Maddening Wrestling Takes

MWT (00:00.718)
All right, Mad House, we're going to talk, jump right in and talk about the biggest wrestling comeback of 2025. And no, I am not talking about the potential return of AJ Lee in Chicago this Friday. I am talking about Mike and Ace maddening wrestling takes his back after a long one week hiatus with everybody saying M W T. Yeah.

Yeah. So you'll have to forgive Ace. He's a little thrown off by that one. Just wanted to give us a little. That was fun. Lively reintroduction. We're back. School's going great. Work is probably just as good as normal for you. Work is going just fine. A little understanding as to why we've been missing and been a little bit late. Obviously, Ace has started back in school, which is throwing our schedule off a little bit. Yeah, this is my second week now.

He is in the band, so he plays every Friday night at football games, trying to hook up with some friends, do some hanging out. This weekend we had a lot of family stuff going on. I personally have just released a book. I'm writing another one. I have two more podcasts other than this that I'm working on and a couple of board games. So our schedule is a little busy, but we're back at it. We're going to stick to it. Our plan now with Ace being back in school is to start recording on Sunday again to release on Monday. That way we don't have to worry about

A rush job afterwards. Now, the downfall to us being gone as long as we've been gone, other than you missing the silky smooth sound of my voice, is we got a lot of wrestling to cover. So end with us being Tuesday, or even if we recorded yesterday afternoon, there would have been three Raws for us to cover. Two NXTs, two Smackdowns, four shows of AEW 5 actually with the pay-per-view and

a WWE PLA. That's a lot of goddamn wrestling, right? So here's what's gonna happen. are not going to go over every single thing that happened. We're gonna give you a recap of the last couple of weeks because let's be honest, nobody wants to hear us talk for four hours about three weeks worth of wrestling when we're already well past it, right? I know I don't. Yeah, no, you're right.

MWT (02:25.102)
I like, you're allowed to weigh in on that one son, that's cool. Well, I was thinking. Oh, ouch, I'm sorry. You okay? I thought I smelled something. All right. We're doing this again. Oh, of course we are. I didn't miss this. Of course we are. With the give and take, the quick back and forth, that's what makes this show so exciting. back and forth. The repartee is what makes the show so exciting and so fun to listen to.

I'm sorry. It's the witty repartee. That's what I was supposed to say. The witty repartee. That's great, buddy. Thanks. All right. Where are at? You got this ready? You're starting. Unless you don't have it ready. No, I got it right here. And that's fine. I got a list of things. So in no particular order, mind you, this is just the key points of the last two weeks of WWE. All the news worth talking about and maybe even a little gossip worth gossiping about and probably a couple of maddening takes. It really aren't really worth all that much talking about because people are going to think we're crazy.

So, news, Sami Zayn is your new US champion. Underdog, mind you. Right, the underdog from the underground who hasn't been an underdog for years and years and years is your new United States champion, beating Sola Sokova. Now, you realize, and I know Sami's held a singles title before, but you realize this means that Big Jim is the only member of the OG bloodline not to ever hold a singles title.

Right? So, and even got fulfilled when Jay was a I.C. champ. Right. And it doesn't look like it's going to happen because it looks like we're going to get a new says reunion. Yeah. So it doesn't look like Big Jim's going after anything on his own right now. I'm surprised he's not on maternity leave. Well, not until she has the kid. Oh, yeah, you're right. You don't get maternity leave for the entire time they're pregnant. That's not how that works. That's boring. Why does is Naomi gone?

because she can't do physical. Likely sorry. mean, you already stomped on her stomach in that match. He's going to be deformed. Maybe I already took his first bump. Or hers. It's first bump. Their first bump. We want to be politically correct. Gender neutral. Is it not? Well, it makes it sounds like it's not a person. Now, you know, when you do the whole gender neutral thing, it's they. Yeah. So it would be.

MWT (04:52.238)
The baby took their first bump. Yeah. All right. There we go. All right. So a little medical. Madden wrestling takes always politically correct. At least while we're on the air, you should hear us off. All right. So we had a historic Dublin Smackdown. In Dublin. Yes. I'm not sure why it was historic, but. Because of the crowd. The crowd was good. The crowd was not Paris good. I was going to say the crowd was not petty. Oh my God. Paris good. Let me tell you. Who's Perry?

Shut up. He's a platypus. So let me tell you something about this Paris crowd. don't normally. You want to say that again? Let me tell you something about this Paris crowd. Let me tell. no, sorry. I was thinking let me talk to you. I was going to say I got pulled back a little bit because the mic's cracked for some reason. Let me talk to you. There we go. About this Paris crowd. See, it's throwing me off. these guys are crazy. You know, I'm an avid fan.

And I like to support the good old us of a whenever I can, but I'm hard pressed to say that there are any more rabid or into it WWE fans than in Paris. International, maybe even anywhere, Anywhere they are. They are just crazy and I know you had a friend over last night so you didn't get to watch the ice a match from the moment his music hit last night.

through commercial break and back until they introduced Dom. Were they doing that, Non-stop and loud as hell. AJ is far and away the most over guy in France. Well, they were Leon last year, right? far and away the most over guy in France in the WWE. you know I love AJ. AJ is my favorite. I don't know why he's the

that much over everybody else. I love him. Great matches, great guy, but I think the phenomenal thing is a song that they do. Maybe. And they just, um, AJ, I think if anyone else would have had the phenomenal as a catchphrase, they would have done it for them too. Maybe. Cause I do think it's a song. I've never seen AJ smile that big when it came back from commercial break and they're still just going, AJ's just like ear to ear smiling.

MWT (07:19.918)
So on this historic SmackDown in Dublin, we had Logan Paul knocking out John Cena. Becky Lynch teaming with Nia Jax. I'm sorry I missed that. Right, because we're not going to be able to cover the next few SmackDowns. I'll be able to get this next SmackDown. We're not going to be able to cover SmackDowns for the next few months. I'll hit the next Couple months. I won't be able to. Right. Aces, like we said. Friday night football games. the top of show, Aces in the band.

He's going to be. It's worth it. And it's Right. It's something he thoroughly enjoys. And unfortunately, it'll take him out of Friday nights. But it's price price worth being paid. It's a sacrifice for the greater good. There you go. It's worth the price. Yeah, you know, too bad this isn't the one that's on Netflix and then we could just watch it next day. I was living in Canada. Hey. Or Harry. Right. So.

Yeah, Becky made her return to Dublin on that on that show. yeah. Weren't they chanting F you, Becky? I thought I read somewhere that they were because someone tweeted out, said, how are you going to be chanting F you to one of your own? Speak of Becky, she's still taking backlash over this Ozzy Osbourne thing. Are you kidding me? She's a goddamn heel. Does she offend somebody? Good. I'm glad. Does she piss off the dude's daughter? Good. I'm glad. That's job as a heel, guys.

