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I started to start this a little late tonight, I'm flying solo, I don't know if I could do a full two hour review of this particular episode, because what I want to do is I want to kind of end this episode with a countdown to the New Year to 2025, and then we'll just do all dang zine as everybody, all the people that everyone requests. Yeah, that should be a lot of fun, I hope. Kate is taking the night off because she has plans, I don't know, my wife took my daughter to my wife's best friend's place, who also has little girls and they're going to do a sleepover, and that sounds like fun, but no boys are allowed, so I stayed home and watched a, an episode of NXT, welcome to the NXT review for the New Year's Eve 2024, here on Fightful Select, we took a lot of pride in it being a $5 service over on Fightful Select, we always should say best $5 in the business well, it's now going to be the best $6 in the business. And I mean, I understand that we did a lot of bragging about the best specific number of dollars in the business, we did that a lot, and so maybe to some of you, it might feel like we're going back on that promise, but I don't know, like we tried, for the longest time, we tried, it's been $5 a month for seven years, which I think is pretty good. Now it's, now it's $6 a month. And honestly, just scrounge up four extra quarters from under your couch and somehow convert that to digital money, and then use that to extra subscribe to Fightful Select, that's a thing, so now it's the best $6 in the business, which doesn't really roll off the fingers as well as $5, it's now the best $6, you got to do double hands, I used a thumb, I don't know, that was weird, anyway, we're here, bringing in the new year, 90 minutes, we're going to get this whole thing down to 90 minutes, alright. NXT decided to phone in a little show with some awards, so some of the nominations seemed a little bit off to me, so I want the SGS to come up with in the chat, your nominees for the best moment of the year in NXT, and best match of the year in NXT, because some of the nominees that they laid out didn't feel too great to me. >> Jim Altsky, how's it going? >> How are you, buddy? >> I'm good, happy new year almost. >> Happy new year, I saw you're doing a solo show, are you going to the top of the hour? I want to go, I want to go to 90 minutes and then do a countdown, and then sing Old Lang Zine, I want to do it for the people, I want to do it for the people, yeah. >> I'm like Kate, who's running from the grind as usual. >> Running from the grind, I mean, I'm assuming she has plans with friends or family, but >> No, no, she's probably asleep already. >> She very well could be, yeah, yeah. >> That's all, all right, I didn't watch it next to you tonight, I'm not going to watch this show. >> Why would you, no, not really necessarily a thing you need to do. >> [LAUGH] >> They did a Christmas Eve show last week that nobody watched either, but they decided. >> I actually watched the Christmas Eve show actually last week, yeah. >> Okay, all right, they did a title change on it. >> Yeah, they did, yes. >> By the most overbooked ending, I think I may have ever seen in my life, so. >> Well, you know, I'll run it back, I'm gonna run it back next week with something. >> Yeah, that's fine, yeah, that's fine. Yeah, that's always good to do that. Yes, me nor am I saying that most people who watch this show do not watch NXT. >> Usually I watch NXT though, because I'm typically covering it for the site or I'm helping out covering it. So usually I watch it, and again, last week I watched it, cuz I was covering it. But this week there were actual sports on, so I was watching the Azure play and the Thunder replay and that takes precedent. Kidding me, I'm not gonna watch it next to you when my sports teams are playing. >> Yeah, Alan Jeanette says that he was watching the Verbo Fiesta Bowl. Is that the new sponsor? >> Dude, I saw it's the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl now. I'm like, huh? When did the Citrus Bowl become this Cheez-It Citrus Bowl? Why couldn't you find a product that has Citrus flavoring? Why is it the Sunny D Citrus Bowl? Why isn't it the Fanta Orange Citrus Bowl? How is it the Verbo, it was the Toastitos Fiesta Bowl for the longest time. Toastitos, Fiesta, it works. Verbo is only Fiesta if you're vacationing in Mexico. >> [LAUGH] >> I don't know. >> These sponsor shit names are getting out of their hands. >> At least we got the Pop-Tart Bowl. Yes, were they sacrificed the Pop-Tart to please the angry gods. I think they should do that. Every sponsorship should have a mascot that they kill at the end of the bowl. >> You know people are gonna start, look, I'm all for death. I keep saying there should be more death in AEW. We need less riding, more deathing in AEW. So I'm all for mascots, just dying every single game. >> I suppose it would be difficult to sacrifice a Verbo mascot. Maybe you burned down a bed and breakfast, I don't know. That might be only if that's got a cross promotion with AEW. So hang on, does it? >> And Deanna Prazo did beat up the Cheez-It mascot, which his name is- >> Whoa. >> I actually wrote this article at Deanna Prazo beat up this Cheez-It thing. The name is Ted Z. >> This is why you're the best in the business. You find news in everything that I love it. Yeah, people get mad at me, they're like, who cares that Kevin Owens has six cats? What do you mean, who cares? I care that Kevin Owens has six cats, that's nice. >> That would be newsworthy if anybody had six cats. On a slow news day, on the six o'clock news, your local affiliate, local woman owns six cats, would be a story. It wouldn't be an important one, but it would be a story. >> Anything could be news, everything is news to somebody, you know what I mean? What was your favorite? I'm not staying this whole 90 minutes. >> Please don't, please, please don't. For your own sake, I appreciate you coming in for 90 seconds. 90 minutes would be a task. >> What was your favorite NXT moment of the year? >> It's a tie for everything that Obafemi did all year. Just anything that he did, anytime he was on screen, that moment is my moment of the year. >> And then what else? Well, oh, that's everything, that's the tie, just everything, okay, okay, gotcha. >> Yeah, it's hard to pick one Obafemi thing that he did, but yeah. No, all of them, yeah. >> Mine was Tyree's Halliburton not knowing he was going to be a baby face, and then realizing he had to be a heel. Look at this. >> Hey, Happy New Year. >> Happy New Year. I would feel very guilty if someone were doing a New Year's Rock and Eve stream on a website that I run and I wasn't on it, because I'm not out doing anything. I'm just like hanging out at the house. >> Yeah, you're listening to JBL podcasts. >> I was, I was listening to a JBL podcast. Okay, so it's funny, I was drawing up a little inside baseball for you guys. I was drawing up a new proposal for Bed Online for 2025 for our renewals. And it's funny that Jeremy was like, anything is news. Boy, if this Bed Online proposal gets announced or accepted, you're about to see every who is predicted to be the world champion at the end of 2025 article. Everything will be new. Some of the things that I mentioned to Jeremy and the other, hey guys, remind me to write the, "How do you watch Raw on NordVPN article today?" Because that's a part of our deal with them, but I'm here, I'm drinking hot cocoa. I've got Melvin with me. >> Oh, Melvin. >> Well, Melvin, that's nice. >> Melvin's with me, I've got high ceilings, if anybody wondered. >> You have very high ceilings. >> They're very high. >> They're so tall. >> Yes, yes, that is why. >> Right. >> Yeah, that is why, but yeah, I mean, by God, we're here. I just know this hot chocolate's going to be so hot that I'm going to spill a little bit on my hoodie. >> Ooh, yeah, good. Well, that's a lot of marshmallows. Good man. >> It is, it is. Look, it's a full slate of marshmallows. >> Yeah, that's the way to do it. >> Yeah, it is the way. >> There's no room on top for extra marshmallows. That's all you need right there. