Bash In Berlin & NXT No Mercy Recap and All Out Preview! | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #760 – 9/5/24

0:00 It's still. Welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's to this in the storial the show episode number seven and sixty for September fifth, twenty twenty four. This is your wa Bash in Berlin. And Nixya Mercy Recap and review and aw all Out Preview. And Predictions edition of vets are Tea You. I am one half the show. I am Jeff Peck, joined every single week with my one only, doctor Trey Franklin.

0:43 Doctor Trey, I am joining you on the injured list soon, my friend. Yeah, your year where I was at about three and a half months ago. You're you're gonna be down for a little bit. I was down for a little bit, so uh yeah, this is kind of a you're just following my my betrayal High Blade just a while ago. Yeah, So personal note for everybody, I'm getting surgery on the day that this episode drops. We are actually recording a day before, so anything that happens on aw Dynamite we are unfortunately missing in regards to the preview predictions for aw all Out. I'm getting jaw surgery. So this maybe the last podcast at least for the next maybe couple of weeks where.

1:24 I sound normal per se. I've been told I should be able to talk normally by you know, once the surgery is is behind me. But who knows. I mean, I can't imagine I'm gonna have surgery on my jaw, doctor Trey that I sound normal, but I guess it's possible. Well, I'm just I'm kind of excited about this because we might come back next week and do you sound like a Stern Show whack packer, Like you might sound like real Juice or Eric the actor rest in Peace. So I'm kind of excited to see how this turns out because for years I have always said that Jeff sounds like the professional radio host and I sound like just the random person they pulled off the street. So maybe next week I'll sound a little more professional just by proxy of youth sounding like Beetlejuice.

2:13 Yeah, who knows. I mean, it could all be for not. Like I said, this is like SRTU goes old, because you've got doctor Trey who's recovering from his foot surgery. I'm gonna be recovering from a jaw surgery, and they're just gonna wheel us both out for next week's podcast to talk about all out so it's an action pack weekend. It's the NFL starting. That's the one good thing about getting surgery is I have, like an legit excuse doctor Trey to sit down and watch the Friday night game between Mi Green Bay Packers and the Philadelphia Eagles on Pecock. Saturday is all out, and I guess I'll have to watch everything from rampage and collision leading into it on their Friday night block.

2:59 That smart move there. Let's let's have a Friday night block of programming against the NFL on a primetime game. Then Saturday night all out. Sunday is NFL Week one the rest of it, and I guess, I guess, I guess I did the right move. I think the only other time that like this may have been a really good move for me to get surgery and just recover would have been maybe March Madness WrestleMania. I don't know. Yeah, I mean yeah, I'm trying to think like March Madness because of a last thing, you know, basically the four day the first the opening round of March Madness. You have the four the games on four days straight leading in and the sweet six teams. Good WrestleMania weekend.

3:42 If when they do all the shows at once, and if you can live stream some of the indies shows that are down there, that's a good time. The other other time is basically what I did at one point, which was when my daughter was born. I was sick, so we got home. I couldn't really do anything, so the mother in law was there helping out. So maybe when the baby was born, Jeff, you could have timed it out and then like, oh man, if you're gonna be in the hospital a giving birth, I can just go ahead and have my jaw surgery and that way we're both just down together at the same time. Yeah, I mean, this has been something I've been looking for. I mean I've been. Dealing with this for like four years now. Typical insurance shout out the United States. I started this process about a year ago. And if you actually go back to some of the late twenty twenty three episodes, I had talked about like there's gonna be a period of time where I'm gonna be out because I figured I would be getting it soon. Having a baby definitely delayed that.

4:36 So I'm super stoked for hopefully the recovery moving forward. I think you could probably agree to that as well, doctor Trey, being that you know, you were dealing with foot issues for a while and it's it's like, this is how long it's taking for me to get this care and get back up on my literal feet. But yeah, I mean, I'm I guess I'm pumped for it. So I don't know. It's the first time I've ever had a really long surgery in my life. So there's the last time I had surgery was like ten minutes, legitimately ten minutes to remove a tumor off my finger. This is gonna be about two and a half hour surgery. So I'm I'm like fifty to fifty. I keep telling everyone I'm nervous, but I'm also like relieved at this is the road recovery.

5:19 Now. There's also this weird thing like I don't know if you've got this where you're just like like a major surgery, You're like, oh, I just want to do it. So it's off my bucket list. It's not even like a good bucket list, just the I've had surgery bucket lists. Like when I had my my wrist surgeries four years ago, it was just I had never had surgery before, so I'm like, all right, cool, yeah, just crossed this one off. So when I went in for the foot surgery, the pressure was off. I was just like, let's just get in there, get a fix, and get out. But uh, there's that weird also like hey, you gotta look at your wife and go, hey, if something goes wrong, let's make sure everything's lined up. Just you have that weird nerves that you know, the antisthesiologists might be drunk when he walks in and you get overdough. Like there's these little weird one off scenarios that play through your head.