Ozzy was a hall of famer. He would have been 100 % on this. Ozzy loved pro wrestling. Ozzy was one of the best showmen ever. I mean, I could ask him, but he's, let me crack out the Ouija board and see what we have. But Ozzy would have supported that 100%. 99 out of a billion times. Let me try it again. That didn't work out right. that's not very, he wouldn't that. That's horrible odds, right?

He would have for that a billion times over with no questions. He knew he knew how to put on a show. even one percent. Dude, you're killing me.

MWT (09:28.682)
It happens. It's, I would say it's live, but it's not live. We just don't edit enough that when we mess up, we take it out. So screw it. We'll just run with it. well we have, we're going to skip over Clash in Paris because we will go over Clash in Paris a little more in detail. with some of the shows on that. Right. We had Dominic Mysterio retaining his Intercontinental Championship over AJ, the most over man in France.

Yes. With the help of El Grande Americano. weeks of dirty Dom talking behind the scenes and Finn wondering what's going on. It's all been about this. do not be shocked. Ludwig. Do not be shocked if Dom wins the AAA Championship with the help of Trace Grande Americano.

MWT (10:23.864)
Did I say that right? S. Loco. Okay, so I said it right? Alright. I think. Trying to get a little international flair there. That's not really my I had to think of the word for crazy. But I got it. Loco? Yeah. I knew that one. Shut up. It's like one of those seven Spanish words I know. You probably know what a count to seven. Unless this is not the time or place for that. So the Kabuki Warriors were teasing still this breakup.

with my question is where's Kyrie go? Indy's no shut up my god she's probably the second best wrestler in that threesome

In the what? The threesome, the trio. The trio works just fine. Threesome doesn't always mean that. It's a group of three people. I am, I am, that's crazy.

she'd be the first in that one but of that group of three don't look at me like that

of that group of three runs. We're still talking about the breakup of. Now we can move. No, shut up. Get over it. Kabuki Warriors. They keep teasing Asuka. She's getting a little more vocal about who EO is allowed to talk to and not allowed to talk to. Yes. Her and Ria almost got into it last night and every time she talks to EO.

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She'll say something and then like storm off and Kyrie's just left standing there like looking back and forth between both of them. And then off camera you hear Kyrie! And she has to go to She tells you, she goes, I'm sorry. They did the same thing with Rhea last night. Asuka got in Rhea's face and they kind of went back and forth a little bit. And Asuka said, no one's ready for Asuka, not even you and stormed away. And Kyrie just kind of stood there for a minute looking at Rhea, looking away, looking back at Rhea.

I'm kind of enjoying this it's a little humorous to me but I just really hope we get to EO and Asuka actually wrestling. Right. Speak of EO. Yes you do that while I remember what to do. Well good luck with that. Speak of EO Sky we have our first confirmed match for Wrestlepalooza. Who is it?

horrible name. I know it's an old ECW name but still that horrible horrible name. It's taking us. That's crazy. So, it is the vacant women's championship will be defended, not defended, will be on the line. On the line. There you go. Sorry. Words are hard. Are they? Sometimes. Okay. we'll be on the line with the two women who have earned title shots. Title? Title. I'm sorry. I did not.

enunciate property would you like me to sound more sophisticated? Eos guy who never got the rematch with Naomi she was supposed to get because Naomi got knocked up. That's Stephanie Valcar who never got the match in France she was supposed to get again for said knocking up. We'll be going one on one at Wrestlepalooza to crown the new WWE or world or whatever the women's champion on Raw.

So that's a match actually I'm looking forward to. They've had a match on Raw before. It was a very good match, but I think these two... They got interrupted. It was a good match. Up until it got interrupted, it was a good match. So I think these two going on to a PLE level, the first PLE on ESPN, by the way, which I would advise all of our listeners out there to get themselves a VPN and watch it on...

MWT (14:33.326)
Netflix Canada, right? Because I'll be damned if I am paying an extra $30 to watch PLEs. damned if I'm paying $60 a month to watch wrestling. All so you want me to pay, yeah, you want me to pay for Peacock so I can get NXT. NXT. PLEs. Yeah, NXT, PLEs, and Saturday Night's Main Events. Right. Then you want me to pay for Netflix so I can watch Raw. Then I should have a cable subscription so I can have the...

WB so I can watch NXT and then you want me to... And then what is it? CW. CW, sorry. Sorry, that's an old school thing. Then they want me to pay another $30 for ESPN to watch WWE VLEs. And we're not even counting... Oh, I guess we could just pay for Max to watch AEW and then $50 to pay for them.

It's like $125 a month to watch wrestling. Guys, I love wrestling. all of wrestling. I love wrestling, but not that much. I like paying my bills better than that because I like to have electricity and heat and food. I mean, if you guys know me or have seen me, you'll know I like to have food. yeah, sorry WWE. And one quick side note. I know, see without.

going through this show by show. We're kind of scattered, but I'm just, I don't care. I'm kind of enjoying doing this freewheeling. Stop blaming Triple H for the prices. Stop blaming Triple H for them signing an ESPN deal. TKO owns this company. Triple H is just the public face. He doesn't make decisions. He doesn't sign paperwork. He just comes out and talks to you people about it.

Yes. Okay. Believing that he is behind this is like believing that the wrestling is real. Okay. It's not. Spoiler alert. My bad. Shit.

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So, did you want to go somewhere now? Where were we? I just going to say Cody and Brandy got a baby girl, Leilani. They did? Leilani Runnels. The newest Runnels in the family? Future Women's World Champion right there. We'll see. Because her daddy Dustin, no actually. Her daddy Cody. Well, but he did finish the story. So her granddaddy Dusty didn't finish the story. oh, but Cody never won the...

And her mom never won a championship. Yeah, that's full. I mean, her mom. mean, her dad never won the women's champion either. Horrible. But so we got the Brown and Brown connection. got some news on the Brown and Brown connection. Brown Brown. They're just beating the shit out of everybody. That's what's happening with Brown and Brown. Did they beat Jay in LA? La Nite? You know what? It says they did, but I can't remember for the life of me who actually won that match. It just ended up with them jumping everybody and. OK.