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Hold 90 minutes, Sean. >> Come on, I have to be looked at. I've got 37% battery light. Wow. >> Wow. >> Call us in from his couch on his phone. >> I think that does like one stream ever from my couch. Like I try to not let people try to not let the plebs see my living room. >> You were in the car. You popped in with the David Penzer interview and you were in the car last week or a couple weeks ago. >> Was I? Oh, yeah, I was. >> Yeah. There's someone outside your house. >> Oh, no, that's my wife walking in the reflection of the window. >> Somebody's back there, there's a big problem. >> Okay. Yes. >> This is great. Kate took the night off, but she's in the chat to like give you crap. Let's go. >> Run it from your mind, but in the chat. >> It's good. It's good. Yes. Now we know where the extra dollar is going. To heat your house with those high ceilings. >> Okay, I just want to say we got our electric bill back and it was like 420 bucks this week, this month. It was insane. >> Yeah. Those surge prices, man. >> It's funny because I did mention a Jimmy. I'm like, am I seeing a cut of this? And it was met with a nobody. No foul. What is that? >> Okay. Fair. >> Bad robot says, "Happy New Year and Happy Holidays Fightful." I'm celebrating it like SRS is ceilings, which I guess would mean high. >> Can I do I do I do this? Do I am I able to? Nope. >> No. >> No. >> Let's see here. >> Oh, he 100% wants to play like, you know, one of the gimmicks on the phone. >> Yes, he does. >> There we go. >> Okay. >> Oh, nice. >> I got my Christmas tree up. Okay. >> Nice. >> But yeah, I got the little those ceilings are cathedral. >> They are. So up there is the office that you guys see. It's like a loft all the time. >> Yeah, okay. >> So like it could have a full upstairs there, but I kind of like it how it is because like we don't have kids or anything. >> Right. >> We don't have anybody that loves us. So. >> I like the herringbone pattern on the floor. Very nice. >> Yeah. >> But I love that you know what that is. >> Of course. >> Yeah. >> Because I didn't know. I just did it look. >> We're debating on what kind of pattern we want to do for the floor down there. >> Yeah. >> I'm a herringbone guy. >> We get a lot of comments on the herringbones. And it honestly, like as jarring as it can seem in pictures, it's not like that in person. Like it's very, it comes across very well. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Somebody says mini marshmallows, buddy, these ain't mini. These ain't mini. These are regular size. >> Change, how do you have fun with the light bulbs? >> It's funny that you mentioned that we've not had do yet. And I was just thinking about that the other day. Like we moved in here three years ago and we've not had to change them. And like I don't know how we would. So that's something we will deal with at the time. >> Yeah, any suggestions also let me know because we have going into our basement. The light bulb is up here and like you can't reach it at all. And it went out, it finally went out on us and how we just have no light. >> I don't own a ladder and in my garage, the overhead light went out and it was out for two years. What are you doing? >> Wow. >> You can walk through. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, my wife, all due respect to the people watching this, very weirded out by the not so nice people on the internet. And she's like, can I walk through or am I going to be on camera? >> No. >> No. It'll be good. We good. >> Meet Norma says, "Sup, Potnos, let's crank, let us not forget the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl. We're officially in the third ring of hell, Happy New Year, brobs. Can people celebrity just sponsor bowl games now? >> Listen, celebrities can sponsor our show, please. >> Yeah, do that. I'm trying to do like these cultaholic style videos and then I'm getting these quotes from video editors and I'm like, damn, no wonder you're out of work. Do you all know where the Let's Crank comes from? >> Yeah, of course, it's from Virgil, right? >> Virgil. DM Virgil about an interview and he said, yeah, let's crank. >> Yeah. >> Meet Norma greets us with Let's Crank every time. >> I love it. I love that that lived on. >> Of course. >> Fantastic. >> So what are you all doing on this New Year's Eve? Because let me tell you. >> This podcast, clearly. >> Besides that, besides that, as a happily married man being home after being in New York City, like I turned it on Dick Clark's New York Rock and Eve and the first thing I see is Gronk saying he's going to rock out with his Gronk out and then sending it to Lenny Kravitz to watch a performance. I'm very glad I'm not in New York. I'm very glad I'm not in Times Square. I just watched a recap video of Cobra Kai, great show. >> Great show. All fantastic show. >> Absolutely not. Absolutely not. >> It's the greatest part wrestling show ever. >> Okay. >> Yes, because listen, you're talking to a guy who trained MMA with former UFC fighters who was a striking coach at that place for a little bit and some of the shit that I saw them get away with in that recap, some of the technique that I saw them get away with. >> It's unfortunate for the technique. You watch it for the murder. >> All Walter Houser had some of the best technique on that show. I was shocked at how bad some of the technique was on there, but he's watching for the technique. >> I was watching it for- >> Sean's doing an exit nose video, exit nose video breakdown of Cobra Kai. >> Your wife sent me a message and said the Herringbone is nice. Are we doing a decor show because let's HGTV it up. It's funny whenever she plays mini golf, you would think the green was Herringbone. >> I'll defend my wife's honor by kicking Sean off of this show. >> And I was gone. >> He decided to not stick around, so that's good, great. That's good. >> He had that one coming. He had that one coming. >> No, of course. Of course. >> Nice back. >> He's back now. >> Back. >> I have to go all the way out and come back on the phone. I can't just add myself back. >> I don't have the StreamYard Pro here. I've got the slim edition. My God. But yeah, we watched a recap of Cobra Kai. I showed my wife the music video for movies by Alien Ant Farm. That's how my night's going. >> Nice. >> A great song. We're halfway through a Dexter recap. Basically, what we'll do is we'll watch Man of Recaps videos on shows we gave up on. >> Nice. >> So what season are you at on Dexter with this recap? Are you watching the new world? >> We're about four through, we're about three or four in. >> Okay. >> We're halfway. >> That wasn't when Dexter was actually good, like the third and fourth season. I think whatever season the Trinity killer was. >> Yeah. >> A lady B asks if we'll watch Wicked Tonight on Prime. She will watch Wicked. I will not. >> Is that already on Prime? >> Yeah. A good friend of ours, Chandler, gives us access to his Apple TV and he's already bought it, but I don't like musicals. I'm not a musicals guy. Sorry. >> We watched the Bobs Burgers movie tonight. Have we watched that? Did we watch it? >> I think that's because. >> I mean, it seems like something we would have immediately watched. She says we have, but she's seen it three times since it's incredible. >> I like the nonchalant answer. I've seen it three times. I don't know where you are, but I've seen it three times. >> We went and watched Sonic the other night. That was okay. >> Yeah. Good. >> I had people saying masterpiece and tear jerker, I'm like, what are we talking about here? Come on. >> Yeah. >> I didn't see everybody getting down on the floor, I didn't see anybody looking like a dinosaur. None of that. So no tear jerking for me. >> Okay. Good to know. I'll. >> I temper my expectations. Yeah. >> Jeremy, did you know that Alex had never heard of the song "Freaker League" until like three weeks ago? >> Really? >> Still have not. >> And I said it's the Jeremy who's from North Carolina. So I was like making "PD Pablo" references and Alex was like, I don't get it, I don't know the man. >> I don't know. They filmed the North Carolina video right up the street from me. There was some friends of mine that were in it. >> Yeah. >> I love "Freaker League" when he just names random people. >> Tanisha. >> Yeah. >> Shauna. >> It was good shit. I definitely thought he was going to be a one-hit wonder after "Raise Up." >> I mean, "Freaker League." >> He did the chubby checker thing, the guy that did the twist where he also released less twist again, it's the Christmas twist. He has risen the twist, all that stuff. He did the North Carolina come on "Raise Up." And then he did the "All Cities" version, and he goes, "The whole damn world! Come on and raise up." And I was like, "What?" It doesn't work. >> And it was lame. We kind of turned on him after that, but you know, what can you do? >> He was trying to bring peace after 9/11. >> That's what's going on. >> When the Carolina Hurricanes score a goal, that's the song that played. Or at least it used to. I don't know if they-- >> I mean, that would be great. >> Oh, they took a vote of what should be our goal song, and I spammed the voting. This is when I was going to the games regularly. I was spamming the voting of like, "It's got to be North Carolina, "Raise Up." What other song are you going to play? A generic goal song? No. What are the friggin' anthem to the entire state? >> I hate bingles touchdowns. I think you pop, "I know you experienced a lot." >> Oh, you want it? I want it. I want it out there. I just want to play on the drum all that you love that song. >> I hate it. I hate it. And Alex, I mean, you live near Green Bay, if-- >> Yes. >> Green Bay's touchdown song. Like, why are we stealing it? Like, there are so many jungle related theme. Like, literally, you jungle boys theme. >> Yeah. >> It's chantable. >> Yes. >> It's fresh. Like, he ain't using it anymore. Listen, use Tati Perry's roar. Just run back. Welcome to the jungle. Hey, football fans, bet MGM is giving you the chance to win up to $250,000 in bonus bets. It's all part of bet MGM's longest touchdown jackpot, where you'll be able to split the grand prize with anyone else who bet on the longest touchdown of the week. Log into your bet MGM account today and opt into the promo. 