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SummerSlam Fallout | Shane McMahon in AEW? Beyond The Bell w/ Andrew Zarian & Rich Stambolian 8/6/24

Andrew Zarian & Rich Stambolian return to discuss the fallout from SummerSlam. They will also discuss the meeting between AEW President Tony Khan and Shane McMahon.

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1h 6m
Broadcast on:
06 Aug 2024
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Andrew Zarian & Rich Stambolian return to discuss the fallout from SummerSlam. They will also discuss the meeting between AEW President Tony Khan and Shane McMahon.

Watch the show on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs7huFIRz94

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Do you see it? Do you see it? Yeah. That was wrong. I'm doing well. Continuing the summer. How about you? Oh, man. Is that me? Is that me? Yeah. Yep. That's my wife. Got that ping. Yep. Summertime was great. Fun. You know what? I'm going to talk about this because I really want to do. It really depends how you're watching this thing. Absolutely. Okay. I went on in the weeds yesterday and I ranted and raved about the show. It wasn't a bad show. No. It wasn't a great show. It was exactly what it was to the people that it was catering to. Yeah. I think it leaned. It skewed toward very good. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the hell out of it. No. It was a B. I don't think it was an A show. B show. A plus ending. Yeah. Great. Great ending. Yeah. Angle wise it was A plus. But we also called all the matches too on several of our other programs. Yeah. Except for the cash in. That's the only thing we got wrong. I really enjoyed the show and I don't like allowing other people's opinions because this is all subjective to impact how I felt about the show. Okay. I have learned to take myself out of this, right? My point of view is a 40 year old man that was a tape trader. Oh yeah. For sure. For sure. I don't have. And I think this is a fun exercise for everybody. Yeah. Right? I am a 40 year old man that was tape trading at 13 years old. Oh, straight up. Yeah. At 12 years old. Making me tapes from Florida that he would get at some, I have no idea where the hell he was getting it from. Right? That's how I would get all those death matches from 1995. Oh, for sure. I also was getting John O'Rezi's show recorded on cassette by one of my cousins on Long Island. Wow. And he would bring it whenever like his dad or grandfather would come visit my grandfather. Yeah. And he would give these cassettes and I would listen to John O'Rezi because I didn't know what channel it was on or we would get it, you know, it was on and out. I have a very different point of view with professional wrestling. Oh, for sure. I also cover it. Again, I'm not a journalist. Not a journalist. We're not journalists. We're not journalists. I, I'm involved in media. I'm involved on the business side. I know a lot of the talent. My point of view is not what you should follow. Right. I have a very different point of view. I could give you insight. Sure. You could, you could use it. Yeah. Because I say it was a good show or a bad show, doesn't mean it should change your opinion of it. I thought it was a very good show. Yeah. My kids loved it. Of course they did. They loved the show. They had so much fun at the check if it was recording. I had, they had so much fun watching this. They were so into to live Morgan and, and Rio Ripley stuff. My daughter especially. Of course, because my daughter is nine years old, and that's how she, she thinks that's what it is. Right. Right. I love the CM Punk stuff. I hate that. I hate that. I cock the bracelet. Okay. You don't like the bracelet. I do not like the bracelet. I don't, I don't get that. Oh, this, this is this segue into what Andrew tanks who, who, who, Robin? Yeah. Yeah. I asked me about bracelets. So we were, we were trying to do with this segment called what, what, what Andrew tanks. And so what does Andrew tank about those bracelets? I don't like the bracelet. Why? I, I get, I get that, like it means something. Right. Great. Same thing as Bret Hart fighting PCO. What was his name? Uh, go at that time. Jacques. Yeah. What? Pierre, Pierre. Yep. Uh, whatever he was going by at that time. I don't know if he was using it really, but not, um, and Bret Hart even said he goes, so we took my jacket and now I want to fight him. He's like, I'm rich enough to buy another freaking jacket. Right. Like it's stupid. I'm fighting over an object. Right. I get the, the, the fighting over the bracelet. Yeah. I get it. You know what? Your ugly dog's name is on that. I love that dog. I love that dog. It's old school. Cause it's, it's, it's Andre ripping to cross off a hoe. Exactly. Exactly. Okay. You're, you're hitting my point. Okay. But again, WWE booking the baby faces so distracted by the bracelet, right? He has the guy for the win and he sees the bracelet and he goes, no, I need to take him out of this move. My, my finish. Yeah. The anaconda vice to take the bracelet off of them. So I could put it on. Right. So you made one boneheaded move. Why not beat the guy and then take the bracelet off? Well, yeah. Okay. Then Seth Rollins picks up the bracelet, which is exactly what a referee should do as a man that has been a 20 something year veteran of the wrestling business. 20 years. Yeah. Right. More. More. 20, 20, four years. 20 plus years. You forgot. And you were so enraged that this man put that bracelet on. You beat up the referee. Right. And then you ended up losing. And you still lost the bracelet. Enraged. Enraged. Right. Is the best word. I thought the man. Listen, I, I very much like CM Punk. I like that. In Russell, what a great character. He was so different. Really a he's one of those few guys that has it, but not just it for the moment and it that transcends. Oh, yeah. It's a different decade. Yeah. I didn't like that, but you know who did my freaking kids loved it. Well, because it's, you know, okay. And you said Andre ripping the cross off. Yeah. Right. Let's go a little further. The undertaker ripping the cross off and then he does this. Oh, yeah. How great was a kid? You're like, Oh my god. Yeah. He touched Jesus and he got burned. And he got burned. This man is a bad man. Yeah. I as an adult. There weren't you. There were many adults that Washington said this is dumb. This isn't wrestling. I think it depends on the adult mysticism. Yeah. I, I, this is, we're back to 88. We're back to 89. This is the boom. They are doing things that work then. Yeah. It's it. I get it. I get it. But, I don't know now, now I sound like a cranky old man about the stupid bracelet. Old man yelling at bracelet. Listen, I love the show. It was a great show. It's your segment. This is, this concludes what Andrew think. Did you like the bracelet? I didn't mind it. I didn't care. I knew what they were doing. I think, you know, like it's, like I said, it's Hogan's cross. Great. You know, he got so riled up when he saw it on another man. On another man. Yeah. Yeah. But, but a fan gave it to him too, you know, wasn't like his wife made it for him. Mm hmm. I camp when they were like 14. But, listen, good show, great opening, great ending. Yeah. That opening was fantastic. Decent middle, you know. Yeah. Dominic, Dominic and Liv are now a team will go, oh, by the way, Rob is fantastic. Yeah. Best role of the year? Best role of the year so far. Yeah. So far. Very good. Very good. For a three hour show that we generally are kind of, kind of like on the fence of, it was very good. Yeah. I, I will talk about that, but a couple, a couple of notes here, I want to get your opinion because we haven't done a show since SummerSlam. Dominic, Liv, Rhea, you like that match? I enjoyed it. This is, I feel like this whole thing is Dom's tribute to Eddie, you know, it's basically Eddie Guerrero on steroids saying, I lied, you