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And today, we are talking about WWE, Money in the Bank, and NXT Heatwave, which are both coming to you live this weekend from Toronto. So who else could I get to join me book from Poison Lana, Davey Portman. Hi, Davey. How are you? Hello, hello, hello. Steph, I'm doing pretty well. And I can tell you've been here for a little bit now because you just said Toronto, and not Toronto. You know what, that's so funny because about ten minutes ago, Beno and I were having that conversation where he told me that, and then he said, "You can hear it with Davey, too." The aim is to try and get a, what is a three-syllable word into one syllable. People just go, "Trona, for the city, yeah." Yeah, I'm doing pretty good. I'm excited. A lot of wrestling in town this weekend, and yeah, looking forward to going back to a few WWE shows. Yeah, and we are having an actual heatwave here in Toronto, so very appropriate for this weekend. But yeah, I'm really excited. I'm just back from New York. Last week, I was here predicting AW Forbidden Door, which was, I think, we capped off at like 14 matches. So this time, WWE, we've only got five on the card, but because Davey is an NXT expert that has been covering the NXT brand, for what is it now, seven years? Six years, I think, it was, the first show I did was NXT TakeOver New Orleans. Wow. So yeah, just over six years now. Wow. You've been through Black and Gold, 2.0, everything. Absolutely. Yeah, so you are the man to talk to about heatwave, but we're going to start our predictions with WWE Money in the Bank, so everyone in the chat, and let me know your predictions. You can send in a super chat or read out an error. And yeah, I want to see, I want to see who you all think is going to take that brief hit for both the men and the women, and of course, you may even want to, after hearing our wonderful analysis and predictions, you may want to put a bet on. 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That's where we get all of our odds at betonline.ag, only bet what you can and please bet responsibly. That online.ag, all right, Debbie, here we go, and I said I'd do the Wikipedia order, but I actually don't like that. So I'm gonna go backwards. That's fair. Hold on there. So we can end with the money in the bank matches. First up, happy Independence Day to everyone in America watching. So who better talk about first than Cody Rhodes? We have a six-man tag team match where it's Cody Rhodes, Landi Orton and Kevin Owens versus the bloodline, which is any three of Sola Tsakoa, Tamatonga, Tonga Loa and Jacob Fatou. So who have you got for this one, Debbie? Who do you think will be the three bloodline members we see? Yeah, I would hope we're not getting Tonga Loa in this match, just for a quality point of view. Bless you, Camacho. Is this the whole bit set up just to not embarrass Tonga? Maybe. Yeah, very possible. I see it probably, yeah, Sola Tsakoa, Tamatonga, and Jacob Fatou, although they could have, they're all four are gonna be involved anyway. So Fatou could be sort of the guy on the outside who's just causing mayhem. I see the bloodline winning this one. I think we've got to build up their dominance with building up to, you know, when eventually Roman comes back. And I could totally see Sola Tsakoa pinning Cody potentially here to set up a match down the line. That would be big. I also have the bloodline winning. I definitely think we're getting Jacob Fatou in this match and that Tonga Loa is going to be the one who sits out. I think the bloodline should absolutely win. I think with Jacob Fatou, I think they've made him already in such a short period of time, they've made him seem so scary that I could see him being the one that gets the pinball. I'm not sure if they'd have him pin Cody because that's huge. I think maybe the person I could see taking the pin is Orden just to set up something where he turns on Cody. I don't feel like some kind of anger of how it goes down maybe. And then because I think we are eventually getting Orton and Cody as a match at one of the people views. But yeah, I'm with you that I definitely think the bloodline have to win this one. And it's going to be very cool to see Jacob Fatou back while his first WWE match. Yeah, I would love to see, you know, I think Cody and Randy at SummerSlam makes a whole lot of sense. I believe I saw a couple of weeks ago it being reported that maybe Bad Blood is coming back in October, which if you're starting a feud with Randy and Cody now in August, you know, you could always peak that in a Hell in a Cell match at Bad Blood or something like that down the line, which I think makes a lot of sense. I see Derek in the chat saying about solo getting the