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They made it easy! Transparent terms? Customizable down and monthly? Didn't even have to do any paperwork. Wow. Mm-hmm. Hey, have you checked out that spreadsheet I sent you for our dinner options? Place your car with Carvana and experience total control. Financing subject to credit approval. Like, there's so many. What do we do with that? Jungle boogooop is huge. People will be getting everything down in the aisles. So they did try to do something with Katy Perry Roar, but like, you know, all the dude bros with the lying beards were like, "I just got a little bit of Katy Perry." And I was like, "You kidding me?" And instead, we got some dork from 1981, bangin' on the drum all day. Alright, cool bro. Yeah, that's awesome. Also, it says, "I don't want to work," which just feels like they're running from the grind. You know what I mean? It does. It doesn't. It shouldn't. I feel like you can say, "I don't want to work if you're 15 and 1." If you're struggling to be eligible for the playoffs, saying that you don't want to work in your Touchdown Celebration song, this feels like maybe that's why you're struggling. Well, definitely that would apply to the defensive Touchdown this year. It didn't work a whole lot this year. Yeah. Yeah. So what are you going up to the new year? How's that working? That's my plan. That's my plan is to do the show and then do a countdown and then sing "Old Line Zion" and out. Well, I love Moses. There's going to be a delay on this by about 30 seconds, though. Of course. Yeah. No, it's not going to be. It's going to be a countdown for me and me alone. Everyone else will be at different time. That's fine. It'll already be the new year. So wait. So hold on. Wait. Aren't you in Central Time Zone? I am in Central Time Zone, but I'll do a countdown for the first time. You're working. I'm working the countdown. Look at that. Look at this worker. He's going to do the countdown on Eastern Time Zone, then go spend time with his family like a loser. Yeah. Yeah. That would be a thing. Yeah. Oh, wow. Wow. I respect it. I respect it. That's pretty good shit. Yeah. Good. Yeah. I feel good about it. Hot chocolate's good. Yeah. You're saying. Sean should read an ad while sipping on hot cocoa. Yeah. I mean, I probably shipped bluechew.com. I don't even think that, listen, they're so good to us. They're like, you don't even have to say a code anymore because we know when people need to get their wainies hard, they're coming to us from you. I'm like, hell yeah, brother. Yeah. But yeah, we had factored in not having an ad read tonight. So yeah. There you go. Just subscribe to Fightful Select. We did unfortunately announce that it will be six dollars for the basics here. None of the other tiers are going to increase. I had said last night, oh, I'm really fighting this price increase. Then Jimmy hits me up this morning and says, yeah, we're increasing it. And I said, okay. How are you doing the six? You know, usually you go, I had five dollars, but are you going six like that? You go in six in the thumb, like three and three, and then we'll go through each other. Nice. Nice. Oh, there you go. Oh, there you go. That's good. Then I'm a nausea six right there. Yeah. Ooh. Touching six. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Good. I'm bringing 60 back. Oh, that's nice. That could be our slogan. Yeah. I'm going to six you up like we got plenty of lots of them guys. Listen. Come on. Yeah. We're good. Say my first rodeo. Yeah. Yeah. I want your six, six, six, all that like any literally anything. This is true. Now I need change for a 10 when SRS Wesley five and one and we're in. That's that's true. Man, that sucks. I'm really used a lot of the I'm going to need five dollars. Yeah. That doesn't hit. Maybe like it's a discount. It's a live discount. You're only asking for five for people that are attending to watch you wrestle. Yeah. That's true. That's true. I will say that I did compare it to the relative price of inflation since 2018 and it's actually last. So. Thank you. All right. Let it go. Good. We're still giving the people a deal. That's important. Although $54 for the entire year is the I want a six. You like an animal that when didn't work as well. No, not quite. I mean, Armis is a good suggestion. Listen. I like this one. I got it. It's still on it. No, not quite. I love it. I love it. Listen, I mean, five dollars foot longs aren't even five dollars anymore. No, Charles Barkley's freaking out because they're like $7 and he's like, can you believe this price? $7. Yeah, Charles. It was better 15 years ago when it was five dollars. Yeah. I mean, listen, I did try to fight it for a long time, but ultimately Jimmy makes those decisions, but like it's almost like he makes a decision. I make a decision. Things. I was like, okay, let's not raise the $10 tier because that's this is Oliver, by the way. Oliver, I was like, okay, that's the early access tier. So like people who want to see our interviews ahead of time, quite frankly, a lot of people who just want to support us a little bit more, subscribe to that tier. And I was like, well, let's, I've always felt like we give people way more than five dollars worth of stuff. So for at least the $10 one, I'm like, okay, that used to be the price of the WWE network and all that stuff. You can't, now you at least can't say that it's, it's not that, but yeah. Yeah. Quite the little, little star. Alan's got it. I smell six and six and yeah, yeah. That's good shit. That's good. Oh, Oliver. He is the most got any games on your phone, Kat, I've ever seen. Yeah, now he's, now he's pretending like he doesn't want to spotlight. Yeah. Like if I were a cat, I'd be looking at my reflection all day. I'd be amazed right. Oh, yeah. They don't care, man. They really don't. They just want to hang out with me. That's how he sees that your cat hid from us will probably cause you all were running around geeking out over Taylor Swift. Fair. It's getting, it's getting, and then they would say whatever it was giving at the time. I love those girls though, they're sweet. Oh, that's good. The six is on fire by Kingsley, oh, that is good. See, listen, the world runs on sex and our world is going to run on six pretty soon. There you go. There you go. That's excellent stuff. Listen. Allie's claiming you have speared her onto the couch. I didn't spear her. I think I picked her up. I think I did a backbreaker or something. I think one of them might come out of temporary retirement and team with Allie sees this year, maybe. I want to six you up. That's very good from just Ricardo that we talked about that, but also like a silly fight full six or for kids, maybe, maybe like that down with the sixness. There we go. Yeah, get it. Yeah. Very good. Six drugs and rock and roll. If you listen to the internet, you listen to the door so on Twitter. I'm too sexy. I'm too sexy for this shirt, you know? Oh, nice. There are dates that for the Fightful Awards, not yet. We are, I'll say this, the winners have been determined. There were some shockers, some very surprising ones as well that I'm very happy about. And I have hit up respective PR teams from, how about this, I'll say this, PR teams from AEW, WWE, Dardom, New Japan for award speeches for the winners and also the individuals as well. And a lot of people seem down. I'm very excited for it. I got one that I'm very proud of, even though it's not the actual person that won. I think it's an awesome substitute. I'll, I'll text, hear me. I'll text you about it afterwards. Okay. After this. But, um, guys, I'm going to hop off here. I got to take my last shit of 2024. All right. Enjoy. Bye. It's, it's good that he's so regular that he knows that about himself. Yeah. I didn't hit up PR for, for TNA, you know, not, no, definitely did not mention that one. What can you do? Yeah, I don't know. You don't think you're much of anything, so, so, uh, right, well, I mean, you're welcome to stay as long as you like, but I thought I would just, you know, review the show that I was supposed to