Forbidden Door and Money In The Bank Recap | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #699 – 7/6/23

0:00 It's stupid. We welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's listen to Still Real the Show EPISO number six hundred and ninety nine, July six, two twenty three. It is your forbidendoor and money to bank, recap and refueled, witching of as to you, I am one after the show. I am Jeff Becker. You're joined every single week my host only doctor Trey Franklin's Doctor Trey. I've had to get caught up on a lot of wrestling, my friend, so I have to ask this. I know you're on. So for one, congratulations you're not the only married guy. I'll just show anymore.

0:53 That's right, thank you. Number two, you would on your honeymoon, now I know what I would a mind wrestling was kind of forbidden on my honeymoon to a degree, like I wasn't really we didn't watch wrestling. We didn't I didn't really look up anything. I tried to stay focused on the honeymoon phase. Now, did you abide by that guideline as well? Or you know, since you've been dating your now wife for a very very long time, did you kind of know the deal? So um to answer your question first, circumstances. So I'm gonna say, with the circumstances permitting, I did watch wrestling, and I will explain why I watched wrestling, and I think once I explained it, everybody will feel bad. But got married on Saturday, the twenty fourth of June. Sunday the twenty fifth, we traveled and our flight was a little bit delayed, like I was on the on the tar mat for a while, and once we flew into where we were that evening, I did watch because it was very late and we were just getting ready to start the next day. I did watch Woe's Most Wanted Treasures and Stone Call Takes on America. So I did watch that wrestling programming, so that at that point in time, that was supposed to be the only wrestling programming I was going to watch, and I it was it was gonna be way too busy for for us to do it. I didn't even bother to tune in to Forbidden Door that night, Like I could have easily like started watching the second half of the show if I wanted to,

2:23 but I chose not to. I was like, I'll wait till I get home, I'll watch it on replay. Um fast forward a couple of days later, Tuesday night, had dinner with Um, with with my family and my wife's family all traveled down with us because we did what a reception in a way, so we did did a reception with everybody we it was it was going to be a destination wedding, but UM my grandmother, and we wanted her to be part of it. She unfortunately had passed away about a couple months after we we got engaged, so we couldn't moved plans around, so we had this reception. Was this whole week that we had, the vacation week Tusan. I had dinner with my wife and my my my immediate family while the rest of her family were out doing some things and had some meat loaf. My my sister in law had some meat loaf, My dad had some meat loaf. Went home. About two am Wednesday morning, I woke up to intense stomach pains and proceeded to get rid of anything that was in my stomach in a very short period of time. That was what they call food poisoning. So I had food poisoning all day Wednesday. It screwed up the entire day. Obviously, had to go to urgent care. My wife was with me for about most of the day during all that, and

3:57 it reached the point where I went to urgent Care about like four o'clock Wednesday afternoon, got medication, started to feel better, was eating like a bird. They put me on this brat diet, not because I'm a brat. It's banana rice, apple sauce, and toast, no butter. I know, exciting stuff to have while you're on vacation. So I was stuck doing that. I started to feel better, told my wife to go with her family enjoy the rest of the evening. So my family was out there as well, and I stayed back at the hotel room and I watched on the DVR that week's edition of Monday Night Raw for three hours. So I broke my I had zero plans too. My plan was I was going to get back on Saturday, July first, and then I was just going to sit down and like power through all wrestling programming. But I was able. The only thing I watched was the three hour edition of Raw, so that one leading into money in the bank because I had food poisoning, and that was like a okay, But outside of that, no other wrestling programming. So your wife got so in the vows they say for better, for wors, for sickness and in health. Your wife got hit with the worst part at the sickness part right away. Oh yeah, I think she was like afraid for me, because, I mean, throwing up is not a great pleasant thing. And I said to her at one point, I was like,

5:27 this is one of the worst days of my life, like legitimately, and when it comes to sicknesses I've had in my life, lime disease, the flu, and that food poisoning bout I had is on the mount rushmore. I mean it was I maybe in the last the entire time we've been together has been twelve years, and I would say and maybe fifteen to twenty years, I've probably thrown up five times, which is great, good number, staff, right, that's good statistics. Five fifteen years, five times maybe thrown up. I threw up like seven eight times in less than twenty four hours. I mean I had nothing left in my stomach. Yeah. I went through that, you know, a couple of months ago when I got put on that new medication for my diabetes, and like we were doing the show, I threw up during the show. I remember that I told you that off air, like drew up, like hey bye, I threw up.

6:25 It's one of those things where like if you don't like for guys like guys like I'm not I'm not a big drinker. You're not a big drinker. We don't really ever get overly intoxicated and throw up. So for us, like we're throwing up, there's something really wrong. Now, now are you blaming the meat loaf? Did Dad and sister get hit with it as well? Or no? Just you somehow? Nope, Nope, did not. Um it was. It was a big Disney vacation that we all went on. So I was down in Disney World in the fl which was hot as hell. I don't know how you guys, you Southerners do it, do Trey? I mean I stepped outside and I just within two I can look like I took a shower. But no, they did not get sick. I remember going urgent carera. I was like everybody was trying to tell me doctor Trey that I had heat stroke. I didn't drink enough water.

