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Your Questions ANSWERED - What Will Be THE Match At AEW All In? Predicting The Bloodline Saga's Future! Booking The Lucha Bros DEBUT In WWE! How Would A Prime Bret Hart Do In AEW?!

The Dadley Boyz answer your burning wrestling questions...

What will be THE match at AEW All In?

Predicting The Bloodline saga's future!

Booking The Lucha Bros DEBUT in WWE!

Best & worst custom wrestling belts!

How would a prime Bret Hart do in AEW?!

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We pitch them at what culture WWE on X, one place to start. And that is Matt Raines, the number one Citric Mega fan who says from a personal standpoint, "Which match are all in are you both most looking forward to by two favorite wrestlers in the world, MGF and Osprey, on the big stage? Can I wait, cheer's brothers?" I mean, that match should be incredible. I'm looking forward to a shorter match from them. And, you know, maybe MGF has slightly misjudged how much national sentiment there is in Pride and Britain. Maybe the timing's not been particularly great, but you'd hope on the night people will get into the spirit of the story and look, MGF is an absolutely incredible heel. He will draw upon every trick he has to sort of fake the sentiment. I guess people will play along wrestling fan audiences. So I am looking forward to that, but I'm telling you now, I'm going to work myself into thinking that it is Brian Danielson's last time. The done time of your life, Danielson, like deliberately or otherwise, has been telling people for yes, I'm broken. Like, I'm in agony, like I'm dealing with some serious injuries. And, you know, in that weird sort of warped way, it's almost good that he's had like quite significant and frequent injury layoffs from AEW, because all of that converges to inform the stakes and to legitimize the stakes here. I mean, he's on that good last year, because he was still selling it and working through it against Ricky Starks. Then his eye after that, because he's working through that in the continental classic, he's had a concussion or maybe even two, certainly had one in 2022. Because he missed the first inaugural Forbidden Door, and his head neck issues are well documented. Like, the idea is they want you to think that he has finished. And he is as well, because he's been saying in the media when his first born reaches a certain age, seven, birdie, seven, whatever it is. I buy the stakes. I don't think he's winning the title. That's the thing. I think I'm not 100% sure. And it's more than the 1% of doubt, like I'm trying to draw a comparison here. When the young books, intelligently, in my opinion, used the precedent set by Cody for the first FDR match, saying, we'll never win those tag team titles if we can't do it against FDR at full gear 2020. It was like a 1% of doubt, because one of them was in retrospect. I love your Cody daft enough to do it in the first place. It's a 10% of doubt. And I know, because he's an in-ring genius, Danielson. When it hits that 15 minute mark, that 20 minute mark, when you get those 2.99 kick outs, the threat of my favorite overall wrestler ever, can you make us my favorite big match wrestler? In terms of overall body of work, it's probably Danielson, the idea of him potentially not being in a ring ever again, those near falls will really, really mean something. So I'm kind of terrified and electrified by the prospect of the main event. Yeah, MJF, I'll sprays a given, like you say. I'm really excited about the prospect of watching a Brian Danielson match with you. We got in 2019 WrestleMania, but like, different, you weren't supposed to be cheering for him, everyone's cheering for Cody for that one. Not you ever Danielson, but also potentially, on the same night, I didn't. Being with Hamflood towards a Jeff Jarrett match as well, like the double whammy of those plus combine that with potentially these more toys. I've watched a, yeah, I've watched a Michael Hamflood, Jeff Jarrett, live match in Vegas, and it's loud. It's awesome, and it's loud. Like when Bloody Karen Jarrett hit all reactions to that guitar. The both of us just exploded. I'm going to go. Looks like the guitar. I'm going to go Jack Perry, Darby, Alan Coffin match. You're going to see something insane. Have I seen Darby Alan wrestle live? I won't have, will I? It wasn't a double or nothing 2019, as far as I remember. No, he may as A.W. debut against Cody, so you wouldn't have. Obviously, he wasn't there last year. So, I mean, a coffin match, especially, as we've sort of previewed on the Dynamite review, with these two, it's a different gravy. Different gravy. At the time this goes out, we might be recording it the day before, but the time this goes out, of course, all in is now just a way. So, lots to look forward to on that one. A great day overall, really, because we've got the WhatCulture live show, WhatCulture.com/tickets, let me get tickets for that, and sweet chin disco afterwards, as well. But yeah, spoiler. I think we haven't sold many tickets the way you got on. We have limited numbers available, get them now. TTV Mike III says, "Do you think Gunther's reign will be as good as his intercontinental title run?" Higher stakes, longer matches. You'd hope a good calibre of opponent. Yeah, you could make a great argument that Gunther incorporating his indie stuff. Like the peak of NXT UK was unbelievably incredible considering what an absolutely bleak brand that was. And that's Gunther. That's Walter. You could already tell him an in-ring grade at all-timer. So, I mean, he's got the credentials, he's got the talent, he's got the quality. And I think that he's even better