6:07 But outside of that, you're just like that first big surgery, you're just like cool, Like you're nervous, but you're excited. But it's also like I just want to have it marked off the list because it's also like an official sign that you're getting old. Yeah, yeah, that is. That is the official sign of it. So yeah, never had anything major. It's funny you bring up to think about like having the discussion with the wife, because I planned on doing that because you know, why not, like, hey, listen, this is where all the this is where my life is kept. God forbid something happens. I can't imagine. But if this is my last episode of SRTU, Doctor Trey, will we'll take it from here. Will be he and young Sammy Franklin taking a ball and right with srt moving forward. Just the opening of the show will be just kind of like what fifteen minutes riffing on Bluie.

6:56 Yeah, or Sammy's just smacking me in the head with foreign objects. Yeah, that has happened here on the show once or twice. One of my favorite sound bites. Any any advice, Doctor Trey, that you have for me, since you're you're like a veteran of it because being out for two and a half hours. My wife has had surgeries and she's like, you're you're not going to feel a thing. It's it's gonna be totally fine. It's like they put you under and then the next time you wake up, it's like, Wow, everything's done. Any advice or were Yeah? Words of wisdom, I guess. So my trick on the last one. So like when I did when I had the hand surgeries, I was like so nervous, I couldn't sleep, and you know, you get the anesthesia, then you're out. You don't you really don't remember anything, like I literally remember I had a colonoscopy once and literally woke up in a wheelchair talking to my dad like wait, how did I get here?

7:45 And how did I get dressed? You know. So now the night before surgery, because I tell you not to eat, I basically just stay up all night. So that way, when it's time to get into the bed, I just I'm already half asleep. You don't have to really give I'm gonna be a sleepers thing anyway, So just enjoy the rest because it's it's the one really good sleep a new dad will have in quite a while. As we answered, that is a good way to put it. Yes, it's a forcible sleep that I've been long needing for about two. And a half three months. So we'll see. We'll see where I'm at on next week's show. The streak will continue one way or another, whether it's just me saying welcome to SRTU and doctor Trey Riffin for sixty minutes on Profession Wrestling, or I believe I'll be talking so well, maybe it's just doctor you know, doctor Trey Franklin getting hit with a bowl in the head from Young Sammy, Let's get into it. WWE Bash in Berlin recap review is this past Saturday from the UBA.

8:51 I presume that's how they pronounce in Germany UBA Arena in Berlin, Germany. First match here on the card with Cody Roads, if Heed and Kevin Owens to retain the end of b wach champion chip. We both had Cody Roads in this one. I loved the old school focus on an injured knee for Cody Rhodes and if Kevin Owen still had that Calder instinct to capitalize on the injured knee in this match. My only gripe was Rose used his knees when Owens went for the swanton prior to hitting Crossroads for the pin without selling that he used the injured knee as much as I would have liked. Other than that, this was a good psychological match. But I still find the Cody Roads book and be pretty Fanella still and maybe Solicico awaiting the wings helps amp Roads up a little more again, Doctor Trey, your thoughts on this one? Is Cody Rhodes defeats Kevin Owens?

9:32 Yeah? I was completely with you, Like I was literally like he was selling the knee that played the knee angle up they did. You know, Owens kicked the knee at one point on the outside and they would have felt bad about it, couldn't go for the kill. But then Cody puts his knees up on the swanton and I was like, well, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense because the knee should be injured. He should have struggled mightily to get over to Owens. I know you pick Owens up if your knees basically out, how do you even pick the guy up to hit Crossroads? So that was my only gripe outside that very good technical sound match made a lot of sense. Saw the emotion in there, even postmatch, the little like Cody tried to raise Kevin's hand and Kevin would let him do it. I'm sure we'll get some fallout this week on SmackDown to kind of play off of that, the inner turmoil of Kevin Oways going forward. But just a good sound match.

10:21 But yeah, Cody's book has been a little bit little because the one thing they haven't done SmackDown is build up any other credible heels other than New bloodline. And if they're gonna be tied up with the Roman for a while. You need somebody else. Maybe it's returning shins K or something. Who knows. We haven't seen Shinsk or aj styles in a while. The next match year is Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill defeending Alba Fire and eland On to win the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship. We both had Bianca and Jade winning this one. The title reign for Fire and Dawn wasn't great, and I wish wwwe did more with them while they had the titles. They did look strong in this match, but never felt like they had a legit chance beating bel Air and Cargill. I know they kept trying to sell car He'll, causing the distraction that caused Dawn and Fire to mishitting their finisher, but it looked like Cargill missed a spot to pull bell Air out from the pennitemp at the end, which has plagued her during her wrestling career thus far. There is a rematch on this come upcoming edition of Monday Night Raw after Alba Fire and eilid On defeated Damage Control to become the number one contenders again, which is weird because I thought it was rematch clauses, But I digress there, Doctor Trey, your thoughts on this one? Is bel Air and Jade are back his tag champs?