do. I didn't, we can talk about Shane Yielders, Alex and Andrew, if you want. He's good. Oh, sure. He is. I mean, I know, I know your bucks beat the, beat my fun. There in the, yeah, they just couldn't hit a shot. They couldn't hit a shot. Yeah. Why, why, what was up with that banner though? I don't know. They, they, they force you to put up a banner. It's like, is it a force thing? Like the NBA, like the NBA is like, you have to put up a banner because otherwise it's going to look like the NBA kept doesn't mean anything. And then why would, why would a, uh, an airline from the Middle East sponsor it? Like, they're not going to actually do anything. So, you know, I actually respect that they went that low effort on the banner. If it's like forced by NBA thing, I actually respect that more because I've heard like, I thought like the teams, because the Lakers went like all out and everything. Oh, look at this great banner that we bought. But like if the NBA actually forces it and they're just like, yeah, sure, NBA coach, champion, I think a lot of it is honest being like, well, I don't, this is nice and everything, like we want to win the actual thing again. So if you, if you do too much with the, with the mid season, uh, title banner, then it feels like you're not locked in for the rest of the season, which I get it, you know, yeah. It's, it's a dumb banner to hang. It's a, it literally doesn't count because like everyone's talking about the thunder of one 12 games straight and then you get the door to like, well, the blocks like, well, the records show they did not lose. Yeah, that game, that game needs to count for something. I just don't know what, you know, somebody, somebody had a good idea that it should basically count for the winner. And so that decides like tie breakers. So the bucks and the, uh, nicks end up with the same record for third place, well, because the bucks won the bucks get third place over the next. I mean, uh, though, I mean, otherwise it's, they're literally just playing for 500 grand. Yeah. No, no, no, like it would be nice if they actually made it a team thing as well as opposed to nothing. So I'm going to assume shades they're talking about the Cleveland Cavaliers, which, uh, like they're great this year. They're very, very good. Yeah. I kind of hope they make the finals because then I can go to a game, especially if they play the thunder, then play the thunder. I don't care. But that'll divide our house if the caps make it so yeah, yeah, tough situation. All right. Thank you. Thank you for hosting me for these half hour, enjoy your night, happy new year. Happy new year. Everyone had a new year to you, Polowski, everyone have a safe new year. If you're out, if you're about and everyone have a good 2025. All right. Thank you, Jamie. Um, so yeah, uh, that was cool on unexpected that we had some guests on our, our, uh, new year's NXT rock and Eve. Um, I wanted to, uh, read this one from just Ricardo says I say this to the boys and girls often, but rarely to you, Alex, happy new year to you and the clan. I am grateful and better for you in my life, just Ricardo. That just makes me so happy. Um, I really appreciate it. And, um, and it's, it is the best thing that I get to do is to be a part of everybody's life, because in this really weird way in this community we've created, it's a lot of fun for me. Um, meet Norma says, um, capital one arena in DC used to have a best attendance 2005 banner in the rafters for the mystics. Then they finally took it down and then build a 5000 seat arena where I've seen two dynamites. Well, there you go. See, I guess that's good, right? Um, for those of you who did not watch an XC tonight or and or did not watch the Christmas Eve edition last week, at least they followed up on a bunch of ridiculous stuff that happened last week tonight. Um, Kalani, um, last week, uh, Cora Jade and Stephanie Vicare had a match. Stephanie Vicare won it. And Kalani Jordan ran in with a kendo stick to beat the hell out of, um, Cora Jade, but Stephanie Vicare like grabbed around the waist and like, it's not worth it type of thing. Like, no, no, don't do it, man. It's not worth it. Uh, but she said it in Spanish probably, uh, and Kalani was very upset by this and was yelling at her backstage to mine her own business. And then Lola Vice was trying to like talk some sense into her and it's like, like, what are you talking about? You know, you and trying to tell me to calm down you, you and Jada Parker were, we're we're tag, we're a tag team and then he said it to fight each other, she with a brick. And then you decided that wasn't good enough so you had to have an NXT underground match against her. Um, so does don't tell me what to do. They're, they're now giving Kalani Jordan a character finally and the character is annoying little sister. So we'll see how that goes. We are now 55 minutes ish, 54 minutes and change until the new year, um, Kalani faced Lola Vice tonight, um, and Lola Vice, um, lost to Kalani Jordan, Kalani Jordan, uh, went around behind for a waste lock. Cora Jade came out, stood on the apron. Cora Jade got a waste lock around the back of, um, Lola vice and ran her forward into Cora Jade who's sitting on the apron and they conked noggins and then she rolled her over with a back bridge to pin Lola vice. And then Cora Jade came in and started wailing on Kalani Jordan with a kendo stick and, um, and Lola Vice who is, of course, a trained martial artist stood up and waited for at least one thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three before the first kendo shot hit her in the ribs and then she got wailed on by, uh, my Cora Jade and then Stephanie Viqueur came down to, uh, to attack Cora Jade and just make the save. Now, uh, Cora Jade and, uh, Stephanie Viqueur standing next to each other like this. And then Lola Vice stands up behind Cora Jade. And Cora Jade turns around to look at Lola Vice and in a, in a maneuver so telegraphed, it would have only been more telegraphed if they had used an actual telegraphed machine. Lola Vice did her spinning back fist and Cora Jade ducked and Lola Vice hit Stephanie Viqueur in the face with her spinning back fist and was incredibly apologetic, but apparently it's not enough because Stephanie Viqueur is really pissed about an obvious accident happening. So later in the night, they're going to run this back almost verbatim with a different tandem accidentally hitting each other because HBK only has either only has really the same idea over and over again. That's very obvious or he does something so far out of left field and bonkers that it defies all explanation. So then one of those two things, one of those two things, Tom LaValley. Hello, Tom says, happy New Year SGS and Alex and Kate and all the guest hosts. Love y'all very much. We may not always agree on everything, but at least we can say, what can we say? We can say Happy New Year. That's what we can say that. That's nice. Um, Kalani, oh wait, no, we'll do that later. The NXT match of the year was voted on. This is your chance in the comments and in the chat to tell me what are some unsung, nominated matches that should have been nominated for NXT. Um, Iliya versus Trick was nominated from, from Vengeance Day, uh, Blurry Boys versus Chase U from Heatwave, which honestly I don't remember, um, it would not rank in the top five matches that the Blurry Boys had in the calendar year of 2024 to me. It might not even rank in the top 10 to me. Um, Roxanne versus Thea Hale, I don't recall that match at all that happened at the Great American Bash. Was that good? I have forgotten entirely about it. Maybe if Thea Hale is good enough to have nominated for, um, a match of the year candidate, maybe you should have her on TV more since they broke up Chase U, I don't know, just an idea, um, then we got The Women's Iron Survivor match, which was pretty good. I like that one. I don't, I don't know if I would, I'm probably very biased because I love Obafemi, but I probably would have gone with Obafemi versus the, the women's match, you know, because I love Obafemi. Um, and then Kalani versus Sol at Heatwave, which I still contend was not a very good match because at no point did either woman look like they actually wanted to beat the other one. They were just doing a fantastic exhibition of gymnastics moves. And that's about it. Um, uh, blurry boys versus TV on Heights and, uh, and Miles Bourne, yes, rascals versus blurry boys in Javan. That was a great one. Jordan Grace versus Roxanne. Absolutely. You know what? I feel like Jordan Grace might have been nominated if she had given them assurances that she is going to join the, I mean, I think she will anyway, but we'll talk about it in a second. The moment of the year and how that involves somebody who's not even contracted to NXT and how it's kind of obvious now what we're