7:11 And I'm a huge, like religiously huge. I drink water like crazy. I never dehydrate. I only drink water quite honestly, like outside of coffee and milk in my cereal, Like that's literally all I drink is just water. I don't drink soda. I drink beer and an alcohol on occasion, but it's strictly water. And I was like, I am not dehydrating, guys, stop pushing that. Like I got food poisoning. But it's like, but everybody else in the group didn't get food poisoning. So went to urgent care and I was like, hey, you know, I think I got sick off of this. Everybody else did not get sick off of it. Is that possible? And the doctor said, he's like, everybody's DNA is different. You know, you could have had a bad piece. They could have had a better stomach to handle the entire thing than you were.

7:56 But yeah, it to me being the doctor saying this, this does sound like food poison and I was and I was cleared up within twenty four hours, thank god, because it did screw up like the biggest night that we were supposed to have dinner wise, with all of our families together. It was supposed to be the quote reception dinner. We did very much a DIY very small wedding. I had twelve people including myself with my wife in attendance. For the wedding, the same twelve people all traveled down to Florida as well. It was a very fun time. But the next day, that Thursday, we were supposed to do a for Anybody's erben in the Disney World. We were going to go to Animal Kingdom or we went to Animal Kingdom spoiler. I ended up making it and we did this what they called Wild Africa Trek, which is behind the scenes safari that they do so they have a safari you go through the zoo and everything like that at Disney's Animal Kingdom, and we did a more behind the scenes, up close a venture which I was really looking forward to. Was able to do it, thank god.

8:56 But there were times where I'm like, man, how the hell am I going to get home? And I was supposed to like fly out on Saturday. The way I was feeling then, I was like, ah am I gonna like I literally And I'm the type of guy too, DOCTORV like I never want to go to the hospital. I never think I need to go to hospital. And I debated. I was like, dude, I need to leave here in an ambulance, like I don't know if I either strength to do it, or the stomach or any other one how to get through this right now to get looked at by a doctor. It was. It was brutally bad. Oh yeah, I've had it. I've had food poisoning twice that I know of, and like I've heard the first time I got it. It didn't I didn't get the vomiting, but it just literally I got home and I was like, man, I don't feel right.

9:37 I laid down the saly I know. I was like twelve hours later. I had no strength. I was just weak. I felt like somebody had literally poisoned me. And it was about twenty four to thirty six hours. Actually was back when I was traveling and I actually was supposed to be picking up a guy to take him like Ohio or somewhere, and he had to state an extra data hotel and didn't what was going on because I was so weak. I couldn't answer my phone, couldn't do anything. It literally wipes you out. Yeah, and then it's just like randomly like oh, I feel better, Like it just kind of comes out of nowhere that you're like, oh, Okay. I feel you go from like feeling five percent to like eighty percent and you don't even realize it. You're was like, oh, okay, I guess I guess the worst is past. So but kudos to you for being a trooper, Kudos to your wife for standing beside you and not looking to find the minister during all the whole thing and didn't start over. So the happiest place on earth and you get through it poisoning yep, yeah, I mean. The one thing good thing is I did I was able to watch three hours of RAW because I did not get cut off, caught up all completely caught up on wrestling until literally this morning when I watched the final hour of AW dyn of Mind from this past Wednesday. It.

10:54 I mean, obviously loved getting married, enjoyed the wedding and all that great stuff. But if I'm a wrestling fan who prospect, who does a wrestling podcast, I could not have picked a worse time where there's an AW pay per view which is already five hours, right, and a WWWE pay per view just sandwiched in there and then had to recap it in the last two weeks. Obviously, if you've been joining us the last two weeks. You know, two weeks ago it was a very timely show, but last week's show was not as timely because I was away and we recorded it in advance to kind of give a little bit of a break and what's going on, and then we're going to come back here and recap and review everything. So we're back here. It's been a lot of wrestling, Doctor Try, I guess if you consider it all because I had to watch the pre show as well Forbidden Doors, so that was about a five hours show. You had the three hour Raw, eight hours, two hours of NXT, ten hours, two hours of Dynamite twelve hours, two hours of SmackDown fourteen, Rampage one hour, and then Saturday was mining the Bank. That was about three hours. So that's when we up to twenty one. Eighteen well eighteen not cutting collision, did I Okay? So eighteen right now, then the two hours of collisions. I'm at twenty right, Yeah, twenty three hours for Raw, two hours for an XT, twenty five, two hours from Dynamite, twenty seven. So that brings us to now, right, So twenty seven hours of wrestling I actually watched. I think the only thing I missed, and it's because they didn't do any matches was the money the bank

12:28 pre show. So, man, what an idiot I am? Yeah, I wasn't a saying because the fact of the matter is you your anniversary date is literally a week after mine. So there are times that you have no control over your life. And usually the wedding day, the planning of the wedding, the date that's selected, you really don't have that much control over, so you just have to write it out and then if you have responsibilities, you just got to circle back and get it all taken care of. So you know, I am, I am lad that you didn't go into just like twenty four hours of Lamon's I just binge watched all twenty seven hours straight because I know you you're a trooper. You could probably have done it just with a lot of red Bull and coffee. But at least you powered through it. I'll say this much. If you watched all twenty seven hours, you beat me and I didn't have a wedding or a honeymoon to go through. Yeah, I think that's probably the OCD in me that I got to sit there and watch. I mean, I try not to miss most wrestling things. But it's definitely getting difficult, right, I Mean that's what we've talked about with Collision and all that stuff. It's it's it's certainly becoming difficult to be a wrestling fan and actually like staying up to date on a lot of this ship. Like they're making you do tribalism now, even though they don't want you to. Yeah, we're like anyone on the end of like on the indie them there, like you hit our guys, like why can't we just work together and everybody appreciate everything. It's like there's just not enough time. Like there's literally not like you you're either it's you know,