11:27 Yeah, I don't think WWE knows about their rematch clauses anymore, because I remember it was probably about four or five years ago they said they weren't doing the automatic rematch clauses, but then they do it sometimes but then other times they don't, so I don't even think they know what their rule is. I thought the match. I thought Jay did really well in this match, considered where she's been at up until the Botcho breakup on the Pennitemp, I thought her timing was much better. I thought Fire and down when they hit that gory baumb flat liner combo, that's been their finisher, and that was the one time I thought they might get the win in the match. But outside that, you're right, like, I just felt like it was gonna be Beyonca and Jade, But you know, I like Fire and Dawn. I think they could be a really really solid women's tag team once the Beyonca Jade split happens. Because I thought that match with Damage Control on Money Night was really good as well, so I'm actually kind of optimistic about the women's tag division once they split Beyonca and Jade.

12:26 Yeah, I don't know. I mean, there's there's definitely a lot of opportunity there. You've got Zoe Stark, Sonya Deville, Shanya, Shannon Basler, You've got Damage Control, You've got Fire in Dawn. You can do some pairings on the SmackDown side that could be interesting. It's just strange. How they're booking bell Air and Jade right now. It's like, why did you drop the title in Scotland other than to give a hometown pop to Fire and Dawn, And then this entire time that they held the titles, it just felt like kind of they won the titles very fluky, rather than actually defeating bell Air and Jade, which would have been a really cool moment.

13:10 Yeah. I like Firo and Down. I just would have liked to see in a little bit more during their title run and the bell Air Cargills storyline. I love the long term of this. I think this obviously plays itself out to WrestleMania season for WRESTMANI forty one, but I want to see some sort of tension soon. Right now, it's it's very very friendly, and maybe. We start to see that come the next four to eight weeks rumble time, it'll. Like the next time they drop the titles or something. Yeah, which apparently the women's titles are only defended, like we only do title changes in Europe because it was France, Germany and Scotland the last three times the bell's changed hands.

13:51 Tag Team wrestling on WW right now and wrestling as a whole in general, has been a big ripe of mind. So once we get past all these pls and pay per views going on right now, maybe we'll talk about that a little bit. Because in both WE and AW they're not great. I think the only place that they're shining right now is an NXT in all honesty, which is not strange, but you would have liked to see in a little bit more because NXC has been known in the past have a really strong tag team division. Next match here Ceampunk defeating Drew McIntyre and a strap match. We both had cmpunk in this one. I love the back and forth in this match. The in ring storytelling was really well done, and after bashing the usage of their friendship bracelet in the SummerSlam match, I thought the bracelet was well implemented in the strap match. I sincerely hope this is what I wrote on Saturday. I sincerely hope that is the end of the Friendship Bracelet to presumably end this feud at Bad Blood since they both are tied at one apiece. We now know that the Friendship bracelet has been destroyed on Raw, with bits and pieces of it being slammed in CM Punk's mouse where I guess he was actually choking on it. The strap match concept is so good when you get a good few that can help execute it like this. One really really enjoyed this match. Doctor Trey is Ceampunk defeats Drew McIntyre.

14:59 Ye, we enjoyed the match. I thought was well done. I thought we kid. It was violent when it needed to be violent. It had storytelling when it needed to tell more of the story. The GTS is at the end of the match, because you know, when you know, you go back to Summer Slam. When Punk thought Drew was out and got destrated by rons when it cost him the match, he made sure Drew wasn't getting up. The only thing I don't like about it is maybe the light system, like with the green light in the red light. I don't know if I liked that. The old school ones didn't really have that, but there was a throwback in that match. I don't know everybody caught it, but it was basically when McIntyre was hitting the corners, Punk was falling behind. That was a throwback to I think the Eddie jbl Strap match because Eddie did the same thing. But overall just very solid. I just I don't know if I like the light system for I think it's just a little bit too much.

15:49 I think it's good for the crowd at home in the renixcuse me and the ones at home to kind of follow along, I must admit. I mean, if anything, there was like a delay in it, which the announcers kept pointing out. We said, I love what was like, the line should be reset. They're not recent. Why are they not reset? It's like, give a second, Michael, the guys just a little bit behind you. I mean, there's the layers on. The remote control is not working. So next match, here is Damian Priest and Reea Ripley defeating Dirty Domasterio and Live Morgan in a mixed tag team match. We both had the Terror Twins. I had the Terror Twins, Doctor Trede, Dirty Dom and Live Morgan. This was a really fun mixed tag team match. The interference was really well executed in the match, where it felt like Ripley and Priests were going to lose. Live's offense against Ree continues to put her on Ripley's Ripley's level, which will be really good when they have a one on one rematch. They are definitely building a Ripley hitting the Riptid eventually on dom in the future. As the crowd was really into Ripley's offense against Domina in this match, it was not nice to see the baby Faces get some revenge. Heading to the next few weeks where I assume the feud will can continue with Ripley and Live and Priests and Baler possibly having matches bad Blood. I think the Hell in a Cell, which has been rumored for Bad Blood because I think it's a twenty fifth anniversary of the first Helen Some between Taker and Shawn Michael's of Bad Blood October ninety seven where Cane debuted.

17:05 I think Punk and mcintyrell have one of those matches if they go with like a female match. I think Ripley and Live would be a really good match to put in Hell in the Cell as well. Nonetheless, really good mixed tag team match not to try. Yeah, this is one of the few mixed tag matches I really enjoyed, and I think it's because, like the women were getting involved when the men were doing stuff, you know. I like when that happened because I really and I saw a little bit of on NXT when the women just kind of backed down from a guy and just play scared him back away, Like it's like, no, that's your person you care about. You should be doing something to help them, even if you're putting yourself in Harmon's way. I think Live and Rhea did a great job.