doing with this. Um, the winner was the big boy three way from standing deliver. Obafemi versus Briggs versus Diejack, who's not even with the company anymore. Like a month after this match, he had a stand and deliver. He was drafted to the main roster and never appeared on television. And he didn't believe they were actually ever going to do anything with him. So he let his contract run out and didn't resign and left and I feel like it's a weird thing to be like, wow, this great match match of the year at NXT while not really acknowledging that you didn't think highly enough of what I would say is the reason, the one main reason why that match was so great was Diejack even over Obafemi. It's the match of the year, but you didn't think highly enough of the top guy in that match to resign him. That feels weird. Kim Gray says, happy New Year, Alex, hope to be around more in 25. Yes. We hope to have you around more as well, Kim. Thank you so much for being here being part of it. Blurry boys versus the wolf dogs, blurry boys versus Malik and Idris. Yes. So Annie Brown, you are not making this up in your head, but a leak and Idris versus the blurry boys, I still think is the greatest, single greatest tag team match on television in NXT that I have ever seen, not, not at a takeover, not at a PLE on TV, just a regular ass episode of NXT, not a named episode, not great American bash, or in your house or any of that crap, like it was amazing. And they haven't done anything with it, man. Tom LaValley says, New Year, New Metal, Axiom Sings Twist by Corn. Okay, I'm going to have to go ahead and I'm going to look up those lyrics right now so that I don't lose them, Twist by Corn. Okay. All right, lyrics. All right, here we go. Since it is the New Year's Rockin' Eve, let's do, since it's the Rockin' Eve and you would have concerts throughout the night, let's do that with jukeboxes. When I see a jukebox, I will try and find a good stopping point in the rundown and I will do the thing now. Here we go. Axiom, Axiom Performing Live on Alex Polowski's NXT Rockin' Eve Singing Twist by Corn. Thank you very much. That was Axiom Doing Twist by Corn. Oh, and Matthew Hook says, "Love the SGS. Happy New Year to my second family." Happy New Year to you Matthew Hooks. Happy New Year to you. So there's a Julia Vignette where she does the whole thing in Japanese and she says that you know, Roxanne's very good, I'm going to beat you, but she also says, "I want to be remembered in the same breath as these great women's, former women's champions from NXT." She mentions, among others, I'm pretty sure, but she mentions Asuka, Rhea Ripley, Charlotte Flair, and Shayna Baszler. And then she says, "All future Hall of Famers, and I don't know how to break this to Julia and I don't know how to break this to myself. I don't believe that Shayna Baszler is making the WWE Hall of Fame." Unfortunately, I do not think you can include Shayna Baszler in a group that is named as future Hall of Famers. Unfortunately, it does not appear as though they're going to give her the title reigns that would necessitate a vote into the Hall of Fame, unfortunately. The Julia versus Roxanne will be on the New Year's Evil show next week. All right. So I see your request there, Jessica Caro, I'm going to do that after this next thing. NXT Moment of the Year, moment of the year. Here are the nominees for NXT Moment of the Year. And again, in the chat, please, also super chats more than welcome, please send in your moments of the year that are not correct, that are better than these. Mello turning on trick, Mello finally turns on trick even though we knew he attacked trick backstage seven months prior, Tyree's Halliburton says a mean thing to the Orlando crowd. That is a moment of the year candidate, a fringe All-Star, a gold medalist who never saw action in the Olympics from a team below 500 came to your set and said something mean about the Orlando magic and that's a moment of the year candidate. Wesley turning on Zack Wentz and Trey Miguel, I would agree that's a big thing, but it involves two contracted TNA talent, which is kind of weird, although Jada Parker hitting low device with a brick. Yeah, I guess that's a moment, although it was kind of negated by the fact that low device thinks that that doesn't count or something. I don't know, it's just weird, I'm not sure. Ethan Page pinning a guy to become the champion while unconscious is not a thing I would highlight even though it was a major moment of the year. The ladies of Chase U calendar reveal by JC Jain thus saving the university for about 10 more months before it actually folded finally. Trick beating Ilya to become the NXT champion, that's an undoubtedly a very big moment. Julia's debut, a very big moment. The 10 women tag match, like main eventing the ECW arena episode, I mean, I was fine. I don't know, I don't think of that as a big moment, but you know, whatever. The NXT CW debut, a very big moment, a very big moment indeed, I can't say anything about that. But the winner is this, Joe Hendry showing up in NXT, did I remind you that Joe Hendry showing up in NXT is Joe Hendry showing up as the last entrant into a battle royal and then being eliminated first and then them taking several weeks to pay that off in any meaningful way whatsoever. He showed up, he was on screen for five minutes, was eliminated like a second dirt over the top rope and then barely did anything for the next three, four weeks. How the hell is that your, how are the hell is it your promotions moment of the year utilizing a guy who isn't contracted to your company? That seems ridiculous, you can't allow that to happen. 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Let's see if Linda can get the glasses on over these glasses, I feel like that's not possible, hold on, nope, sorry, I don't think I can put the glasses on over these other gla-, I mean I can, please don't break glasses, okay here we go, dreaming I'm guided to another world time and time again, at sunrise I fight to stay asleep, because I don't want to leave the comfort of this place, 'cause there's a hunger, a longing to escape from the little I live when I'm awake. So let's go there, let's make our escape, come on let's go there, let's ask can we stay, can you take me higher, to a place where blind men see, can you take me higher, to a place with golden streets, can you take me higher, that's what I used to say to Cheech Merritt when we were dating, because he had, he always had the good weed, Cheech Merritt. Okay, thank you very much, I'm very happy my glasses didn't break, all right we'll do the next one, that one we'll get to make sure and get that one over and there we go. So thank you very much that, Cedric Scott, Cedric Alexander got interviewed about, about Javan Evans face being stomped on, and apparently he shattered his jaw in several places, but I know what he texted me, Ethan Page, January 7th. If he got his jaw shattered in several places and has to eat all of his meals through a straw, as you said, surely they're not going to clear him in time to do anything to Ethan Page three weeks after he got his face stomped on, that feels weird, please don't do that. Anyway, Ethan Page shows up, as Cedric Alexander punches him, there's a brawl, it goes down to the ring, they have the match. So Booker was on one tonight, Booker was especially terrible tonight. He, at one point, Vic asks him, don't you think that Ethan Page went too far by stomping on a man's face with a chair, thus breaking his jaw in several places and forcing him to miss a lot of time for no, this is for no reason that he did this, he's like, I don't think there is such a thing as going too far in this business, is murder too far, Booker? Would murder be too, if he had shot the man in the head on live television, would that be going too far, Mr. T, Mr. Booker T, I don't know, perhaps. Ethan Page wins, he ends up doing a lot of maneuvers that a target, Cedric Alexander's jaw ends up winning with a cutter, and then takes him outside, out to the ring side, and then pulls a tool chest, tool box, from under the ring, stuffs Cedric's fingers in there, and then slams the door, the lid of the box on his fingers, thus I suppose, amputating all of his fingers, at least that's how Cedric reacted. So I don't know what they're doing with Ethan Page at New Year's Evil, but Ethan Page, this is the kind of heel I wanted him to be when he showed up. Vicious, unpredictable, mean, psychotic in a way, not I'm basically the Miz, but better in the ring, I don't need that, I don't need the guy who's like, everybody stops saying that he pinned me when it wasn't actually a match. I'm so upset, I'm so glad we're not doing that anymore, thank God, but yeah, so there you go. Oh, oh, oh, here we go, meet Norma says, happy New Year's SGS, can the Linda sing, I want to talk about