14:01 Coke and PEPSI Ford and Chevy. It's it's you have to kind of kick a side almost if you want to consume everything, unless you're like me and you'll like, go, okay, let me read about it first. If it looks good, then I'll go back and watch it to kind of see things. But like I have friends in mine they're like, hey, did you want Like I missed part of Monday Night Raw and I missed the Rea Ripley Italian match, and my buddy was like, dude, that was actually a really good match, and I'm like, crap, they finally had a good match and I missed it. Now I have to try to go back and fit it into my schedule right now. So it is a bit of like you have to choose a side in the battle, even though they'll tell you that they don't want you choosing sides, but you almost have to, just because there's not enough hours in the day to consume everything. And just to also give an update here, because we talked about on the podcast and at that point I would have figured it wasn't going to be a problem.

14:48 But for those who've been tuning in, you knew about my wedding band issue, where I didn't have a wedding band even though I got sized for one in January and I lost so much fucking weight that I couldn't fit in it anymore. Um. I got a phone call Thursday before our wedding saying that the ring that we had ordered to uh my new ring wasn't going to work. So they were gonna they were gonna put like this bar in my ring, doctor Trebe, so that it once I gained weight again, that it would it would be a bigger size and they couldn't do it with the ring that I had, so they didn't know what to do, which made things fun. Make a long story short, they ended up finding a ring, the ring that I needed, with the right size, so they couldn't do this bar and I picked it up on Friday at about two pm Eastern and I was getting married eleven am the next day, so I liked that they basically had to put a belt on your ring. That was the plan.

15:54 We're basically gonna basically make a belt to hold your ring in place until you get at again. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. So yeah, I don't know if this was an infomercial for getting married or not. To be honest with everyone, anyway, let's get into it. Let's talk some wrestling here, doctor try Let's talk about the twenty seven hours of wrestling that I watched. Let's start with aw New Japan Pearl Wrestling Forbiddendoor Recamp or Review came to us two weeks ago from the Scotia Bank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Let's get to the first match here was on the pre show, The Mobile Embassy defeats Chaos Tremperetta, Chuck Taylor and Rocky Romero and l Desperado. We did not predict this match. The multiple miscommunications between Swerve and Brian Cage that led to nothing was strange. Swerve Strickland needs a singles championship around his waist as soon as possible. In my opinion, I am looking forward to his match with Nick Wayne at this Wednesday's edition. Him done to my any thoughts on this pre show match, Yeah, it was You're right, it was weird the miscommunication stuff, but overall, I was just kind of fodder. I kind of feel bad for Trent and Chucked because they're one of my favorite tag teams to watch. They're just so good and they're basically in that role where they just have to help elevate everybody else. And I still think Brian Cage is maybe the most overready wrestler maybe of all time. He might be up there, Brill, I thought you were a Brian Cage fan. No.

17:14 I like Brian Cage, like, I mean, I'm glad they put him a Prince Nana because you look at Brian Cage and you're like, this guy should be a monster, should be a beast. But then like you hear him talk and he sounds like a fifteen year old kid, and it's just like, yeah, it doesn't really match up. And then he tries to wrestle like a cruiserweight even though he's like two seventy five and solid muscle, Like nothing really goes together. Like if if Brian Cage wrestled like Wardlow every match, he'd be more believable. But like doing all the stuff he does is it's impressive, but you don't need to do it. So I just think he's just one. Like I think you think he's over been overhyped for all these years. Next match is Athena defeating Billy Starks in a quarterfinal match in the women Owenhart Foundation Tournament. We did not predict this match, solid match. I thought Athena and Billy Starks had a lot of good chemistry in the ring. Were my notes from this one. Yeah, I like Billy Starks. She's, you know, kind of a local girl. She's from like our area. Some of my friends had a hand in training her.

18:15 So I always, you know, if you got kind of got a little bit of a soft spot for people, you know. But Athene is such a beast and like she's taken to this new role so well, so is it entertaining? Good match? It solid, especially for Billy Starks. I think Billy's been wrestling like three and a half years, so to be on that stage and performed that well, I thought it was a good feathered her cap Al Fantasma defeat Stu Grayson. We did not predict this match. I did not know Stu Grayson turned on Dark Order as I don't watch ro Oh good match. I've always enjoyed watching e LP wrestle. Yeah, I like ELP. I also did not know Stu interned on the Dark Order because I thought they had just brought him back to join the Dark Order. But who knows? Uh, like went again? There so much wrestling to consume you'd missed stuff, But I thought it was fine. I liked Stu as well, so I thought it was a fine match. Eli j Los Ignarboles, de Hapong, Bushi, Shingo Takagi and Hiromo Takashi defeated United Empires Kyle Fletcher, Jeff Cobb and t JP. We did not predict this match. Fun match that I wish I had some more time or was Showcase on the main show for people that like New Japan. I'm sure they were digging this as I was. Lij gets the victory. Yeah, this is kind of my theme for a lot of this show, which was in ring wise, it was great, just there was no build up to it, no story really too it. So it's kind of like, oh so I kind of have to follow everything to understand the storylines of the show. So in ring work was fantastic, so great six man tag, but once again, wish I

19:48 had a little more time and I wish there was some depth to it. MJFF defeats Hiroshi Tonahashi to retain the AW World Championship. We will at MJF get in the victory. I felt like it was a standard MJF match. It was a fine match. I hate to say this, but Tanahashi is starting to slow down. I'm glad you said. I've kind of thought that seeing from his last couple of appearances in the US. But you know, for MJF to get a win over Tonahashi's a feather to his cap. I thought the match was fine. I did you know. It's one of the things where was like it was a solid match. It's just nothing that you're going to like stick out your mind and be memorable other than MJF getting a win over Tanahashi. Next matches see him Punk defeating Satoshi Kojima and a quarterfinal match in the Men's Own Heart Foundation Tournament. We did not predict this one.