as a TV performer. He's a lot more composed and refined in live promo segments. He's just so much more loathsome. I don't think it'll go as long, but Gunther versus CM Punk, he'll disintegrate. If he gets chopped, he can do one move and it's dramatic as all hell. So, Gunther versus Cena. I'm really looking forward to it. Yeah, do SummerSlam 2014 again and we're talking. Piss running down his leg. Someone's going through his mind. That's what's running down his leg. Piss. We've just recorded the SmackDown preview, so I will say this is kind of front of our minds because we talked a lot about Roman Reigns on there. Mike Gammell says, "How do you think WWE will wrap Sammy and Jay into the bloodline saga? Right now, they're completely separate and on different shows." They've put a little bit of work into this already by setting up Jay and Sammy potentially reunites as a tag team, of course. Yeah, they're putting everything in place really, really well. I'm fascinated. We talked a little bit about the Summer SmackDown preview. A really interesting conversation, I think. Not really too much for Dick about it. Who makes an overture to whom? Sammy to Roman. Roman goes crawling back a little bit. Pretty fascinating how that all comes together and I know that's the question I've just been asked. If I'm booking it, I think Roman has to get his ass kicked by the new bloodline at some point. Who runs out to make the save between Jay and Sammy and who's the one to say, "What are you doing?" Jimmy first is the catalyst of solo kick me out of group and I've always been by Roman side throughout everything. Then they both kind of look at each other and be like, "This isn't going to work with just the two of us. We need to get the band back together almost." I love the bloodline saga. I've talked about it a lot. The story of them having to extend the olive branch, not just Roman, but Jimmy as well to Jay, considering everything they've been through. Then Sammy would be like, "Not again. Not again." Then how does Sammy get involved? "You're joking. Not another one." Correct, but Sammy's saying. Then how do they get convinced? Then potentially, as we speculate on, potentially adding Cody to that as a Jesus Christ, what a team. Oh my God, what if Sammy gives Roman a T-shirt of some description? Oh my God. Just wants Roman to say the word yeet. That's all. He'd be happy. Oh my God, he's going to as well. He's going to have to. If you want to meet a team with you, that's five series. I got one word for you. Yeet. I've been acknowledging you for... Oh my God. I've been acknowledging you for however many years it was. I need you to acknowledge me. Your tribal chief just acknowledged what I've done for you. Jay, Ayak. Let's start the word I want to hear. Yeet. The first Roman yeet. What do they say? They've got to feed families? The wonderful Fraser cranium has been in touch, Sitch. They're all great guys. Fraser's a great guy. Hey guys, which wrestler would you like most to have an autobiography for? Some of them just had incredible lives. Personally, I find Brian Danielson's journey so amazing. King of the Indies, Nailed Sports Entertainment, running over a lifetime in AW, amazing loads of love boys. Great question that. Is it her CM Punk? Maybe CM Punk maybe not because it's probably punk. I mean, I sometimes convince myself that. And sometimes I do... I'm like, I'm like punk a little bit where in two minds constantly, but about CM Punk when it's out. The board of it now started entertaining backstage nuisance or sort of gossip generate or whatever. I'm like, I don't even think it's promos or that good in WWE. I don't think it's character directions, that great. The punk drew stuff went off the boil. I'm that fascinated by this all-encompassing drama hound that is CM Punk. If it's revealed that he is going to pen a book, pre-order, pre-order, pre-order. Cody's would be fascinating, but I think he aren't a few more years yet. Yeah. Basically, there are few real unanswered questions left in pro wrestling, like Montreal covered the death. People involved have talked about every granular detail over and over again. Every granular detail has been aggregated to death. You know, wouldn't mind some candid words from certain wrestlers about what it was really like during the latter years of Vince, but then a lot of them were open about, well, this sucks. If you go back and read any interviews around like sort of Survivor Series or like, it's a terrible idea. There's no stakes. They started to get very outspoken, the WWE wrestlers, that eggshell environment that they talked about for years. And it did exist. No longer seemed to exist. They would say, let's crop this. Yeah, we've got the same thing about Survivor Series as you do, or, you know, the rise of like podcasts and, you know, like increased media with like the digital stuff and websites and all the rest of it. Like, people have all put said, oh, it's a total crap show. Like, I remember Sami Zayn was on a Corey Graves podcast, and they were basically saying, oh, it's chaotic. There's no long-term vision. We don't know what we're doing from one day to the next. And they were like, the base, they've all admitted that I was a complete Joe under Vince. Yeah. And I think they were saying specifically, like, is it good? Does it keep us on edge? Does it make things interesting? Or is it just rubbish and not the way to go, you know? So I don't think there's anything candid left for a lot of pro wrestlers to say. So for me, it's either Cody or punk, because there's two things I want to really know about, and punk would lie. I need to know what the personal issue was between Cody and Tony, and it's weird. I feel