six, by Salton Peppa, Salton Peppa, let's talk about sex lyrics, as sung by Linda, here we go, so here we go, Salton Peppa, let's talk about, let's talk about six, here we go, let's talk about six baby, let's talk about you and me, let's talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be, let's talk about sex, let's talk about sex, let's talk about sex, let's talk about sex, let's talk about sex for now, to the people at home or in the crowd, if it keeps them coming anyhow, don't be coy, avoid and make void the topic because that ain't going to stop it, now we talk about six on the radio and video shows, many will know anything goes, let's tell it like it is and how it could be, how it was and of course how it should be, those who think it's dirty have a choice, pick up the needle, press pause or turn the radio off, will that stop us, peppa, I doubt it, all right then, come on spin, let's talk about six baby, let's talk about you and me, let's talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be, let's talk about six, let's talk about six, and how fight for select is only six dollars a month coming forward from now on, thank you so much meat normers, you're my favorite meat, okay, all right, we are at 33 minutes until, until we have to be doing the countdown everybody, what did I have for dinner tonight, leftover pizza, that's what I have for dinner tonight, I left over pizza, that's what I did, all right, okay, thank you everybody, okay, what happened after this, oh, the team bouncy beef, hashing it out backstage with Hank and Tank about why there was a big old brawl happening during the Christmasy deal, there was a big Christmas themed multi tag team street fight deal, at one point, Tony D'Angelo had smuggled in crowbars, wrapped up to look like candy canes and he gave them to the goombas and they didn't have winning, but Hank and Tank were taken out because team bouncy beef came down to the ring and started fighting with them, so they're upset by this, but then Sean Spears walks in and he walks in, he walks, he's walking like this, he's, he has his arms crossed in front of him in a very, like, I don't know man, it's just, yes, I'm here, look at all these lost souls begging for guidance, and then in comes Wesley, he's like, they don't need anything from you man, they know what they're doing, I've taught them well, they don't need you at all, like, ah yes, no, I don't need this, I know exactly what I do, and then he leaves, I don't know, I don't know what's going on with the, with the thing, you know what I mean, ace shock said I made spam fried rice tonight with brown rice, I will, I will, I will cop to never having spam in my life, I've never eaten spam, I've never done it, um, so Wesley, and team bouncy beef says, all right boys, you got to find yourself a partner because we're having a six man tag tonight, um, oh no, who are we going to get, oh no, well, there's no one we could possibly have Javan Evans got his face crushed, and he's our only friend, so I think the tank is going to find somebody to, um, have a, have a six man tag with shots in GG versus the tick tockers versus lash and jakara, this was all set up last week, we're like, there's now, like, I don't know if the tick tockers are coming back from annex, from main roster back to NXT, I don't know if, if, uh, the, we used to call them the spooky Scottish witches, I don't know if they're coming back to NXT, I don't know if they're going to bring back the NXT tag team titles, like, but they're doing a lot with these women's tag team titles, tag teams, I must, I hope for a reason, I don't know, but there was a lot of argumenting back last week on the show, which led to this, a three team triple threat tag team match. So, at one point, GG hat puts jakara Jackson, like, on her knees in the ropes, like, like you would be if you were awaiting a 619, right? On your knees, arms stripped over the middle rope, just kind of waiting there. And then, and then GG Dolan, I don't know how else to explain this, GG Dolan does a stink face to jakara Jackson's back. There's, there's no other way to describe it. Jakara Jackson does a stink face to jakara Jackson's back, which I guess wouldn't be a stink face, it would be a stink back, but she like puts her butt up against her back and like rubs her butt all over jakara Jackson's back, which I just felt like I don't know what that does. I don't know what, I don't know what that does. Like, how does that hurt your opponent? I suppose you're pressing their throat, quote unquote, throat into the middle rope. Maybe that's it. I don't know. Shotzi needs to stop doing shots, the attempted suicide via suicide dive. She did a, she did a suicide dive and I don't know, something got hung up because she came through the ropes and went straight down on top of her head. Now, she got up and she actually was part of a group of people who were breaking the fall for a giant moonsault off the top rope or a giant crossbody or something, but Shotzi nearly died. You know what I mean? Who we? Shotzi, we just got you back, sweetheart, from the knee injury. Please be careful. Just please be careful. Um, uh, I would ever finish her saying that the stink back shows control of the match. You know what else would? I don't know, like a headlock or a crevat or anything that would like cause pain to the person that you're controlling, but that's just me because I don't think a stink back does much, does much in the way of pain, but that's, that's just me. Um, so of course this match was ended by, um, by shenanigans influence. I mean fatal shenanigans. I mean fatal influence because all they do is shenanigans. All they do is shenanigans. They just do shenanigans. It's just shenanigans. So they come out and they, they distract the referee and they shove GG going off the top rope and, uh, and jakara and lash get the victory off a pump kick and something else. So they pin a double team move that they do on GG Dolan. So GG Dolan gets pinned. Uh, and then, uh, the formerly spooky, spooky, still Scottish formerly witches, um, come on the Titan Tron and they're like, Oh, lash and jakara. Look at you. Yeah. You've won a match. Good for you. We've heard you want a 10 team title short, but so do we. And we're going to be in tune soon. So maybe we'll have a match against you. And then the winner will get a 10 team title short. But remember what happened last time we beat you. And this would like, there's that basically. So I don't think it's happening next week. It might happen the week after, but we're, we're getting a, we're getting, uh, lash and jakara versus, uh, the unholy union. We're doing that next week. All right. Hey, the shade stirrer says, um, happy new year to all the SGS fighting this crazy and lovely place in January helped me out in the down times of my year. And I appreciate you all. Now, let's have a killer friendship, braceless list 2025. Yes. No, I am declaring a moratorium throughout all of wrestling on bracelet inspired storylines. Look at it. You see them punk. Um, so remember, remember. Last, remember earlier in the episode where we're low, low, low vice accidentally backfisted Stephanie Vicar. Uh, but it was obviously an accident. And everyone should have seen it coming, even in 70 of a care, because I definitely started calming and so did you and so did anybody was watching Stephanie Vicar should have seen it coming. But she didn't that she got backfisted and backstage. Lola keeps apologizing and Stephanie does not accept the apology. Um, and, uh, and then Kalani walks up and she's like, ah, see, so I was the one who had a calm down last week, but doesn't look like either of you or calm. Anyway, y'all deserved that. And then Stephanie Vicar, um, shoves, um, Kalani Jordan and Lola vice and Stephanie and Kalani Jordan get into it. And then the camera pans over to Cora Jade who's like, hmm, hmm. I caused that. I'm a little bad girl t he he and then Ava sidles up to her and says, uh, so hey, uh, I just want to let you know I am looking for a, um, uh, a challenger to Fallon Henley's women's North American championship. Uh, it's like, oh, me, just, it should be me. Just give it to me. Uh, yeah, but I'm not gonna just give it to you. So you're gonna have a match next week. Uh, and then more potentially match. Okay. Who's my opponent? Well, it's going to be Lola vice and Stephanie Vicar and Kalani Jordan. So fatal four way next week on New Year's Evil for the number one contendership to Fallon Henley's title, um, which it's got to be, it's got to be Stephanie, right? Stephanie's got to win that, right? Cause then she could win the title from Fallon and we wouldn't have to worry about like doing the Julia versus Stephanie thing for a while, right? I hope so. Um, I hope that me talking about this next thing doesn't take up the rest of the 90 minutes, but it might last week