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AEW All Out Preview plus Walmart and Gamestop Figure Hauls!!
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Phil and Sheena are BACK BABY and ready to preview AEW All Out, NXT UK: Cardiff, and much more! Plus they discuss their weekly figure hauls, RSC preorders, $5 Gamestop sale, Walmart selling Elite 69 for $7, more info on our holiday toy drive, and much more!!
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Show Returns & Personal Updates
00:00:17
Speaker
If you can't take the heat, get your ass off our Twitter feed. It's the Chick Foley show. We are back here, folks. We've been gone for two weeks. I was on vacation last week. I'm back here in the Jimmy's Famous Seafood Studios. I'm the hot take kid Phil Gentile. I have the lovely Sheena Phelps in Virginia. Sheena, how are you?
00:00:43
Speaker
Good man, good man. We haven't been gone for two weeks. We just missed last week. So we're still on our grind. We go a week in between shows. So when we record a show, they hadn't heard from us for a week. So technically we have been gone two weeks.
00:00:58
Speaker
You know what? You're right. Wrestle calendars. Yeah. You're so right. Um, but we did drop, we did drop a nice episode for you guys. So I hope you all got a chance to listen to it. It was the heel husband's, uh, chick fully show debut in our video games episode, our best WWE video games of all time. So if you haven't got a chance to listen to that, make sure you go back in the archives because it was our episode from last week and it's pretty awesome.
00:01:22
Speaker
It was good. We'll get into more of that in a second. Marco Denton, our intern, and our MVP is on the line. What's going on, Marco? What's going on? I'm here in the gorilla position to come up with my own thing. So I'm in the gorilla position right now. So yeah, just living the dream over here. And I'm actually getting ready to celebrate the faction's birthday this weekend. They're within two weeks of each other. So get the two twin girls and the
00:01:51
Speaker
The youngest one, my guy, his birthday is tomorrow, so just gearing up and trying to get that ready. And actually, I have a tidbit. So tomorrow, which is the 29th, is three years, because my son's three years old, to the day where I was at the hospital, because my son was born in the morning. That night, it was a Monday night. So Monday night, raw is on that night.
00:02:19
Speaker
It happened to be, I put it on and it was a match for the then vacant universal title. Four way match. The Big Dog Roman Reigns, Big Cass, Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens. I remember it clearly. I remember it clearly. Yeah, the big swerve happened that night and I literally almost dropped my son because I jumped out of my seat.
00:02:43
Speaker
That was your son's birthday. Wow. Yeah, that's cool. That's insane. Yeah, I almost dropped them. I was like, this is, I was like, Kevin, was this one the universal title? I was like, you just had a son. Yeah, but Kevin Owens won. This is amazing right now. Sorry.
00:02:59
Speaker
Triple H made a return turn on Seth Rollins and Yeah, kale became the new Universal Champion. Wow. That's pretty cool when you have those memories associated I mean, you know, obviously not cool that you almost dropped your son. I mean, come on Get it together Marco, but I mean I had to pop I was like that's true. I popped I popped hard for that too. So yeah, happy birthday intern kids. That's awesome. I
00:03:24
Speaker
I can't believe Big Cass was in that match. What a fucking failure that guy was. Hopefully he can turn his career around because he had a ton of potential. I'm sure Vince loved him with his size, but never connected. But that's a story for another day. Yeah, I was on vacation
Community Engagement & AEW All Out Preview
00:03:40
Speaker
last week. I'm back. I missed a bunch of people ransacking Walmarts and GameStops and stuff. We'll get into that with our Go Figure segment later in the show. But we have five new Patreon subscribers, Sheena.
00:03:54
Speaker
Brian Green, Sebastian Hoffman, TJ McKinnon, or TJ McKeough, I'm sorry, David Brooks, and just Sal. He goes like Sal, like Sting. He's just Sal. Yep. I love it. I love it. Welcome to the Foley fam, guys.
00:04:08
Speaker
They are added on. A lot of people added on because obviously we did the Patterson giveaway. We're going to announce tonight the Rock Elite 69 giveaway. So we've been giving away a lot of fire figures, but people have been pissed off with a lot of scalping going on with some of these figures that have been hard to find. And we've been telling people on social media, Marco and me have been singing the praises of this Facebook group that we started.
00:04:30
Speaker
And people like Mike Lanham and some of these folks that have been able to get some of these figures have been selling it. We have a strict no scalping policy in our Facebook group and I'm fine with scalping in other areas of Facebook and social media if you want to do it and make money.