And then Big Jim making the save at the end. I wouldn't know I had a friend over. So Big Jim back in the storyline at the end of it, know, Jay had taken a tsunami and a spear and Big Jim comes out with a chair to make a save. And at the end, he's Jay's Jay up and he said, I'm here, I'm here and Jay says, I can't do it alone, man, I can't do it alone. So looks like we're going to see.

reunion of the usos. Does that mean we get old theme song back for both usos? Are they gonna come from the crowd? I don't know. Come from the crowd again? Jimmy comes from the entrance way and comes from the crowd. There is no chance that Jay is not coming with the yeet stuff. You don't think? I don't think so. They can still do the yeet stuff. just don't have it in the theme song. Like he really does that.

crowd interaction stuff though. They can change the theme song because it's Jay's theme song is the one that you can change back to the old one right because it is just him voicing over the old one right but Jimmy's is completely different right so yeah and sad as it is nobody gives a shit about Big Jim right other than he was always my favorite out of the two other than him defeating Naomi for the women's title. That's crazy.

MWT (19:08.462)
Pender to the mat. Let's just hope it was more than a one, two, three. So. Why you keep making faces, man? You're making this really hard. That's what I always say. There we go. There we go. All right, guys.

Obviously this episode just kind of going in all kinds of directions. So whatever. No, it's pretty much the same direction. She's going off the rails. We're jumping all these places. Rusev, Rusev, beating Seamus. I was a surprised at this.

It wasn't that funny. Coming back, making him, his Miro was not good name for him. Are we on clash now? We're just, we're talking a powerful promo post-clash. So yes, we're talking about clash. All those P's got me. Powerful promo post-clash in Paris. Patty. Who's The platypus, dude, we've been over this, come on now. Okay. Calling himself a beacon.

and urging fans to be like Rusev. I like it. He's going to get deported. What? Deported. That's how how have they not gotten a storyline on this yet? That's a good point. I mean, know it's a super hot button topic and nobody wants to touch it, but dude, you just signed all these AAA guys. How the hell do you not have this storyline right now? Dragon Lee isn't doing

you

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man. John Cena faced off against Logan Paul Clash in Paris. And this says in what's being touted. Touted. Touted. As a possible match of the year candidate in Clash in Paris and I'll agree with that. I have seen three articles today telling me how bad this match was. What? Right?

And in every single one of them, I responded back, please stop writing about wrestling. Yes. These guys put it all the moves that these two were pulling out. I also saw a lot of people saying that Cena carried.

It's a well-known fact that I hate Logan Paul, but Jesus Christ that match he was great. He has been great in Every match he has had right. I know I don't think I've walked a bad Logan Paul neck I don't like the guy but credit where credit's due right? mean they always Well, now they put him in with jelly. It did look a little sloppy with jelly, but that could have been jelly too, but I mean everybody

Everybody who's wrestled has been like a top tier guy. Right. So it's it's kind of hard to put them up against. How many how many not top tier guys do we have? Well, give me at this point. Give me him against Seamus. Seamus is just hard hitting, so give me him against Seamus and let me see. Yeah, well, yeah. Give me him against Akira Tozawa, one of the Viking Raiders. Yeah.

Grayson Waller. Yeah, something like that. They're not where they're good, but they're not up at that upper echelon level. Right. Let me see what he does. Echelon. You like that? That's a good one. I like that. That's a word. Big word of the day.

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The women's Intercontinental Championship which Becky retained. I fell asleep during I'll be completely honest with you. I mean I would have too if I didn't have my phone in front of me. was was not that great of a match. The other match. Nikki nearly broke Becky's arm. She put the disarmament wrong. Yeah did see that. It was. That looked rough. Yeah that was bad. The other match I partially fell asleep through was the partially I did see some of it. Don't shake your head at me.

Hold on. my goodness, what is the stipulation they called it? It starts with a D.

No it doesn't. Sure does.

good old fashioned Donnybrook match. There you go. It's a Donnybrook match. Yes. That was a great match, too. I saw the I'd say I'd say that and Cena and Logan up for match that night. saw that. I don't just watch and seeing the stuff online. Logan and Cena were far away and I knowing who was in the Donnybrook match. And I know what both of their styles are. So even without watching the match.

McClash. Right. I know it was going to... well. Right, but it wasn't going to be something that I was going to consider a match of the night contender. Well, okay, but what about Gunther and Sheamus? They have pretty much the same style. They do. And that was match of the year, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know if it was match of the year. It was good, but I don't... No, no, no. It won the slammy, I believe, for match of the year that year. Yeah, wrestling fans vote for stuff that I don't always agree with. That works. That happens. But...

MWT (24:31.756)
No, I don't think just knowing. OK, even if I had put the scene of Logan Paul match against that Gunther Seamus match, I think I still take the scene of Logan Paul match. Really? I would not. I do. Like I said, they just pulled everything out. They sure did. What were you talking about? The accolade. I saw the accolade on the barrels and I saw the white noise, white noise to the table. Right. Yeah. See, so I didn't see through all of it. And then

Rusev gets Rusev takes the white noise from the top of the barrel through the tables then gets up before Seamus does get say a Shalali is that what they're called? Yep. Hits Seamus on the back of the neck. Breaks the Shalali after hitting the Machka kick three of them I believe they went back and forth from end and it was like a well it was a Machka kick chop. I thought I thought maybe this was earlier. I saw a little bit of but Seamus hit the the Brogue kick.

and Rusev kicked out, then he got up, hit the matka kick, and then Seamus hit the knee. No, that was after this happened. But yeah, was a matka, matka into the corner, matka to get him down where he is, then a shillelagh to the back, and I thought that was it. And then when Seamus bird kicked Rusev, I thought that was it. And then Rusev lays back in the accolade. No, no, they're trying to sell this as

most unique accolade I've ever seen. And it was. Okay, here's the thing though. Well, it was. Yeah, unique can mean bad. It can. Well, I know, but I'm saying it. of a kind bad, yes. No, I'm agreeing. Okay. Unique can mean bad. So, here's the here's the thing. When you're in the accolade normally, your arms are draped over the guy's knees and he's pulling back on your head while he's need a camera while he's pushing down. know. While he's pushing down on your lower back so it puts some pressure

with your arms into his legs. What Rusev did was pull back so hard that he laid on his back instantly freeing Seamus's arms, but Seamus tucked his hands under Rusev's calves. Not even that. He did. And then he pulled it out for the tap. Because at first he had, he like put both of his hands under both of Rusev's calves. So he could keep his arms there. It's like, dude, as soon as you pull that guy backwards like that, there's no pressure on his arms. He can just.

MWT (26:57.87)
grab the shillelagh that's in his mouth and start pulling it away from him. Right. But, you know, they needed to end the match. was it. They were just a little overzealous.

really into it that's what that means I know okay we looked a little I was contemplating on if I like that word or not oh it's not as good as upper echelon so that's two words sorry just echelon then we got well were there any other matches worth noting hang on one second obviously not if I can't remember no there's hang on give me give me just one second please stand by all right so um how was your day's been

Good, good. How's yours? Yeah. Yeah. word Roman. Sorry. Oh, my goodness. Bronson to kick it off. Forget about that for the Shula Fala. It was Roman came down wearing two will of follows, which which my astute son here instantly said, Whoa, he doesn't normally work, too. What's going on with that? And Michael Cole being Michael Cole, as we've known ever since we had this Alexa in our living room.