20:33 Good match. I love Punk, leaning to the Canadian crowd booing him. I thought the GTS finish was weak and really the only blemish on the match as Punk defeated the New Japan Legends to Toshi Kijima. Yeah, I kind of thought maybe Kojima, like I don't want to say stiffed him, but just didn't sell it to you because of Kenza, So like there's a little bit of me that was like conspiracy theorists. But yeah, I thought the match was fine. It's just when you have c him Punk on the card, you just kind of hope that it's a more high profile role in this situation. You know, the Kanta match would have been great. You know, a Tonahashi, you know Okada, They're obviously they're for somebody else. But I mean most American fans do they know who Kojima is? So like does that really help anything? So just bad timing and the Kanta thing falling through kind of you know, left a sour taste in some people's mouth.

21:27 Next match, here is Orange Cassie defeating Katti Ori Shabada, Daniel Garcia, and Zach Saber Junior in a four way match to retain the aw International Championship. We did not predict this match. Great match. Really enjoy watching all four of these guys wrestle, good finish, with the Orange taking advantage of Shabada's PK to get the pen. I would absolutely watch this match again. These are some of my four favorites, Doctor Trey. Your thoughts, Yeah, this was the first real match that got me excited on the show. Like everything else have been solid, but this one was really fun, really entertaining seeing Shabada in the ring, seeing and I love Zach say Regia. I can watch Zach Sayer Junior wrestle every single day. Just the technical prow as, the skill he's got, and then the contrast with Orange cast like this was just a really really fun match. And then Daniel Garcia held his own, you know in there with you know a couple of legends in Orange Cassidy. So that's that's a really hard quartet to figure out style wise, and they made it work seamlessly, so I thought it was a really fantastic match. Next match to Sonata defeating Jungle Boy Jack Perry to retain the i WGP World a Wide Championship. We both had Sonata getting the victory solid match. The moonsalt finish caught everyone including me by surprise, and we finally see Jack Perry turn heel as he takes out hook post match. He's been really leaning into the heel persona in the last two weeks on Dynamite, which has been fun and enjoyable to watch. Sonata retains Doctor Trey. Yeah, this, by the way, I love like leading into this. They both played the whole I Don't Know who You Are card, which I thought was hilarious. But yeah, I really enjoyed the match and then the heel turn.

23:00 I mean, I'm hoping for Hollywood Jack Perry. I want to see him grow, I want to see him have a fake black Beard and everything. I want him to just go full nWo Hollywood Jack Perry. So just drop Jungle Boy all together. We don't have to hear that name ever again. I'll be fine with that. The Elite Hangman page Match Jackson, Nick Jackson, Eddie Kingson and Tumo hiro Ishi defeats The Blackpool Combat Club John Moxley, Claudia Castinolian Wheeler, newt Utah Show to Umino and Cano Skate to kesh Go. We did not predict this match really good in fun tan man tag team match, I liked Eddie Kingston being conflicted working with his own teammates and also having to fight John Moxley your thoughts as the elite Kingston and Tomohiro Ishie you get the victory. I would just exci see Kingson and Ishie on the same team, Like those guys are like just made for each other. Like I can watch those guys team up and fight. I'd be happy either way.

23:52 You know, before a ten man tag to be solid and enjoyable and then also have you know, like some sub story in there as well. Oh, like I thought it was. It was pretty good for being that many guys in one single match, because those are usually messes and chaos and cluster f's whatever you want to call it. This one was actually pretty solid and told a good story. Tony Storm defeats Willow Night and Gale to retain the NW Women's World Championship. They both went in this as women's champions, Willow Night and Gale for New Japan Strong. She has since dropped that championship match was fine. I feel like AW somewhat missing the boat by by not pushing Willow Night and Gale Moore and given her an opportunity to run as the top baby face in the AW women's division. She is super over and her attitude is infectious. Tony Storm retains Doctor Trey. Yeah, Willow nightingales just a joy to be around, Like if you ever get near her, I mean, I mean it's one of the things, like I've seen her in the ring live in person. She's infectious. So yeah, at some point she's going to be the top baby face in AW. I just you know, you have to worry abou she's still rather young and a little a little brain when he comes in experience, but you know, putting her in these high profile matches, I mean, in the last what months, she's got to wrestle Tony Storm and Mercedes Monet. Not a lot of women get to claim that, so her being features great for them. And I thought it was a good, good, solid match and Willow's gallopeticitional world. But you

25:22 know, the outcasts are kind of fun to watch as well, so I thought it was a pretty solid, good sequence match. Will Ospre defeats Kenny Omega to win the IWGP United States Championship with we both had will osbreak in the victory. Phenomenal match. This on the shortlist for Match of the Year candidates by year end. In my opinion, I loved how badly Osprey wanted to beat Omega and it told a great story. Amazing stuff from two favorites of mine. This has been one of the best Kenny Omega matches I have seen since he returned from his injury. I love this matched Orey Osprey feeds Omega. Yeah, I loved it. Also, the desperation in will Osprey, like you can see it in the ring, and that's something that he doesn't get a lot of credit. Four is a lot of guys will crap on Osprey for being you know, the spot monkey and the high fly or whatever it is. When he's really into a match, he can tell a good story without actually having to say a word, and Kenny's the same way, so you can kind of tell like there's this I don't know if it's I don't know if there's any actual heat between them, Like that's always been the storyline that they don't really like each other, but they respect the hell of each other and they put together a fantastic match. So kudos to both those guys. Yeah, Osprey is phenomenal. He's an amazing wrestler, and hopefully he sticks around the United States for whatever promotion sooner rather than later and six round for a long time. Next match is Sting Darby Allen to at Sionido defeating Chris Jericho, Minaros is Juki and Salmon Gerard. We did not predict this match. The Jericho Minaros is Zuki chemistry and dynamic is amazing and it should be capitalized more. They seem to really enjoy working with one another.

