NXT Talent and Future Predictions

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Joined the Don Callis family this week. Okay. My question for you is Of all the managers in the history of wrestling. Who would you choose to guide you through your heel turn? Oh. This look man. He's not a manager. Well, I guess he kind of is. He's a manager. I'm t I'm I'm taking it. It counts. It counts, okay? It probably be If I needed to absolutely positively become somebody that everyone Absolutely hated. Mm-hmm. You align yourself a bit. I think he has like A ninety nine percent success rating of like getting heel heat. Like you can you think of one person who aligned himself with like the corporation and didn't and wasn't was anybody ironically cheered as a part of the corporation ever. Ironically cheered. Yeah. Now I don't think there's been a lot of iron cheering back then. Yeah. Maybe Kurt Engel. Maybe. Oh cheered despite being a part of the corporation. I well, I mean you could also go with like. You know. Boss Man. in the corporation didn't get over, but I guess he might have been more over than he would have been otherwise. Well he got home. You got lyst in the middle of the right. He's not coming back from that. I'm just saying. Um You're right. He did have that big, big boss man feud. Mm. Uh I mean sorry, big show feud. Big boss man, big show, Battle of the Bigs. Although I don't think he was the big boss man at that point. Uh I can't dispute. How is it how is that not one of the greatest He's he's low key got two banger feuds, if you think about it. Oh and nails? Yo. Big Boss man. I mean, Bossman's great. Bossman feed it with the mega powers. Right. Bossman and Akeem. Not enough respect put on the big boss man's name, son. Like he was already over a shit as a kid. Like he got me Big boss man was so over to me as a kid, like I was rooting for cops. I was like being a cop is cool. Being a cop is cool because the big boss man had the fucking night stick. And he do the shit with the nights. Come down. Let's fight people with police out. Or his correctional officer outfit. I'll know what he wore. But I was like four or three years old, and like for a second. For like Split us the seconds. I thought police officers were cool because of the big boss, man. He came back with like the all black and shit, and I was like, Okay, I'm not really rocking with that. But the blue suit, big boss, man. Like you wanted the real cop. You weren't happy with the vague Where I'm I'm some person of authority, but I'm not gonna tell you who. He was definitely dressed like an Ice Age. You need to show your badge. Um on top of that. Three banger feuds in Big Boss Man's career. Nails, you know what I mean? Fucking underrated new generation few that doesn't get talked about enough. That really gave me nightmares as a kid. Al Snow? Made him eat his dog? Big show. Drag in his father's coffin. All around Smack. We don't talk about big boss. Well maybe it's just the latter day big boss, man. Okay. Before I continue to Glaze's big boss, man, did he do anything like reprehensible that like people just stop talking about him that I'm not remembering? Like did he say something? Like morally insensitive or anything? Can I like I don't know. Can I be a fan of Big Boss Man without somebody like hit me and be like, yo, you know he's kind of a racist or he's kind of sexist or anything like that. I'm not missing anything with Big Bossman. No. No. Okay. And he was like, he was born in nineteen sixty three in Marietta, Georgia. Just for background information. Oh, Marietta George. I don't know. I don't know. Um Marietta's actually really nice. I love Marietta. Um Uh yeah. No, but let's glaze away. Glaze away. Ray trailer. Ray Washington trailer. Wasn't familiar. With that with his middle name. Uh yeah, Ray Trailer uh died at the age of forty one, but uh but according to his Wikipedia there is no controversy section on his Wikipedia page. So let's just say it's clear. Okay, all right. Big up the big boss, man, son. We don't talk about you enough. Rest in peace. Inducted in the Hall of Fame? Do you remember this? Mm. I don't think I do. He's a Hall of Famer inducted by Slick. In twenty sixteen. Oh my gosh. Right after he passed away, I believe. Um Anyway. Oh no, long after he passed away, my bad. Um Yes, I can't dispute your Vince McMahon, not to take us off the Ray trailer thing, but in terms of like classical managers, I mean Bobby Heenan was the one, right? Bobby Heenan was how you told the world that you were a villain. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I can say that. I can say that. But Paul Heyman's a lot of me I mean probably the more success has a mu much higher success rate. Paul Heyman. I mean, you gotta factor in Curtis Axel and And Claudio But I mean his success rate in terms of high end is still pretty, pretty tough. Yeah, but you also run the risk of the ironic cheers. You can run the risk of like The cool bad guy cheers. Like Paul Hammond has had like a lot of cool bad guys. U asked. About my heel turn and if I want People to truly hate my guts. Oh, people would hate you if you were hanging around with McMahon. I got old guys. Yeah That's what you pick. Your whole gimmick is like bring Vince back to the WWE. That would be a hell of a heel gimmick. Wow. That might get ironic cheers. I was about to say, I'm like I don't know how much he gets booed in twenty twenty six. I don't know. There's definitely a section of that fan base that wants him back. Well. I'm not even gonna think about it. I'm not gonna entertain it. I do want to talk more about Kevin Knight, so let's start the show. Show mask Welcome to the Mask Man Show with Kaz. No pay-per-views this weekend. I don't know what we're gonna do with our time, but how you doing, buddy? How about yourself, man? I'm doing okay. So Kevin. Shout out to the YouTube comments, yo. Last week, well, Monday was the first time like I got tagged in the YouTube comments for being Aggressively sleepy on the podcast. Oh, good. It was Bruce's job to edit all that out. And a photo showed that. Don't edit the guys onto you. Don't edit. Don't edit that. Please. I was Guess guessed in that way, man. So I I appreciate y'all holding me accountable, you two. All right. But I haven't even looked at the YouTube comments. I'm not sure that I need to go down to the I didn't look at them either. I got tagged with them. Like they they were screenshots and tag on me. I was like, oh man. I must be cooked. So I was like, guys. I'm gonna need I'm gonna need a few a few before we get going. But We're here, damn it. So here's my question about Kevin Knight, and I'm not complaining. This is not a negative comment. It is an o an actual question. I'll just phrase it in the is it weird form because I'm not trying to I'm not trying to dog. I'm very happy that he's a heel. I don't think the Don Cows family is a bad idea. Is it weird that he turned heel and then Like a week later joined the Don Cows family? Would it have been more effective if Dom Callus is part of his heel turn? Or I guess if the argument is it shows that he's a m his own man. Does he really need Don Callus now that he's already turned heel? Usually the reason why I pose this question Look back at Bobby Heenan, look back look at look at Paul Heyman. The heel