like, and it'd be intriguing to get like, if he's kept to diary, especially. So I've got my own thoughts. Yeah, it'd be intriguing to get like, because we've sort of got it in documentary, but if it's just not going to talk about it, it's just his thoughts, like what he went through from the rumble to WrestleMania 40. Yeah, like, what's that? What's the real story there that he? If it's like a proper truth serum book? Yeah, exactly. If it's truth serum punk, if it's a normal real world autobiography, it's interesting because Cody was like, you know, I mean, it's probably sealed on the NDA's and all the rest of it. But it was like, no, it's a personal issue. And we decided we've said there and there it's gonna be kept quiet. It won't ever be revealed, but there was a personal issue that drove me towards the exit, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I can't remember who it was with, but there was a recent media interview where Cody was like, yeah, it's going to come out in a few years, probably just says, maybe that's the realistic of like, oh, you know, someone's probably going to talk about it. It's probably going to leak at some point. What happened? Kenny Omega does not have an autobiography for obvious reasons. I'd be incredibly interested. He can be very, very candid as well. So I'd like, I'd very much like, I'd want to, I like the one recently, when he was, I think it was before surgery, maybe when he was doing like streams and stuff and you're like, just kill Dave Meltzer. Kenny, just, Kenny just, just shooting. Kenny's just, Kenny's just killed Dave Meltzer. He's killed Rossier Gower. And then Meltzer was like, I don't know, it's building the martial arts braids. I happened a year ago. I think he's just genuinely pissed off that you've ruined the story. Sorry, who knows for sure. I mean, he's working. That's a great shot, Nicholas Kenny, because Cody, mainly the gossip side of things, but for the in-ring art, how it's approached, what he thinks of other wrestlers, Kenny for like the artistic side of pro wrestling and his journey and the decisions he made. And if they match up, what was the, what you talked about it, usually the other day on a list, a chatty face that we were doing? Or was it all out? The connection? Yeah, and stuff like that. I want to know how much goes into it. And I want to know as well, selfishly, how right I am on some of the stuff that he's done, that's been like sort of like left to interpretation. Yes, that's a good point and stuff like that. Yeah. Another good question here from Dan Rogers. What is your favorite music theme song for a pay-per-view? What's your favorite song used for a weekly episodic show? I think we'll both agree, Nickelback, straight out of the gate for a Monday Night Raw. Sure, man. I'll say, because I'm not going to do the obvious, you know, my way or whatever like that. Clement Marfa in the front line did a song called Champion for the Royal Rumble, which I think is an absolute banger. It's still worth checking out right now. So I'm going to go for that one. But yeah, we were randomly talking about Hardy in the office today, weren't we? And he's unforgettable, let's say, at Royal Rumble performance. It's a mixed bag, isn't it, sometimes? Yeah, that's a suck, man. So it was a question again? Favorite music theme song for a pay-per-view? Right, okay. There's only one answer for this. And it was repurposed for the Royal Rumble just towards the tail end of the Golden Era as it's been sort of called by fans retroactively. But it was originally for SummerSlam 88 and 89 and an instrumental synth-heavy. Then it goes, it's like the ultimate, I describe it as the ultimate composite, nostalgic 80s wrestling experience, because it's got Hogan in a ridiculous main event. Savage is also there and he's great. But you've also got in 1989, WWF Tony Chavonni commenting, you know, he's got the Chavonni voice, WWF aesthetic, that synth-heavy tune, brainbusters in the opener against Bret Hart, Tully and Bret. It's like everything I love about eight wrestling on one show. Well, not everything. It's not really, it's not much more in terms stylistically of Jim Crockett and there's not much blood or any, a lot of what I love, which is the total banger as well. Anything licensed? Weirdly considering in 2017, I was decidedly not a fan of WWE's product or direction and I'm not even a fan of the musical artist. Greenlight is the unofficial theme of pro wrestling. What is it about Greenlight? Because no one earnestly likes Pitbull really. I'm not a 2017 guy. I'm not a 2017 WWE guy by any means. I don't have any nostalgic affection for that WrestleMania. I'm in Greenlight. What is it? You went to that one. Yeah. What is it? It's a magic, isn't it? Oh, yo, yo, yo, yo. It's just a mad, it's sacrificed by the weekend as well and put on that list. Absolutely never fails. Because magic is the word you use where it's like, you can't really explain it. It's just magic and I can explain why it's bad and why it should be bad. I can't explain why it's good. Nicolas has made a great point. I say it's Greenlight is now go when it always falls. But, you know, on the road to WrestleMania. Yeah, it's become part of the vernacular. Yeah. If you're taking care of a senior loved one, then you know it can be hard. Remember, it's okay to ask for help. There's a reason why 29 million families have turned to care.com. 