on the Christmas Eve episode. They did a heritage cup match and William Regal was in Lexus King's corner again last week. And, um, and the Lexus King did a, did a pretty good job against Charlie Dempsey. Honestly, I believe it was nobody had had gotten a fall at this point in time. And, um, then, uh, he was laid out in the corner and the referee had his back turns talking to, to Charlie Dempsey. I believe they had conked noggins, but, um, the referee was only checking on Charlie Dempsey, not on Lexus King. So William Regal fishes out brass nucks out of his pockets and puts puts them in the hand of Lexus King, who comes to his like, no, I shan't, I shan't skirt the rules for I am a good guy now and good guys follow the rules and I will only do good guy things. I am, I am Lexus King. And so he tries to give the, the, the nucks back to William Regal who was standing on the apron and William Regal disgusted with, with Lexus King, punches him in the face, not with brass knuckles. And he s s s s s s out completely lags, lies on the ground, but, but his arms go like this. And then the brass knuckles that were in his hand fly out of his hand and bound across the ring and come to a stop near Charlie Dempsey. The referee, by the way, has been talking to Charlie Dempsey this entire time. He then turns and talks to men to rents and Claire for I don't know two seconds, turns around and sees Charlie Dempsey having kind of groggily picked up the brass knuckles. And then he's just holding his hand like, I don't know what I should do with these. And then the referee looks over and Lexus King is knocked out. And he says to Charlie Dempsey, did you hit him with those? Charlie Dempsey doesn't even have a chance to say no, I didn't, I found these sitting here. Why would I hit him with these? I was going to win anyway. He doesn't have a chance to say anything. The ref goes, did you hit him with those? Ding, ding, ding, disqualification. And as we all know, because they have said it on multiple occasions, a disqualification of the champion leads to a title change. So they made Lexus King, the Heritage Cup champion, while he was unconscious, having been punched out by the grandfather of NXT, William Regal, and the actual father of his opponent, Charlie Dempsey, in one of the dumbest fucking things I've ever seen HBK do. And that's saying something. How was last week? This week, there's a meeting backstage. And Ava says to Lexus King, who was holding the, the, the Heritage Cup. Hey, so you won last week, but you won by this qualification. I know, I just want to say what an honor is to finally be holding this Heritage Cup. I can't believe I'm the champion now. And he says, he says, she says, well, I've been doing some research into the rules. And while obviously disqualification does end the match, there's a gray area on whether or not the title can change hands on the disqualification. Well, how about you and everybody else come to a meeting of the minds and figure out what is actually the rule? Please tell me what the rule is. Is the rule like you just get rid of the gray, make it black and white. From here on out, it's the, whatever. She says that next week, it'll be Charlie Dempsey versus Lexus King, and it'll be sudden death. First fall gets the victory. But she doesn't like say, okay, here's the title. I'm gonna hold, I'm gonna hold the, the, the cup. She makes Lexus King, give it back to Charlie Dempsey. And William Regal is in the meeting too. It's like, don't look at me. I'm washing my hands of this whole thing. I'm staring real clear of this. Ace, Kate would agree with me. This that finish was awful. It was truly disgusting. And of course, yes, Lexus King is winning again next week. It's just ridiculous. I mean, I, I almost decided to do a Christmas Eve show last week, just so I could rant about that finish. It was so terrible. Tag team of the year was announced. Tag team of the year, Chase U, Lash and Jekara, Hank and Tank and the blurry boys. I was there a real rule. They could only be four nominees. Where the hell are the wolf dogs? The Hank and Tank never even held the titles. Hank and Tank never held the titles this year. You know, who did Tony D and Stacks until February when they lost them to the wolf dogs who held them until April. And yeah, like, Chase, you ended up winning them, but only held them for like three weeks. Come on. The hell. The blurry boys obviously win because people have eyes. Yeah. Yes, half of the wolf dogs were worlds end this weekend. Again, if you can nominate Die Jack for best match of the year, you should be able to nominate Corbin for one half of the tag team of the year, but whatever. No, Ace, Corbin was not featured in the awards. He should have been, but he wasn't, uh, Solruka versus Izzy. Solruka versus Izzy. Um, that's, I mean, cool. Solruka versus Izzy. Like, why not? Um, but Solruka and Zarya, we're having, like a conversation backstage, like we, man, we're, we're, we're, we're not going to be tag team of the year unless we can get on the same page. You know what I mean? Um, and, uh, wouldn't you know what they couldn't get on the same page in this match either? Because Zarya, Zelta, Delta, came down to the ring side and, um, and Sol wanted to do a crossbody from the top rope, but Izzy deliberately pulled Zelta into the path of the, of the, of the crossbody and Zelta somehow blamed Solruka, who was in mid flight when somebody else, a third person pulled Zelta into the, into the path of the crossbody. Why, why are we doing two of these in the same episode of these people who are nominally kind of allies now hate each other because of a obvious mistake that was not the other person's fault that happens. Why are we doing this? I don't, I mean, uh, uh, Izzy, Izzy's very good. Uh, she's, uh, getting much better. Um, she wins, um, because of that particular distraction. Um, I don't know why, why, why are we doing two of the same thing? Why are we doing that? Don't do that. Don't do, don't do the two of the same thing at the same time. That's dumb. Hank and Tank have found their third guy for the six man tag. They found it. And the, and the six, the six, the, the, their third guy is going to be Andre Chase, who is just wandering around backstage, wearing a untucked dress shirt and chase you pants. They're the chase you pants because they have like the pinstripe of the navy blue down the side of the black doctors. Um, he's just hanging that backstage and he reluctantly agrees to be in the match with them. And he does some fun stuff like helping out them against, you know, team bouncy beef and, and Wesley. But then at one point he's going to do the, I'm going to, I'm going to spell chase you. Give me a C. Give me an H. Give me an A. Give me an S. Give me an E. Give me a U. What's that spell chase you? He was going to do that to, I think, Tyreke Igway. And then he looked up into the stands to where the chase you section was supposed to be, but they're not there. And it reminded him about how he's no longer the president of a fake university. So he got all sad and depressed. And he went and tagged in Hank all for Lornley and he left them there. He walked away from the match, which allowed Hank to get pinned. Ah, women of the year, by the way. Um, Roxanne, Jada, Lola, Kalani. And Roxanne won because she's been the champion for most of the year. And it feels like that's kind of her. It would be weird if somebody else wanted. She'd been champion for a long time. Jada would be a really good option as well, but I don't, I didn't think anyone was going to beat Roxanne. She gave a speech, a little reaction thing to being winning and it's fine. She says she's going to be Julia next year, next week or whatever. Ashanti, the Adonis is hanging out backstage, trying to call Carmen and go straight to voicemail. So he leaves a voicemail saying Carmen, if it's you, I really want to spend, it's you, baby. It's always been you. It's always been you for these past three months, two months, how long, how long has it been going on? It feels like seven months. Um, it's always been you and I want to spend new years eve with you. And if I can't, then I guess I'll spend it alone. Uh, up walks Nikita is like, Hey, I'm going to this fly party. You want to cut? You want to come through? Want to do them with me? It's like, No, if I would like spend it alone with me. I thought you was a player, she says, and she walks away and it's like, and then Ashanti goes, I guess I'm not. So there's that. And then Izzy Dame is being accosted by, um, by Sean Spears about basically joining his group. And Tony D'Angelo's like, Hey, so, uh, why don't you leave the lady alone? She don't want to talk to you no more. And, uh, and Sean Spears, is he's like, finally a man who listens and she leaves. And then Sean Spears is like, Oh, I'm, I'm surprised you're not still getting beaten down by