know. And Dominic was a guy. And by steroids, everybody like amped up. Amped up. Yeah. Oh, man. I want, I want to Jack Dominic. Can you imagine him? That would be amazing. Like, by the way, I'm bulking now. I heard. I'm bulking. I heard. I, I cut down to a hundred and sixty three pounds and then now I'm just putting on the weight. Nah. He's just going to eat pasta for the rest of the week. No, just, I'm, I'm eating way more, way more protein. Yeah. Like, like, I'm, I'm just eating. Remember when I did that chicken and egg diet? Oh, yeah. I'm back on that. Yeah. And Pinot Grigio for lunch. Of course. A bottle of Pinot and two eggs. That was my, that was my diet. I'm not even kidding. Uh, I like the Dominic lip stuff. Really good stuff. Braunbreaker is incredible. New Intercontinental Champion, it was nice to see his, uh, his, their reaction, there's more of that. There's more people here now. The, the reaction video that they posted of the Steiner Brothers, the Steiner Brothers celebrating. Somehow DDP squeezing his way in there also. Yeah. You know, genuine. They were happy. Yeah. L.A. Nightby Logan Paul. Exactly who should have won this. Right. Uh, Nia Jaxby Bailey. This was, uh, interesting. They went in this direction. You thought there would be a cash in. I thought there would be a cash in. Yeah. It was fine. It was what it was. Uh, Finn Balor cost Damien Priest, a world heavyweight championship, uh, we had a conversation about that before it happened. Yes. You and I. How cool. Yeah. Uh, I love Damien. He's fantastic. Gunther is incredible. Uh, we've been saying this for weeks. It's amazing that these two on how they started in professional wrestling and what they look like and where they were wrestling and where they are today. Oh yeah. That's a great example of doing the work. Oh, for sure. For sure. We're both these guys. And Damien is a very, he was a great world champion. He was, uh, he, I really liked him as a world champion. I hope this isn't the only time he gets it. Um, you know, the thing about wrestling is there's a lot of moving parts. Yeah. And I'm assuming that for the time being, this is the title that's going to flip-flop. Yes. Because Cody's not dropping it now randomly on, you know, it's going to matter. It's going to be a WrestleMania dropper. It's just going to be a royal rumble, you know, it's going to be big, something, something big with like that. It's built. It's not going to be, uh, solosacola. Right. Uh, we also got Roman's return. That building was so loud it did not translate properly on TV because the audio was distorted when he came out. Yeah. He's that loud. Yeah. What do you think of his new theme? I like it. He's fine. You know, like whatever they do with him, it's fine. I know you get used to it. I got to rewatch it again. This is, uh, his OTC shirt over the counter. Original tasty chicken. Yeah. Over the counter. Original tasty chicken. I thought it was a tribute to Robocop. OCP. Oh, very good. Um, I thought that return was good. You also had Finn Balor causing demon priests. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Uh, Jacob Patu got injured. Apparently. Yeah. Uh, tweet this. I don't think it's as serious as people think, but I think he had a boot on after show. Okay. So something happened. Okay. The production, however, was a 10 out of 10, dude. It really feels it's something humongous now. They were trying and in a great way, they were really trying different angles for certain parts of the matches. I think at one point, uh, I want to say Ellie Knight dropped an elbow from the top rope, but they shot it from underneath. Yeah. Kind of. Yeah. They were trying a lot of that. The angle shots, you know, they're changing stuff. This is fun. Yeah. You know, and we were talking about this in our, in our group chat for the production of the show and it is amazing how once, you know, that's SummerSlam 2021 that we went to that Joel was there and we hung out. Uh, that was a fun day. Yeah. It was great. I thought Jessica Drake was a fan of mine and I started waving at her and then she's like, Andrew, what are you doing? She, she's like, you know who I am. Right? I'm like, I'm so sorry. I'm a little stoned. I feel like that was the excuse for the entire weekend for everybody. Everybody, everybody. We met. I'm so sorry. I'm a little stoned. And then I started like the week after he was like, do you remember, uh, sometimes I'm like, yeah, of course I do. We took a photo. Yeah. Uh, a lot of belt guys, a lot of belt guys that, that show really felt like it was a, uh, a big production. Yeah. Oh yeah. You know, Broadway, it felt like a really big, this however felt even bigger. Yeah. Once Vince left, they finally did it. Yeah. You know, this is what the intention was always. It is bigger than anything else. It's not just a sports presentation. It's a very high quality presentation. Mm hmm. I mean, listen, the NFL, the NFL does great stuff. Yes. Right? The NBA does great stuff. Nobody has the finesse of WWE's production right now. Wrestling is at the cusp of being that true event where, you know, like, and you're, you're, you're into business and marketing. Yeah. Wrestling has, has, is at the cusp of, let's say you have clients coming in from out of town. Yeah. You go, hey, they're doing a pay-per-view. Why don't we all go get a suite together? Blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Uh, those corporate boxes. It's happening. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. And that's, that's, that's when you know where you got a pivotal shift. You know, the Knicks games, they will be sold out even if there's nobody in that. Oh yeah. For sure. You know, a lot of it is corporate stuff. Yeah. Uh, same with, same with Yankee Stadium, same with the Mets, you know, even if it's not a real seller, I mean, I'm not saying every day, but if they, you know, it's, it's close. Yeah. Because of corporate attendance. Mm-hmm. That is what WWE is really capitalizing on. They, they are, those comp seats where important people are there and you're going there for a reason. Mm-hmm. Uh, is something very important. International client relations. Yeah. Uh, it's been great. It, it's been, I, now wrestling wise, I can't rate it. I don't know. But angle wise, this was a fantastic show. Yeah. And it continued on the next night. Very enjoyable, very enjoyable. Um, wrestling wise was fine. You know, uh, last night you had Monday Night Raw, listen, putting that belt on Gunther, everybody saw it coming, uh, ever since he had that match with Cody, that ending with Cody at the world rumble a couple of years ago. Yeah. But when, when were they going to pull the trigger? And I think they did it at the right time. I thought this was the right time, uh, they're going to Berlin. So I, I mean, perfect timing for this over, over, definitely over who, who does he face in Berlin? Randy Orton. Yeah. Um, that's going to be cool. When's the Berlin show? The Berlin show is in a couple of weeks. Okay. MG, our producer. Yeah. He'll look it up. Uh, Seamus beating Ludwig, Ludwig Kaiser. I really enjoyed that. No, you know, he was another one. Everybody hated Seamus. Now they love him. Uh, slow burn on Seamus. Yeah. Damon Priest calls that Finn valor great promo. You could see the crowd really digs him, uh, thirty first, thirty first of all. August is going to be okay. The Berlin show. Yeah. Um, finish on on screen with the new judgment day, including Liv Morgan, uh, setting up J.D. McDonough versus Damon for later. Yeah. Uh, you had Larry Rock, Harriet Defeating, Shayna Bazer, right? DQ. That was fun. Yep. Uh, punk comes back. Thank God. He's not injured. Oh, you know what? You know what? Knock on wood. Thank God. Thank God. He did it. He did it. He did a, he did a good promo. He came out. He was ready to fight. Uh, he said, even though he lost, he was happy. He got back in five months, opposed to nine when he was told he