26:56 Overall, fun match happen to Seido finally a paron aw This was fun. Doctor Trey, Minara Szuki and Jericho, Man, they cracked me up. I loved it. Not to mention you had Sting in a match with Minora Szuki, I mean, like the legitimate to the I guess most badass grandfathers around. I mean it's sting sixty two. I mean, it's it's crazy how well these guys work, and I kind of want to see now, I want to see Minora, Szuki, Chris Jericho and Sammy Gabar almost played like father son grandfather type thing or something like. Just the chemistry, like you said, Sweening, Jericho and Suzuki's so great. Um And it's one of those things when you see guys like Jericho or Suzuki having fun in the ring, it's infectious as well. So it was. It was a really fun little six man tag for for all those guys involved, and it just got it. I mean you, I mean, the age range in that match, just all that alone kind of blew me away. And then finally the main event, Brian Danielson defeats Kazko Okada I Kazko Cotta Doctor Trey Head Brian Danielson slow methodical pace for the early portion of the match that started to pick up halfway through. Danielson is one tough son of a bitch, getting that final ten minutes out with a broken forearm. The injury did take away from the match unfortunately, but still a good match. Probably didn't live up to my expectations. Because of that, but it was a hard follow after osbring Omega. Hopefully we do get another rematch soon. Brian Danielson, DeVito Cotta, Doctor Trey. Yeah, this like this to me reminded me

28:26 of a Randy Orton match. Does that make sense? Like you know it does? That's spot on, absolutely spot on. It's just that's where those old school Randy ormagins starts off kind of slow, kind of methodical. You get a little bit of a little bit of juice, and then it slows back down then right back into the jews going into the finish. So if Brian Danielson nothing else, learned a little thing or two from Randy or because that's kind of how that match was put together. The injury, like you said, did take away from the fish a little bit. But I mean, dear God, you got to wrestle the last ten menads of a broken freaking arm. I mean, that's that's pretty damn impressive. And to get the submission victory over Okata and getting Ocada to agree to tap out like Tony Kahn and got some balls to get Ocada to go along with that. So I give them all the credit the world for that matching and putting it all together, piecing it through and making it work in the end. People view prediction record Doctor Trey went four and oh, I went three and run.

29:19 Coming out of Forbidden Door, I went fifty seven and twenty Doctor Trey is fifty two and twenty five. Match of the night and event rating. I gave the event rating a four point oh solid four point zero out of five, and my match of the night was will Osprain Kenny Omega. I was at a three point eight and I also had osprein Omega. I thought it was a solid show, but once again, like outside of Osprain Omega, is there anything really all that memorable? So that's kind of where I was at with that show. I do want to make a note here real quick before we get into money the bank. I don't think this is a good thing for AW long term as they continue this partnership with New Japan Pro wrest saying, but just going off of what you said, Doctor Trey, you were surprised at Okada tapped out for Danielson, um Tanahashi and Okada are considered like the John Cena and Randy Orton of New Japan Pro Wrestling, like they're the top guys in that company. There's seth Ron's Roman reigns, whoever you want to say, like they're one and two. Okada and Tanahashi don't win in AW and that's I don't think that's a good thing. So a lot of AW victories again from this show, and I don't know why New Japan's allowing that to happen. I know Sonata defeated Jungle Boy, but just to be totally honest, like nobody thought Jack Perry was gonna win, and that match was just to catapult him to becoming the new you know, heel persona that he is. So I don't I don't like the booking and New Japan

30:49 stars in AW because if you're I get if most AW fans probably know who these wrestlers are, But if you're a casual fan that does not know what who New Japan is, you think these guys are scrub because they're consistently taken els from the AW guys. It feels a little bit like the AW Impact Partnership, you know, where it was kind of like it felt really one sided, and if you're New Japan, you're like you're hoping to get that payback like you're hoping to get Okada Danielson at you know, over at Tokyo. Don't you know you're hoping to get some payback on your side, I guess, but you know from the state side. Once again, the casual fans doesn't know these guys. I guess that's why eight of you looks at like, hey, the casual fans may not know who Okada is or Tanahashi is, so if they lose, it's not a big insult to the casual fan, but the die hard people like us are looking at going, yeah, like, like we talked about before the show, you're gonna have jungle boy Jack Perry competing for you know, the richest prize in New Japan, and he's maybe top fifteen in AW maybe top he's not top five, he's not top ten, describing that fifteen to twenty range. And so it was kind of one of those things where are like, yeah, like nobody bought in that Jack Perry could walk out the IP Heavyweight champions, so him losing isn't a big deal, and then you spun it into something else anyway.