17:51 Plus it helps that Ria and dom are basically the same size. But overall it's a really fun mixed match. I still think that I would have had Dominic Live get over just for them to increase the anticipation of the baby face is getting revenge because it kind of felt like fore gone, like Live and Dommer running from Ria and Damien. But I understand why they did it, because it's a foreign crowd. You want the you want the home, you want the good guys at least get one good victory on their belts at a bl. The Ripley Pops lately they I mentioned on last week's podcast that they are stone cold asque folks. That is some exciting stuff. The minute in her music drop she may be the most over professional wrestler in the game right now, which is really really cool and very well earned and deserved.

18:38 The main event here is gun Through defeating Randy Orton and retained the World Heavyweight Championship. We both had gun Through in this one. It was a fundamentally sound match. It was a little too long for my liking, but it was still a good match that you can appreciate. I liked Orton zoning and on injuring Gunther's hand during the match, the Limit's ability to utilize as chops. There was a match that establishes Gunther's ascension as a main event level player in WI and as a strong world ofweight up being after defeating Randy Orton in a championship defense, Doctor Trey, your thoughts on this one? Has got Through retains against Randy Orton? Yeah, this was the old school Randy Orton matches where it's very technical, very proficient, very sound. In the meeting, maybe a little slow, but then you have a really great finish at the end. So, uh, this was, like I said, prototable Randy Orton match. This is stuff like back when he was wrestling seth rawlins at Wrestle Mainey, those type of matches when everybody was on Randy about being you know, chin lock and headlock Randy Orton. But it's matched for these two guys because you guys are just great interim technicians. The only thing I didn't like is I did once again, it's one of the things where like I look at Randy Orton, I'm like, damn, I didn't realize how big he had gotten because he looked bigger than Gunther, and Randy might be approaching at thre hundred pound mark. He's just massive right now. But outside of that, it was a little bit of passing the torch in a sense too. So just a really fun, solid match and a good victory for Gunther for his first title defense.

19:59 Pay per view predict record I went five and oh Doctor Trey went four and one. Coming out of this one, I said at one O two and twenty eight doctor Trey's ninety three and thirty seven match of the night and event rating. I gave Bash and Berlin. A solid four point zero and my match of the night was Ceampunk and Drew McIntire Doctor Trey. What say you? Yeah? I was load than you. I was at a three point seven. Uh. I had McIntyre and Punk as well. I just thought it was a very solid pl E, but really not a memorable pl Like, nothing really stood out to me other than to Strap Match, and that was just for the contrast of it being strap Match versus anything else on the show. So there you go. Bash in Berlin recap review. Feel free to share your thoughts over at Facebook dot com, slashest realda show run X at SRTU podcast. All right, Doctor Trey, let's get into NXT No Mercy recap review. Its came to us this past Sunday from the Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado.

20:51 The first match was Nathan Fraser and Axiom defeating Chase You to win the NXC Tag Team Championship. I Nathan Fraser and Axiom, Doctor Trey and Chase You, I said earlier on in the show, and XT may have the best tag team matches in all off. We again, this is a really good match with the great post match segment with Bridge Holland turning on chase you. Fraser and Axiom maybe WWE's best tag team in twenty twenty four, Doctor Trey, what say you? Yeah? Well, I mean really, we kind of mentioned that a couple of weeks back when we were talking about the midway point of the year show, like Nathan Fraser and Axiom might be tag team of the year almost by default because they've been together and they've actually been active and in feature matches. But yeah, this was a this was a fun match, great storytelling for the post match.

21:37 I am kind of surprised that they pulled the trigger on the Ridge Holland heel turn and not splitting up Nathan Fraser and Axiom first, because that's been teased for way longer. But yeah, I mean those guys. You can put Fraser in Axium in the ring of that. Anybody is great, And with what happened on Tuesday night, I'm excited to see Fraser and Axiom against the Rascals. Speaking of the Rascals, next match is Zachary Wentz defeating wes Lee. We both had wes Lee in this one. This is where the WETNA partnership is paying off for TNAS, W helped make their newly crowned Ex Division champion look like an absolute star on a larger stage than he would have been showcased on in TNA. This match was emotional and it was a ton of fun to watch.

22:18 This is a must see NXC match from twenty twenty twenty four. So far off the charts, chemistry between Wentz and Lee Doctor Trey. This may be my favorite NXC match this year. Yeah, it's It's one of these things that we've talked about in this show many times. When you have two guys who are legitimate best friends in the ring, it's hard to mess up chemistry. It's like when you and I talk about Kevin andins his Samy's saying, or guy like people that you just know or the you know people that they just know each other so well that you can do whatever you want and know the other person is there to take care of you. I mean, these guys have been friends like and best friends for like over a decade. So like, I wasn't surprised at how well the match was. I was surprised with the fish because yeah, it's a TNA guy getting a win over a WWE guy, so a little surprised there, but once again he's kind of not a TENA guy because he was an NXC guy also. But yeah, just a phenomenal match and this was the best match of the weekend I saw.