turn is one and the same. with joining up with the bad manager. Now a lot of that was for convenience sake, right? How can we convince fans and Andre the Giant is a heel. Oh, but just give him heating. Um Is it weird? Is it weird that it was like a two a two step dance? Like it was like a like it like it it was in he didn't just join up from the beginning. I don't know. I don't know either. I wanted that to be clear. It just struck me. It it is weird 'cause it's like You clearly see something in them because you made the hill turn such a big deal. So like Oh it f it kinda feels like kinda want that hill turn to stand on its own. And when you put him in the Don Cows family, which is like already got A zillion people in it, you know? Not that. one person's more important than the other. There's definitely a a pecking order in the Don Kows family. But it's a big ass peck it order. It's a lot of people in it, you know? I kind of feel like What is a picking murderer in the Don Cows family? I mean, I guess Okada's gotta be at the top, right? Okada, Fletcher. You know what I mean? Um You got uh well to catch the before he dip. I'm drawing it. Andrade. Andrade is kind of in his own little island. You got let's establish that Trent Baretta is at the bottom. No Citroen Baretta. I don't think it's any. Well, Trimboretta and El Clone are the ones that ran in to make the real weak save last night. Or the real interference thing. So I think that's what I'm saying. Kevin Knight, you could very you could very quickly become El Clone, you know what I'm saying? Who's like a guy Who was part of her stable. Boom. People were really excited about at one point and then just like Oh yeah, he's he's part of the But here's the thing. It's clear that the Don Callis family has the backing of Tony Conn or the all like it's clearly a a a a positive thing to be a member. We taught I mean you couldn't you don't you would never doubt his love for For Okada or Takeshta, or for that matter, for Hechesero or for you know, some of the I mean, and the and the question marks that are in the group. I mean I think frankly it's probably a good place for Lance Lance Archer For Brian Cage, even though Brian Cage is a better wrestler than Lance Archer. I think we're gonna see a Cage Doyle tag team. That's gonna be my prediction because Because uh Mark Davis has his own shit going on. And is also losing weight, like crazy. I don't know what's going on with that guy. Um But yeah, there's a so there's a lower level. But I think the middle is still Sort of a mush pot. You know, like I'll go. Bottom is Rocky Romero. Uh yeah. Rocky Romero, Lance Archer, Trent Baretta. I put El Clone one step ahead. 'Cause they let it they give him big showcase matches. Uh don't even know. I mean then above that it's just or Brian Cage, I guess. And then after that it's just a mush. It's they're all good. Brian I mean, Mark Davis, Cy Fletcher. Cara Volador Jr.? Is he officially a member of the Don Cows family? He's on the Wikipedia page. He is, but only in he he basically fills out Trio's teams and see them. Um Wardlow? The the best thing about Wardlow, by the way, is I'm looking at Wikipedia right now and Wardlow is just randomly in a suit with a button down shirt on. 'Cause he's just spent spent more time on the bench than actually like being a wrestler. Um But anyway, Kevin Knight's a part of this crew now. Kevin Knight. I'm just gonna let's go back to the list. Who who is Kevin Knight going to be more over than? By the end of the summer. Trent Baretta, yes. Lance Archer, yes. Brian Cage, yes. Josh Alexander is hurt. But that's an implicit yes. Rocky had Chacero, yes. Wardlow, sure. Oaklone, yes. Jake Doyle, yes. So Volador Jr. All right, Dave. You're answering the question for me. If he's gonna be more over than all these guys. Why put him with all of these guys? I think you you can you can ask and answer the question in both directions. It's like, Well that's that's a track record of success, let's just do it again with him. But also, yeah, why why saddle him with all this other stuff? Um And it's funny, there's not a lot of like like uh like if you have a man if you're a wrestler with a manager, if it's a one to one sort of relationship. Mm-hmm. You know, your manager tends to spend a lot of time at ringside grabbing your opponent's ankles and stuff like that, right? Uh, with the Don Callis family, you don't really get that. Callus, if he's out there, is at the announce desk. And they just kinda wait on a They have like forty five guys waiting at the uh the curtain for to make a run in, I guess. But you're right. They do sort of have a run in crew. You don't see a lot of I mean, I'm probably wrong about this, but I don't feel like you see a lot of like Andrade running in to save Davis. You know, it's once you get to a certain level once you reach a certain level in the pecking order. You're relieved of your running duties. Maybe this is a good maybe this is an argument in favor of joining the Callus family. You know, he's he's got the whole thing structure. Mm-hmm. And now there's Okada's gone. There I mean sorry, uh Takesh is gone, there's a sp You know what I really liked about the Don Calls family segment yesterday, and I'm being dead serious about this? There were a lot of dudes in street clothes. And for maybe the first time in AEW history. They all looked they all looked normal in their street clothes. Like they weren't wearing like Fake street clothes or trash street clothes. They were actually like in sort of in gimmick. Of course, Cy Fletcher had the nice suit. But go back and watch that segment. Everybody sort of looks Like real human beings, which is not always the case. Real, real. What a compliment. What a compliment to the Doncows family. Uh Don always they said Don always looks great, but Brian Cage now. Brian Cage after just looks more like a human without the Mohawk and the the Wolverine drops. Um He basically say you guys can't put that shit on at all. Not them. Not I'm not talking about them. I have a I have a long time. You know, but usually they'll dress like shit. Is what Shuebaker is. It's n I have a long record on this show. It's not just the Don Cows family, it's not just AEW. Go back to the listen, we look back at the eighties and even in the seventies with, you know, these rose colored glasses, and we think anybody walking around and like A shirt with iron on letters and a fanny pack is like a super hipster. It's like no, they had no style back then either, right? But like I mean, Dusty Rhodes is out here in like you know, blue jeans and a mink coat. Um And I love Dusty. I love his whole fashion, but they weren't cool at the time. But you know, now I look back at like I've I'm sure I've talked about this in the podcast before. For me, the first time I was watching TV and I was like, they should not let those guys dress themselves. It was when Binwin Malenko join the horsemen. And they're out there in the ring with these dudes who've been wearing suits for twenty years. And Benoit has like a colorless button down shirt on and just and the and you Both of them look like they pulled their clothes out of the laundry hamper. You know, it's just it's Subtles, but it's hard to reach that horse level. I think we're asking the right questions. Why can't wrestlers