32:10 So really, any of the losses that the ANW roster took were minimal at best. But meanwhile, you know your top two or three guys all lost. So even like your legends, like you know, Jabbata and Hujama, like those guys all took els on this show. How does that prop up New Japan in their partnership. Strange? It is strange booking. I mean, you got to give some of these New Japan guys an aw championship at some point here if you're gonna keep doing Forbidden Door, in my opinion, it's just strange. And now you're hearing Moxley's eyes are set for Sonata and IWGP World Heavyweight Title. So I don't know how we're going to go from there. I totally could see Moxley win the championship. Let's switch over now to a week little less than a week later w Money in the Bank.

32:57 Previous recap and review. This past Saturday came to us from the O two Arena in London, England. Let's get to the first match on the card here. Damian Priest defeats Ricochet, Shinsky, Nakamura, La Knight, Santos, Eskuar Butch and Logan, Paul and the Men's Money in the Bank Ladder match to win a Men's Championship match contract at a later date, we both had Damian Priest to get in the victory. I thought this was a great Money in the Bank match. The chances these guys take with some of the spots are is absolutely insane, enjoyable match, seeing rising stars get this opportunity. I was very happy for Damian Priest's you could feel his ascension coming Doctor Trey. Damian Priest wins the Men's Money in the Bank Ladder match. So I don't know if I'm we predicted it correctly, but I don't know how happy I am about it because La Knight is over in London, like like there were spots that there were, Butch's climbing the ladder. The crowd is booing him for La Knight, So it's you have to kind of wonder at times, like they are they missing out on lightning in a bottle. The match itself was fantastically fun, like I enjoyed it. Everybody got a chance to shine, even like Santos Escobar, who's probably you know, casual fan, maybe the lowest guy in that told well he got some great spots overall, one of the better money the bank match we've had in a while, especially for you know, seven guys who have never held the world championship.

34:22 But he's making me wonder are they Are they missing out on capitalizing on La Night while he's hot. Yeah, he's over in London, he's over and spoke Ken, He's over in New York, He's out over everywhere. I agree with you, I think La and I should have gotten the rub, But I also feel like suburn storyline sense, like you're seeing this ascension of Damian Priests as well. La Knight is getting the fan rub, but Damian Priest is getting the proper creative rub. And I think creatively they made the right call and hopefully they do capitalize in La Night. I thought an La Night Logan Paul match for Summer Sam was going to be on the table, but it appears they're gonna be going with Logan Paul and Ricochet Summers Slam instead, which from a social media visual standpoint, I guess that makes sense because I'm sure there's gonna be some sort of crazy spots that go viral. But I don't know. I think Elian I would have been the right choice.

35:12 Yeah, but Logan Paul, Ricochet all trampoline match. Yeah, and they just dunk basketballs and catch footballs as well. Raquel Gonzalez and a Live Morgan feat Ronda rousing Shana Basler to win the w Women's Sack Team Championship. We did not produce this match. Match was fine. The build of Shana's shockingly turning on Ronda was non existent, but the shock of the moment was executed really well because nobody saw it coming. It was a cool, surprising moment. I guess the build to this was supposed to happen over time, but Ronda's injury threw things off from a storyline standpoint, and it also Piercy is probably on her way out again, which is why they fast tracked this. It looks like Shane and Ronda for SummerSlam. I thought Ronda was potentially gonna be a baby face, but Shana was clearly a baby face on Monday's Raw, So it looks like Ronda's time and wis coming up again. I hate to see it fast tracked, but it was a cool moment on the last Rackuel Gonzals and living more in our two times Women's Acteam champions Now and maybe like like recap of the match. I thought the match was fine. It is what it is. But you know, the shock of Shana turning was pretty cool. That caught me off guard. I look at it in a couple of ways, like we knew they were gonna be NFBING Tag Team champions at some point, and then at some point they were gonna feud. It gives the women's tag division an opportunity to be half depth. I guess, like everybody's on an even playing field, whereas if SHANEA and rond are just running rough shot over the division, you kind of lose that a little bit.

36:37 And now you can bring in Katana and and and uh a ton of Chance and Kayden Carter. You know, now you can bringing back you know I La Donna and Alba Fire. You can bring in some of the other tags. Committee Yes, Um, so it gives the tag team divisions of death in the women's division. Um. And then Plus, I'm really excited about Shane in a baby face because like, we love just badass baby faces that can tap people out, like that's like no nonsense, nobs, just kick ass baby faces. We kind of love that this might be a really good thing for Shana because we haven't really seen her in this role in her time in WWE. Yeah, it looks like if this is maybe forever for Ronda Rousey or a long extended period of time, she wants to do the honors to Shannon Baseler on the way out because Shanner got her, literally got her into professional wrestling, so it would be nice. I've always been a fan of Shannon Baselor. She was one of the most dominant females in the history of this show at one point in the annext run, so I'm happy that she's getting some rub here, even as a baby face, something she's never done in w as well. Gunther defeats Matt Riddle to retain the w W Intercuntinal Championship. We did not predict this match. Dominant victor victory for Gunther work on the injured ankle of Riddle. It was great to see Drew Mcatar back and sending in sights in the Intercontinal Championship as he has a legit chance at ending Gunther's current historic rain doctor Dre Gunther retained. Yeah, I was expecting more out of this match. I don't know about you. I just kind of thought with Riddle's background, and you know, he came back

38:08 kind of hot, was featured in the Bloodline stuff for a little bit than the Imperium stuff. When I got to know this match, I was like, man, are they kind of not writing Riddle off but the elevating Riddle because he basically got his ass kicked and then Drew McIntyre came out and stole his spotlight post match, and that's pretty much it. So it's like, all right, maybe we's he Matt Riddle back in like the mid card area, I guess for a little while. So but you know, Drew and Drew and Gunther, like, that's gonna be a hell of a match. I almost said, banger, I don't want to steal from Shamus there, but that'll be a really really solid matchup. And it's just good as he drew back, because that was something we were all kind of worried about for a little while, according to us, and not Triple Ah because he said he thought that was funny that all of us people thought that Drew might leave.