got back in six. Okay. Tell me when I'm telling lies. Right. Right. Right. Right. I will tell you. He came back in six. Uh, I, he came out. Here comes, uh, here comes Seth, Seth is, and again, no funny outfit, Seth is there for business. Yeah. Drew McIntyre is shown on the steps in the crowd. Punk sees them. And again, goes full on muffin gate. Yeah. Right. Do you think that's what he did? Do you think that's what it was? You know, I didn't know, of course, this man was so out of his mind at that thing. Yeah. A bracelet has triggered him to, to, to lose his marbles. It's marbles. You know, he should have the muffins and that's actually, you know what? I'm going to give him a nice, gimmicky Vince McMahon character. He just shoves those vegan muffins in his mouth and then just goes full rage or the opposite or like think muffins have to calm him down. The muffins, yeah. The muffins, like the Snickers commercial, the muffins, yeah. The muffins, he goes after Drew and this was fantastic. Seth is in the ring. Bronson Reed attacks him. Yeah. He hits him with six tsunamis. Oh yeah. They murdered Rollins and the crowd was so into Rollins and spitting a blood and he was taken to the hospital or local medical facility. Does this, you know, they made him into, they made him, they, they just elevated the dude. They're trying to make Bronson Reed a made guy. And I think he's got such a good future with this company. They lack his style of big man. We got a, we got a question here. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Where's French Tony Khan? Oh. Friday. We have an update with, from French Tony Khan on Matman on Friday. He's calling into the show. I heard about that. Yeah. You're not a fan. Nah. Yeah. I think he's weird. Yeah. A little bit. He's talking about those long cigarettes. Those long cigarettes that he likes. Yeah. Maybe they're real sexual. It's weird. The horny guy. Oh, French Tony. He's French. That is true, you know. His favorite actresses? Brigitte Bardot. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Ask him on Friday. Yeah, I'll ask him. He calls it. He calls it. I'll ask him. This was good stuff. New day Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston defeated AOP. Odyssey Jones for the save. Yeah. That's a big boy. Yeah. Big boy. Well, that was a nice surprise. He came to aid the new day. I wonder if he will join the new day. That would be kind of cool. Well, you know, like here's a couple of things. Like one, if they pull the trigger on Big E being on TV and having him be the manager, and having Odyssey Jones be the third guy, that would be funny. And again, what a sad timing of events for that guy. Yeah. The injury obviously. But this man, he achieved it. He got it. Yeah. He became world champion. Yeah. You know? Unbelievable. A-town down under defeated awesome truth. Damian Priest defeated JD McDonough by DQ when Finn Balor attack priest. A new judgment day would end up getting involved. So Liv Morgan is officially in judgment day. Rhea Ripley will come out to help Damian fend them off. She was ready to kill Liv. Yeah. Dom made the save. Damian and Rhea reunite in the ring. That was a fun moment. Yeah. That was a really good moment. I like them together. I like them paired up together. Same here. Same here. I defeated Sonya Deville. This was after Sonya's group took out the Kodakai. And the Wyatt six came out. That was good. Dexter Loomis, Joe Gacy, Eric Rowan, defeating Chad Gable and the Creed brothers. What are they calling themselves now American maid or something? Yeah. What is that? What's their new name? American maid. Right. Cool. Sean Ross. Put me over. I will always put Sean over. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. He's a rest guy. And he's a journalist. Did you know that? I'm not. He's a legitimate journalist. I'm not. That guy is a legitimate journalist. These guys. Not so much. We know how to read. That's as far as it goes. That's as far as it goes. Listen, I will tell you. I'm not a journalist. I occasionally go out for a couple cocktails. Exactly. Exactly. You know what? That should be my bio. Mm-hmm. I'm not a journalist. I occasionally go out for a couple cocktails with couple people and I'm told things. You're the liquid lunch express. Oh, dude. That is my name. That's my tag. You know what? That's what my newsletter would be called. The liquid lunch express. Yeah. Next up on the liquid lunch express. I had to my ties with a certain so and so. You know what? Some of these boys. Those martini lunches. They get nuts. I tell Frisco's. Yeah. Oh my God. Delicious. Nobody eats. Mm-hmm. And then everybody goes back to their office, which is fantastic. It's funny. And this is 100%. Andrew is telling the truth because I've met these guys. And when I've met them, it was towards the end of those nights and they're all kinds of cock guys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because we started like 11.30 in the afternoon. Yeah. I'm going to go see somebody tomorrow actually. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe maybe hell no. What's happening with this deal? Who? Who? Who? Who Robin? No. Sean is a show. I'm going to put Sean over. Yeah. Yeah. Like we've always done this stuff on the show. Yeah. Oh, for sure. Okay. We've always broken news. We've always like if I'm told something, we talk about it. Right. Right. I never posted on my personal. Exactly. And then I started doing it. Yeah. Sean was the first one that said no, this dude's legitimate. He's not full of shit. Yeah. He has no reason to lie. I've edited him. Mm-hmm. And that was it. Does it? That was it. That was it. Made guy. Made guy. Uh, I got to hand it to Sean. A little Sean Ross loving right now. Yeah. The amount of garbage that comes this guy's way is absolutely insane. Yeah. And he deals with it pretty well. Yeah. And he does because I just want to find them and bury them. That's what I'm saying. Like I've been saying I've been on like, like, chocolates, DEFCOM for lately, you know? They just want to walk around. Yeah. Some of these bozos are really fucking deranged and what's unbelievable is that they have like real legitimate jobs. Some of these people. Yes. You know. The doctors and lawyers. Some of them, um, eh, it's wild. But you know what? I got to tell you. It doesn't make just because you're a doctor and lawyer does not make you, uh, the most stable human being. Yeah. You know how many doctors I know? Quite a few. I went to Manchester with a bunch of hair transplant surgeons. Mm-hmm. Okay. Went to a strip club called Daddy Long Legs. Mm-hmm. I'm not even kidding you. But it's in England, right? It's in England. Daddy Long Legs. It was, I've never seen professionals behave in such a disgusting manner. Oh, dude. I looked at all of them. I'm like, and you want to be my doctor. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And you want to be my hair transplant and doctor. Well, you know, that's when you know, like I've, I've shot a million corporate events and usually after the first half an hour of an open bar. Yeah. And it gets a little nuts. Yeah. I, very, very interesting, uh, listen, man, the fandom is weird. What can I tell you? Uh, I, I, this was a nice showcase for the Y-6, uh, yeah. I'm glad that they've kept the, uh, code orange music. You know, this was an anniversary night for them. So they, they went on full display and I'm curious as you where they go from here. Great. I hope, I hope this works out for everybody involved. I think it will. I think, I think the ever since it's been left, everything has been slowly and steadily become more tight. Yeah. Like, yes, I want to see Gunther versus Randy Orton. I didn't think I would, but I do. Yeah. I, uh, listen, Randy, Randy's great and he has a huge international following. And obviously that's why he's in that match. Yeah. Everybody loves Randy. And I think this would be a great first display for Gunther. Mm hmm. I think it'd be fantastic. Overseas Randy, man. Everybody's going to sing that theme song like they did in France. Uh, what was the other one, the not, the, not the voices in his head? The other one. Oh, the one before that? Man. I don't remember that. I know, I know what you're talking about. I wish I had that, like, at the tip of my tongue. Oh, God. I wish I had it in the forefront of my brain, but I don't. Uh, and also, uh, a little quick note. Isn't it amazing that that judgment day stuff was edges stable? Right. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Like night and day. What was the conflation with edge? Was it that they wanted to be more spooky and he didn't want to be spooky? They wanted to get real spooky. Or he was like, this is too supernatural and over the top. I'm not. They wanted to become more like more macabre, more macabre. Okay. Uh, and I think he was like, no, that's getting a little weird. And then flash forward when he showed up with a vampire, best friend. Yeah. And then he showed up with his vampire best friend a year later, came out through the ring. Wow. Gangirl was under there the whole time. Wow. Gangirl is under everywhere in it all the time. He's here. He's at the desk. Yeah. Is he going to come through your desk? Like Eric Andre? Oh, man. I was lovely. Who Robin? Uh, let's see. We got. We talked about this very briefly last week, um, uh, we're going to talk a little bit more about it. The picture emerging of Shane meeting with Tony Khan. Shane McRaean. Oh, do you want, do you want to talk about Roman on SmackDown? Do you want to go back? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Let's go to it. Yeah. Well, because I want to go into AWL together, uh, Roman will be back on SmackDown this Friday. Does he come out with anybody? Gangirl. He comes out with Gangirl. That's great. Love that. I would love that. You know, you, would you love that? I would love that. Like he's like, I'm the, I'm the tribal chief. And here's the latest addition to the bloodline. And it's literally bloodline. Yeah. Of course it has up. And it's him. He just brings out blood. Mm hmm. You know what Gangirl on the bloodline is what I need in my life. I think so. Yeah. I don't care what any of you people say. This is the real bloodline. This is the real bloodline. It's just blood everywhere. Brings back. Kevin Thorne. Yeah. Only vampire guys. Ah, people are saying he comes out with the Usos. I think that's what people want. Okay. They want the reunited Jimmy and Jay. We kind of saw Jay and Sammy. Yeah. Yeah. Last night get back together a little bit. You know. So, I mean, I guess, I guess he goes back into the, he is, he is a noose. Yeah. You know, you bring him all back. He's the, Sammy's the fourth man. I, I, this has to be, this has to be, this has to be the war games match. Yes. You have to. You can't not do it. Except they didn't fully commit to that Shawn Mikey's spot. No. They kind of did. They kind of did it. They told it. Why, why just do it? But Seth did come out as Shawn Mikey's. He did. He had this. Yeah. And Phil the hitman came out. Yeah. And, you know, Drew McIntyre had that big collar. So he kind of looked like the undertaker. I thought that was such a good meta ending for that match. Yeah. I listen, I, I didn't, I didn't hate anything. I screwed punk, punk screwed punk, right? Yeah. Shane McMahon, last week. What day was this? Monday, Monday. I kind of spoke about this a little bit, but picture emerged. I saw the picture, okay? Before it came out. Yes. And I, and I, and I'm, and I swear to all of you, I thought it was Nikon. Yeah. Okay. When I first saw it, I, I didn't, I didn't zoom. I didn't do this. I didn't do this. You do that. That's how you zoom. You do that. I hold my hand. You hold your wrist and then you zoom and then I go. I go like that. Okay. It's like an iron. I thought it was, I thought it was Nikon and I'm, and I'm talking to somebody about this. Yeah. And they made me swear I wouldn't say anything and swear on my hair and that's a big one. Oh. That's huge. Guys. That's huge. And I'm like, and I'm like, yeah, I'm like, I don't understand. They're like, why, why would Nick and Tony meet? Like, for what reason? And he's like, what are you talking about? Yeah. He's like, zoom in. Oh. And I did one of these zoomed in and you're like, Oh, I'm like, Oh, it's true. Oh. Side note. Yeah. Randy Orton's song was called burn in my light. Burn in my light. Yeah. Nothing you can say. Nothing's going to change what you've done to me. Now it's time to shine. I'm going to take what's mine while you're burning and that's the one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the one. Pretty cool. Shane McMahon meeting with Tony Con. Do we get several dream matches that we've been kicking around? This is an interesting thing. Yes. Right? Because there were a lot of people that are like, I don't want to see Shane there. Yeah. Right? There's a lot of people that think it's cool. I think it's cool. I think it's cool. I think it's fun, man. I think it's, you know, what is he going to do? Well, you know, here's the thing. Is Shane going to become world champion? No. Is Shane going to wrestle every week? No. Can Shane do a big time attraction match? Yes. That's fun. Yeah. One guy, Darby Allen. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Shane and Darby. Okay. I think Shane will naturally get booed by that smart crowd until he does the coast to coast leg drop. He has. And then that's when he gets him. He has to come out with the elite. Yes. Okay. I have, I am still like this whole elite versus AW thing doesn't really make sense to me. But because I'm like, you are a W, you're management. You are a W. Yeah. But adding Shane to this, I mean, it is hysterical because the books are just such dirt bag heels. Yes. You know, like the, not the people. I don't know the people, like the, the characters. There's such dirt bag heels that adding Shane to it with Ocada standing. Yeah. I mean, this is me fantasy booking, right? I'm not. I'm just having fun. Yeah. Dude, I mean, like, how do you not laugh, you know, how do you not think it's ridiculous? Um, see here, lady being the chat room, I'm just here for the fantasy booking comments about Shane versus. Oh, yeah. Uh, yeah. Shane, Shane ducks the rain maker and then he starts doing those weird jukey punches on Ocada. Oh, by the way, dude, Kyle murdered me. Our buddy Kyle. When? Uh, you had left. Okay. Oh, this. Okay. And, and we started locking up. Yeah. Like, I haven't done it in so long. So we, we, he was just like, he's like, okay, do this, do this, do this, being done boom. And we did like the most basic thing, lock up, uh, do you give you a backdrop in your kitchen floor? He gave me, he gave me an atomic drop. Yeah. My butthole still feeling it. Oh boy. And dude, he started doing these. Oh, and, and like everyone was, I was like, yeah, yeah, right on the money. Yeah. He has a beautiful punch though. Yeah. Yeah. That was good, man. Kyle's really good. Stunt choreographer, choreographer, choreographer for a new trauma picture. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Good dude. Yeah. And former Russell. Uh, so Shane. Let's get back to Shane. This is a statement from bully ray. McMahon said Tony and I were connected through a mutual friend and had a great meeting. We talked about many things, but mostly about our shared love for the business and the rewards and challenges of working with family. I congratulated them on five year anniversary of AEW and looking forward to seeing how we evolved as a business moving forward. Great statement. Yeah. Great statement. Set a whole lot of nothing, but don't expect them to say anything. You know, could he show up at all in? Could that be a huge moment? Could he, could they play? Here comes the money? Yes, they can. Cause it's a naughty by nature. Yes. So it's enough. Tony Khan loves buying up those, those, those, those music rights. I think it would be fascinating from a business and a wrestling fan perspective. Uh, I don't see the hate in it. I mean, I say, I get it. I get it. I get it. Oh, this is our thing. We don't want that man involved. And that's fine. Great. Again. I just imagine. I mean, listen, I like fun stuff. Wrestling has to be fun. It doesn't have to be over analytical. I know that that's the thing, but sometimes you want a stupid, fun thing to happen. Plus, Shane's got two best friends and edging Christian there. Are they best friends? They're all buddies. Yeah. They're very buddy buddy. And they all came in together. Shane's a fun boy. Yeah. I know a lot of stories about Shane in New York. We got a question on the screen. Here we go. Our producers are speaking to me in my ear. You guys can't hear him, but I can. Why did you prepare me? If there's nothing there. There's nothing on the screen, man. All right. Let's, let's. Let's wait. Now, let's see how long it takes our producer to get it on the screen. The pressure's on, Mr. Gonzo. Let's see if you could deliver. Look at this. There we go. There it is. He can do something similar to what Nick Khan does with WWE, but in AEW. I don't know. Do you, do you make him into like a management position? Do you have him just do a couple matches? Uh, I don't know why. I just picked with this guy. Just he's the modern day saying, uh, candlestick. Are you talking about a producer or are you talking about? No, Shane. Oh, he comes out like saying, man. He comes out like saying. Totally deranged. Okay. Candlestick smashing beers on his head and just like to protect himself, he's just hitting people with that candlestick. Oh my God. Oh my God. I love that. Fantasy Book and Shane versus everybody. It's the best. Fun. Uh, I welcome it. I want to see it. I want to see what they could do. Yeah. Uh, cool. All right. Building up for that all in card. Yeah. You're building up for that future. Yeah. At the end of the month, we're getting like three weeks away is a three weeks away and most likely we hear something about this deal in the coming weeks. Yes. I would be. You know what? I'm not even going to say anything. I'm just going to shut the fuck up and I'm not even saying a word anymore because you're being haunted. I'm being haunted. You're haunted by the Internet. I can't wait till raw ghosts and Netflix and it's rated R. Yeah. Then can we be rated R? Then I'm going to be right. That was that that day. Uh, took years off my life. The, uh, that leak memo from USA that they're going TV for it. And I'm like, that's pretty soon, July 3rd. It's like in a week. You guys are doing this in a week? Yeah. Yeah. Sad end. Even though it was listed on the TV as TV 14. Yeah. When you, when you went. Yeah. He did. Yeah. Yeah. Current lineup for this week's Dynamite. John Michaels. I, I will tell, I'll tell the story about when I went to dinner with some people from that company and they, we all drank and they all were laughing hysterically that I was right. Yeah. I'm not even kidding. Yeah. They were just dying on how right I was and how nobody believed me. Yeah. Yeah. Really weird. Weird time. Dynamite. Dynamite. This week. Tomorrow. I am looking forward to this match. Brian Danielson versus Jeff Jarrett. No DQ match with Ricky the Dragon's Steamboat as special guest. Do we see a couple on drags? Deep arm. Yeah. Deep arm. Uh, it's amazing how Jeff Jarrett has evolved so many times, you know, you had the, the, the, the, the Memphis wrestling Jeff Jarrett, you had double J. Then he did the slap nuts thing. Then he goes to WCW. He's very disliked. Starts TNA. He's very disliked. Starts GC bro. No, no, no. Global GFW. GFW. Sorry. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Imagine he started GCW. This is where hardcore happens, uh, GFW, you know, and, and he's had a long road this man. And finally at the end, he is beloved, but then went back to WWE for a little bit as a producer. He did. And then went to now as age, which is where beautiful punches were beautiful. And now he, W as an active wrestler. The guy looks great. Yeah. You know, like, say what you want about Jeff Jarrett, but clearly the guy loves the business. And listen, who wouldn't want to wrestle Danielson? Uh, I, you know, I wonder if a little bit for Jeff, it is a, you know, I want this guy is the greatest. Yeah. You know, Danielson, there's no, listen, one, two, three, who the fuck cares. Right. Oh, I'm cursing too much for morning. I'm going to FCS is the FCC is going to come after me. Do the other part in my ignorance shirt. I'm telling you, it's the shirt. It's bringing out the Howard, but that Rivera jacket. I can't ever wear that and do a show. No, that's bad. I would be, I would be banned on every platform. It's, you know, it's like the ring. Yeah. It does something to you. Bad news, brother. Um, I lost, I was thinking about wearing that jacket and I lost my train of thought. Okay. Uh, I'm part of my ignorance here, but do the other fightful shows curse? Do they drop? Yeah. Yeah, they curse. Okay. Yeah, they curse. Okay. I've never been told they don't curse. Okay. But they're also mostly on at night with a morning cursors. Yeah. With a morning bad boys. Yeah. Is there any more tag team? The morning bad boys. Is it? Is it? you American slash international title eliminated MJF versus Kyle Fletcher. I'm looking forward to it. They're for you just going great over MJF's hair transplanted allegedly. Oh yeah. I could have listened dude. I don't know if he got one and I'm not going to out anybody if they went to Turkey and got a hair transplant. Okay. I don't do that. But however, however, I know. You know what this is. This is not a joke. I know what that is. You have to can you somehow get a close up. I want I want you to read what this says. Okay. I'm holding a plaque an award that I was honored with that says FUE Europe. The follicle follicular unit extraction follicular unit extraction it's a graphic of of follicles. Yeah. Eighth annual meeting Manchester 2019 award of appreciation. Thank you for recognition as faculty. Yes. You are on the board of hair. I am on the board of hair and never board of hair. I'm never know. It's my. It's part of my life. Okay. I'm awarded. I'm an award winning hair expert. Andrew will judge the shit out of your hair by the way. I do not know. I want to save people. We talk. I just want to save people. And then he calls everybody a sufferer. I I hope if Max is. I hope he's on Finasteride daily. I hope he got a really good doctor. I hope he has an aftercare doctor on Long Island. There's so many great hair transplant doctors on Long Island. I'm just there's no reason to go to Turkey guys. We have some really good doctors here. Just saying. Listen but whatever. He looks great. So fascinating. You know what? I should start talking about it. He'll probably get so mad. I don't know. Listen. Who the hell knows what he did. I love that feud though. About the hair. Yeah. Fantastic stuff. Did that really do it for you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was my that was my wrestling boner. He went off. My universe is emerging. The fact that you love. I've always gotten a kick out of the fact that you love hair so much. I want to see your hair longer. I could take it off. I did that. I did that. I did that at the crazy ones party by the way. It's zippered in. It's zippered in. I did that at the lunatics party when we went to Sylvanas house and our friends are like the sweetest kids and they were like oh yeah you have great hair. I'm like look I could take it off. I can't get a what. I'm going to take it off before I go in the show and I did this and then she was mortified because you thought you were for real. She thought I was really going to do. That's hysterical. Yeah. And you got your body versus Brian Keith. Right. Dig it. Dig it. This is the current all-in card for all-in or