dress? There's a really good answer, I think. What's the I know that it's it's lots of traveling. Well what I mean? I know it's Uh professional athletes, professional at like basketball players by and large couldn't dress or didn't dress until there was a dress code, and then it became part of the thing, right? Then they then they even like then they took it over. Even basketball players, even when they weren't like wearing, you know, taking it turn it into like a fashion show for before every show. They're at leisure, or at least like the stuff that they wore, like, you know, in their everyday. Like still was cool. Like so, like how much of those time how much of those like throwback starter jackets or like those swish swish like You know. There'll be some wrestlers with like the cool swosh swosh pants, like David Stern's dress code was a terrible, terrible thing that I will not defend. But if you but if you Go back to the brawl or whatever. Go look at the track suit at the sweatsuits that these like Jermaine O'Neal and folks like that would wear when they weren't playing. They were not nice. They might have been nice for the time. But they were not nice. Like they were just just Triple XL Like just what I mean, just Dumb sweatsuits. But you're right. Th the here's the thing. The basketball players also A have a ton more money B have a camera on them when they're walking into the building so do wrestlers by the It's just whatever. And it's become a thing. It's like wine collecting or whatever. It's like these athletes like the and and by the way. People willing to dress them for free. Not a pro lot of pro wrestlers get the you know, banking in this way. Athletes are not dressing themselves. But if you look at the players who are relatively new to the game, I always think like seriously, your team drafts if your team drafts a Euro Pay attention. What read every news story, look read everything online. I guarantee that guy will be wearing teen T shirts. every day for the first two months he's in America. There's a lot of free clothes hanging around, you know? Like there's a lot of freebies out there. Wrestlers, I don't think there's as many freebies. You remember there was a period where every wrestler was just wearing a tap out t shirt every time he saw him because they got free tap out t shirts. That tells you. Thirsty they are for swag. Right? Yeah. No. And just in general, like what do you like, even forget the free stuff. If you're Randy Orton. Your choices are either like go to a tailor. Or wear T shirts and track pants all the time. Right? G shirts and shorts. That's the only thing you fit in naturally. Yeah. You don't have or need a lot of fashion sense. You know, if you're s over six feet tall and built like a little bit, though. Oh, I could have a little bit. It is crazy that they can't risk themselves. We're not talking about you Kevin, you look great. It's not even like how the clothes fit. It's just like we can I can I can look at a piece of uh uh of clothing. And know exactly what ever wrestler wore. And what? Right. Like as soon as you said tap out shirts, like my mind immediately went to two thousand and two and just affliction. And like Friggin' uh Ed Harvey. By the way, bring this thing the worst type of stuff that we've seen. To bring this thing full circle, Brian Cage looked great yesterday because besides just the beard stuff, he was wearing Zubas. Actually wearing Zubas like making a call back, and this is part of the answer too. I mean we've got to the Randy Orton answer. Dude, back in our childhoods The Road Warriors wore Zubas and Fanny Packs everywhere famously. There's a there is a I think an apocryphal story that they were the co founders of Zubas. It's been a long time since I did the did the the the rabbit hole there. But no, it's because they can't wear fucking pants. Even in like the nineties when like Kevin Nash was the coolest guy in the world, he was wearing And a loose fitting blue jeans and a fanny pack with his like polo shirt. Kevin Ashe never didn't look cool, but if you just take the outfits and put them on a mannequin, that dude was Like he dressed like You know. His university scholarship doesn't cover any spending money. You know, like he just he was a weird looking dude. Um we're dressing dude. Well then again, Scott Hall too. Scott Hall was the coolest guy in the history of mankind, but you'd never never catch me Wearing jeans and no shirt and a jean vest. Oh man, that's gonna be the punishment of our next bet, isn't it? Anyway. Congratulations to the Jet Kevin Knight. Who beat the crap out of my favorite wrestler, one of my favorite wrestlers, people Mike Bailey. That fucking nerd. And Kevin Nash used to dress like Speedball Mike Bailey should dress. R just like ratty polos and ill fitting jeans. And a fanny pack. But yeah, ca I mean, sorry, I said did I say Kevin Knight? I meant uh I I meant uh speed about Monk Bailey. But Speed Mall Mike Bailey. Uh lost. Kevin Knight's a big heel now. That's a good look for him. He's part of the Don Callis family. The Don Callis family could more effectively take over AEW though than N W O could at the time. They have, I think, a much bigger roster. You know, putting a worm in there. Um What else from AEW last night? Oh the um The uh Wait, what do we got? Oh, Osprey. Usprey's big match at the end. The King of the Ring tournament, King and Queen of the Ring tournament has way too many we've joked has all you know so many big names in it. But said but the Owen Classic, which does too, the Owen Hart tournament has So many big names. Next week in the Cimes we get Brody versus Swerve versus Osbre. Potentially, right? No, is or is that actually set? I think that w there might be one more match. Brody King versus Swerve Strickland versus Will Osprey is like the greatest match you'd ever heard of five years ago. Mm-hmm. And that's just like On the road to Crowning the Owen Hart. It's so crazy. Um But I have no idea where they're gonna go with that. I mean, I guer's story is like the biggest overarching story. Last night they were going they were in hyperdrive talking about how being part of the Death Rider's training camp has made him the best wrestler in his career and Wow, that's the big story they're telling. But anyway. Yeah. I mean What's the in for Osprey though? Is it another swerve feud? Is it a Moxley blow up? Is it a Like what is the Oh the and the I mean obviously being the champion. Yeah. I would say that, but I feel like you know AEW does a really good job of like having opponent or having uh wrestlers that are getting ready to win the championship. go and like right the wrongs of whatever they did in the past. Like And so I could definitely see like Osprey and Swerves, you know, circling back to You know, back when Swerve was champion, the entire sort of story with him in Osprey was that like he just wasn't ready enough and he was a little too reckless and like it was almost like you almost like schooled him a little bit. You know what I mean? Like A lot of the stuff that Moxley probably brought out on Osprey. to you know, the Death Rider's boot camp or whatever the fuck he was at. Um has was stuff that Swerve sort of alluded to when he first challenged for the world title, you know, so so many moons ago. So A W does a good job of