23:17 I totally agree this was the best match from w WE the entire weekend. Musty match if nobody, if you have not seen this match so far, please go out of your way and check it out. It was phenomenal. Next match, here is Klonie Jordan defeating Wendy Cheeter retain the NXC Women's North American Championship. Eyed Wendy Chew, Dot Tree Coloney Jordan. Klonnie Jordan has an incredible innovative offense has been really putting together as an inn ring performer as of late. If she continues to grow into a good inn ring star, she could be a big time player in the WE women's division the next three to five years. As for the match itself, I thought it was a little bit of a letdown and a little clunky, as it felt like Chew and Jordan did not mesh well. While the innovative offense is there and really fun to watch. Again, you could see that Colonne Jordan and someone who has just started over the last couple of years. But she's pretty phenomenal for someone who's living wrestling for the last couple of years. Not sure your thoughts, as Klonnie Jordan retains.

24:07 Yeah, watching this match, I had I had Sasha Banks early NXT flashbacks, Like like toy, she just reminds me a lot of Sasha, and you know, she's a little bigger than Sasha, but the offense is different than what everybody else is doing, which was what kind of brought Sasha out, uh back in those days. It just it's eerily remindiscent of that to me. But yeah, she's she's going to be a star at some point in this company, but she's still a little green. When did you I like the character, but she's never impressed me in the ring. So yeah, the match, This was the perfect match to have follow Lee and Wentz in the sense of it allowed you to bring your energy back down to head towards the finality of the show. So it was kind of a breather match, uh, in between this and what we got later on. So just an okay match, But I'm more amazed that, like they have Rosemary playing like the second fiddle to Wendy Jukes. To me, Rosemary is a better wrestler, performer, and character overall.

25:08 Yeah, that was interesting the header back on Tuesday's NXT edition. I'm very happy to see her an INDWW ring, but yeah, fans who have been voluntna, I mean, Rosemary has been a stalwarth for that division for years now, almost like ten years. I feel like next match is Opa Femi defeating Tony D'Angelo to retain the NX North American Championship. We both had Obafemi. This match started really slow and then really started to pick up throughout. This match got better as time went on and was an enjoyable one. I feel like NX is booking themselves into a corner with Opa because it feels like you should be elevated to the NX Championship title picture, but he's booked so dominant that I don't know how they get the North American Championship off of him without taking a loss other than a multiman match. This was a good one. The follow up on Tuesday.

25:51 Where like you could tell that Tony D'Angelo may be dealing with confidence issues that may have been more significant than the match itself. This has been a really good couple of days for the storyline between Obafema and Tony D'Angelo. Doctor Trey, your thoughts on this one. Yeah, I enjoyed the match because you most big guy, big guy matches. CARDA start off slow, but then they started getting really hard hitting towards the middle in the end, So this was right up my alley for these kind of matches. The storyline stuff is really well done because you know, you got Tony D losing the Heritage Cup now not winning the North American title, so that could play into it. But it's funny to me, like we talked about Tony D. Tony D is on my favorite people are watching NXT, and two years ago I couldn't stand watching him in XT, so Tony D has really really grown on me over these last two years. So just good work for both these guys with that match at No Mercy.

26:43 Next match here is Roxanne Perez defeating Jada Parker to retain the NXC Women's Championship. We both had Roxanne Perez in this one. I'm a big believer in the ceiling that Jada Parker will have on the NXC brand. She has the confidence in herself and her character to. Be a big star in Tobyo Wee. As she continues to grow as an end ring performa matches against people like Roxane Perez, she will continue to get better as time goes on. This match was very good and the crowd was really into it. The NXC Women's Division enters into a next chapter as Julia makes her long awaited rumored debut in NXC and has her eyes set on Roxan Perez moving forward, which is pretty exciting. They close out NXC television this past Tuesday saying you me CW. So it looks like those two will be battling out. I expect a Julia Chelsea Green match to be taking place soon as well.

27:26 Heading into that one. All that aside the Julia rox and Press stuff, I don't want to lose sight that I really think Jada Parker is going to be a big star in we at some point. I really enjoy her character development, her in ring work, her character, her confidence. It is phenomenal. This was a fun one. Doctor Trey's rox and Prez retains the NXC Women's Championship. Yeah, it reminded me a lot of the Roxanne Lolo vice match from a couple of months ago, whereas, like, is Jada ready to leave the division? Probably not yet, but she's getting close. So this is the way to kind of make her look like, hey, she's really close to being on a Roxannes level, but Roxanne is still the benchmark for the women's division. So good showing for Jada.

28:09 Strong match for Roxanne again, because I mean, rox San's a lot like Alexa Bliss back in the day, where Alex is so much smaller than everybody else, you kind of have to up the intensity at times, and I think she does a good job of that. That Juliet payoff is great. I love that the fact of the crowd was like into it as well, because she didn't have to really be intered. There's no vignettes for Julie. There haven't been any real promotion for her coming. It was here she is, and the crowds like, oh, we know who she is, We're excited. Like, I love that payoff for it, so, uh, just just good work all around, like solid, you know, but you know, solid solid Women's title match. Basically next match, here's Ethan Page defeeding Joe Hendrid Retain the NXC champion.