The TVs have been talking back to us. So when I asked the clever Michael Cole why he's wearing two ulefala's, Michael Cole says, and as you'll notice, Roman Reigns is wearing two ulefala's, one for his dad and his uncle, the late and great Afa and Sika. Right. So. Like, thanks. I got a little back and forth and they, Roman ends up winning. The match. The match, not the night.

Okay, you're right. Because as he's standing on the announce table to celebrate. Well, no, no, no, no, First, he goes up to Polly. He says, me the shoes back. The crowd is chanting. Give the shoes back. Yes, he does. And the crowd pops as soon as Roman gets the shoes. He then takes them to, I don't know, Alicia Taylor. She gives him scissors. He cuts.

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the string so they're not tied. Autograph some, throws them into the crowd. You missed something. No, that was after, it? no, it was not. He put Polly in the guillotine. Yeah, he choked Polly out before he left the ring. Got the shoes, signed them, tossed them into the audience. And then, over on the other announce table, on the Francais announce table, appears a Steiner or a Not just any Steiner.

And he spears Roman the breaker Steiner through the table. Like, yeah, like he did with Carlito. Yeah, it's weird because you're going forward, but somehow you speared down enough to the table. Dude, he he landed on his head. I know. I'm saying he jumps at such an angle that he can lower himself or tilt himself down like a missile. Yeah. That's what he did with Carlito. Right. It's not it's not just like a

RPG is like a long-range missile or is coming down right? So he hits Roman breaks a table and then him and Bronson just go to work on Roman Bunch of Tsunami's Three or four I wouldn't say bunk Jay comes out to try and make the save gets the upper hand for a minute Then he's a sphere Tsunami they put Roman on the stretcher put him on the backboard. Yeah, and you know, he's getting ready to get taken out

Bronson runs back climbs up the ropes and hits another tsunami. While he's strapped to the board it's great. Great. I know Ace is a huge fan of the tribal chief. I'm a huge fan of the tribal chief but Bronson has been so underutilized for ages and ages. I'm glad to see him. But I will acknowledge my tribal thiefness.

I absolutely love what they're doing with Bronson and Bron. LeBrons. LeBrons. Is it BronBron? LeBron and BronDuo. Okay, so the next match we had that we forgot about was Tag Team Championships. Wyatt6? Oh, well we forgot about it for good reason. I cannot remember a single move that happened in that match besides the crispy clean finish. That was very good.

MWT (31:30.382)
And the soon to, looks like be broken up Street Profits. Yeah, they were fighting a little bit. Pull the trigger. We've been waiting for Tez to fly solo for a few years now. Just pull the goddamn trigger. All right. Rip the Band-Aid off this one. No ill will. They don't have to break up in a bad way, although that match will be great.

That's what we thought about the Usos too. Well, that's true. So I'll put, I'll... These two do more than three moves. I'll criticize it when it happens. I'd like to see the match. But I'd also like to see every once in a while a tag team just saying, you know what? We've been doing this for a while. Let's see what we can do on our own. Like what the New Day was going to do before they turned on Biggie. Right. And now their new member, Big G.

Well, they haven't turned on him yet. Give them a minute. Remember when they took in Big O? Big O turned on them. All right. And every time they've replaced.

Oh, that was for the same injury. Was it from when he broke his neck? Yeah. Oh, wow. His neck has been broken for that long. Wow. It's been out for that long. All right. We already talked about Becky and Nikki. That's scary. Already talked about Rusev and James. Becky and Nikki Bella. Already talked about John Cena, Logan Paul, match of the night, match of the year candidate so far. I mean, we're in September, so match of the year is saying something at this point.

Now it is time for our main event. And the bronze, after jumping Roman and entering Jay, have been banned from the building. They will be fined and suspended without pay. come back. Pauly has been taken to the hospital. Roman is, you know, dead. Also at a hospital.

MWT (33:28.81)
Might be the same house. Hopefully it's not the same room. I was going to say it really funny. was the same. But so that means the vision. Chief, I didn't mean it. Shut up, Polly. Actually, at this point, be like my tribal chief. So when would we do in the same? So that means that the visionary is all alone, is on his own, but he's never needed anybody. He's a visionary. He's a revolutionary.

He is Seth freaking Rollins and he doesn't need any man coming down there to help him. Were those his words exactly? No. Okay. But he needs the man coming down there to help him in what might have been the biggest let down of the night. Yeah. We were really hoping for a fourth member of the vision that I mean, they wasn't. I mean, they did. They did. But it's like

It's not really a vision when you've already envisioned a future with that person and have started said future. Yeah, you have a child. You have physically started said future. Right. She's there. Right. Right. She's no longer the vision. Maybe she is the vision. She's the vision for the future of future Russell. Rue. Rue. Rue. Rue. Rue. Maybe that's the deal. Is that the Frosay name? I don't But the thing is.

You had so much potential to just surprise with anybody else joining the group. Awesome theory. Ethan Page. Bring Crossback.

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I'm still the only place he's signed for is the GCW match, right? Which they've had under contract guys work for GCW before with released superstars, though. Yeah. really? Yes. Like because he was on. I know him and Cordona. Yeah. I was going to say him and Shotzi. well, Shotzi and what's his wife's name? Scarlett Scarlett or best friends?

I knew that. knew that. They do a thing together. They do like a horror show or a ghost finding thing. Yeah. So that's why that happened, which is completely understandable. But yeah, anyway, not even just bringing cross back. But like you said, Austin Theory, something just bringing out a new member. Ilya Dragunov was mentioned, which his intensity and his little doing the orchestra thing with the fan going, didn't even think about that. Yeah. How perfect would that be? Right.

He would be yeah, he would be great. But no, instead they decide, hey, let's everybody a curveball and bring out the one person on the face of the earth that everybody and their brother knows has a vested interest in Seth Rollins. Not just an interest. Right. kid. Right. I mean, no, I mean, like her future, like not as her career future, but her future as a human being is tied to this man. So it's not a shock that she came out to help him.

Didn't they even make out after the match? Yeah, they so she slides in wearing a mask because like that's Fooled anybody. Well, it did for half a second. Then you're like then I'm like, that's pretty slim. You're like, it's Becky. I go. yes soon as she hit the the nut shot and stood up. I'm like, that's Becky blow Was it not a nut shot? I suppose it was a nutcracker. She Last night, she slept CM Punk around

She said, or he said, you're going to regret ever putting your hands on me. And she says, I already do. I got all your stinky sweat all over me. It's disgusting. I already had to throw away my jacket from last night because I got your ball sweat all over it.