like calling back to that stuff and being like all right, like he has to go through these guys to file. Yeah, WWE which famously had no institutional memory. No. An A W has So much. They're the only company who does it. They're the only ones with good creative and making good wrestling shows. Just A W. Nobody else. Am I good now? Am I off Reddit? A W Well A W Well and and and and there's a couple people. Kevin Owens, you know, famously pays attention, but Nah, nobody in the office. Not as much. Uh the one thing we didn't mention, we sh can we have special a special sound drop. Bruce for when I remember what the show's about twenty five minutes into it. Is that the whenever so everybody who's fast forwarding through knows when the important part's coming. Mercedes Monet is back. Is that exciting enough? Am I excited enough for this? She was great. I will say this. She does have a habit. I was going back and watching some old tape some watching some tape, grinding the tape last night. You can really, really tell when she's rusty. But it doesn't actually affect match quality at all. It's a very strange phenomenon. Like you can you it's very clear that she is still working out, she's still remembering how to be the best in the world. And I think we saw a lot of that. And I think that's part of what w when she was bad, was it last two years ago that we're all con that we were all talking about how She wasn't that maybe she wasn't the best anymore and then she just went on a run. No. I'm not I'm not putting words in your mouth. I'm saying when was that conversation? He had a she had a terrible match with Brickbreaker. And people are like, I don't know if Mercedes Malay's really as nice as she is. I think, you know, using cognitive dissonance after the past few years, I think we could say I don't think that's what you mean, but yes. It was probably Britt Baker's fault. It was definitely Bert Baker's fault that day. Like she you know. I and I'm not even the type of person You know me, you know people who listen to this show for a long time. You know what I'm saying? Like You could only No, go back and look at that match. I don't think it was uh Mercedes that was off. I don't either. I think the the point I was trying to make was I think that maybe she you can tell when she's coming back. And maybe that led to some of those conversations about she's not uh she's not as good as she used to be, 'cause she had a couple of not great matches, but also you could really tell when she's not having a good match. It does feel really. But anyway, anyway, we can move on. The point of this w was just to say Mercedes Monet's back Great match against Alex Windsor. Mm-hmm. Mercedes Monet was the wild card in the Owen Hart. tournament. for the record, if you didn't watch, and had a just a banger of a match against Alex Winst or eked out the win. Um, and now has to be your prohibitive favorite. I love the wild card in tournaments though. I guess WWE does it but generally it's like They'll they'll have wild cards too. But half the time they don't even announce who's in the thing until they come to the You know, so they can shock people. So they can't they don't make it as much of a moment as AEW has the ability to do. And it was quite a moment, man. So Mercedes is back, Kevin Knights at Heel. Well Austre and Mark Davis had just a freaking Crazy good match. Match Not the match of the week, 'cause we're still in the week that Grande versus Grande took place. Oh yeah. Speaking of which did you catch it on Netflix after I did, I was it about to say. Is there any bigger way that a the WWE can put over a match than to just say we're running it again on Netflix for free. Yeah. I mean that's that's as High appraise you can give a match, but they're just like, you know, and they rarely do that. They do that with like Undertaker Sean. They did that with But do they I don't even know if they have the rights to do that anymore? It's an interesting question. We can do the I can do the research, actually. Um but But yeah, could they take a could they take a uh an ESPN pay per view and show a match for free the following that on Netflix? They could probably talk 'em into it being synergistic, but I doubt that would happen anymore, but regardless. Grande Versus Grande. Mask versus mask. Yeah, they replayed it. I mean it was It's like You know, it's clear that WWE is not as invested in match quality as AEW in the way that we're that you know that I'm referring to it. Mm-hmm. However We're not gonna say, you know, you never say that they don't care about having good matches, because as heard as as soon as they heard one dude on Twitter say, Man, is this the match of the year? They started they started the match of the year case for Grande versus Grande. All of the Oscar voters are getting like care packages. With like DVDs of that wrestling match and a free mask and whatever else you want. Freaking Ryo will show up at your doorstep with the gift basket. Uh all that I'm just saying the match speaks for itself the campaign the well, yeah, but the campaign has begun. The match speaks for itself. The match is still on YouTube. They still put they still went over and played it on Netflix. Right after Raw. Um Like they put it on a on a platform with less permeation, but like like but and but it was like the one that's convenient for the wrestling fans who are watching Raw. Um It was a bit it was it it's a it's a great look. Great look for Chad Gable for Ludwig Kaiser. Um, maybe we should call him Lou Kaiser. Does Lou Kaiser sound better? Lu Kaiser. No. Luke is definitely like an NBA player from the sixties or something like that. Um Lou. I like Lou. Just a great name for a dude. Uh great great look by them. What else happen this week? We have no pay per views to talk about, I gotta remember Raw. Uh no, we recorded after Raw, didn't we? Record. Or like right before, like an hour before it starts. Um speak speaking of speaking of packed matches, dude. Obafemi, Sola Sokoa, Carmelo Hayes, and Pinta. For a match that we thought was a foregone conclusion and our pick proved right. That match was crazy good. All those guys were just flying all over the place. You know what might be the most legitimate move in pro wrestling? What. Oba Femi just tossing dudes. Well yeah, he's the he's a he's a shot putter. Not just that he's a well, but all the obviously shop put humans. Watching him do it is all the proof you need that he can do it, 'cause he picks up some dudes that you don't expect him to. Shot putter Brock Lesnar. Yeah. But when Brock Lesnar takes that bump and when Solo Sakoa on Monday took that bump, it's the most convincing move in all of wrestling because you know Solo Sokoa is not used to taking back bumps from six feet up. Right. It's like, have you ever taken a flat back bump? I encourage everyone that's listening to this, don't try this at home. I have. To give yourself a flat back bump on the dirt outside, the softest surface you're gonna find. It will take the breath out of you. It will it will set you back a couple of days in terms of your physing. Um And yeah, so Lisa Coa, if you're not used to doing this day in and day out, and the big guys generally aren't, that mat that move is is terrifying. Um Let's see. So roles happen this week? Have you played eighty two