28:50 You both had Ethan Page in this one. I've always enjoyed Ethan Page's work, but he's really coming into his own on NXC and a short amount of time, as he is that throwback old school heel that we tend to not see often in wrestling nowadays. Instead of being this cool heel who gets cheered, he comes off as an egotistical prick that the fans really can't stand, and that is making for an improved NXC Championship title picture. I don't want to lose sight. That a TNA wrestler was in the main event ur an a title match on a wple and Joe Hendry was the right guy to serve in that role. I have totally understood why there was an underground swell popularity for Henry is the extremely likable wrestler to get behind, who I hope we get to see more of an NXT. This was another example of how the w partnership has really benefited TNA just as much as NXC has benefited from it, Doctor Trey, your thoughts as Ethan Page retains.

29:37 Yeah, I liked it because it's like it's Ethan Page getting a title victory over somebody who's not curlyller the rosters. You don't hurt anybody it's on the roster. But he's getting a win overname in a really cool crossover match. So Joe Henry super over makes the crowd hate Ethan Page even more. Ethan Page is like if the Miz and Bobby Rude had a baby, Like he's just lands like right in the middle of those two guys where he's he's a cool enough guy that you want to like, but he's just enough of a dick that makes you hate him. And he's you can see the confidence in him, Like the diff between him now and him in tb aw Is Night and Day, Like this is what we were seeing Ethan Page and TNA when he was just super confident, super arrogant. The ring work was, you know, really good. It's just that throwback. He'll, I mean, Ethan Page.

30:28 He may never be a WWE World Champion, but Ethan Page is a strong guy to have as a US Champion, Renter Connell champion down the line. He's just that kind of person at the crowdsman to hate and love the Bill Baby faces off of Yeah, I've. Really, really enjoyed his work on NXC television. Always been a fan of Ethan Page. But it's like really coming through the screen ass of late. It's it's like this throwback eighty seal that I'm really digging. Uh paper view prediction record from No Mercy. We both went four and two coming out of this. I'm one oh six and thirty Doctor Trade ninety seven and thirty nine a match of the night in event rating, he gave No Mercy a three point eight out of five. My match to night No shock here Zachary Wentz and Wes Lee Doctor Treysau. I was a little bit lower. I was three point six and it was Winston Lee for me as well.

31:11 So there you go our No Mercy recap and review. Three point eight, three point six Wentz and Wesley both match of the night. And now we want to continue with some w stories here because Doctor Trey, there is a major business model change with World Wrestling Entertainment that I never thought we would see. And it's part influence from AW, part influence from the changes over with the TKO UFC merger, and that is w's change to curbing their house show schedule coming up here, and this comes to us from both Wrestling Inc. And Sean Ross app at Fightful Select. WWE is looking to make a big change when it comes to their live events, which is hosting almost no shows in the United States until after Christmas.

32:01 They have a show coming up on September twenty eighth in Columbus, Georgia, and then in Hutsville, Alabama, Doctor Trey's Backyard on September twenty ninth. They have a UK tour in October November, and that's it for live events until after Christmas. This is a change of pace. W stars are going to be able to be home during the week when they're not on television, home on the weekends. And this is a huge story to me because I did not think we would ever see the day where we would be limiting their house show schedule, But here we are, Doctor Trey. I love the move. What is the influence behind this? Is this aw influence so that they can attract more wrestlers to give them.

32:42 Some time off? Is this tko UFC endeavor merger influence? Here? Is this Triple H's influence. What's your thoughts here on the house show schedule? Do you like the move and where does it all stem from. I think it's a combination of all three. I know that's not really a great answer, but I think part of it is, you know, hey, AAW's got a very limited road schedule. You know, some of these towns also aren't doing great financially in the South. There's not a lot of disposable income to head out to a house show, So are you really making a profit. But if you're a free agent wrestler and you're like, oh, I can work six days a month in AW or I got to work twenty four in WWE for the same amount of money you take the six days, it just makes more sense. So hey, limiting that let's wear and tear, you know on those guys. I think part of it is also the TKO because they also look at as we're a television if you look at the Plee as a movie, We're like, we're in that kind of business.

33:45 So hey, if we can maximize our profits off these shows, then we don't need the house show so much. UFC doesn't really do a house show scheduling tour. I mean, if they do, I've never heard of it. So does WWE. You really need do it if they're doing more TV and p Elisa, and a part of it is also the Triple H bar. As a former full time on the road wrestler, he knows what's like to be on the holiday season where you're gone and you don't get to see your family through Thanksgiving and Christmas. I mean that was I remember back when Matt Hardy was in WW and Revey Hardy made a big deal about them finally having a Christmas off for the first time in forever because they never had one before. So I think it's a combination of all those things just kind of coming together where it's like, Hey, if our most important product is the talent on our roster, we need to keep them as healthy and happy as possible. Hey, let's give them a break through the holidays, and then hey start fresh in twenty twenty five, And it'll be interesting with the road schedule is coming out of January and February and see if it goes back to the way it's been or if this is the model they hold on to going forward into twenty twenty five.