SummerSlam match, which I think a lot of people are theorizing right now. I don't know if I want to see that yet. And I don't think solo is going to take, I think you book yourself in a bit of a corner by doing that because I think you want to keep solo pretty strong at the moment for the eventual return of Roman and I don't think he needs the title and I don't think Cody's dropping the title anytime soon either. I think it could get pretty messy to put solo in a match against Cody just because I think that solo, yeah, he's the leader, but I think most people's perception of it is that he's maybe not the man for the job. I think we've all kind of been waiting for Jacob Fatou to come in. So I think putting him against Cody already might not be the best for him, but I am excited for Bad Blood to come back because that was an iconic VHF cover with the Undertaker holding his own head and I'd like to see Cody Rhodes recreate that. Holding his head? Holding his head, yeah. All right, up next we have Sami Zien versus Ron Brecker. This is for the Intercontinental Championship. I'm going to let you start with this one as well, David, just because you've got to be a bit of an expert on Ron at this point. How do you think he's been doing on the main roster and his development? I honestly think it's been one of the best call-ups for a long time. He was someone that I thought showed a lot of promise in NXT and kept on improving and kept on, whether it being in-ring or character-wise, like the partnership with Baron Corbin brought a lot out of him. I think he was a pretty good babyface, but a terrifying heel as well. I think his NXT day has really got him ready for this position and you've got to go with him. I love Sami Zien, but I think Sami needs to be freed up for a potential bloodline reunion once they're getting the band back together, so I think Bron just steamrolls him. I mean Goldberg is one of his favourite wrestlers and I think you can do the similar sort of thing where he starts with the IC title. He could eventually be a double champ down the line, but he'll keep the street going with Bronbreaker. It must be very rewarding for you following NXT scene, how Rodbreaker, Tiffany Stratton's another good example, because there was definitely a time when your guys were getting called up and it just felt like it was for no reason when they had nothing for them and those two in particular in the men and the women's side they have done really well with, like in my opinion, Bron and Tiffany. I think so and I think, say what you will about 2.0 and current day NXT, I think they're throwing a lot of stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks and like when I used to do acting you were always told start at 10 will tell you to bring it down. It's a lot easier to tell someone to bring it up and I think that's exactly what that 2.0 show was. There was a lot of ridiculous stuff going on, but it's trying to push people who aren't natural performers out of their comfort zone to try different characters and see what sticks and Bronbreaker and Tiffany Stratton are two of the best call ups NXT have ever had. I love black and gold, but I'd be doing my NXT show being, I don't want to lose Johnny Gargano and chamfer and Adam Cole because I don't know what they're going to do with them on the main roster, whereas I think now you see people being much more ready, there's none of this name changing or gimmick change as soon as you go up to the main roster, it's just plucking you as you are and putting you on Raw and Smackdown and it's been working. Yeah, I think that as good as black and gold was, it wasn't really what NXT was meant to be. Like it wasn't really the purpose of it and now it feels like yeah, an actual developmental brand where we're seeing people get ready for the main roster and then they come on the main roster and all their hard work is like to put to good use and you see someone like Bron doing so incredibly well, I think he, I think he is going to win. I think that Sami is obviously going to get like so much support, especially with it being in Canada and I think like really pushing Bron as a heel, it would be good to have him like take the title off in here and yeah if we Sami up for more bloodline related stuff, which I think he will get into eventually, especially with Kevin kind of being on the colleague team too. Next, I think this one is kind of hard to predict Damian Priest versus Seth Wallens and we have stipulations here for the World Heavyweight Championship so if Priest wins, Wallens will never challenge for the title as long as Priest is champion. If Wallens wins, Priest must lead the judgement day. So this one, it's so difficult, like firstly, Seth, good for him for not doing