and oh? Oh, what is that? Oh man. Yeah, you see you see uh Bruce nodding his head over here. What is eighty two and oh eighty two and oh has taken over my life. Basically like basketball blackjack. Go to eighty two. Dash zero dot com. Can I just Yeah. No, no, can can the rest of this game just be me dictating playing live? I mean, is that what we're doing? Okay, classic or hoop IQ? Go to classic. Don't go to who by you. Yeah. So basically you're just hitting like Random teams and random eras. And the goal is to create a lineup. That Produces an eighty two and oh record. in an NBA season. And it's every player who's ever played in the NBA ever, right? different errors. Like obviously they they match it from like best player to worst. But um It has taken over my life. All right, so I'm spinning. I got Detroit in the twenties, the tw oh the two thousand twenty. It's just like was there pro was there organized basketball in the nineteen twenties? Everybody out there with like like gin rickies in their hand while they're playing? Um okay. So what do I just pick one player? Yeah, so you're making a lineup. You're making a start. Okay, so obviously I'm picking Cade Cunningham. And here's the thing, right? So like say You get a deal you don't like, you get a team you don't like, right? On that top right corner. It says team and error. You have like one respin each. And then the rest you just have to pick from that team. So it's like it's kind of like Blackjack. You can like So every every player you get a fresh spin. Yeah. So like you could You could basically like if you like your team, if you have uh Detroit in the twenties and you want to take C Cunningham, like And put it about point guard cool. If You left Detroit. But don't necessarily like the team from the twenties. Maybe you're a bad boys Pistons guy. Yeah. You can re you can re roll that part of it. You can re roll that team. If you don't like the team. But you like a the the era, the twenty twenties, you can Detroit and just get it. We are making a wrestling version of this. Bruce, I hope you're coding it up to the wrestling version. We're gonna make that's what's making it a version of this. Okay, I just got the Mavs in the twenties, just for the record. I just pick Luca straight up, right? I don't try to think maybe Cooper Flag would be better with with uh No, you're trying to make an eighty two and oh record right now stats. And it's like and it's like the players It's it's their stats from that error. So there's like There's Wizards, Jordan. There's Bulls Jordan. There is like LeBron in Cleveland, LeBron in Miami, LeBron back to Cleveland, LA LeBron. Oh, so okay, so this is great. So I got Cade Cunningham and Luka Doncic, and the next thing I picked was Philly in the two thousands. Yes. So Do I get Alan Iverson and play him at small forward or can I move? So you so after you put it pick a team. After you pick a player, put him on the team. You spin again and you keep doing it until you got a perfect uh uh a starting five. And it tells you your record, like at the end. And then it'll say like seventy two and eleven or fifty four, whatever. And the goal is to get all the way to eighty two and all. Okay, I love profess. Love this game. There uh I'm already addicted to this game. Like already it's it's already done wonders in in the in the And they commute from here to hot ninety seven. So uh I propose we make a I don't know, all in WrestleMania version of this. We're like We can take There's gotta be some great designer that listens to this show, that listens to this podcast. Nah. that can make a pro wrestling version of eighty two and oh. But The goal is to make the perfect wrestling show. That's your eighty Telena. The perfect card. You're you're booking the Coliseum. Booking like the ultimate wrestling show. Oh no, that's sort of that's what it should be. It should be the perfect pay per view and the and instead of teams and years, it's it's pay per view shows. So it's like you roll and you get Bad Blood ninety nine or whatever and you gotta pick your guy for I would go I would go I would broaden it a little bit. I think bad blood's a little too narrow, you know what I mean? Like a lot maybe like in your house. You know what I'm saying? Like Maybe the offshoots or something like that. Or or just go out. I like it being harder 'cause there's so many good guys on that. I mean Okay. Uh okay, so you could go like 2020s Roman Reigns. Or you can go twenty ten Roman rates. You can go big dog Roman. In that era or in and you're getting end of the big dog era, which wasn't that great. And like the moments you were like United States champion. Like you can't you can't pick off potential. Like you have to pick like person not error Yes. Bad blood ninety nine does not exist for the record, for all the nerds out there who are trying to correct me. Yes. In your house was ninety seven and they brought it back in what? A one something. Mm-hmm. Oh. So we gotta make. We gotta make it. Okay, so Bad Bad Blood O three, just off the top, if you you have to just pick a wrestler has Ivory Molly Holly, Chris Nowinski. And Rodney Mack versus the Dudley boys. The Dudley Boys. Scott Steiner versus Tess, Booker T versus Christian. La resistance Versus Cain and Rob Van Damme. Goldberg versus Jericho, Flair versus Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold versus Bishoff. And Triple H versus Kevin Nash, if you're recall. I mean you already got you already got Goldberg in there. You got you got your favorite wrestler Bill Goldberg on the list. So you know we know who you're gonna pick. All right, this is what we're gonna do. Do you like bad blood or do you wanna respin to another paper? Yeah, exactly. Okay. I I But it has to be the same but it has to be the same year. Either the same okay, same year or same type of paper view. All right. I like that. I'm gonna actually you know what? I picked up a random pay per view also, okay? So I have Stark nineteen ninety seven. All right. So We're re spitting. And you just get to pick the match, okay? You don't get to pick the wrestler. I think if you just pick the match, it makes it easier. You know what I'm saying? So all right. You got bad blood uh old two thousand three. I got Star Kid ninety seven. I think it's a great start, Kate. I'm taking Nah, the thing hugging. Well you're picking a match? Yes, yes. No, because that's the thing with the basketball one is it's like the chemistry and whatever else. We get we should do it on the record. We should do it both ways. This is gonna be a very complicated app, but yes. Yes. It's already complicated, but once you start playing it, it's so simple. You're just like 'Cause you're yelling at it, 'cause there's so many times you have beautiful, perfect teams. Like I've had I've had lineups with like Magic Johnson. Eighties magic. Nineties Michael Jordan. Will Chamberlain from the frickin uh when he was on the bar no, Karim Adul Jabar when he's Lou Al Cinder. Yeah what I mean. Uh uh like and and I think I had Carl Malone and Desmond Bain. Right? That's the thing. Pretty good basketball player, you know what I mean? Like I don't think really takes away From the rest of the team, I think. He he holds his weight as being like a catch and shoot guy given that lineup and you got what? Friggin' seventy