34:55 What do you hope they do. A little bit of both? Like I want the guys like really, like do you need to run five? How like was it like typically is what they do two TVs in three house shows a week. Yeah, they would run like it was more starting with the SmackDown loops. So they would start Friday with SmackDown, Saturday Sunday live events, and then Monday television for RAW. I think that's what they were basically doing. I don't think they were doing Thursday or Tuesday live events anymore. Yeah, I mean, and really i'd like, I mean, it's hard to bounce it out with one with one live I mean, you have two different touring companies, but really like, let them do TV. Let them do like one house show for the week or maybe two at the most, and then I like a three day work week and then a four day off, cause two of those days are going to be traveling enough, so at least gives you a five day work week and two days of rest.

35:46 So that to me would kind of be like that way, you're still getting your house shows into your smaller towns that don't get pl s and stuff like that, like a Huntsville, you know, like even Birmingham doesn't get that many raws or spent like one a year might come to Birmingham, but the house shows allow those small towns, those little smaller areas that shows don't go to to still see them. But you know, do one TV, two house shows, and then four days off, two for travel and two for actual rest. I think that'd be a kind of a happy media. As a fan wrestling fan, I'm more inclined to want to go see a live television or pl raw or SmackDown rather than a house show, unless it was like in this, like very intimate venue that I live near or something like that. But the likelihood that I go to a live event is few and far between nowadays.

36:37 I've never really a house show guy. I've only been theoretically one, and that ended up airing on the WE network when they were live from MSG in twenty fifteen. And I went for that one because I wanted to see Lesner live, and that was one of those cases I wanted to go to MSG on Saturday and I wanted to see Lesner, and I went to the show and then. They ended up airing on the network. I love the move. I think it's the right thing to do physically and me to leave. For the performers, I think that they absolutely need a break. They should be able to see their kids grow up. If they have families, they should be able to live normal lives. And I love this move. I think this is great and it will be very intriguing to see what the type of business model will be in twenty twenty five. Is this the norm or is this just something that they tend to do maybe once a year to give everyone a breakhead into their busy season because once the holidays come, they're heading into Russelining forty one season and it's going to be NonStop from televisions and pls. And do they really need to add house shows in there to help their business.

37:38 Line, you know, on their revenue even more. I don't think so. I think it's more important to keep these guys and girls healthy. And this is a move I never thought i'd see happen, and it's awesome. I think it's great for the performers. I'm really really happy for him. It reminds me of like twenty twenty when it was a pandemic and I was like, this is they can actually see their kids grow and they can hang out with their families due to a pandemic. That was like the one good thing that came out of a COVID nineteen pandemic for performers is they just had a show up for television and that was it. So we'll see if this business model continues going forward. I hope so as a wrestling fan, because I think all the performers deserve it due to all the miles of travel that they put on and wear and tear in their bodies throughout the year. And I think this is going to pay off in the long run for WWE, and it'll be more attractive for wrestlers to sun with w NOW over their competitors such as AW. Speaking of AW, Doctor Trey, we have AW all out previewing predictions this Saturday from the Now Arena in Chicago, Illinois. As you and I record this show, we only have six matches announced.

38:41 I'm sure there will be four to five more that AW will be announcing here in the coming days. Let's look at the first match here, as Willow night Andale will be taken on christ at Lander in a Chicago street fight for the CMLL World Women's Championship. I feel like Night Andes like dominated this feud so far, so I'm going to go with Chris Statlander to become the new CMMO World Women's Champion and win the Chicago Street Fight. Yeah, that's always tough because Willow pick the stipulations. It's her title, but it's not an AEW title. Does CMLL authorize them to make the switch. I'm kind of agreeing with you. Like when there's a street fight, that means other people can get involved, which is a stoke we Hathaway getting involved in helping stat Lander get the win.

39:25 So I'm taking stat Lander to win too, even though it kind of defies the logic because of all the things I just mentioned. Next match here is MJF taking on Daniel Garcia Doctor Trey. Who do you like in this one? Uh? Once again kind of tricky because you want Garcia to stay hot, but you just had MJF lose to Osbreak. Can you have MJF lose back to back matches? I don't think so I'm taking MJF to win by hook er by Cruk. Yeah. I have the same thought process as you. I really want to pick Daniel Garcia, but there is obviously some contract stuff going up, and more importantly the point that you made Doctor Trey. I can't see MGF losing back to back pay per view matches. Next match here, and I guess this is going to be the main event. Swerve Strickland we be taken on Hangman Adam Page in a steel cage match.

40:08 I am really looking forward to this one. They have really honed in that Swerve Strickland has defeated Hangman Adam Page every single time. Therefore, I'm going to take the Hangman to win this one over Swerve Doctor Trey. Yeah, but once again, this is tricky because you just had Swerve lose to Brian Danielson. Can you have Swerve loose two in a row, but can you have Hangman lose three in a row to Swerve? So I'm kind of with you. I'm kind of taking Hangman here just so we can get one on the board. Uh. But it's to me this is a flip of the coin of how they book this. Next match is Mercedes Monette defending the AWTBS Championship her car Oshita Dot Trey. Who do you like in this one?