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I laughed out loud but you said it was great. that on Raw? Yeah, that was the end of Raw. Well, not the end. was because the end was the bronze. But yeah, that was the whole that was a whole tease to AJ showing up Friday. Which? are they in Chicago Friday? They are. That was so he says this. said, you know, I'm going to make your husband regret whatever and I'm going to make you regret ever putting your hands on me. And he turned around, walked out and she kept like, go away, blah, blah, blah.

of stuff they get to the back and Pierce is standing there and punk runs up and Pierce like they're gone I don't know where they're gone they're I don't know where they went he's like no you tell me and Pierce is like that way does it help they're out of the building I love Pierce so punk says hey let me ask you a question though smackdown this Friday where is that again Pierce says Chicago Chicago your hometown

And Sam Funk says, thanks. So, okay. Well, and I thought at first, because right before. They have been, I'm not exaggerating when I say this, they have been teasing this all year. Right. Since the women's rumble. And right before Punk went out to the ring to call out Seth and then Becky came out and said, Seth, he was backstage talking to Rhea. Yeah. So I'm like, oh.

This is going to be their cop out. And when Becky started slapping him, because she was just like, really? Yeah. She's just smacking the shit out of him. He's just standing there taking it like this is my brutality is going to hit. And it doesn't. And it didn't. I'm like, shit, we might get some AJ Lee. We'll see what happens on that. don't know. I don't know. don't know. I mean, in Chicago, that was our WWE recap. It was now our AEW recap.

Where the did that go? It's up here somewhere. It's right there. AEW Forbidden Door, London, August 24th. AEW teamed with Newgipr and Pro Wrestling for Forbidden Door. Dude, come on. The Lights Out Steel Cage. was our main event. Did we already cover this? I feel like we did. No, we bitched about it the stipulation. No, I feel like we already covered this because we said Hangman beat MJF and I was sad about it. That was in the...

MWT (39:52.111)
No, we did already do this. It's just in our little promo video. I don't think so. Yeah, it was. It was just us talking. Well, we're to hit this anyway. If you've heard it before, bear with us. We're going to run through some stuff real quick. OK, we're starting with the main event because I can't bear to save it for last. The lights out. Main event, Steel Cage Mash. Darby Allen, Tanahashi, Will Osbray and the... Oh my God, are you kidding me? The Golden Lovers. Yeah. Omega and Ibushi.

beat the Death Riders and the Young Bucks. The Young Bucks went to pull out some thumbtacks. See, this is how I know we didn't talk about it because I would went off about this spot. Go you don't like it? Go ahead. They went to pull out some thumbtacks, but since they lost their EVP privileges, apparently they're treated as newly hired employees. Enhancement talent.

Yes, so when they poured out the thumbtacks it was gummy bears. Okay, that in and of itself. Hilarious. Is it true what Booker T said? They sold it. Okay. That's my problem. Well, did they sell it or did they sell it like a back body drop? They sold it like it was the tax. Like they drop somebody on them and they're, oh, oh.

They picked them or Kenny Omega picked up a handful and shoved it in their mouth like they did attacks with him and a super kick. Right. Again, it's funny if they didn't sell it like it was something that was going to do more damage.

You know, the spot was funny when I first saw him pour out the gummy bears. I I saw it when I saw him continue with it. I'm like, this is stupid. There's there's a point where you're trying too hard. And I think that crossed on that one. They also played a will osprey injury angle on this. His neck. Yeah. So that makes me wonder if the doctors only came in for this match. He's taking some pretty hard shit in this match for a doctor.

MWT (41:56.207)
clear him if his neck was actually bad really yeah that's I'm not sure how that worked out um hangman beat MJF stupid uh Tony Storm beat Athena retaining the AEW women's championship sad Okada beat the sorry this confused me the way it worded it uh beat swerve strickland to retain the unified championship which is okay only because swerve is actually out with an injury

Like a legit injury. is he? Yeah. He has a knee issue. I'm not sure if he got surgery on it or not, but otherwise, you know, come on, give Swerve some love. That dude is carrying your show. Jamie Hader's back and we have a new member of the Don Callis family. Believe it or not, because not like we'd get one of those every other week. Wardlow. Wardlow's back. Wardlow. least they could possibly do something with Wardlow. But I thought that with Josh Alexander as well. Right. So, I mean, they have that's the thing. The Don Callis family has the potential.

to the best faction ever. Yeah, to just be monstrous. Not just the best faction in current professional, the best faction ever. I'm putting them up there. They have the potential. They have the potential. Do they have Tony's love? Let's see how they book this. And then the biggest disappointment of the night. FTR versus the Hurt Syndicate versus Brodito for the AEW World Tag Team Championships.

MWT (43:27.561)
Yeah, yeah, somehow. It was with some masked men from New Japan, right? Which I think one of them turned out to be Ricochet. I think. He's not from New Japan. Right, so I'm not quite sure what they're doing there. So then, following this, had Dynamite, Darby Allen prevailed. Was it following? It was. Yeah. Sorry, I had to look at the dates. Darby Allen prevailed in a violent Falls Count Anywhere match, because that's just what we do every week on AEW now. Everything, it's like watching.

It's like watching old ECW. These stipulations for matches are stipulations for a reason. They're gimmicks for a reason because when you pull them out, it's special and you pay attention. When you do it every week, it loses something. Right. And that's where I'm getting, know everybody's going, oh, Madden's just bashing AEW again. Whatever. I've gone back and anybody who's talked to me about wrestling, I talked about this.

You know, you don't want excessive blood in your shows because then it pulls away from the shock value when you actually do bleed. You don't want false count anywhere matches on every show because then it takes away from the uniqueness and the specialty of the match. Right. Where am I? Kenny Omega made a surprise return to help Hangman Page. MJF looked- Hey, hey, it says, amplifying speculation.

a page omega match for the championship. Yay. It's gonna happen. mean, they gotta put Kenny back to something, No. MJF looked back at Mark Briscoe and decided to finish that and I'd have returned to the world title picture even though we just had a world title night. Yeah, he's... they only have a handful of guys that they're gonna put up. You know that. Right. Christian Cage and eggs.

had a confrontation between FTR teeing up a tag team match. Like was pretty much guaranteed since Edging Christian got there or since they dropped Edge. That's going to happen. Here's what doesn't make sense to me. I will read not the next two bullet points, but the bullet point, not the next one, but the one after. The Ops, Samoagyo, Powerhouse Hobbs and Shibata, what? That's it. That is the next one. Yeah. No, the next one.