38:58 So but yeah, Acos, he drew back and the crowd was hot for it, and just he's one of my favorite performers. Will see in the ring right now. Yeah, Drew Mcaty totally Alphredum Matt Riddle, So I don't know. That was weird. Like I'm coming in for the intercardinal title. Move out of the way. I know you're the number one contender, and he's like, all right, bro, let's go get some hamburgers. Like that was that was so weird, that raw interaction which U when you go back and if you watch it, there's like one woman who says take your top off, and Drew Mcaty acknowledges it. He's like, I could hear you ask me to take my top off? I thought it was a very funny moment. H Cody Rhodes defeats Dominic Masterial. We both think Cody Rhodes getting victory. Match feel like the offense wasentywenty five and favorite of Cody, which is how it should be heading into another Lessner match at summerslamm And just side note here, how about dom Mysterio being promoted in a pay per view triple main event match. Never thought I would see the day of that happening. So Cody defeats Dom Yeah, and the match was exactly what I expected, Like you gotta you have the smarmy, crappy lmy heel that did a hide behind you know, Ria Ripley. He shouldn't get that much offense. He should you know, occasionally get it the match in peril, you know, create that obstacle for Cody. But in the end, like the whole idea is that Cody's gotta looked pretty strong heading into the SummerSlam.

40:15 So um, I just thought was also cool seeing we got a Roods Mysterio matchup and it wasn't Ray or Dusty or dust In, so like that's pretty cool to me as well. So um, yeah it was. It was a fine little match there, and I still love that dom is so hey, I still want Dominic to steal the money in the bank briefcase and try cash in. That's what that's my goal. Next match here is EO Sky Defeedians Lina Vega, Becky Lynch. So he started Bailey and Tris Stratus and the women's Money in the Bank ladder match to win a Women's co Championship match contract at a later date. We both at EO Sky getting the victory. Another great money in the bank match I really like to finish for EO Sky handcuff Becky Lynch and Bailey to one another through the ladder. I thought that was a very creative finish and I enjoyed this match as EO Sky wins money in the bank. Woy. So didn't we see the handcuff thing a couple of years ago? You're thinking of Sammy Zane the triple threat Interconnal Champion match with with Jeff Hardy. Yes, so that's it's but I don't remember both opponents being handcuffed to one another, like where they can't climb up the ladder.

41:20 I thought that was more like they went through his ear, remember that? Like that that was and that was an awesome match. Yeah, So, I mean I thought it was kind of cool, and I like, my only issue was that eos are laughing about it, and I'm like no, no, no, like be desperate to win the title like she kind of lingered that. That's my only knock on EO is that sometimes she lingers too much, like you're a heel and you're playing to the crowd or your heel and you're you know, getting in them to cheer for you. Is like she forgets that she's the bad girl sometimes. But I think in this role now, especially with Bailey and knocking her off the ladder, you know, that kind of puts EO in a different spot. So I don't know about you. I'm really excited for EO and Oscar when that match comes around, because that's like a triple aged dream match right there, as those two girls going at it. So he tried to make it happen with Kyrie and Osca, and now we're gonna get EO and Oscar. So I'm really excited to see what those ladies can do when they finally cross pass. Next matches, Seth Freakin Rolls defeating Finn Baaler to retain the w Ordwade Championship. We both had Seth Freakin Rolls at the victory. Good match Surprising finished with Damien pretty slight distracting causing Finn Balor Or the match. We saw that carry over on Monday's Raw that closed there with Seth Rollins taking on Dirty Dom Mysterio.

42:36 Damien was on the verge of cashing in and Finn Balor came out cause it distraction stopped the cash in. They started bickering with one another earlier in the night Judgment Day was saying like a great moment with Dom like with with Ree Ripley's like Finn's not here tonight and you hear Tom say you spoke to Finn today and she was like stop it, stop it. So you're seeing some of the cracks with the Judgment Day, which is a shame because the Judgment Day has been so entertaining and fun to watch on TV, which then it reaches the point where it's like we got to start causing tension between everybody internally in the group and potentially break them up soon right when they're reaching their height. Hopefully that doesn't happen. But Seth freaking Ronins defeats Finn Bowder to retain Doctor Trey. Yeah. I really enjoyed the match. I thought there's a good storytelling in there. The finish I thought was really well done as well, like Damien just standing up like if hert cash in, Like, I thought that was really like we've got that was to me it was kind of original. We haven't really seen that before as well. So overall I just really enjoyed that match and all the different layers going into it and the layers coming out of it. And then finally the main event, the USO's defeat the Bloodline Roman Rains and Solskoya and the Bloodline Civil War tag team match.