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You want to sleep cooler while they like to feel warm? Sleep number does that too. JD Power Ring Sleep number number one in customer satisfaction with mattresses purchased in-store. And now during sleep numbers biggest sale of the year, save 50% on the sleep number limited edition smartbed, plus special financing for a limited time. For JD Power 2023 award information, visit jdpower.com/awards only at a sleep number store or sleep number.com. See store for details. Anthony Ramos says, "What current potentially new champion can benefit from having a custom belt? Also, what's the best and worst custom wrestling belt?" Again, we talked about this on the Smackdown preview. Yeah. WWE custom belt or anything. Anything. I think that as part of this Nia Jax Tiffany Stratton, this might be out with Dave by the time you listen. Tiffany Stratton should present Nia Jax with a pink strap, new title with the idea of being out to present, but the reason why it's pink is because it's actually mine. That's my idea. I'd have LA Knights US title now that the leather made of slim gyms. And it's like if you're running low, so a little bite of the belt, fire yourself back up, get in there. The best custom belt, we talked about this literally four hours ago. It's the hemp belt, isn't it? Yeah. I've got two more for one of each. I would have because I want to see him not do golden love and stuff with Korta Busci and more elite stuff. Kenny Omega's going to be the big boy. Chloe, you've not got that much title left. Be the big star. Be the big champ. Now you can do it, buddy. Love you. Airbrushed strap. Aw yeah. AWL title to go with his airbrush gear. The best ever is either hemp belt, because it's in character and it's just so unusual. Or I think a promo cut on the burger at the Royal Rumble. Yeah. Or the different colored eye. I see straps I was a fan of. Mm. Miro TNT was just a gorgeous, gorgeous creation. Gorgeous creation. Spinner. I'd say, no, no, no, you say Spinnox, that's correct. Yeah, but didn't edge have his own spinner for a bit. Like he was like, he had the rated R one. And I was like, it's not even your thing. Yeah, like, spin is bad enough. I mean, that's the worst title design even when it didn't spin. So ugly, like, blocky and contoured. Jake did not have an alibi. I'm not sure if you've been here when Jake said this before. Thank you, Jake. I've mentioned this. It's time to play the game. No, Jake says not a question, but I fully thought it was sidge singing. It's time to play the game and not to me. I've heard this before. It's insanity. Listen to this again. It's time to play the game. I do get a bit squeaky and incredulous sometimes. Yeah. What the f*** is going on? It's time to play the game. That's that's fun, Jake, to be fair. Time to play the game. You're understanding me worse for yourself. Did it, did it, did it. Pete Sadler, how many US PLs you think they'll be in 2025 after the success of taking show around the world in 2024? Really good question as well. Be level or general? General. Literally every one of them outside of the big four of it worked to me. Yeah, because they did. Well, they did mania and then they went backlash friends, was then it was then clash the castle after that. And then they did Canada for money in the bank. It was like a stretch of like four months at least. Saudi one, obviously. Saudi one, obviously. Which, yeah. I hope so. I've set it before. This is my big take on this. An absolute master stroke of a strategy on the part of the Nick carnal of echo, whoever I think it's them too. Like as I've said with AEW, the fan base and looking at those gates are experiencing burnout because the millennial aged wrestling fan got everything they ever missed for most of the 21st century and more and almost everything has been normalized. Jumps, blood, unscripted promos, match quality, everything. And it's like, in a way, it feels like wrestling has been completed by AEW weird. Nothing's really hitting in the same way it used to because they've done everything over and over again. It's a very excessive energetic, frantic promotion as well. WWE meanwhile will just do a pay-up review rematch. I mean, they did it with Cody and AJ, you know. And for years and years, that was one's born thing in the world. The most boring thing imaginable. It's still not like great and interesting and, you know, inspiring, but it's deafening these days. Brian and Sammy. Yeah. Yeah, it's deafening these days and because it's so loud. I mean, Leon Ridiculous elevates filler material and evidently you need filler material for the big shoes to sing. So we're going to go back to Puerto Rico as well. Of course, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. On AEW to do arena Mexico. Yes. Like that is an idea. You ever watch the BCs? If you haven't, yeah, BCC versus like a quartet of CMLL wrestlers, like it's the loudest match of the year. That or Cody AJ, one of them too is a loudest. So I underserved markets. It's the way forward, man. Noise is good. Hey, Aaron, where are you? Aaron says, do you think a prime Bret Hart would do better in modern day, WWE or modern day, AEW? AEW without question. AEW without question. This is when I should like my big complaint about CM Punk true. And you know, whether it's because he invites the comparison himself or not, CM Punk is the closest to a Bret Hart. And obviously, his execution isn't the same. His technique isn't the same. But the way he builds as matches, or at least the way he built his matches in AEW, there was an analogy, there's a comparison there in that everything made sense, heavy online work selling, like just this very sort of great, joined up, understated approach. Well, it's not that flashy, but every little thing builds on the last and mean something. Bret Hart in AEW, oh my god, I mean, if you could somehow break the fabric of space and time and get 93, 94, 93 to 97, Bret. In the AEW working Daniel Sinister. It's