yeah. Yeah. Jack Perry versus Darby Allen. Cool. I'm into this. Mercedes Monabas Britt Baker. Great. MGF versus Will Osprey. That Britt Baker suspension. Yeah. Does she make it back in time? Yeah. Yeah. American Championship. MGF versus Will Osprey. I'm looking forward to that. Okay. I'm looking forward to all these matches. Yeah. Women's Championship. Tony Stone versus Mariah Mae. Is it Mariah Mae's time? I would. I would. Pull the trigger. I would. Yeah. Okay. Swerve versus Danielson. Danielson's career. How do they finish this match? Is on the line. How do they do it? That would? No. How do they do it? Do you know how they do it? Oh reverse Montreal. Yeah. They reverse Montreal them somehow. Swerve. How how would you reverse Montreal? Like for real. Like if you were like Danielson puts you in the whatever submission and immediately just have out. No, no, no. They just they they ring the bell to shut the lights. They leave the belt and everybody exits the belt. Everybody goes on command. Just immediately runs out the building. You just leave them there. We're not gonna tell them what's happening. Nobody. No. You just shut the lights. The house lights go on. The stadium lights go off and it just him in the ring with the title and everything is shut off. Yeah. The gates go. They just keep them in that arena. That's hysterical. I would love to see that. Yeah. We have a lot of good questions in the chat. All right. Let's do this Q&A time boys and girls. Submit your questions in the chat room. Let's have some fun with these. Let's have some fun. Super chats go. Did we get any super chat? Probably not. Nope. Guys, if you want to super chat, it's gonna be much appreciated. And that's about it. Yeah. If you want to super chat, your question will be answered first. We got a couple of good ones in here. We got a couple of good comments here. Now, without going into it, there's a few of the same comment. Sean Gardner. Are the lucha bros going to WWE? You know, I have to tell you, um, I don't know if they are or they're not, but I welcome it. They've done everything they can in AEW. They've done tremendous stuff. You know, when that company started, we would say, like, you know, Penta could be a world champion. Absolutely. He was in the trajectory. He really was. But what, you know, things change. Not, not anyone's fault, but he never, he never got to that, but I never watched that guy Russell and say, ah, Penta's on. He's, he came out so hot after the lucha underground stuff, and he was primed to be a main event player. Yeah. And whatever happened happened, you know, I love the tag team with him and his brother. Yeah. But I did see this on the show either last week, I think last week, where I was like, oh, put him in NXT man, make him NXT tag champs. I, I, the money that they want, I don't know if they would do it, but I would really love to see him. Yeah. Uh, the name is going to be an interesting thing because that, they don't own that name, pentagon. Penta is triple A's. Really? And I believe they were trying to like trademark a new name. I don't know if they go to WWE because of the triple A connection now, because of Stephanie, uh, how that plays a part. I don't know, but very cool. I think, you know, he's 40 years old. Yeah. He's done it all. He's wrestled everywhere. He, he really is tremendous, uh, Penta. I mean, Reyphoenix is tremendous too. They should go. They should go there and have a, have a great time. A couple of years. Yeah. You know, three, five years, whatever. Yeah. At least you tried. You did it. A good, I think, I do think NXT would be a good intro for them for the company and then just rocket them to the main roster. Do that, do that war games match, you know? Yeah. Uh, let's see what else we got here. Uh, August 31st is the bash in Berlin. Yeah, it's going to be a fun show. Am I back by then? Yeah, I am back by then. Where you going? Uh, oh. Yeah. Okay. So my kids don't know. Oh, yeah. Going on a cruise with them. Yeah, I'm going to surprise them. So they don't know when it's at 19. Okay. Uh, Bob McGee, any info on Khan's talk with Zazlav? No, nothing. I don't have anything on that. Maybe, maybe I'll hear something tomorrow. Okay. Uh, D. Eddy says Roman Reigns, Gangrel and Kevin Thorne. That's a good trio. Oh, yeah. That is, that is the bloodline. Uh, good comment here from Chuck Cage. I feel like Roman is going to Raw to win the heavyweight title for the Netflix. I'm, I would, I would not be surprised if they swap people around for that Netflix thing. Um, I, I am curious though, when, when, because Smackdown is going to USA because Fox is letting them leave earlier. Right. So does, what happens with that? What happens to Smackdown? Because Smackdown currently, you know, is it the A show? I don't know. I don't, I don't, I think they're both A shows at this point. But yeah, because that Netflix deal is so important. Do you, what do you do? I don't know. I don't know if you move everybody around and you make that until this mega thing. I do like that it's going to be a little bit more less restricted. Yeah. As far as you know, you're, you're now on paid service. You're not on TV. You could do a little bit more. I, I do expect that first show to be a little bit raunchier. Oh yeah. This is like, I don't know in what way, but a lot of F bombs, I don't know. Maybe, maybe they're going to say the S words. Um, as it's also further proof that the draft is just a hokey maneuver. It is so hokey. Yeah. Because you know when that Netflix thing happens, like everybody's going to be. Ellie Knight's going to be on Cody. Oh, that first show everybody will be on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because they want that big number. You want to say all the legends will be there. Steve Austin, the rock, you know, whatever. They'll do, they'll do that big thing. Ace shock. Is it possible that there could be an 11th hour move from AEW to resign the Lucha Brothers? Same question about if did WWE resign Ricochet at the 11th? Very, very possible. It's all very possible. It's all very possible. I do think like, I, I really do think the Lucha Brothers got lost in the shuffle for somehow. And you know what? And they were an instrumental part of that. Injuries too played a part, you know. There were injuries. But they, they have not put on a terrible match at all. You know, like, all their matches are bangers. Uh, let's see. Yeah. Yeah, we were there for one of their greatest matches. The Bucks versus the Lucha Brothers. Yeah. That was a great match. Cadillac Carson, Shane will kick out of the one wing at Angel. Oh my. He'll be the first. He'll do it. He'll do it. Shane on collision. F and wild. Imagine that. You know what? When are they going down to Panema City? That's when he should show up. Book a book, Panema City. Love Lavela. Dietti. Shane versus Moxley. Mox just no cells. All of Shane's offense. I could see, you know what? Shane Jericho. That'll happen. All the WWE. Moxley. I want to see him in Mox. Him in dating. Yeah. Him and Daniel said, you know. Him and Darby, I think, would be the attraction. Right? Yeah. Oh, him versus Lance Archer. Oh my God. Lance will murder him, though. He doesn't have the protection of being Vince's son in AW, you know? Yeah. Let's see. Have you ever watched the trauma movies? Yes. That isn't toxic. Toxic Avenger, all that stuff. All that stuff. Trauma and Juliet. Uh, let's see. There we go. A shock. If Luther Rose went to WWE, what brand would they go to? In my opinion, it should be raw to dethrone the judgment day. I think raw would be good for them. Yeah. Yeah. I think you would be. Next to you, man. I think it would inject. You really think I'd see. I think it would inject some life into NXT. Okay. Oh, God. Doesn't matter. Ow. Wait. Oh, you're tubbed up. Oh, God. I'm trying to get the whole guy from WrestleMania 18. Let's see. We got a super chat here. Hello, brobs. Odyssey Jones, double-side