MWT (45:55.439)
Not the one after that, but the one after that. Jesus Christ, just tell me when you're surprised when you get there. Okay. Simple minded fellow. Someone with Joe Hobbs and Shabata retained the TRIO's Tag Championships with MVP's help. That actually has me intrigued. I know. That has me intrigued too. What I'm upset about... Hang on one sec before you go. You know Joe Lashley and...

Lowkey and I can't remember who the fourth guy was but they were in a faction together managed by MVP in TNA years ago. What were they called? Might have been the beat down clan.

MWT (46:43.47)
It's not a good name. It's not. It was a horrible name. It was a great group. Yeah. The Ops retained their championships with MVP's help. Then Hook returned in a match against Wheeler-Udah. Why wouldn't you just have him fill in for Shabbatah? Right. Because aren't those the original Ops? Yes. Yes, yes, they are. That was my concern. No, he wasn't filling for Shabbatah. He'd fill in for Hobbs. Hobbs was a replacement. It was Shabbatah, Joe and Hook.

John Moxley secured a gritty win over Daniel Garcia, possibly recruiting him to the Death Riders. Did he bleed? Yeah, it's like, wow, make me care less. Chris Datlander and Harley Cameron won their tag team match, but tension simmered with Willow Nightingale's over upcoming title opp- what? With Willow Nightingale over upcoming title opportunities. Yeah, whatever. Okada and Takeshita teased future tension.

In the man tag match that can be interesting. That does have me intrigued. Alright, Mercedes Monet delivered a fiery promo. A fiery promo directed at Alex Windsor as she clashes for her 10th title. She chases her 10th title. Yeah. 10th title. Right. I know. We are getting into double digits. Yeah, I know. For how many titles a single person has?

Not with over their career, not in the future that they could have, no, that they will currently have. Though this has happened before. With who? The Ultimo Dragon. I don't know who that is. He wrestled in WCW, very little bit in WWE. He was a cruiserweight. I figured. He held, I want to say it's double digit number, cruiserweight titles across Japan, Mexico.

like all over the world yeah that's ridiculous you don't know who the Ultimo Dragon is that's fun that's cool I like that because he's good although let me school you on something do you know what they call a moonsault like what JD McDonough hurt himself on where you go for the second rope to the outside you know what that's called an acai moonsault yeah okay the Ultimo Dragon's real last name is acai that's the legacy this dude has

MWT (49:11.594)
Okay, and Mercedes Monet has five moves. Right, and she is no Ultimo Dragon. Five moves and soon to be double the amount of titles. Yeah, when you carry more titles than your moveset, it's problem. When you have double the amount of titles you do moves, that's when you know something's wrong. So we're going to collision. Collision. Okay. John Moxley.

started recruiting Daniel Garcia, coaching him. was like, yeah, he, Garcia won the match and then Klaue links mostly for a rematch. So cool. guess I got to do something with Garcia, right? Right. Hologram's clone debuts. for Christ's sake. And I, heard, AW introduced a mysterious new character, Klon. Are you kidding me? A dark, a dark.

clone. Did you forget the E? God. I heard people saying that's Jericho. They're talking about his contract. Clon. I have to look at his outfit because he has to be covered. Jericho's got tats. it is. It is covered. It's completely the bodysuit. Yeah. And it's in a black room with the tron, the red circle in the back promoting the clon.

Yep. Just got that. That's so dumb. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Despite the glitches, Hologram extended his undefeated streak to 31 and 0, beating Jaylethal only for Klon's activation to tease exciting storyline potential. Klon's activation. I am definitely going to have to I hope it's Jared Leto. I'm going to.

Actor singer and professional wrestler. Can he be bad at all three if they bring in Daniels for this? The dude from the the dude from the original Tron the big Lebowski they bring him in as part of this The dude abides man the dude abides he is still alive and kicking. Okay. I will I will be down with this and I will

MWT (51:34.639)
Sing the praises of ECW if they somehow bring him in on this. ECW. Yeah. And AEW. Both of them. I'll sing both their praises. Yeah. For no apparent reason on one of them, other than I misspoke. Potential. Oh my God. You know what? Go ahead. Take it. Take it away. Personal spotlight. Darby Allen and Mount Everest. And Darby is the victor. See, how would they know he died if he died up there?

Well, he wouldn't come back. Well, right. But it normally takes like months to climb Mount Everest and then climb back. I'm sure they were in radio contact. when radio contact stopped, would have. You know they leave the bodies up there, right? Yeah, that's like their landmarks. See how far you are. That's creepy as shit. After. them decomposed after a while, right? No, they're frozen. Oh, you're right. Yeah. After returning, he dramatically.

helped instigate the Lights Out Steel cage match. Okay, great. He did that dramatically? Yeah, because he came down from the rafters. yeah. Anytime you come down from the rafters risking a no one heart fate, it's dramatic. That's crazy. Right? That's what I'm thinking. AEW in Scotland. Scottish wrestling favorite and entertainer Grado. I don't know who that is. Is slated for a surprise appearance. Is slated for a surprise appearance.

Slated means booked.

So this dude is booked for a surprise appearance. I don't even have words for that nonsense. That is some straight up Santino Morello shit right there. that might be GPT's fault. It might be. It might be. But OK, so that's our... still have NXT. We do have a little bit of NXT to go through Heatwave.

MWT (53:40.075)
on dark state, the new NXT tag team champions call Hank and tank up to raw. Let's get this tag team division. Rockets. Ava, the GM of NXT. He just kind of consumed the speed brand integrated it into NXT. Yeah. So what happened here in all reality was speed sucked. Nobody watched it on X.

But they still want their promotion. They've already made these belts. They've already made mention of these belts on TV. I was gonna say, I'm pretty sure the only reason they're keeping it and keeping it on NXT is so soul can still say she has to. Yes. It is the only 100 % because let's face it, Soul Ruka, future of women's wrestling. So let's keep the spotlight on her. Yeah, she is. You can't roll your eyes and say, yeah, then expect me not to comment. I'm saying I'm doing that because you were right and I was wrong. Yeah, you should be used to that by now.

So Ricky Saints emerged as the number one contender for Oma Femi's NXT Championship after beating Josh Briggs. Man, what a number one contender match, am I right? Yeah, I would be all right with that. So let's put that belt on Saints. Move Oba up to Raw. Let's start these call-ups. Oba said he wants the two matches Oba wants is Gunther and Cena.

Cena, he wants Cena. I doubt he'll get Cena because Cena's picking his guys. He might get Cena. I've heard Cena praise Ova. Maybe. Maybe he might want to put somebody the future over like he did with Logan Paul. That be his last match. Logan lost. Right. But Cena, they put on a block. Logan won as far as the story goes. He lost as far as the storyline goes, as far as his personal development in his wrestling history, won.