five and seven. Dude, I'm just gonna this isn't right. I just d I just drafted Gary Payton, Kobe, Larry Bird, Carl Malone, and Robert Parrish, and it gave me a sixty seven and fifteen. Ridiculous. All right, but okay. Yeah. That's fair though. That's fair. That's fair. Chamberlain and Michael J. There's gonna be people doing other other people doing other podcasts, or just us back on this podcast in a couple of months saying I just drafted Edge versus Benoit from Tuda and it's like they won't even give me a perfect card. Oh, here's my team. Okay. Seventy five and seven, A plus grade, all right. Isaiah Thomas, LeBron James, Jason Tatum, Carl Malone, Chill O'Neal. You got three forwards and you can't play that lineup. Come on. Seventy eight and four. Okay. Okay. Carol DeParl Monroe, Dwayne Wade, Luca Donce, Kevin Durant, Karim Abdul Jabbar. That's the closest I've gotten to eighty two, though. The closest. We make a wrestling version of that. Actually Yo, anybody who listens to the show who knows how to make something like eighty two and oh it we can make the roots. Yes, go ahead. Holl at me. We'll make it work, dude. Let's make it work. I'll we'll get somebody to sponsor this shit. And Let's make the perfect wrestling card. We get Five matches. Random pay per views from random years. Pick five matches and then it gets a generated AI generated grade. Five stars, four stars, three stars, two stars, or one stars. Or four and a half. Or Whatever. You know what I mean? Let's make it. It'll be a great Time wasting Game. that I'm sure eventually we'll all have to pay. ten dollars a month for. And then we can all retire. And live very, very rich lives. Yes. Let's do it. I'm all about it. How's this not eighty two and no? This is ridiculous. You kidding me? You killed me. Mm-hmm. Prime D Wade. This is Flash. It's true. Sorry. This is a great this just you know, remember some guys conversation too. It's all remember some guy. That's literally all it is. It's Dud that can sit there and just randomly name Basketball players, football players, wrestling matches, wrestling debuts, whatever. Like Guys can do that all day long. And when you can tap in. to that and monetize it or at least the attention of of people who wanna monetize it? Oh man. We're just gonna do a spin up podcast or we just do fake pay per views all the time and it's gonna be great. All right. Uh do we have to get anything else that's actually wrestling related? Where's Bruce's rundown? Um This is what everyone's talking about. Everything's on the table. This is what champions come to take. This is what everyone came to see. No do-overs. No second chances. No more Mr. Nice Guy. This is Winner Take All. The NBA finals continue on ABC and the ESPN app. One new message. Lady. and Pixar's hoppers is now available on Disney Plus. 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I don't think I don't Dislike That Sol Rook Lyra Valkyria conversation backstage where she offered Lyra just shot at the title. NXT has finally arrived. Like this was a very NXT backstage segment. Of course they've done stuff like this on the main roster before, but just the way they interacted, them both being of the sort of Vaguely, you know, younger generation of NXT talent. Um I definitely think backstage chatter suits Sol Ruca better than like in in ring bombast. She's still learning that everything, you know? No, I just didn't know if you appreciated that she was You know, if you if you really appreciated that. Uh Eosky also won a Queen of the Ring. Qualifier match? Yeah. Against Julia La Lash and and Roxanne Perez, that match was just great. Just great. We called the EO Sky thing on on Monday. Mm-hmm. And It's starting to feel like you think we're getting uh EO versus Ria. Um I do. I think that there's only I think that the only off ramp for that was last night. I mean it was Monday night. Mm-hmm. I think you make a case for Julia with a new haircut that this be this being a platform for her. Or Roxanne Perez do some judgment day drama thing again. Oh, I'm not sure we need to see that, although they're doing something with it backstage. Clearly you could see from Roxanne's interaction. But I thought Julia I mean, to me, I'm obviously the biggest Julia Mark in the world. Julia Ju Julia was the was the other option besides Eo Sky to keep things interesting. But Eosky wins last night. I think she's gonna go all the way. I really do. Um And I think her beating Live or whatever at at at uh King of the Ring. Or sorry, Night of Champions. That's a good match, right? And that's a good way to get everybody Well, maybe I guess would it be would she be in the ring in in the match with She'll beat Live because they're the the finalists in the Queen of the Ring. The brackets work that way, Bruce? And then look the brackets before we uh we aired. We we uh they changed the brackets from the ones that we were looking on, they changed it when they and entered the show. Oh that's weird. Where are the brackets now? Let me let me look for the updated. How do you change the brackets, guys? Come on. Not only is it Not only is it bad form. But it also just telegraphs exactly what you're gonna do. Right? We should just be looking at the changes and being like, Oh, this is why they did that. Well you know definitely been like beating you over the head with like the EO Sky best, you know, pound for pound wrestler or for a while and you know, her winning Queen of the Ring. would continue to drive that home. And if I'm not mistaken. Pretty sure Rhea still hasn't beating the S guy straight up, you know what I mean? And in any match. So I could definitely see that being a big SummerSlam match if that's the direction that they were gonna go with Queen of the Ring. Yeah. But uh you know. There was anybody else I could see in there. I mean, was Charlotte in that match? So the Charlotte bracket is interesting because now she's super friendly with a You know what I mean? Like That's too friendly. You know? And But she's gonna be feuding real fast. But she's gonna be but she's gonna be feuding with with Jade, right? Maybe. Maybe. I mean Th I do think people for a long time have wanted to see Charlotte Flair and Charlotte Flair, Rhea Ripley like trying to be Together in some capacity, whether they were feuding or whether they were allies for a little bit because they their stories are so kind of intertwined, especially Rhea's. Like Rhea, Charlotte kind of brought Rhea in. You know what I mean? Like she kind of like She kind of The way Brock brought Obemi in, Charlotte Flair brought Rhea in, whereas She immediately had a big WrestleMania match. Wanted. Or you know. No, she lost the Charlotte. She lit of the Charlotte, but Had a big WrestleMania match fresh of N XC. Now granted it was the pandemic, but Even before we all got shut down, I think everybody kinda knew like, yo They're putting a lot into rear rip. You know what I'm saying? Like even that in N X T, like with you know the the the private version of a rock state. I mean uh With um uh Raka Rodriguez and you know Say the Basel. Mm-hmm. All these people like You kinda knew Ripley was gonna be the person, so It will be interesting to kinda see where they go because when People that had that sort of sort of history are like automatically like super duper friendly. You you're