slamming. AOP gave me the meat sweats. I'm still holding out hope for Biggie. Down Big E down the Cody Rhodes. Yeah, I hope Biggie comes back. But Odyssey Jones, you know, there's something about him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big dude. Big dude. Big dude. Very endearing. Charming. Yeah. Let's see. I like the big guys. We need more different sizes. I'm tired of everybody looking good, dude. Bronson reads like he's a good classic. We need more ugly wrestlers, too. Yeah. Like for sure. I want ugly, grimy, dirty wrestlers. Like no, Joe Henry. No, two hands. Two hands. Everybody's handsome. Everybody's beautiful. You want more odises? No, he has a beautiful face. I want ugly. Like I want like Dick Murdock face. Oh. I want more of those. Except without the racism. I don't want the racism. I don't want the alleged racism. I just want that ugly face. Well, Trevor Murdock's floating around there. Trevor Murdock. Yeah, Trevor Murdock. You know what? He's one. He's another guy. No offense. If I don't mean that in an offensive way. Just, you know, I want someone that digs holes. Sure. If A.W. wanted to punish Britt Baker for her consistent poor backstage behavior, why not bury her and remove her from all in as opposed to the suspension and fine? Tony needs to be better with this. I think because she's still wildly positive. Because you're chopping off your arm to save your pinky. I get the move. I don't think it would hurt the fans. You know, you don't want to punish the fans from seeing something really cool. You know, a lot of people are questioning what this why she was suspended for a one-off comment. And we spoke about it on Matt Men. I'm sure Sean is going to, you know, he's had information on this. I did. This was the way it was said to me. This was not a one-off event. Right. Now, I'm not saying specifically with MJF or not. I, you know, we hurt under Rosa's stuff for a while. And I'm not even talking about that. So. Listen, it is what it is. It's it's it and I'm not listening. I'm not defending anybody. I'm not blaming anybody. But this is not a team sport. Right. This is you better protect your. You better protect your your positioning. And you people are aggressive for that. Right. And rightfully so. You should be. Raven has a great, great quote. Yeah. And I'm saying this in not a derogatory way. If you're not going to be the biggest mark for yourself, then who the hell is? Right. And he's right. So. Frustration builds. You want the number one spot. You want the most money. You want more time. And people, you know, they get into their head. What would have been is a good question. I'm this is my segment called Acts Andrew. Yeah, yeah. What would have been going by that statement you just made you quoted Raven. Yeah. What could have been book this for me? Yeah, yeah. If Zack Ryder did that after the cane thing. Oh, he just came back and was like because he's the perfect example of, I think he admitted himself where he was like, I didn't know that I could politics for something. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's actually great. You know what? He would probably be doing what he's doing today. Okay. And he looks great. Yeah. He may and he's another one. He left the he left WWE went to the Indies and he's doing some insane stuff. Oh, yeah. And they shouldn't like him. He's an attraction. He's an attraction. GCW should not like him, right? Because he's anti everything that they stand for. But he works there. He's so good. Yeah. He's so good. So good. He's a big guy too. Yeah, large. Paul Anthony Moss. If her business go to AEW and Lucha Bros go to WWE, which company do you think benefits more? Oh, that's a great one. I did. Paul Anthony Moss. Greatest name ever. Second to Sean Ross app. Another. I like three name guys. Okay. I like three names. You should do a third name. What can my third name be? Andrew. Power play is there. Power play. Yeah. We got one man on the outside. Two minutes to come in. Rangers with the power play. I don't know. Maybe equal. I don't know. It depends on what the booking is. You know, like I think if you like the hurt business by having Lashley there and you could come up with something very creative for him, then I would say that would be the bigger thing. But if you just sign somebody and they don't do anything like, listen, Matt Hardy signed there. I thought he could have had some tremendous stuff. Obviously, the pandemic played a part in here. He did. Jeff Hardy got signed. That's a big move on paper. Yeah. You got Jeff Hardy. To many people, he is a tremendous, tremendous get from that era. Yeah, absolutely. I've always said didn't pay now. It really didn't work out. It's really weird, right? Okay. I've always said that Jeff Hardy is WWE's ultimate prodigal son. Yeah. That whenever he comes back, he's always welcome. And the same thing will happen again. Yeah. When he goes back. Yeah. When they do that rumble TNA spot and the Hardy boys show up, forget it. Yeah. That'll be great. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's why I'm saying the Lucha brothers need to go to NXT, because that's the original. That's the starting crossover with the TNA stuff. You know what? You could do something there. Yeah. Yeah. Why not? Finally get Lucha brothers versus the Hardy boys. Oh, on NXT TV. On NXT TV. You know what? I'm into that. Yeah. I'm into that. Or them versus Gals and Anderson, you know, like all those guys. It's like, that's where I think, I do think Triple H is a fan of tag game wrestling. And I do think WWE has a lack of tag dates. Yeah. Lack of like, good tag. Bible tag. Yeah, yeah. When do you think Stephanie Vicare shows up? I don't know. I haven't asked. Mean roster or NXT? NXT. You think so? Yeah. I think. Oh, maybe tonight. That's true. Could be tonight. Yeah. Yeah, could be tonight. Shane is manager of Jack Perry. I like that. Oh, oh, you know what? Those two teamed up? Yeah. That could be cool. Jalil is awesome. Bobby, future AEW World champ. Thanks for the super chat. Thank you. Uh, I did have a dream that he won the IWGP championship. Bobby Lashley. Bobby Lashley. He beat Naito? I don't know who it was in my dream. I think he beat Moxley. Oh, he beat Moxley. In my dream, he beat Moxley. And he was with... MVP? No, he was with the... The AEW Samoan guys that are not Samoan. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bishop Kahn and... Yeah. I can't, I can't remember their names. Um, I would love to see the hurt friends in AEW. Like you said, it's the booking, right? I think a tremendous get would be MVP Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin. That would be a tremendous team. But keep them as badass. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep them as badass. Talk. I love that. That was a great group they put together. I don't know why they did what they did. Yeah. It made no sense because nobody got elevated. Like, okay, you just spanned something but somebody gets elevated. It actually hurt them more. That was the... The hurt business got hurt. Vince booking. I guess so. Yeah, that classic Vince booking. Chingover's Bobby Lashley? I'm there for that. Oh, dude. Anybody, anybody on that New Japan roster versus Bobby Lashley? Bobby Lashley gets that AEW GP belt. Comes to AEW and he just wrestles the crap out of everybody. I love it. He's immortal. Yeah, that man looks like a newborn baby with big muscles. And arguably he had the best match of Goldberg's career. The one that they were brawling outside, right? That really was a good match. Yeah, he actually pulled it off. He had the best match with Goldberg. This is from Welshman Dan. Do you think Lucha Brothers... Do you think Lucha Brothers' Motor City Machine Guns coming into WWE make the tag division more of a priority for programming? WWE don't utilize their tag division that much. Just said that. Yeah, absolutely. I think it would be a great addition to them. I