just out of this world. The punk thing that really irritated me, it's some Islam. And I'm hoping that. And in fact, it seems pretty certain at this point, given what transpired on Raw that they've realized, right, that was a total misfire. Let's not do things like that again. It wasn't so much the actual bracelet. It was the tone and the pace. It was just methodical melodrama, like CM Punk. Everyone else does that in WWE. The whole point of CM Punk is his own man. He brings his own style. He doesn't need to do the new WWE house style as methodical melodrama. We see it all over the card. Gunther hopefully will change that up a little bit. But that's just how they do things. The idea of Bret Hart doing methodical melodrama, like CM Punk got made to do, like most of them get made to do and doing like in-ring acting. And I would recall what they thought. Absolutely an AEW guy, if such a thing, whatever possible. Look, it's he has his five, five. You get five people in AEW to have a match with Bret Hart. Can you make a Brian Danielson? They're good. Yeah. Can you make a Bret Hart look like wild? Absolutely wild. Can you make a Bret Hart? He's more to us. You can have him. Eddie Kingston. We saw what Bret could do against a brawler in Steve Austin across '96 and '97. I mean, he could work with everyone. He was incredible. Well, I was literally just about to say, what if they did the Bret 1, 2, 3, Kid Style match with Darby? Darby's an incredible accomplished technical wrestler as well. So Darby, Eddie, Danielson, Kenny. Bret, now in versus the books. Yeah. Incredible. Cheating book. Incredible. Incredible. If not that, then trying to think of, like, great matches Bret Hart and just trying to transpose them. Didn't have great chemistry with Shawn Michaels, really? I thought the Montreal matches are the only great one that they had, and obviously they're never going to be remembered for the action. So I wouldn't put them against Shawn Michaels region, as they call it. Yes. MJF, Bret Hart being like a proper babyface against a heel MJF. That's what you could do. Canada versus America. Yeah. Another good question here from Jude the Dude. If you could pick three matches that describe your taste in wrestling, what would you pick? I, it's hard. It's a very hard question, very good question, but a very hard one. It's weird because my tastes are evolving past that big hybrid style epic back and forth shootout. But when it's done well, there's nothing better to me. Like, but that's because I'm a big Kenny Omega Mark. So Kenny Okada won just the total high level big match. Like I, Kenny Omega's broken wrestling for me in a way, because so much of wrestling is the chase to that match. And I resent it as a result because you just can't equal it. But there's nothing like a Kenny Omega big match that just isn't like Kenny Omega versus Tetsuya Knighto from that G1 one. DDT's on the top of them. And so that has to be in there. Danielson Ricky Starks because what I, that's when I coined Just Bleed is my new sort of measurement of like, I want to feel what I felt during Brian Danielson versus Ricky Starks, where someone dies. I'm a tough titty dead. He dies. He dies. He dies like Ricky Starks. I'm sorry. I think you're very swab, debonair, handsome, gifted guy awkward at times, but otherwise brilliant. Who died in there? Shouldn't have gone in there with a dragon, idiot. [laughter] Got damn moron. So that for the feeling I get and. George in the dry. Shouldn't have gone in there with a dragon probably. [laughter] And so that for the, all right, okay. And then another Kenny one. So I want to either want to feel like, I either want to get so wrapped up in the big match drama that you get, like breathless palpitations about the twists. So Kenny, a card, a one. Do you want to feel just bleed? I'm going to do four. Okay. Or you want such technical mastery that I'm like, this is real. This is real. And I can't see where it's going. Danielson Saber Jr. I thought you were going to pick up. Russell Dream. And it's so hard now because everyone is an athlete. Everyone can do rotations. Everyone can make a crowd go, holy sh*t. Like, I want to feel that again. And I don't think it's gone away completely because last year I watched Kenny Omega versus for Kingo. And I got it all over again. I'd never thought a move, zh, match. I always, I'll enjoy them forever. But I never thought I'd howl it like. How does he, how you're not dead, Kenny? You've just taken that Herrken runner from the, Herrken runner from the top rope and your head's just like made an indentation in the canvas. How are you not dead? Where does Sammy Gunther rank on that list for you? Because I remember watching you watching that match and thinking, you this like for a guy, you know, like you always say, you're afraid of you to WWE. He's not exactly been dragged to wrestling. It's obviously, we're, we're exciting. But like, I was like, this is you're in your element. In that element here. Yeah. And I remember the, the joy on your face when they did the, did the, let alone the win. Just the brain bust, you know, Jesus Christ, I exploded. Yeah, something like that's probably up there. And that kind of emotional feel good, babyface triumph. But aren't we watching to watch baby faces prevail? Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? I should. That's the whole point. I don't. Santos did nothing wrong on X, writes, if the Lucha Bros are indeed headed to WWE, how do you see them making their debut? Also, here's a picture of my sister's cat, Mouse. So in the cat's called Mouse, which is why this is called. It's a great, very confusing name. How, yeah, how would you book Lucha Bros arriving in, in WWE? Ooh, um, baby faces against the Creed brothers. Ooh, I see I had them as interrupting baby faces, preferably on a tour of Mexico. But, you know, we'll take what we can get against someone like pretty deadly, who do like, there's no one who can do it. Yeah, there's no one from Mexico who's as flashy as us. Exactly. And they, I want the master to be crazy. I mean, I want the master to be good, though. I ain't pretty deadly now, because I thought initially my brain went all carry and wall and I was like, that's not going to work. Yeah, that pretty deadly are okay. There's certain times where I was like, it looks really clunky. Yeah, it looks really, I'm talking to you, I realize. So that stuff looks clunky. They're the creeds. Yeah, creeds is probably the right way. That could be the introductory program. Keep being the creeds, because they're so bloody cool. Yeah, it's like the best of 21. Alex Zabrahan, as can kiss my ass. That's what he can do. That's what he's gonna do. That's what he's gonna do as well. So he manages every Luchador. So actually, he's not managing hologram. That's insane. Oh, yeah. Everybody just rocked up with commander. I was like, "Hoey, man!" That's not on. He's the different guy. He's not Phoenix. What's going on? That's stupid. That's a little bit not on. Fudging on the P-word. Aye, problematic. Yeah, exactly. So it's a synonym, if anything, actually. Speaking of paparache, the lovely Steve Basso says, "After listening to your Grammy award winning podcast," or whatever awards podcast win, "on Triple H last week." Link drama is only on wrestling culture. Oh, he's wondering if Triple H never had his health scare and had to retire, would he still wrestle around wrestling any season, or would he just be the bossy-blood? Just be the bokeh. Nah, he'd be in the mix, man. He'd be in the mix. Here's what happened. If he didn't have the health scare, all of that could be in the mix. He would be wrestling at WrestleMania. I've got a sneaky suspicion that the match would go 25 minutes, and I'm almost certain no one would care in the stadium. We'll take the piss. If he's bokeh and still wrestling, does he book himself as one of the people that stops their Cody Roman parade of people? All right, well, we haven't got Stone Cold, but don't worry. You don't even have Rang Stone Cold. We've already got Lavec. Here's the thing. I don't think he would cross the stream and be the babyface, because he's a functional, logical booger. I think he would know it looks bad if the impartial face of the company does it. I think that's even beyond him. I'm going to be nice, you know? Or reasonable and informed. Or take the piss. It sounds like something you would do. He never worked to take over or an NXT show, did he? You're right. Same. I thought he was going to... I mean, Nicholas got the same opinion. I thought at least once there's going to be like a heel, maybe Joe who's going to take something too far, be too violent. It's like you need the ass kicker. The tie's coming off. Yeah. And he didn't. So maybe the same would be true. I mean, the precedent of him is a booger. Suggests that he wouldn't on this main roster run. Yeah. Matt Vecchio says, along with Pac versus the all-in winner at Osprey and MJF, and the room in Swerve hangman match, what does the rest of all-out look like? I would. It's weird because they've got the coffin match for Mariah Mae and Tony Storm are all in. FTW rules, so that'd be plunder. I don't think they're going to add a stipulation to Mariah Mae, Tony Storm, and yet they're talking about death. Who's going to die? Are you willing to die? Die. Death. Death. Death. I think they'll do Texas Death at all out to run it back. They keep talking about death. It's like the law of wrestling. Yeah, you didn't kill me. They didn't kill me. I always come back for a second act. That sort of thing. Like, they talk about death, bring out tables on the tables marching. They say death, death, death, death, death. It usually means there's going to be something with the word that they keep using in it. I remember Moxley, actually, breaking that rule somewhat, screamed blood and guts when he was feuding with Kenny Omega again in early 2021. And do you remember the fantasy book and where they thought? They're going to do blood and guts with Kenny good brothers, maybe the books, because Moxley was piling around with Pent remarks at the time. Everyone's got mates. They're all friends wrestling. I'm sorry. It's kind of half true in a different way, of course. Yeah, Texas Death between Mariah Mae and Tony Storm. I know they've got an extra week this year, but it's a fast turnaround in it. You know what I would do as well? It'd be because I'm greedy and I love the TV much, but it makes sense. Darby Allen, because he could sell it. Because I think he's going on a bigger and better things. Okay. Oh my god, I've worked it out. I'm ready for this. I'm going to suck my own gak. Right. Darby Allen is challenging for the TNT title, correct? Correct. Darby Allen won Royal Rampage, securing himself a shot at the AEW World Title Grand Slam. Correct. I think he's going to win the TNT title. Right. And then returning from the G1 Climax, Kenilsky Tkeshta is going to kill him for it, because he's going to be battered and weakened from the coffin match. And the story that he's been telling Adam Wilborn is that he's been working alongside hologram and a tag. He's just had the budget. He's been the workhorse. They're kind of doing that orange custody thing with Darby. What if he's wins the TNT title and at Wembley, because Tkeshta just got spoilers, kicked out the G1 Climax. Oh my god. Comes in, destroys Darby Allen at Wembley, setting up the match for all out in Tkeshta wins. And then there's a weekly defense for Yex. He's the best. I mean, I'd love to see it. And then freeing up Darby to potentially win that championship, the World, the big one. If you won't, you won't. For now, you'll win it next year. You sure, anyway? Yeah, we did a whole thing about that. And he was your pick, wasn't he? Let's conclude on this question. From the asks formerly known as Jimmy Blaze. What a name. What article and or interview are you most proud of? Glad you asked. No. Will you go first? Because I want to make sure I've got the right one. Okay, Google, yeah. I have written for what culture. But Pride doesn't really come into it. It was more sort of necessity. My favourite thing about that was... Like, it was a 10 by the least. 