just kind of waiting for the other shooters drop. You know, so um it'll be interesting to kinda see. She's a viable queen of the ring. uh winner if uh there is no EO Sky that wants it. Those would be my two picks. But if you look at the updated bracket, you see I mean you're talking about the flare bracket, the first round match is so rock a Lyra Valkyrie, Charlotte Flair and Jade Cargo. I will bet my bottom dollar. That Flair and Cargill will Brawl themselves out of this match somehow. I said Bench and Hogan and Andre, but I think last time. It's gonna be they're gonna eliminate each other. And then so and Lyra had this other match, this title match lined up. Uh if I had to make an educated guess right now, I'd say that Lyra eliminates soul or defeats soul in this tournament and but fails to get the win in the in the title match. That way they both walk away looking good. Or they do it in the reverse order. That Sol retains, but then Lyra gets the win. in this tournament over over souls so it keeps some tension there. And then yeah, we don't think about flare cargo again. The most interesting one is still the live Morgan bracket. To me. Well, what if Liv wins? You know what I mean? I mean if Liv if Liv wins one match, then Liv is going to the finals. That would be my guess. Mm-hmm. But they are doing this they are doing this stuff with with I mean, with um Roxanne who was disappointed in it and and live being kind of oblivious. Am I reading all that correctly? Yeah. So so maybe Roxanne gets involved. I don't know. For all we know, Liv gets to the finals and gives the match to Roxanne. Maybe they're sp building this in a different way. Yeah, I don't I don't. Um that w that that at least would be something interesting, right? Um, but yeah. And on the min side, like we said, we only have one winner. Uh it's Oba Fimi. On on SmackDown, do we get the Rollins match? Is that right, Bruce? Well the Rollins match That is with uh Javon Evans and And Ricky Saints And Tala Tanga. That match will be ridiculously Oh wow. That's a good that's a Are they still overseas? Are they back? They coming back? No, they're they're well believe if Sunday's overseas or Friday's not overseas and then I come back. I was gonna say, I just got the phone with somebody who's back in the States, but I don't Rest of them could still be there. Um Okay. So that'll be another two o'clock airing. Or no, USA won't air it early. Now I gotta get on them VPNs. Catch that up. See, that's one I hate this I hate spoilers in the like I hate when people label shit spoilers or on wrestling events on Reddit or whatever. That's dumb. If it's If there's no easy way to watch something besides a VPN. Араун Then we should just wait and watch at eight. Come on. Let's be normal guys here. Yes, Friday Smackdown will be in Bologna, Italy. Bologna. Has there ever been a wrestler Bill Lesbian from Bologna? My Bologna has a first name. Uh I don't think it's spoilers. I mean I just personally enjoy afternoon wrestling. Like if it's on. And people are watching it and I got the time to do it. I'll pop in that VPN real quick and just turn on Netflix. It's a lot simpler than I thought it was at first. Like I used to be very scared of VPN streams, like, you know. It's definitely it's definitely a lot easier on give my laptop a virus or some shit. No, but you can do it on your mobile on your phone or your iPad or whatever, and it's like it's ever once now that everything's app based, it all just seems ridiculously easy. Yeah, it's very easy. So you know. Uh no. Now is it safe to use the same VPN I use to purchase, like to smuggle humans on the dark web and to watch wrestling on the same one, or should I The funny thing is Not every person who smuggles Human body parts on the dark rubber wrestling fans. But every wrestling fan happens to smuggle. Who cares? Oh boy. Oh my God. Um What else? What else happened this week? Um Oh, can we do a vibe check? Barb Chaka Who N X T in general. I'm actually very interested in your vibe and vibe checking you on Tony D'Angelo. What is your Tony D'Angelo What is your Tony Angelo career predictions look like at this point? It's hard for me to say. Because I feel like all of the great NXT call ups of the past Year or two? And all said like wonderful things about Tony D'Angelo. So I was kind of expecting his NXT championship run to be like, all right, like G give me a reason to tune in. And you know what? Big Husky Boy, for God's name, Mason uh Roof. Wasn't it? Mason Rook, yeah. Listen, Rook, sorry. Mason Rook. Um Kudo, I wanna say. Evil, you know what I mean? Oh yeah. You got um, you know. You got some decent toys to play with, but I kinda feel like with other NXT champions, like especially When they're in that phase of a mass exetus. They usually sort of tap in people that you kind of already know to sort of like jump right into the NXT fray. And I'm not necessarily I mean, I like Mason Rook a lot. And you know. heard of evil, but like uh in and uh he might be more appropriate. He might be the first guy to ever come over from New Japan that conceivably has a higher ceiling in the WWE ring than in the New Japan ring. But it's very but it's very marginal and I wouldn't really go on the record saying that. Um I got one thing about Evil that that is why he's in NXT is that he his match at Wrestle Kingdom, he basically trained Aaron Wolf, who was a judo Olympic medalist and that match at Tokyo Dome was 10 times better than any match that he has had with anyone since. He hasn't put with a lot of great talent since that. Evil basically trained him. And that's how great he has. And they're doing the same thing in X T, where they're practicing these matches and they're, you know, they're given a week to do it. So for him to be there, when I heard he was going to X D, I was like, Oh, this makes perfect sense. He's shown a track record of bringing someone who's an accomplished athlete in. and doing a good match with practice. So it was like for me I'm like, Okay, cool, you're pulling a ton of people out of NXT. Give someone with a track record of doing this who's been wrestling for a long time, give him the title and just kinda let him usher in all these guys until you get someone ready. All right. Um I I I don't have a problem with him at all. I'm very interested. I'm very interested in the D Angelo I honestly, honestly believe. But he's got main event. Top of the company potential. That's what I was saying. Like I I haven't necessarily seen it yet, but the guys that have good enough shotgun that's I don't think that I don't think they're anywhere close. Williams, Oba, Braunbreaker. Everybody they've all sung his praise. Well he and Braun are really close. But but he has um What was I gonna say? I like br I like I like Bane. Tony D'Angelo, whatever the current version is called better than Mob Boss Tony D'Angelo. Sorry to all the diehards out there. I just don't think that was gonna work on the main roster. Um And so I think they're trending in a better direction. I'm still not sure they're trending in the right direction. But definitely Crazy here. Beard. Be a badass. Uh it's uh I think the I I'm I I'm watching this one closely. I'll just say that. Anyway. Um anybody el I Mason Rook. Um Mason Rooks' gonna be awesome. He might need to work on his ring gear from