Tyra may steal who is actually the LFG women's winner of season one. I got my facts straight from, I don't know, eight weeks ago. It's been too long. Scored a dominant win over all the fire.

MWT (55:49.387)
is cool because it's elbow fire and they're not doing anything with it right yeah building momentum ahead of heatwave why is this second i don't know why wouldn't you put this first right so okay ricky saints beat jasper troy to earn his spot in a number one contender match i wonder who wins the next one josh briggs what who will face ricky saints

for number one contendership. We just rewind that. Wilber Femi, Will Faize, Ricky Saint. We already won over Nyexax, Beatlash Legend. Kalani Jordan triumphed over Blake Monroe. Yeah, by count count out. Because Jordan grabbed Blake's foot. She really couldn't do anything about that.

Yeah, I remember we actually did talk about that. Talk about Okay, so that was NXT. guess. How about that? Look at that. We're flying through stuff, kind We already got the Clash of Paris review. Yeah. So I can just turn my phone off. Oh no. Weren't you going to cover something else? I was. Something that we keep forgetting every time we sit behind these mics. In two days from now, it would have been going on for a month. And it should have been over. Right? And of course, we are talking about the random tag team brackets.

Our matchups today consist of Cody Rhodes and Jacob Fatu versus Carmelo Hayes and Zach Sabre Jr.

MWT (57:24.908)
Ilya Dragunov and Ace Austin vs. Ricochet and Kyle Fletcher.

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Chad Gable and Eddie Thorpe versus Swerve Strickland and Joe Hendry. That one's not as hard for me. I think we agreed Breaker and Vikingo. Over. LA Knight and Nathan Frazier. yeah. Okay. Versus Hook and Alistair Black.

MWT (57:52.751)
Yeah. All right. So let's start at the top. Let's kick it off. Here's what you got. Cody Rhodes and Jacob Plateau versus Mellow and Zach Sabre Jr. What you got? Star power not included. Based off of pure in-ring ability, Mellow and Zach Sabre Jr. move on.

Huh, that's interesting. Pure in-ring ability.

If these four had an action in the Indies, so they have no relation, not former champions, I think Mello and Zack Sabre Jr. would go over.

I don't know. Jacob is just is something special. I yes. Jacob in and of himself contains almost when you talk about in-ring potential. He has almost enough by himself to equal any tag team because he has the power, he has the speed, he has the high flying. He's not very technical.

That's the only thing Zack Sabre has over on him and quite honestly Zack Sabre has that over 99.9 % of people on the planet Earth Right. What about the planet Mars? 100 % of those. Okay. Yeah We're gonna have to go to GPT tiebreaker on this. Are we gonna do that now or? Let me see what we got. Okay, you type that up now while I ask you, Ilya Dragunov and Ace Austin or Rick Ashday and Kyle Fleischer. Son of a bitch. I'm not gonna type that up.

MWT (59:31.63)
too. Ricochet, Elliot Reganoth and Ace Austin. Yes.

MWT (59:44.815)
Are we talking now or Primes? Illya not injured obviously. right. I'll go Primes. If we go Primes I'm gonna go Ricochet. Why is that? Because Ricochet at the height of being Ricochet when he wasn't being this he Ricochet or Prince Puma in his Prime? He was still Ricochet. When he was on the Indies he was Ricochet for quite a while too. He was just in Lusha Underground. Prince Puma. Yeah. That's what I

So I would have to say him and Kyle Fletcher, prime Kyle Fletcher right now. Oh yeah. So I would say them and their prime was a better match.

MWT (01:00:29.656)
better match up sorry no I'm laughing because I'm gonna go Ilya and Ace Austin son of a bitch who was Zack Sabres partner? Mello I'm talking too much Ilya Dragunov and Zack Sabres Jr. versus Ace Austin and Jacob Butte

MWT (01:00:49.614)
Did that mess you up? Cause it was not intended to. Yeah, sure it wasn't. Did it? No. I don't even know what you said to be honest with you.

MWT (01:01:03.112)
just mixing up the names. That's cool. What does the GPT say? It didn't put fantasy.

MWT (01:01:19.438)
Oh, hey, it gives me the whole storyline on this thing. Right? I don't want the storyline. just want the winner. Right. This is going to have to turn on Cody.

no. No? Aftermath. Winners. Cody Rhodes and Jacob Fatu. Okay. Okay. All right. Ilya Dragunov and Ace Austin versus Rick Ashainz and Kyle Fleck here.

MWT (01:01:47.758)
Let's see what we got here.

MWT (01:01:53.807)
Yeah, you can keep talking a little bit so it's not completely silent. do. So. Really? could. I. It would be a great improv comedian. Right. How do you do commentary? How do I? Because I have someone else talking. You really the whole time? Most of the time. Well, I don't know. Jamie doesn't know half the moves they do. Jamie's a wrestling fan, but he's not.

a wrestling fan. I ask, I ask Jamie, he go, I go, Jamie, what do you expect from these opponents tonight? Every single time he goes, these are great competitors and I expect a lot out of them every single time. So when I put this match into GPT, it says nice choice. That's a banger fantasy. I know, I know. So we'll get down to.

The after math, the winners are...

What?

That's crazy. Fletcher shakes Dragunov's hand out of mutual respect. Ricochet looks stunned but nods at Austin teasing future singles clashes. That's beautiful. You know what? Can we? wait. I like it. I going to say, can we have GPT book the next V1P show? But we can't. No.

MWT (01:03:21.218)
So what you got on this third match? Swerve and Hendry versus Gable and Thorpe. Swerve and Hendry? Yes. Yeah. That was the easiest. That was the only easy pick for me in this. Breaker and Vikingo versus Hook versus Vices versus Hook and Alistair Black.

Okay, here's the thing. I think Hook has a ton of potential.

Are you not going where I think you're going? think Hook has a ton of potential. And I absolutely love Alistair Black. If I go back to a month ago when we started this, you said Hook and Alistair Black, because you picked to win the whole thing. Are they going to be eliminated around two? They're going to be eliminated around two if you don't pick them because Breaker and Vikingo have already shown me without a doubt. It's not potential. Right? It is star power. It is in-ring excellence. Yeah. You know what? I'll go Breaker and Vikingo.

Yeah, I mean, as much as I hate to go against him, Hook has potential. It's terrible underlining, but we know our next matchups. Hook is at the point now, which is sad because he's been wrestling for a while, of where Dom was when he just really started taking off as a heel. I could see the potential, but it just it wasn't all clicking as to where now Dom is clicking 100%. Right. And is probably one of the best heels in the business.

Dom? Yeah, if not, I'm like, hook's not a heel. No, as if he's not one of the best performers in the business overall. or Dom? Dom. Okay. I keep saying Hook has potential. He is where Dom was when he started this ascent. So why would I say that Hook was the best? Right. Follow. So are we have we gotten to it?