what Cody Wodes did in AW and just saying he's never challenged for the championship again, like no, just never challenged that current champion, lock yourself out like that and really do enjoy all the judgement day stuff that's going on and the big fan of like the Liv and Dom storyline and how it's like affecting all the other pieces and Balor and Priest. I think that Priest is going to retain. I think that the title is definitely going to move very soon to someone else, not Seth Wallens, but I think they don't want to beat him too soon. I think if Damian is going to lose this title on Saturday, I don't think Seth is going to be the person that does it and yeah, and I kind of want to see him within. I don't think we need another Wallens win already as well and I think the judgement day thing, I would rather him leave in a different way than just doing like, oh he lost a match and the stipulation with me as to the judgement day, like I'm not a big fan of that considering like all the investment they've done in that group, so I'm going to go for Damian Priest, what about you, Davy? Well, I was saying on the Tuesday show I did on post wrestling that I think you're going to have Drew win money in the bank and then cash in on whoever wins this because it adds to his hypocrite kind of character, but I was completely forgetting that Gunther has that SummerSlam match and I think that's what you've got to look at and if I'm booking SummerSlam, I'm booking Seth Vee Gunther. So I think Seth wins this, I think you've then set up already like a top end feud for Damian Priest coming out of this, so he's not going to be forgotten about right away, you know, you can have the segment on Raw when he's leaving and it's all emotional and then the judgement they attack him and we could potentially go to a Finn Balor, Damian Priest match at SummerSlam, so I'm going to go with Rollins for this one. Yeah, I do agree with Scott, like the match placement, where they put this in the card, if it does come after the men's money in the bank lunch, it definitely makes you think more that something will happen as far as the cash in, but it's one that was split on, but I think it's definitely intriguing. I can see either guy, I don't think I'd be like disappointed if Seth wins, but I just think that Damian, he's doing pretty well, I think for now it would be best to just keep it on him. We have, okay, we're on the money in the bank, but these cards are so short and I mean that it's just so nice to have like, just really tight cards, women's money in the bank match, EO Sky versus Chelsea Green versus Lara Valkaria versus Tiffany Stratton versus Naomi versus Zoey Stark. I think that there's two names that stand out here for me and it's Tiffany Stratton and Chelsea Green and I have to say that I used to be such a Chelsea Green hitter in the past like month. I've just completely turned a corner on her where I'm like, I actually do like you now. So I'd kind of like to see her win it because she can definitely do the coward having the briefcase in that way because it is often hard when a baby face has the briefcase and ends up cashing in, you know, it's kind of a hellish thing to do. So I could see Chelsea winning, but the other person I could see is of course Tiffany Stratton who they've done such great things with and it looked like she was going to get something big out of Queen of the Ring and then didn't and I think maybe this will be her time. What do you think on this one, Debbie? I'm kind of having the same thoughts as you right now. I think Tiffany's fantastic. I seem to have dialed her down a little bit since the Instagram incident, I would say. But I think looking at this lineup, she makes the most sense, you know, money in the bank is a gimmick that always works better on a heel. I can already see it now her turning it into her like money in the bank handbag kind of thing like all white and pink and bejeweled to just fit her character. Chelsea Green, I think as like an outside bet, does kind of make a lot of sense or definitely get a good reaction here in Toronto, her being a Canadian girl. And I think she's a character that could have some fun with it. But at the end of the day, I don't see necessarily as a viable champion down the line. EO Sky, she's had her run at this point. I don't think she needs it. Naomi, you can always set up something with her and Bailey down the line because they're obviously very good friends on screen. But she's kind of fallen down the card quite a bit since her return. So I'm going to go with Tiffany for this. Yeah, I think that either Tiffany or Chelsea is like a pretty big bet. The other thing that makes me think Tiffany as well is like the relationship she's been having with Nigel, because