to take exception to that. But you know what it's been that. And you know,
but I'm just saying, they haven't really put it out there as his official finish.
I thought that was him paying homage to because I've then he come out that next week after the
last paper view and say he dropped him with the pedigree, you know, four Triple H or whatever, you know,
fantering. I think you're going to have some good angle movement tonight and not hurting,
but just storyline movement. I think you have some good storyline movement tonight. All right. So
Chad, as the as the card stands, grade the card. C plus C plus going so little bit better than
average done. Since Damien Sandow is not on the card, I'm going to say C plus also. All right, L. A flat
out. You know what? See minus. Okay. Balance the scales are a little bit. Steven.
Uh, see minus. See, see, see, see. So I'm going to say B minus because of the possibility
of a sting appearance. Yeah, but what if it did happen that you graded it inaccurately?
But that's the story of my life. Look at two grades. I think that I think that with the
possibly this thing of appearance and I think you're going to have some good storyline movements
which we haven't had at a paper view in a while. I think it's going to be fun. I'm not going
to put it on a major level, but I think it's going to we're going to have fun with this. And it's
going to be better than capital punishment and really at the end of the day is not that watch and
it'll be better than last year's slam a version because at the end of the day isn't that what's
you need anything else you guys want to it's going to put out there before we do the flux.
I guess because I haven't been able to do it other than be a textual, but I'd like to send my
condolences out to the eawater family and the entire Nintendo family. And we did that broke while we were
on air last week. And that was very sad and it definitely hit me hard and it hit harder than I expected.
I think it affected me in some sort of way. But yeah, I'd like to send my condolences out to that time.
And also the guy from the Clockwork Orange past the way, too. That's one of my very moves.
Didn't you have one Alex Rocco from the probably got the fight no green from the
guy that we lost him. And and congrats to Mick Fanning for going through what he went through
in a surf competition in walk. Oh yeah, basically it's a kind of shark.
I just, I just, I just, I said, you know, our feet a little fat pet on the corner,
back then and Illinois, you know, because he had a rough out there, you know, he was
bummed for $4 for quite a few years and it just didn't hold up for him.
Yeah, I'm real quick. Aubrey, you're so random. Aubrey Morris is the one who passed this week.
I'll remorse. Yeah, from that. He's in the closet. I don't want to see the plugs.
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