83, 6, or 5. You're always trying to let it one sentence, Julia. That's Friday afternoon. Can I get away with this one sentence? Well, you actually sh*t all over my profession. So no, you can't. Yeah, do I need to say any more? Yes, I need the right entry. I will say, in terms of written stuff that I'm proud of, all the hilarious puns on quiz. Like, money in the bank, more like money in the quiz that I used to write. It was a real... Or, I think I did a compilation of... Those wrestlers didn't want you to see or something on those lines of like, you know, someone taking a photo of someone in an airport, they all look grumpy. I'm just writing some very witty subheading below that. In terms of interviews, though, I would say MJF, but that's kind of cheating because, you know, he gave me an easy ride as a best friend. About more than that. Best friend. I don't want to get into too much details. So I'll go for one that I enjoyed the most, I suppose, which I would have arguably been proud of, because it also came with a lot of pressure, I'd say. And it's Big E, because it's him really more than me. He makes it so easy. And it was just a lovely time chatting to him. And I was so nervous because it was like, I can't be a Big E, a much mildly upsetting Big E. I don't think that's ever happened. Exactly. Yeah, that's the thing is that there must have been daunting. Yeah, because I think it was also Pando times. And I've done Chris Jericho prior to that. And he was really good to be fair as well, because we had to kind of strike the balance of him talking up his band and then going, anyway, let's talk wrestling. But like you say, if you piss Chris Jericho off, it's like, well, I'm sure he's got people he doesn't get along with. I'm sure it's that before. Big E. Can you ring 2002? Big E. Yeah, the guys, there's one person I really don't like in this world, and it's this much. It's Ginger Dickett from World Culture. But he was just, he was still culture pro wrestling. Yeah. He was so lovely. And it was just, I know we've had subsequent chats afterwards and bumped into him, like, Wall-A-Mania and stuff. He's just a top bloke. But I feel very, very lucky that we get to do this, because it's wild. Like some people will say, like, who have you interviewed? And they've got no idea sometimes about people. But it's just ridiculous, I find that we get to do this, even if it's just like getting bullied by the USOs at Wall-A-Mania. That was my favorite of yours. Yeah. I loved your line of... Now that Sami Zayn's gone, is there an opening slot for a redhead? I thought that was such a cool way in. That was really, really cool. Terrifying. Absolutely, because we found out only we were going to be doing it about 10 minutes before. We're in the mean event as well. Yeah. Fantastic camera operation. Fantastic camera operation. I distinctly remember, yeah, going there. Usually, you know, use your sort of chaos of Wall-A-Mania thing you've been there before in terms of, like, just grab people when you can't ask them. Sometimes they'll say, no, sometimes they'll say, to be honest, I don't know if I'm allowed, or whatever, or sometimes they'll say, yes. And you just sort of, you know, there's interviews with, like, Rob Van Dam and Swerve, where people are walking through the shocks, which is in some sort of corridor. But the lovely lady whose name escapes me, he was looking after us that year. Robert Stone. Er, no. Genuinely, her name escapes me. Said, I'll get, I'll get... The USO's after they finished on stage, and we're like, yeah, of course, of course you will. They're going to be like, see you lady guy. Boom, straight out of there. She was like, yeah, they're just coming out. I'm like, Miller's not back from me. I think he was wrestling. I was like, I'm going to have to do it. What do I say? The redhead thing was great, especially under the circumstances. You've got a hell of a back catalog. You've written book, several books. Well, two's, not several. Becoming all elite is my book, my A.W. book. That's probably top of the list. Some honorable mentions. I get the most sense of pride, like the main one, which I'll get to imminently, when I write an unbelievable joke, like an unbelievable joke that's well crafted. Like, I just, I get this. This life lock is worth living after all, and maybe I'm not a complete hack. Like, so I've done some comedy leading articles. You know my favorite, don't you? You can tell, you can tell. The Hogan one. The Hogan one is probably one A, my number one. Ten things Vince McMahon has in common with the toddler. Honestly. I enjoyed that. It was ecstatic when I got picked to do that as a video. So I do enjoy writing a good comedy leading list. There's nothing like getting in the zone and popping yourself and hoping popping others. I think it's really hard to do as well. I think it just brings something unique to the space. Like, nobody else does it