I think it works, you know, them both having a gimmick. So yeah, I think this match is going to be really fun though. I always love a lot of match if it has EO Sky in it. Oh yeah. So I'm really excited for this one. Sorry guys, if I have clothes in, I don't know why. But as long as you can still hear me, I think I'm pretty good. Let's go now to demand money in the bank match. We have Jay Uso versus Carmelo Hayes versus Andrade versus Chad Gable versus Ellie Knight versus Drew McIntyre. I'll let you start on this one, Divi. Who have you got? Yeah, I think this one's difficult. As I said, if Gunther wasn't going to SummerSlam, I would go with Drew because I could see Drew and Punk for the title. I think Punk's going to somehow screw McIntyre again in this match, so I'm going to rule him out. I don't see Mellow, Andrade or Chad Gable at this point holding this. So it's really between LA Knight and Jay Uso and I would just go with who's the most popular right now. We already see all the, the yeet in the bank graphics for this show. And if you're going with a heel and Tiffany Stratton with the women's, I'd go with the babyface. And I think, I think Jay Uso could be the one winning this thing. I'm really torn on this one because of Drew being in it. Like, do you think we're getting a CM Punk appearance at this? Yes. I do. Yeah. Me too. So that means he's probably going to cost Drew, and I don't think that they need a title going into the stuff they have. Like I think that they're literally doing the best storyline in wrestling right now, even though one of them is injured on TV every week. So I can see Punk interfering and costing Drew. I think that LA Knight for me is the one because I feel that his, he's so immensely popular, but he never seems to like actually get something, like get something big. And I think the money in the bank graphics is good for him to have. And I think if he holds it for long enough, he could probably get away with cashing in. At a time when that title is like a little less hot, no. Yeah. So I think, yeah, for me, I think it's going to be LA Knight, but I wouldn't be fully surprised if it's Drew McIntyre and somehow Punk trying to run everything for him, actually backfires and he finally gets something. I could see LA Knight winning the US title off of Logan Paul. So that's the only thing that will give me hesitation with that because I know they're feuding right now as well. Yeah, I forgot about that, that he could cashing on anything. So he could actually cashing on Logan Paul. So yeah, I'm still going with LA Knight. All right. Sorry, I'm just trying to get this camera sorted. It's all good. No, I'm sorry, I'm just going to, we're done with money in the bank. So let's move on to NXT Heatwave, which is coming up on Sunday. So after we've gone through all this new money in the bank funds, at least it's only five matches, we're going to be up for NXT Heatwave. And we're going to start off with Carmen Petrovic and Ariana Gris versus JCJ and Jasmine Knight. Jasmine Nix. Okay, you go first, David, who do you think is going to win this one? First of all, you have no idea how difficult it is writing all these names every week on a rundown. You get a name like Jasmine Nix, is that spelt J-A-S-M-I-N-E-N-I-C-K-S? No, it's J-A-Z-N-Y-N-N-Y-X and every blooming name on this show is like that where you've got a double check, everything. But yeah, I think the story going into this is both Carmen and Ariana, local Toronto girls, and they don't have a match for this show. They're Ariana's an annoying heel, Carmen's been a babyface and they tease that she was going to team up with her bestie. And she kind of went, Natalia, isn't she in contract negotiations right now and not on the show, but they're teaming the two local girls together to take on J.C. Jane and her prodigy Jasmine Nix, who's a former women's soccer player, so her finish is like a pay late kick and stuff like that. J.C. recently got the mask from Cody Rhodes, the dashing mask, because she recently had her nose busted open. This is a pre-show match, and I don't see, there's not a whole lot of story going into here, so why not have the crowd start off happy by having the local girls win? I think this, Sam, every time I see Ariana Gris, I do actually really like her, so I think she's also a great pre-show act as well to get the crowd started, but I do think she have a lot of support in Toronto, so yeah, I agree, I think it's Carmen and Ariana taking that one. We'll move on to the tag team match for the NXT Championship. We have Nathan Frazier and Axiom versus Chia's University, Andrei Chia's, and Juke Hudson. Chia's University, they're pretty long lasting. Every time I watch NXT, I'm reminded that they're still a thing, but