40:48 Mercedes Monet because she makes like three million dollars a year. Yeah, and that also has to go with like the way that Shida has been booked for like the last two years. It's It's very like red hot and then cold, red hot and then cold on TVs for a while than not, So I'm gonna go with Mercedes Monet as well. Next match is Will Ospray defend the AW International Champion against Pac. I'm gonna take Will Ospray in this one. I think this is leading. Towards Ricochet versus Osprey for Wressell Gem in October. They were teasing that on Dynamite last week. So I'm gonna take Will Osprey to get the victor over Pak and what's gonna be a very very fun match. I'd love to see Pawk, Ospray, and Ricochet in a three way, just because their names kind of all rhyme together too. They kind of fit. But yeah, like I mean, you put the three three of the best high flyers of our generation the ring of onans on, that'll be great.

41:33 But yeah, this to me is leading to Ricochet and Ospray. So and Pac just got a belt, so we don't need POC two belts. POC one belt is fine, So I'll take Osprey to get the win and retain the title. Next match here is Brian Danielson defending the AW World Champion against TNT champion Jack Perry, Doctor Trey. Who do you like in this one? I hate AW for booking this match because I don't know how you how you pull this match off without it pissing somebody so because you just had Jack Perry defeat Darby in a casket match, but now you're putting against Brian Answer who just won the belt. I'm taking Danielson just because it makes the most sense to me, but it is really confusing to put these two in the ring at a PLA when you just had them both get kind of career defining victories.

42:18 I'm gonna take Brian Danielson as well, and I do feel like this is a big fu to anybody who has been against AW creatively, like myself. When it comes to Jack Perry. Putt him in the main event or one of the main event matches title match World title match in Chicago where he has obvious heat already with fans who are cmpunk fans. But I think AW fans at this point probably don't give a crap anymore and probably put that behind him. But expect seem punk chants during this match. Yeah, I mean, Jack Perry has been booked extremely well. I still have not bought into the Jack Perry character. I look forward to Brian Danielson defeating him and retain the AW World Championship on Saturday night, and then is AW all Out. We will recap and review it on next week's show, and we'll obviously have more matches that we'll probably discuss because it is an AW pay per view and they are not going into it with six matches only for a four hour show, so that will all be recapped on September twelfth, and then finally, Doctor Trey. There was the John Moxley angle on Dynamite that played out last week where he came out said it wasn't your company anymore. Marina Shaffer helped him out in a backstage vignette take out some security guards, and the Twitter account or x account of Wrestle Votes at Wrestle Votes tweeted out something and whenever Wrestle Votes tweet something out, I listen. I had no idea where this angle was going. We briefly discussed it on last week's edition in the show. Seemed to be intrigued with where Moxley was going, and I saw this tweet, I'm like, boy,

43:51 this is really interesting. So rest of Votes tweeted out a photo of John Moxley as Dean Ambrose and he is holding the innercount in the World Championship and he has his hand on the face of his former boss and SmackDown General general Manager Shane McMahon, and Russell Vokes tweeted, could. It be question mark? Question mark? Hashtag AW Dynamite Doctor Trey? Is this the answer? So where this angle is going? Is this Moxley stuff leading to Shane McMahon appearing in AW? It's very possible, like when when I still it's one of those things where I'll see when, I'll believe it when I see it. But it is very like that comment and everything else is like okay, because you also remember like not only is he made the comment to Tony Shavanni, who's not only the announcer, but he's also the head of talent relations or cohead of talent relations with Christopher Daniels. It's it's just very very easy. And then British Affair former NXT wrestler like, could this be the invasion angle you always wanted? I mean, is this where we're going? It's really kind of interesting to see where this goes. Because you know, last week we said is Mox in the BCC? Is he out of the BCC?

45:11 There was really no talk about it is pocket a Philly, Like we did not understand how this whole thing is gonna play out because there was no breakup with the BCC. Mox just took time off, you know, to heal and do his Japanese stuff. So it's kind of like, it's just interesting that they're just kind of started this thing fresh out of nowhere with no context. But hey, these kind of storylines are what we kind of dig because we want to see where stuff like this goes. Yeah, when Wressell votes tweets, I listen and either he knows something or she knows something we don't know, or he or she knows something then or is just pontificating like could this be what this is leading towards? I tend to think that Wreussell votes know something we don't know, and that is pretty damn excited if it is Seae McMahon.

46:01 So there is an episode of Dynamite airing tonight as Doctor Trey and I are recording this podcast this week, doing it a day early. So yours truly doesn't have to do it under anesthesia on Thursday night and have no idea what the hell's going on the world professional wrestling with the hell that would make a fun podcast. But nonetheless, we'll see if there's some more tea leaves that are pointing to the money. Here comes the money in all Eat Wrestling, and then my brain will be officially broken, Doctor Trey. If Sea McMann and Jack Perry are on the same wrestling roster, yeah. That's uh yeah, I don't I don't know how you would handle that. But then again, I have Mercedes Bonney and Jack Perry and then potentially Seane McMahon on the same run. So there you go.

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