think Motor City Machine Guns in WWE is the right move. You know, these guys are a little older. Not to say that they wouldn't be great on AEW TV. But, you know, there's too many guys working that style in AEW right now. Yeah. Any news on Meghan Bain? And do you think Jamie Hader returns at Wembley? I think Jamie returns sooner than later. I have no no issue. Noah News on Bain. Yeah. Sean probably does. Yeah. Guys, are you part of Fightful Select? I am. I pay for it every month. There you go. Good plug. Yeah. Do Roman and Cody team up at Bash in Berlin? Do Cody and Roman team up at Bash? Is Roman going to be at Bash at Berlin? You said you didn't want to see that. I don't. I don't want to see Cody. No, no, no, never. Because think about it. Yeah. They tormented Cody. Right. For over a year. Yeah. Now all of a sudden. Like, I get it. Like, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Right. But you also beat me up many times. I don't want to be your friend. Not to this level. Right. But he did come in for a save. So we're definitely probably going to see tag matches. Roman could be a pay-per-view match somewhere that you throw away. Does babyface Roman is babyface Roman more popular than babyface Cody? That's going to be very telling. Because I don't think so. I don't think Cody could flip to heal. I think he could at one point. But he is the classic blue-eyed baby at this point. I don't think Roman should be a face or a heal. I think he should be exactly what he was doing this entire time. Stop pandering. Like, don't start booking him where he's fighting over a bracelet. Okay. The peppers, the chili peppers on the neck. That's what he's going to fight over now. WWE babyface booking. Bring out the real chili peppers. Yeah. The red hot ones. I don't know. I think judging by that reaction on Saturday, forget it. Like he blew the roof off that place. Yeah. You know. But I think it's easy for him to go back to being a heal. You know, he just has to say one dastardly thing and that's it. You know. And then he'll get, he'll get booed. Who Roman? Yeah. I think it's going to be very hard. They did do a good job of setting up solo as like a real piece of shit. Yeah. Well, because he took over for his, you know, he took over the, uh, the bloodline. Mega power is 2.0. Mega power is 2.0. Okay. Uh, these. Bailey and Meechan should team up and go for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship. I'd like to see them do more with that title. I would like to see them do them with that title as well. Is Vikingo a better penta? And is hologram a better Phoenix? I don't know. I, I think for hologram, I. We'll see what he does on AW. I mean, he's been great. Uh, I think that's it. Whenever you do that, it's an unfair comparison between two wrestlers. I do think penta, penta and Phoenix both have that special quality that make you want to watch. Yeah. You know, you forget about everything and you're like, you're focused on that. Yeah. Much like how you forget about how Danielson, he's not the tallest guy on the planet. No, but his presence, but his presence is massive. Yeah. When you watch him wrestle, like he's the biggest dude. You know, it's, it's very fascinating. How real Ripley, same thing. How certain? He's five seven. He's five seven. My website. Yeah. It's very fascinating how wrestlers can pull you in with that. And your mind blown at the same time. Yeah, because her presence is like six feet tall. Right. You know, does Julia face Roxanne at no mercy? I hope so. That would be cool. When do you think Ricochet show up? I want him in AW. Same here. Uh, just me wanting to see what else he could do outside of WWE. Cause he's fantastic. Um. I mean, would you put him in a Wimbledon match? I don't know. Post-Swimbly? I. Uh, he went. Uh, Osprey wins the title. He comes out and here's Ricochet. I think. Osprey helps. I think Ricochet helps Osprey. Get that title. Or it's him in pack. Him in pack. Yeah. Open challenge for pack. Okay. Okay. Cool. Okay. That's cool. Yeah. I do. This is my fantasy booking. Ricochet comes to the aid of Osprey. Osprey wins the belt at Wembley. Okay. Ricochet lays him out joins the Cal's family. And says the only reason I helped you is because I want that belt. Okay. Cool. I, I think he should join the Cal. I would be fine with that. Something different for him. Yeah. Make him a heel. When was the last time when, when was, if any time was Ricochet a heel? I've never seen him as a heel. Right. So I think maybe when he was doing like the indie rock stuff, you know, maybe then. But that's a good move. That's a good move. That's a hide book. I don't know. Uh, what else we got here? Do you like two more questions? Uh, as soon as it's from Chris, as soon as Roxanne Perez loses her NXT women's championship, she goes to the main roster on SmackDown. Yeah, she's very good. Roxanne Perez is great. Yeah. Who dethrones Athena? Who dethrones Athena? That's a good one. That's a good. Billy Starks? Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. I think they took that title off of Billy a little too quick. No. Yeah. I'll agree with that. Do the rascals win the tag team titles tonight on NXT? I would say yes. You are from, I don't know. Are you going to put the title on them? I think the crowd is super hot for them. They love them. Yeah. They're so into them. Yeah. They have like that interesting like late 90s hardy magic to them. Just like a little bit, like a little dose of that, you know. How like all of a sudden when the hardies popped on the scene, you remember that like everybody went F and bananas for them. When they showed up. Tell me why. Why? Tell me why. No, I'm asking you. Tell me why. You want me to tell you. Remember when we were kids and when we saw that hardy, that first hardy's match. But like the TLC was shit. Yeah. Well, you know, it's funny because that resonated so much. And they really haven't been able to redo that. Yeah, you know. It was unexpected. And it was also like right before the internet became like what it is now. What else do we have? Uh, I think that might be it. Let's see. I'm usually killing my back down. Pack versus ricochets an intriguing match. I can't envision him as a heel, but I'm interested to see it. Who does pack face? Open challenge ricochets or techestra? I think packed techestra would be a freaking phenomenal match. I think packed techestra would be great. They have so much good talent. Yeah. So I like, I want to see all of it. I never get bored of the random matches that they put together. Mm hmm. I think pack ricochets is really intriguing. Yeah. If that happens. Yeah. But we're like all in right now looks like a banger. Like big time. Swerve Danielson. I think there's going to be many more layers added to this. Um, I can't see Danielson losing. And if he does, like wow, what a swerve. What a swerve pun intended. Yeah. Yeah. On his on his last big match. I do think Jamie Hader gets involved with the Tony Storm match in some capacity. Or she stands at the top of the ramp as a return. Maybe Jamie does that. Yeah. Maybe that and that's how you that's how you kind of bridge the next feud. Do we get Adam Cole back in time for this? I don't know what his story is. He's moving back to Pennsylvania apparently. Wow. Okay. So, yeah. I don't know. There's something going on there. And no, so far no Okada on this card either. How do you not have Okada? He's going to have to be there. Yeah. Uh, I don't, I don't know the match. Okada, Okada pack. Okada pack for the continental title. Yeah. No, maybe hang man. Oh yeah. Maybe that's a match because they tease that. Yeah. That's a match I want to see. That's a match I definitely want to see. Yeah. This whole card's good. Wrestling is awesome now. Wrestling is great. Great. Great. All right. Are we done? I think we're done. All right boys and girls. Thank you so much for joining us. 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