what do you think about this one? Are they Andrei and Juke gonna take the tag titles? They've been around now longer than an actual university degree, which is quite a long time for a gimmick in NXT. Yeah, so there's a couple of stories going on here, Nathan Frazier and Axiom, Fraser keeps on going for other championships, he's fighting Xavier Woods for the Speed Championship, he challenged Tony D for the Heritage Cup, and Axiom's getting rather worked up about it because he's like, no, we're the tag champions and we should be focusing on that. On the other side, Chase University, Ridge Holland has just joined the group, he is banned from ringside because he keeps cheating on their behalf, and even though Chase, you were kind of a babyface group, he's cheating for them and they're not too happy about it. So he's been banned from ringside, I do see Ridge getting involved and I see Chase you winning and that can lead to a Fraser and Axiom feud down the line. I am a little tired of the NXT Tag Team Division, it was something that was once a real calling card, obviously DIY and revival happened at Stoshabank where we're getting this show, and I really think it has fallen quite a bit since then. So going back to Chase you, it's a little bit yawn-inducing, I just hope they start really focusing on the tag division because it used to be a real exciting thing in NXT. Yeah, absolutely, are there any tag teams that you see on the way up that you would like to see in the title picture next? Well, I've always been enjoying Idris and Malik but they've just been booked to lose so many times and now they've kind of got this bad luck gimmick, they keep on, we'll see a black cat or they'll break a mirror, so that's playing into it. I'd love them to just drop that and actually have a bit of attention because they've been there a while now, they do have support from the fans, so I'd start to elevate them. And then you've got Tyson and Tyreek, who are two big lads who have been quite impressive on the couple of matches we've seen with them so far, and then maybe a team in the no-quarter catch crew like your Miles Borne and Luke Akusafino, but everyone seems at a kind of lower mid-card level at this point in the tag division, so there's no real viable teams. Okay, next up we have a single match for the NXT Women's North American Championship, Kalani Jordan versus Sol Wuka, Sol Wuka is definitely someone that impressed me a lot every time I see her, but obviously Kalani has just won the championship, so I don't know if they're ready to take it off yet, but I don't know, I just feel like as someone that's not watching like week to week, I feel like Sol Wuka is someone they heavily feature, so I think maybe she could win this one, but you're the expert, who would you put your money on? Yeah, firstly I do want to correct myself, so many NXT names, but I meant Miles Borne and Tavion Heights from no-quarter catch crew, and then the Italian lads separately. I'm mixing my factions. I don't want you to get in comments. I know, I know, oh this guy cools himself in NXT, but yeah, I can hear it now, so yeah. I'm really looking forward to this match, I think both women have in such a short space of time, and Factor in Sol Wuka was out injured for the best part of a year as well, they're really exciting, and you see the improvements every single match, they really remind me of Tiffany on just the trajectory of how much they're improving. Kalani came across a bit like Disney Channel to start with, just a very likable baby face, but a little bland as well, and I think her promo games really stepped up recently, so I don't know if they're going to maybe like lean her towards being a little bit more of a heel in a bit, she's definitely showing a lot more confidence than she once was. I think it's way too early to take it off of her though, so I would go with Kalani, but I think this is a match definitely to watch out for, and one of NXT's calling cards is the women's division, and these two are right at the top there, and if you've not checked them out, I would urge you to watch this match, because I think it's going to deliver. Absolutely, next we have another match for, we have one of these last chance stipulations for the NXT North American Championship, over Femi versus Wesley, if Femi wins, Lee can never challenge for the title as long as Femi is champion, over Femi is someone that gets a lot of quiz anytime people tune in to NXT, he's really remarkable, they've really really got something with this guy, do you see him dropping this championship yet to Wesley? Absolutely not, I think you've got to go with over Femi here, he's being fantastic, some of the power moves he has is so impressive, that spot, the double electric