Santa Claus. So long story, last week Santa Claus was sitting at ringside for the whole damn show. He was in the, he was in the stands. He was at ringside. He was all over the damn place. And then at the end, he attacks Tony D. And it's revealed that Santa Claus has been Ridge Holland the whole time. So Ridge Holland versus Tony D is your next, is your next program for Tony D. What the hell? Um, man of the year, uh, trick. Oba. Tony D. Ethan Page. That, that is, that is a very good top four. I will say, although Ethan didn't really debut until June. So he's like he got, he only was, he was only an NXT for half a year. But I don't know who you would replace him with who has been there for the whole year unless you replaced him with both Nathan Fraser and Axiom because they did so much together. I don't know who else he would put in there besides Ethan Page, even because he's the page only over half a year. But before we get the, the reveal of who the winner was, which I don't even know if we actually got that reveal. So Kale Dixon, the last time we saw him, he was getting speared in half by Braun Brekker and his squash on the main roster. No, you're right. West, West Lee could have easily, West Lee could have easily been nominated instead of, uh, Ethan Page. But Ethan Page did hold the NXT title. And that's a big deal. I, I, that's a toss up for me. If there was a, if there were five people nominated for, for male wrestler of the year, then West Lee would be the fifth one without a doubt. But I, that's a, that's a tough one. Unless you disqualify Ethan Page because he wasn't in NXT for long enough, I would still have to have him nominated. Anyway, Kale Dixon is a dude who was, as far as I know, never attended to chase you. There was never a student there. He was a dude who had some matches on level up, which now no longer exists. And, uh, and then he got squashed by Braun Brekker on the main roster in a, in a, in a little, a job or match, right? He shows up and talks to, he says, Hey, Mr. Chase. So when's the next semester starting? He said, and he said, and then, uh, he says, Hey, kid, don't you understand? Don't you pay attention? Chase who's gone doesn't exist anymore. And he goes, but Mr. Chase, how's that possible? Apparently Kale Dixon doesn't watch the product. How long ago has it been a month? Has it been actually a month since, since, since it was, since it was revealed that the chase you doesn't exist anymore? Also, is Kale Dixon now Bodey Hayward? That is a major question we must answer. Three weeks ago now, when chase, when Andre Chase was cleaning out, was, was, was, when, when he was cleaning out his, um, in the school, he was walking down a hallway about to leave and he heard a voice that he thought was familiar and turned around. Hey, Mr. Chase. He turned around and the look on his face was one of utter shock. And I think a lot of people thought maybe this is Bodey Hayward, his former student, who was let go because of a technicality, they said. And maybe they're bringing him back. What a cool little thing that he and Bodey Hayward could be like a tag team now or something. It would give this character purpose and actually tie up a loose end. Wouldn't that be nice? But I think now they're trying to say that it was Kale Dixon, who was the one who yelled out to, to Andre Chase backstage that one time. And I'm sorry. I just, I just don't, I just don't, I just don't buy it. It needs to be Bodey Hayward, not Kale Dixon. By the way, don't name your son after a leafy green that tastes awful. Whoever Kale Dixon's parents are, they need to be written up, at least pay a fine of some kind. Maybe jail time is too harsh. But don't, don't your, don't name your son Kale. Just don't. It's terrible. So the main event segment is the announcement of the winner of the male wrestler of the year. It's Mike Rome standing in the middle of the ring with the award. And, and he says, ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the male wrestler of the year. And he doesn't announce who it is. Obefemi comes out, Obefemi struts down to the ring, doing Obefemi stuff. And that's all we, then he, he takes the award and he does an acceptance speech, which is like, it does not matter that you voted for me. It doesn't matter what any of you think of me, whether you like me, whether you don't like me. I am inevitable. I am the greatest thing. He says, he says, I am the captain now. That's, Obefemi is just, he's just the very best. He's no one I've ever seen at this level, this early in their career has, has got so much of the package. Yes, it certainly helps that he's six foot seven and 310 pounds. Like, that absolutely adds to it. That gives him a leg up on other guys because of what he can do, how strong he is. But on the mic, he's so great. The character work is so great. Oh my God, he's so friggin excellent. But because we never got to hear Mike Rome say, Obefemi, and Obefemi walked in, took the, the award away from him. And, and then trick Williams interrupts him. I thought we were going to say trick Williams actually won the award. It doesn't seem possible that it was Ethan or Tony D. But if it was actually trick and not Obe, wouldn't Obef said something? Well, wouldn't, wouldn't Obef, wouldn't, wouldn't trick have said something? I'm actually the one who check the name, check the name on the plaque on that award. It actually says trick Williams. They have a good little back and forth. You know, trick, trick delivers a nice little promo. Eventually, Obe is very angry at this thing. He drops his award. He drops his microphone. But from behind comes, yeah, Obef said this trophy is just a popularity contest and doesn't need it. He's the best. Yes, it is a popular contest and he doesn't need it. If he had lost it, if he had not won, he would have said doesn't matter. It's a popularity contest. He did win. So he says, it doesn't matter. It's a popularity contest. That is the kind of consistency I like to see. Great stuff. Now, Eddie Thorpe attacks Obef from behind hits him and knocks him into trick Williams, who falls out of the ring onto the floor. And then he picks up the award and smashes it like runs it like he would like a title belt and smashes it into the forehead of Obefemi, which hits him so hard it knocks off his amazing chunky necklace that I love so much. And then Eddie Thorpe holds up the title above his head. And that's how we go off off the air with, with Eddie Thorpe holding up the title, the NXT title. So note, there's there's no confirmation yet. I don't think that Obefemi is actually the NXT Meheruster of the year, although he friggin should be the NXT Meheruster of the year. Now we are now coming down to 90 minute episode. We're coming down to 90 seconds until the new year on the East Coast. I think I timed that out pretty well. I think I timed that out pretty well. Okay, let's see here. All right. All right, let's see here. All right. It's time. It's time. Here we go. All right. According to this, according to what I'm looking at now, we have 40 seconds left. Okay. According to what I've got over here, we got 45 seconds left on the thing. But I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to use the clock within the timer. So at 90 minutes, in about 20 seconds, I'm going to call a 10 second timer. Okay. All right, here we go. Here we go. We're counting down and I'm sure it's beyond it. This is just for me. This is just for me now. Nobody else cares. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Fightful fam. It's the best part of being an on air talent in Fightful is being able to do this to everybody. I hope everyone has a fantastic 2025. Now, let's sing all the quintence be forgot as who as well as obviously this person. Here we go. Should all the quintence be forgot and never brought to mind, baby. Should all the quintence be forgot and tails of all and I'm looking up the lyrics because I honestly don't know anything more than those. But hold on. I'm going to see if I can find more lyrics here. I'm going to look at them up. Here we go. All dang, dang. All dang, dang lyrics. Let's see, lyrics here, lyrics there. That was going to do. Okay, here we go. All right, here we go. Okay. So here we go. Oh, you know what? Somebody else wants to do a voice here. Here we go. Hello. Happy New Year. For all lands on my dear. For all lands on. We'll take a cup of kindness yet. For all lands on. And surely you'll buy your pipe cup and surely you'll buy mine. We'll take a cup of kindness yet. For all lands on. Thank you. Happy New Year. Is that it? Have we done them all? Thank you, everyone. Good night. Happy New Year. If you're out having fun, please drive safe. Please do not drink and drive. It is a deadly night of the year for driving. So please be safe wherever you are. And we love you here. 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