MWT (01:05:20.49)
I probably should pull that back up for the next week's matchup shouldn't I? Yeah, should at least tell us what next week's matchups Why don't you keep talking? I will because I- All right, so our next matchup is going to be Mello and Zack Sabre Jr. No. Nope. No, I just- Cody and Jacob. Underlined who I wanted to win. Give me a second.

versus Ilya and Ace. Yes, Ace Austin. It's not Ace Madden because I'm sorry. I'm picking a hot two by myself. my tag team partner is. Swerve and Joe Henry versus Brawnbreaker and El Hijo Del Vikingo. All right. So. That's going to be tough all around. I think I know what my final is going to be. OK, well, we'll hold off on that till next week.

Really, I promise you next week. Next week. Next week. I promise. But are we going to do the finals next week? Well, we'll announce the finals next week. just want to it? just want to click, click? I think we might. I'll tell you what we're going to do though. Okay. You and I. Yes. We'll decide who's in the finals. Okay. And we're going to ask GPT to give us a champion. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. All right. All right. Okay. So are we ready for the main event?

No maddening takes. You want to sit there and look confused and think about it for a minute while I go ahead and give you mine? All right.

Are we ready? No. For this. With the supposed return of AJ Lee to the WWE Women's Division, my maddening take is that AJ Lee will look just as bad if not worse than Brie Bella. If she does more than this one off match where it's a mixed tag with her and Punk, you mean Nikki.

MWT (01:07:25.422)
Whatever. The Bella. It's how bad she is. Right. I don't even remember which one she was. If she does more than this one-off match where it's a mixed tag with her and Punk versus the Rollins' Becky Rollins. Becky Rollins. I don't think she can hold up. No. She was good. I wouldn't know. In her day. Which women? What? 2011? at the same time that the Bellas were wrestling. Right.

The women that are wrestling today are so far ahead of where anybody at that time was with the possible exception of Serena Deeb. We'll see. But they're so far ahead athletically, wrestling wise, she is going to be out of her depth. I can't see her making a successful comeback. CM Punk and she'll be popular no matter what. Don't get me wrong. People are going to like it.

Then people are to say she's great. Same with CM Punk. I don't think Punk has put on a great match outside of that triple threat. what else you got? Hell in a cell with Drew. Yeah, but it's a stip match. That's the thing. can't put on a good, everything he's been almost almost everything he's been in. PLE wise has been stipulation match because I don't think he can put on a great match. He just he has.

the legacy of being the best in the world. got super famous for going out and saying a bunch of stuff on the microphone. I'll tell you what he got famous for. He got famous for the pipe bomb and ending his contract with the title. Right. That's it. So he got famous for the pipe bomb. But here's the thing. Everybody's like, oh my God, he just went out and said all this stuff about WWE and Vince McMahon. And as Paul Heyman has pointed out to us multiple times. Vince just said, go make me money. Right.

Vince says, I don't care what you say, if it draws money, go make me money. Those were most likely his exact words to fill before he went out there. Right. Punks like, hey, you know, I'm going to go off on this. You know, I'm not happy about this. Vince goes, go make me money. Go make me money. Damn it. Right. That's good shit. That's good shit. That's it. I don't understand. He but he always had this following and he was at least always decent in.

MWT (01:09:51.553)
Right. he can still put on decent matches because the guys, he's not going up against anybody who's like really super raised the level. If if Rollins went all out against Punk, it would look horrible for Punk. Right. If AJ went all out against Punk, it would look horrible for Punk. Right. Him wrestling and no offense to your guy, Roman. Roman doesn't do Roman delivers. Roman can do a little bit of everything, but not a lot of a specific thing. Roman does more with less.

Yeah, his like his his match against Tez is he is so impactful when he wrestles and his presence his persona the way he hits his stuff. yeah, is so good. He doesn't have to do all that extra stuff. No. So that's how him and Punk can look good. But guys who go above and beyond doing that extra stuff, I don't think Punk can run with. Right. And I think that's going to be the same problem with AJ Lee. If they put her in there against Becky, she will wrestle down to her level. Right.

If they put her in there against Natalia, she'll be all right. 100%. But if they put her in there against EO, if they put her in there against Stephanie Valcar, if they put her in there against Julia, she's going to be lost. Any women not from America. She's going to be lost. Right. That's my maddening take. You guys could tell me how good she is and that she'll fit right in and she'll pick up and go, I just don't see it happening. My maddening take isn't much of a take, but more of a vision.

if you will. picture this, Sicily, 1940. Oh, sorry. Never mind. Sorry. You know, as a Golden Girls reference, you got the shirt. You don't even know the Golden Girls reference. That makes me sad. Okay. Well, I don't. I know. Shut up. I know. It is the Raw after WrestleMania. You know what? Just the Raw after WrestleMania is always so special and whatnot. We'll save it for the week after. It is the week after the Raw after WrestleMania.

And it is time for the WWE draft. They're gonna have one those again? The brands that will be taking place or taking a part in the draft will be Raw, SmackDown, and AAA.

MWT (01:12:05.454)
Raw would be eligible to draft AAA superstars. AAA would be eligible to draft WWE superstars.

Could be interesting. with the return of like Omos, could put all the LWO down there for a little bit. You could put, that would draw so much more attention to AAA. And because you already had, we know Vikingo after, if he loses this title to Dom, we know he's very popular.

All right, microman, octagon, they can all be drafted to WWE. Put more spotlight on them coming from the AAA brand.

I guess I can see that, I don't know. My problem with that is if they were to do like they did with Los Garzas or with the LW, just shoot them up for a second like they're going to be something. And then, I what have they done with Santos Escobar? He was huge in Mexico. Right. He was a Cruiserweight champion for a month. So I would be on board if Raw and Smackdown could draft

Triple a guys that would work exclusively for raw or smackdown, but still work for triple a Okay, like they can still they can cross promote with triple a right? So, you know bring in Pagano and psycho clown. Yeah, mr. Iguana. Mr. Iguana. Yeah, and there's zero chance. How do they not bring in mr. Iguana? is so much more

MWT (01:13:49.998)
As much as I don't like the guy. He's entertaining and it's so funny because normally we're the opposites. Like you love the comic stuff and I'm like, this is stupid. don't understand. But Mr. Iguana makes me laugh every goddamn time. I don't know what don't know what it is about him, but he entertains the shit out of me. But yeah, that's that's my it's my maddening vision. Maddening vision. I like it. So we should have called Seth's group the Maddening Vision.

Talk to our copyright lawyers later. We could afford Which are who? So, but at any rate, this has been Madden Intakes. I have been Mike. He has been Ace. And he has been a liar. We will talk to you guys next week. Goodbye.