43:43 We both had the Bloodline getting the victories, so we got that one wrong. Great match with awesome storytelling, and the finish with Jayuso getting the pin on Roman Rains was shocking and it makes so much sense for the story. So Roman Rains gets pinned for the first time since December twenty nineteen, which was at the hands of Baron Corbyn, which is shocking. And think about we are in twenty twenty three where Baron Corban is losing on an NXT television. It looks like Roman Rains versus jay Uso is going to be a rumored match for SummerSlam. I said have been saying recently that I felt like jay Uso was the most compelling wrestler in all of professional wrestling today, So it made so much sense. This is a great match, Doctor Tres Usos get the victory. No, this was this was a really really fun, entertaining, just great professional wrestling match. He had the storytelling, the injurygue brother against brother, Cousins against Cousin, like all the different layers you wanted to match arguably maybe the one of the greatest tag teams of all time than the most dominant champion of recent memory. Like, look that Samoan Spike spear spot was just awesome and I was like, there's no way like Jay Usso basically kicked out of both their finishers hitting him at one time. Like that's pretty compelling as well. So this great match shows the heart and the toughest of the USOS, the depth that you know, Roman will sink to all that stuff. Roman on the apron telling Paul Hayman how much England sucks? Like that was great, Like it was just like it literally had a little bit of everything. Is so just a fantastic professional wrestling match. Yeah, so

45:15 much fun, great stuff all around. And then pay per view predictions. We both went four and one coming out of Money the Bank, So I'm sixty one and twenty one in the year. Dutch Tray is fifty six and twenty six. Dutch Tray has been on fire lately with predictions event rating Match of the night. I gave money to the Bank at three point nine and my match of the night was the USOS and the Bloodline. See I had a four point zero, so I had USO's in the bloodline also is my match of the night. It's so funny. I had a Forben Indoor higher ranked and Money the Bank slightly below. You had Money in the Bank higher ranked and Forben indoors slightly below. But we both had the same match of the night, which is funny. Yeah, there you go. We I mean, sometimes we're gonna say way blink, but like you know, different tastes a little bit on certain things, but for the most part we're pretty on the same French ones. Look, you and I have been married a lot longer than we've been to the different strokes for different folks, right doctor, try that's what they say? Now, someone to the eighties theme song.

46:09 M all right. So a couple of things there are housekeeping before we wrap up this week's Editions show. Let's start with Twitter first. So put out a post on Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday, so, which I'm sure everybody knows. Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter um is limiting tweets now. I think I think normal people, unless you pay one hundred bucks a year, can see a thousand tweets aday. In my personal life, I wasn't using Twitter all that much. And with this same pain service, tweet Deck, which is a program that we use to schedule tweets on SRTU podcast on Twitter and Russell Chattanette on Twitter, is now going to be something you have to pay for a month from now, so instead of like sticking with tweet Deck, which they just change the whole way that program has ran.

47:01 And it's shittier now of course that it was a week ago. I don't know why they changed it. You're not going to see schedule tweets anymore. You're not going to see us tweeting promoting the show as much as we used to, which is unfortunate, but I think it's kind of with the times. I think a lot of people are starting to get off Twitter. I don't use a personal Twitter account. I don't know if you do, Doctor Trey. I tend to use it more to like read news and not tweet anymore because it's such a cesspool of bs. So we'll still tweet when the show is up and available for download, but you just won't see it up as frequently anymore as we used to. And I guess, just to discuss as well, threads, which I guess is Facebook's version of Twitter. We have not opened an account yet. I don't know if we will, to be honest with you, because I don't know. Doctor Trey and I are old on social media, So just keep it locked on Facebook, dot com, slash sto, REALTI show at SRTU podcast still and of course subscribe to us on iTunes. That helps us out. So that's a Twitter update, doctree. I never thought I would have to address Elon Musk, but here we are on srt U. I mean, I only thought that if we ever got big time and we got to go on on the Shuttle mission, that we could do like SRTU from Space. That the only reason I thought we'd ever have to address Elon Musk on our show. And apparently, um, like I, like you said, I don't really tweet that much.

48:24 Sammy doesn't like tweeting all that much. If no, we're talking ce Samy's trying to hijack the show right now. Um, but yeah, we don't tweet that often. So like, I'm much more of a Facebook and Instagram and that user. I guess. Yeah, So, um, we don't, I mean I don't. We don't have an SRTU TikTok page so here you go. No, we're too old for that shit. I'm not dancing, Treys not dancing. So um so there's one house. Keep united in the second one next week's show seven hundredth episode, seven hundred straight weeks of SRTU, and on next week's editions show, Doctor Trey and I both individually will give you our top five wrestler's list from the SRTU era. So from twenty and ten to present, Doctor Trey and I will bring you our top five wrestlers of all time in the history of SRTU. So that is on next week's edition of SRTU. With that said, let's get a couple of plugs and sponsored out of the way. You can Downlands show every Thursday at Real Thursday or Friday at Real Good Radio dot com. And of course they still Real to show iTunes feed, don't forget to rate, review, subscribe to help just come the charts on iTunes. You can follow us individually on Twitter for myself at SRTU Jeff and for Doctor Trey Franklin at d Doctor Trey and of course still fad to follow show on Twitter at SRTU podcast. With that being said, was going on in the Wonderful World of Ductor Trey Franklin and Sammy Franklin. This week, my friend, well like Sammy, doesn't have a Twitter account yet but we're working on it, but he might be the first person of our group to get on threads or whatever that thing is called. So but you can follow me on Twitter at doctor Trey. You

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50:49 Conrad help but help us out so that we can stay on Twitter. I guess all right. So with that being said, until next week for the seven hundredth episode of SRTU, we close out the six hundred chapter of s r T until next week for not Stray Franklin, For Sammy Franklin. I'm Jeff Peck. Thank you for downloading. This is a real show.

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