his U K days. I'll just say that. And leave it. Um What else? Any other anybody else I want to do a vibe check on? You wanna do a vibe check on on Dark State on Lexus King? On the Vanity project? On uh Zarya? Who do you who do you have feelings about? Cabianos. Not a lot of feelings? None of them. Absolutely none of them. I'll be honest, man, NXTs Still got a lot of work to do as far as like getting that sort of um energy back that they had. But they're it's part of the part of the circle, you know? I mean we all it is. That's why I'm like You know, even even the the the the beginning of the Rainbow era, even though all those guys have like Obviously gone on to be like Pretty damn great. Mm-hmm. You know, th it's still a lot of growing pains with the show, you know? And A lot of the guys I'm supposed to care about, like I see names like Remember that. Uh family got bit where they go to the kids' choice awards and they just start naming random names. It's like every time I watch one of these shows I I start recognizing less and less people. That's how I feel watching NXT. Like I just See a bunch of words put together that are supposed to be names. I'm just like Alright, like Bruce, pull the pull the card up from NXT this past week. Oh no. And just start naming just start naming people. And make up a few names and throw them in. And make up one. And I'm gonna have to guess if it's like a pop star or an NXT. Let's see. We got we got Jackson Drake. Okay, only because I know Jackson Drake. I do know Jackson Drake. But Tate Wilder does not sound like somebody who like is on euphoria. Like you doesn't sound like a hundred percent, yes. Does not sound like a character from that show. Okay, who else? Let's see. Uh Dion Lennox. Romeo Moreno. Okay, Romeo Moreno. So Romeo Moreno was the name that made me legitimately be like. This is fake. There's that's no way that's a name that's real. You know what I mean? Like it was just That's the that's the one that gave me the Family Guy flashbacks. I'm just like, who is Romeo Moreno? Like Dion Lennox I've heard of. Uh Who'd you say before the analytics? Um They Tavion Heights? Tav okay Tavion Heights, I've he's been around for a minute, but sure. But even the name Tavion is like You were on Save by the Bell and New class. Like that's not Fother real. That's pretty funny. Even though he is awesome. Well a year from now these will all be rolling off our tongue like Sol Ruckah and we'll and we won't even be thinking about it at all. I mean Sol Ruca is a great wrestling name and also a top. But it's part of the lifestyle. Like neither the first or the last name is a name. No. It sounds like a dance. It's like Come on down to the Hawaii shop and do the Soul Ruka. Unless it's part of the lore. Like I was named after the actress that paid played Punky Brewster. Her name was Soleil, but they just call me Sol. Alright. I don't wanna make fun of it because I'm almost positive that's like can I just say one thing and like actually Sol Ruka comes from my grandmother who passed. Oh my God. Every single one Tavion Heights was taken from civil rights icon. Tavia Jones. My bad. Sorry. Sorry for the names, guys. Sorry for the names Soul Ruck has finally and I have not done the deep dive, I'm not making a I'm not making a really thoughtful commentary here, but it feels like she's finally gotten her ring gear to a place that I M co that I that I like. Mm-hmm. And I'm saying this in reference to the sort of like Gimmick vigarities. It's like okay, she She is a surfer that doesn't need to be your whole gimmick, you know, she doesn't need to carry a board to the ring, and in that Spirit, change your fucking theme music. What is that what like you can still evoke? Yeah, it can it can still evoke wipeout, but like you cannot tell me. You cannot tell me. that she ever that she turns on wipeout in her car when she's driving to the beach to surf. It's some bitch shit though, man. It is. It's really it's really bad. Also I'm fine with the soul snatcher being the name of that move. She never needs to say the words I'm going to snatch your soul ever. Out loud ever. She can maybe say your soul is mine. But that's not really doesn't make a lot of logical sense because she is soul. Like how many puns are you gonna work off of when never one else is like, No soul is you? Um But yeah, yeah, that there's nothing scary about I'm gonna snatch your soul. The wrestlers worry about their souls aside from Early two thousand, Shawn Michaels, no. By and large they do. Uh let me see if there's anything else. LA Night reveals Brock Lesnar's Royal Rumble elimination does not go as planned. Yeah, we know. Uh Becky Lynch discusses final goal in WWE career. No, I've refuse to acknowledge that Becky Lynch will ever retire. Um, Seth calls Roman's heavy uh heavy world heavyweight championship claim is complete bullshit way to go for cussing. Um Oh no, the Young Bucks provide an update on Adam Cole. Do I even want to click on this, Bruce? I feel like if it was good news I would know about it. It wasn't necessarily bad news. It's just that, you know, he's working his way towards coming back. Like he's taking it step by step. I think if Adam Cole makes it back. Well we don't know how profound this situation is. But if Adam Cole ever wrestles again, we should make a pledge to be there, Kaz. Yeah, absolutely. Even if it's in like a Topeka gym. You know, in twenty years, we're gonna go. Um schedule is permitting. All right. Well that's it, man. Let's get out of here. That was a fun show and I don't know what the hell we talked about. Do you wanna get some plugs in? You can cash me on morning tomorrow, six a.m. to ten a. Monday through Friday. Game two of the NBA Finals. If you're outside this weekend. You catch me at Snipes in Brooklyn. I'll be there with hot ninety seven, uh hosting the watch party. Uh, for the Knicks and the Spurs in the NBA finals. Uh, brand new episode of seven PM in Brooklyn is dropping this Monday. Not even sure was gonna be on it. I'm sure it's gonna be good. And um Yeah. Uh I'll also be live threading the show. Uh, live from seven PM in Brooklyn on a Friday. So lots of MBA stuff. As you can imagine, with everything going on. Who are you voting for, by the way? Um I've been Really thinking it through and I think I really want the Knicks to win this, yeah. If the Knicks get If the Knicks Get Danhausen as their official mascot. Although he's gonna make himself relevant again. I feel like the moment's getting too big for him. You know. NBA finals maybe do bigger than Danhausen. Yeah. It's bigger than Danhausen now. But he was good enough to handle like Atlanta and Philly. Like now it's Brass taxes, baby. He was trying to like muscle some quartzide seats out of Stephen A. I was like No way. Um but if the if the if the Danhausen is the Knicks wrestler, who is the Spurs wrestler? How much? Mm. Okay. Fair enough. Real deal Spur Spurs fan too, by the way. Got to talk a lot of Sp Sp Spurs fandom. We came at seven PM in Brooklyn a few months ago, so check that out, Alright, man, well enjoy the games. Yes. Looked great last night. Uh Thank you, Kaz. Thank you all for listening. Thanks to our producer, Bruce Baldwin, thanks to our EP Ben Cruz. Uh one plus one plus one equals we're done. We'll see you back here next week, humanoids. Uh