chair at Stan and Deliver was just how you don't blow your knees out doing that, but also just the presence he has, he's got such an aura about him which you just can't really teach, and his promo game's been good, but I think Wesley needs to move on to the NXT Championship at this point, so I think he should lose to Ober and then it's always weird when you lose a match for the lesser title to graduate to the higher title, but he's got a challenge for that NXT championship, so I would go with over Femi winning here and keep the streak alive. Yeah and I think with Wes there's chances of stuff they could do with him regarding the TNA partnership, yeah, I would absolutely keep him champion, he is, I now always think of want to help all the wrestlers of when he was talking about over Femi and fun to be booking him coming up to me and lost her and said he wants it to be like the Nexus angle, but it's just Ober Femi, he just kills, just destroy everyone, yeah, just destroy everyone and that's how they introduce him, but yeah, I'm actually excited to see him wrestle live and see what he's like live, I'd be very interested and see him in person. His initial vignettes, because he had some vignettes and then disappeared for a while and then came back for this run, it was him stood in a field picking up like fridges and washing machines and just hurling it across and they need to reuse them when he gets the call up because it's just ridiculous the strength of this man. Yeah, absolutely, next up we have for the NXT Women's Championship, Roxanne Perez versus Lola Feis, who have you up for this one, Nivi? I think Roxanne continues her reign as champion, this felt, you know, the rumour was, you know, we saw Julia front row at Stan and Deliver, the talk was, it was potentially going to be Julia and Roxanne Perez at Heatwave, Julia did have that hand injury, although I think she is advertised for dates coming up soon, but they pulled away from that. I think that matches happening down the line, Julia and Roxanne, but, you know, as a replacement, I think they've done a pretty good job with Lola Feis, she's gradually turned herself babyface after the feud with Shayna, cut a really emotional promo this week, the crowd like her, she's definitely got something about her, but I don't think it's time for her to be the champion, yeah, I do think there's still some seasoning she needs before being the main person here, and Roxanne is just, she's excelling actually as a heel, I think she's a natural babyface, but I think she's been working pretty well as a heel and is pretty consistent in ring, so I think you could definitely continue this championship reign, and I do want to see her and Julia down the line. Yeah, I agree, I was super impressed with Lola Feis, during the Shayna Bizzur feud, I've always been a big fan of Shayna Bizzur, and I really enjoyed their match at the last NXT show, like it was different, and she really impressed me with her skills, but I don't think that she is ready yet to be champion, and I think that definitely they're getting Julia in as soon as she's physically ready, and I think for someone of her caliber coming in, they need a really strong champion, like especially in ring, and Roxanne Feis is just the more experienced wrestler, and frankly the better wrestler, and better solo, and like Lola's going to get there, so she's in NXT, if anything like Roxanne is probably surpassed NXT, but keep her around if you're bringing it to someone like Julia, and also like you need those people that are like probably passed it to either, like for the division while everyone else kind of moves up, so I would not take the title off Roxanne, I think she's absolutely going to win, and maybe we'll see who her next challenger is, because I did think that after the last interview, that was quite weird the bit they did on NXT, where all the women started coming out, I hate when they do that, just the conveyor belt of people, I want the title, yeah. Yeah, I hate that, I would love to see someone like Julia, just stand up and be like yeah, I'm taking it next, something like that rather than whatever that was, and do you think we're going to see our favourite general manager, Evan person in Toronto? I don't know, backstage probably I think, I don't think we'll see her in ring. I think they should bring her out and welcome us all to NXT heroes. Okay, start the show off hot. Start it off hot indeed, okay finally, we have the feel for we match for the NXT Championship, we've got the champion, Trick Williams versus Jivon Evans versus Ethan Page versus Sean Spears, I feel like we're talking about AEW again, we've got two XAW guys in here, Ethan Page and Sean Spears, do you see either of them becoming NXT champion, what