anymore. There was WrestleCrap back in the day. Hasn't dated particularly well, some of it. But I don't think anyone else can do what I do in that regard. So I do like doing that. Number one with a bullet. One more, I wrote one about in 2020 about Cody being the most complete wrestler in the world. And I don't even think it was my best work, but I didn't make some insights into it that I thought were good. So the Cody wrote to stumble upon it. It's amazing. And it was like, he tweeted it and he said on, it was on his Instagram story as well, he paced it. And he said it feels like I've been cycled, analyzed by a shrink. I mean, I must be quite insightful then. But I think my absolute favorite, titled why Dave Meltzer is right about Kenny Omega. And it was in October 2020. And I think I needed a bit of validation at that time in my life. And Dave Meltzer wrote something on his message board. It created the usual discourse that you would expect. And I thought, get an article out of this. And I'm quite passionate about the subject matter. So the quote from Dave Meltzer was on the board, which obviously incited another controversy as everything does. Nobody in history, this is Dave Meltzer, has ever put more thought and more layers of storytelling in a match than Kenny Omega. It's ridiculous. That's why when you watch his matches over and over, you see more each time. That's what makes him so great. And I obviously argued that he's correct. And one of my favorite insights that I think I've ever come up with was in that, probably my favorite tag team of all time. That's not in the young books. Such a mark is Kenny Omega and Hangman page and the story that they told. And I remember that days before Revolution 2020, I've ever told you about February 2020 and how good a period that was in my life and in pro wrestling. Kenny Omega wrestled PAC. And in overtime, when he couldn't hit the one wing and angel, no amount of V triggers were put back down. He has to go deep into his mind to think, right? What move from somebody else can I do? Which he's done before at Dominion 2018. Did AJ style stuff and he did a Phoenix splash. So I'm going to do the Kamagoye. If I draw upon Colt Robushi, that he'll ever let me down. Kamagoye is like, he's not your current tag team partner, though. The person who is your current tag team partner is Hangman page. And wouldn't it have been nice if you'd just done, you know, the dead eye or the book shot? But you don't really believe in him, do you? You don't think he's elite. You need to do someone's move who you think is elite. And that's called a bushy because he was in the golden elite. All the while, the whole character arc of Hangman page is, he doesn't feel like he's elite. Fast forward to Revolution. Hangman page is just a nice guy baby face. He just wants to fit in and feel elite like we kind of all do. Does the wrong and angel in that match? Yeah. Kenny Omega, did he do? Fat chance. So he doesn't do anything. I just mean, pally pally with the books after the match as well. Yeah, he doesn't do anything like Hangman page does, but guess what, Hangman page in those matches is actually getting all of the falls. So who does Kenny Omega think he is? It turns out he is the heel and he turns to you later in the year. And my other favorite moment in that Revolution match, people have probably heard me say this 20 times, is the do the golden trigger, the golden lovers finish, the books do this to Kenny and he kicks out at one. And it's the baby face moment of the year, but because Kenny thinks more deeply about storytelling and matches than anybody else, Dave Meltzer was right. Four Shadows is heel turn and gets the baby face pop of the year at the exact same time. Again, probably other than getting a book published was just my lifelong dream. The Cody praise and Kenny found that as well. I think someone tagged him. Oh, that's cool. It's not one of those things where I went, it was very cool. It's not one of those things where I went out in the bag and it's like, oh, someone's want me over, I'll just retweet that. Like, I did not tag him, I never do that, because I just think it's like, I don't want to beg for praise. I think someone who follows me tweeted, so you should give this a read. And then equal tweeted at putting it over. And it's like, ah, that was one of the best things that's happened in my career. Awesome. Great question that. Thank you to the ass. Oh, he's a serious lady. But what else do you think we're great at? Let us know in the comments or on eggs at what culture WWE. Thank you to everyone. Apologies we didn't get round to your questions. Like I said, we always enjoy doing these and we'll do these. We love doing them. Okay. Quite a few. And I was doing our time to answer each and every one on Twitter. So we try and do this. So if you've got anything, try and save it up for the next one. Especially because we don't get to do them on the news anymore. So we'll try and do these a little bit more regularly. But like I say, you can continue the conversation when there's an on X at what culture WWE can find both of us. You can find Michael Sidwick at. It's because we were using the one camera earlier. Yeah. That's right. You've been throwing up. You can find Michael Sidwick at. And Sidwick. It can follow me at Adam Wilbur. We'll follow a brilliant producer at it's Adam Nicholas. Follow us all at what culture WWE. And make sure you subscribe to what culture wrestling. Wherever you get your podcast from for daily wrestling podcast. But this has been your questions. Answer my thanks to Michael Sidwick. Thank you for joining us. And we will see you soon. 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