have you thought of them since they jumped over? This is a weird one because I'm pretty high up on Ethan Page, I think he's a great promo, I think he's solid in ring, I always like seeing him against an undersized baby face, like his matches with Darby always kind of Sean where he's just throwing someone around and showing his more like mean aggressive side, and he wears nice shirts, so I do like Ethan Page, I think having him lose the first match against Rick Williams and not really having much of a follow up on the NXT right after, he felt like an afterthought quite quickly and that's why I would lean towards putting the title on him because he could fall and just be nothing here and I think you should go with him and I think he would be a good heel champion and a good person for a Wesley to chase for the title. But also I think it's kind of early to take it off of trick, so I'm pretty torn, they would be the two I go for, Jevon Evans has been so exciting to watch and for a guy who's only 20 years old, like hoping this guy like, you know, no injuries or whatever, hold him back but the sky's the limit really, he's got a real connection with the crowd, he's got quite a unique authentic voice in all the promos he's been doing, like the contract signing I thought he outshot everyone this week, but it's not time for him quite yet. And Sean Spears, it's, look, we know why he's there, I think he's a good hand, right, that's the thing and in a thing like NXT you need those veterans there to help the youngsters get better, so I completely understand why he's there, but he's pretty much lost every single big match he's had so far up until now. So his character doesn't seem that it's worthy of being in this match, really, and I don't see him at all winning this thing, I think they just feel maybe, you know, he's from St. Catherine's, he's close to Toronto, like let's put him in there, but for me it will be between Ethan Page and Trik Williams and I honestly think like if it was me, I'd go with Paige here. >> Yeah, we've got two Canadians in here, Ethan and Sean both the XAW guys. I think that, so I'm not like super high on Ethan Page, I do like him though and I definitely appreciate his fashion, but I felt when they, when they brought him in like the last, the big NXT show when he had the title match against Trik, I thought it was like frankly disappointing. I don't think he made, as showing up himself like worthy of the hype around him, I thought his entrance into NXT was really cool and I totally get why he jumpship, same with Sean Spears. But yeah, I don't think it was a good showing, I thought the follow up was really bad, we just kind of end up with that. >> That was the night of the, where they did the Cody bit backstage, was it? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Which, yeah. >> I hated someone comes off a loss and they're not showing that at all, you're just joking around backstage with Cody Rhodes and Bryan Hillman Jr. It's like no, you should be, you should be pissed, you should be annoyed about this. >> That's because they don't care if they don't care, he should have been really mad. >> Sean Spears, yeah, absolutely good hand, but he's not someone that I see it ever really happening for, even in NXT, they've got a lot of prospects who are younger that frankly, that they're gonna be investing in and wanting to put the title on. So I don't think it's gonna be Sean, I think yeah, good hand, he'll probably quietly move up to the main roster one day and just have mid card feuds. I do think Trik has been really good. Jovann Evans absolutely has impressed me every time that I've seen him. But he is super, super young, like, would you say he's like the Julia Hart of NXT, like the person that we're like, what age were they when such and such happened? >> Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. But I do think you kind of want to go with that at some point. I think he is the guy that you want to be the youngest NXT champion of all time. I just don't think quite yet. >> Yeah, Sam, I would put it on Ethan Page, I think. I think you bring in a guy who was in AEW, who was also in TNA. And I think when you're gonna, there's gonna be more jumps like that. I would predict before the end of the year, I really think so. And I think you should kind of make a statement with one of them say like, yeah, we're kind of going with this guy, Ethan, I think is a really good fit for NXT. I don't see him ever being like the WWE champion. I could see him on a mid-part title, for sure. But I can see him being a really good NXT champion on Hanging Mine for a while, it's like a bit of a measuring stick and Trick will be fine. Trick has a lot of people behind him, so I think he'll be absolutely fine. So I think it's gonna be Ethan Page and I think that will make the kind of weird, not great match that he had last time. >> Not make more sense, but be like, okay, I guess they want it to round him. I think we have kind of been Toronto, maybe like do you think Trick takes the pin or? >> No, I mean that's always what's weird with four ways as well is, typically it is the champion that retains in these things. But no, I wouldn't have Paige Pintrick and then obviously you can go to the rematch. Whether it be on a TV special or the next PLE, I'd see him probably pinning Sean Spears, to be honest. >> Yeah, I think so too, per Sean Spears. Look, at least he's not worrying till he's blanched out on his underpants in the NXT. >> I forgot about that. >> Yeah, I'll show your brother, buddy. But it happens to him in NXT, he can be thankful that I doubt he's ever gonna do your line go like that again. >> Well, Davey, thank you so much for joining me. I'm sorry that I was weirdly frozen. You know what, I forgot to turn down my definition of my camera when I started. And then it just decided that everything on my entire computer will freeze. Like there's not been a single thing I've been able to touch or close to happen. So that's why I didn't just turn myself off or anything like that. It's just been like a nightmare. But yeah, I shouldn't have tried to be doing like the highest full, high definition waterfall that was a mistake by me. So sorry guys watching. That's why I haven't been able to meet out any comments or put any comments onto being either. But I do appreciate all you guys sticking with me during that. And I appreciate you, David, for being on screen that full time. >> You're very welcome. I appreciate you asking me, it's nice, I enjoy a good chat. >> Well, there's no one better to chat NXT with. We got to represent for Toronto, especially us people that aren't actually from here, but have made it our hope. >> Yes. >> Please tell everyone like absolutely every world where they can find you and all the things we up to. I think that you have something really great going on for people that are in Toronto for money in the bank that you might want to share as well. >> Absolutely, so I work for Post Wrestling and my own podcast network, Poison Rana. And we are hosting an event before money in the bank on Saturday. Doors open at 2 PM at wide open. It's the best bar, best dive bar in the city, 139A Spadina. Come along, I've designed, I also bartend in the city. So I've designed a wrestling themed drinks menu and we're going to have a bit of karaoke going on there. And if you're like me and you're interested in the euros, yes, we will have the quarter finals playing on the bar as well before money in the bank. So if you're listening to this and you want to come along, the door is wide open for you. And you can get all the information as well by following our socials. Follow me at Davey Portman. Follow my podcast, Poison Rana at Poison Rana Pod. My co-host, Brayden Harrington and I, we do weekly reviews kind of wrapping up the whole week in the world of wrestling. And then on our Patreon, we look at things a bit more broadly. We just finished recording our review of the final WCW Nitro. We do a show called Was Next, where we go right back to the beginning of the NXT. And we've been going through all the episodes in order. We just released our April 3rd, 2014 edition of NXT. Which featured Sami Zayn versus Corey Graves in the main event. And then we also do random movie reviews, old paper reviews, and the like on there. So you can find that by going to patreon.com/poisonrana. And then I host up next the NXT weekly review show. On the post-wrestling network, we'll be doing our live review of Heatwave right after the show. Finishes will be running over from the Scotia Bank and going live with our thoughts on that. But you can find us every Tuesday at 1015 on youtube.com/post-wrestling. Yes, guys, please go and give a follow to Poison Rana. And yeah, if you're in Toronto, no better place to be before money in the bank than wide open. Debbie will be there, waiting will be there, I will be there, Beno will be there, he's still in Toronto. So we're going to have so much fun before money in the bank, and I'm like truly, truly excited for this show. But once again, Debbie, thank you so much and thank you everyone for watching. I will be back when is the next week of your SummerSlam? Yes. We're going to SummerSlam. We are. We are, okay. So you will catch me next time on the Fightful Prediction Show. We'll be talking about SummerSlam. Until then, enjoy. Happy Independence Day once again. Happy Money in the Bank weekend, and I'll see you next time. Bye. [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence]