00:04:45
Speaker
go right ahead but we don't treat family like that so that's been the one of the benefits and you can sign up for patreon it's patreon.com slash chick Foley show it starts at a dollar a month and I guarantee you you're gonna make back that twelve dollars a year by saving those eBay prices so be sure to check it out
00:05:04
Speaker
and I do want to announce some people have some questions about when we announced last week I kind of did at the very end of the show which was like a two-hour show our holiday toy drive so we people had a bunch of questions I will be setting up a PO box the next couple weeks that people can ship figures to has to be in the box don't want any Lucy's I'm sorry
00:05:24
Speaker
But it doesn't have to be, you know, can it be anything from, you know, I tried to get the word out there, Sheena, because there's so much clearance stuff at different stores right now between Walmart and Five Blow and this GameStop sale. So hopefully people have been stocking up. I have a good handful and I know you guys have been doing the same. So we're donating for Toys for Tots at Jimmy's Famous Seafood. They have a kind of a charity event there in December that we'll be bringing all those to.
00:05:49
Speaker
to the
00:06:10
Speaker
it's going to go for a good cause and I'm pretty excited about it. We've got a lot of good responses from people on social media. I think it's going to be pretty cool. So if you always donate to, well not always, I guess the Major Brothers did it last year. I'm sure they'll be doing it again this year.
00:06:27
Speaker
We're not picky. As long as you donate to one of us, I don't really care. As long as we're helping people out and giving some needy kids some wrestling figures, that's what it's all about at the end of the day. So more details to come, but hopefully by next week I'll have that PO box so you can drop it on the show and then you guys can start mailing those over here and we'll get to help some people out.
00:06:45
Speaker
Yeah, I love that. And just remember, guys, they don't have to be basics or elites, tough talkers, retros, whatever you got. We're a wrestling show, so we like to pass on the wrestling love. So any awesome wrestling merch out there that you pick up along the way and want to donate to a good cause, we're here for it.
00:07:02
Speaker
for sure, 100%. Let's get some of our plug skis out of the way here. You can email us at askchickfoli at gmail.com. You can DM us. Our DMs are always open. It's at chickfoli on Instagram, where you can find Sheena. And I am at I hate JJ Reddick on Twitter. And obviously, we have the show Twitter account at chickfoli show, where we do most of our tweeting from there.
00:07:26
Speaker
a ring side collectibles again if you're if you're going there this weekend for that labor day sale make sure to use code chick Foley there for 10% off our friends over at chalk line have a fire sale almost every couple months but we have a code their chick gets you 15% off
00:07:45
Speaker
CollarinElbowBrand.com is another one of our favorite websites and we have a code there is Chick. I guess you can see the trend happening here, 10% off there. And if you want to buy our shirts with our logo on it, we have some cool stuff coming down the pipeline for that. It's ProWrestlingTees.com and just do a search for Chick Foley Show and you'll be able to find it there.
00:08:04
Speaker
That's all the paying the bills type of stuff and those are three of our favorite companies in the wrestling business and they should be yours to check them out and they're big fans of the show and we're big fans of them.
00:08:17
Speaker
for sure, for sure. So now with all that housekeeping out of the way, we have a lot to cover inside the squared circle because, um, like, like you said, we kind of, we took a vacation week last week, um, but we are back in full force and there was a lot of announcements, a lot of things coming up this weekend for you guys. So let's go ahead and like, just jump right in. So, um, we do have for all of you marks, we'll go ahead and get this out of the way. We know a lot of people who listen to our show are WWE marks, but we would be remiss not to talk about
00:08:47
Speaker
All elite wrestling am I right? 100% coming up this weekend. This is the kind of the the prelude to the the weekly TV show and You know that the the card for me is hit or miss but you want to run through it Sheena that we can just go over some maybe that our top two or three biggest takeaways from the card and
00:09:08
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. So, you know, we got, we had a lot of good matches. Uh, obviously, you know, Jericho versus a hangman Adam page for the AEW world championship. We have Omega versus pack.
00:09:19
Speaker
What? Yes, I said pack. We'll get to that in a minute. There has been a change of plans. You know, cards are subject to change. We got the Lucha Brothers versus the Young Bucks in a ladder match for the AAA World Championship or tag team championships. We got Cody versus Sean Spears. Darby Allen versus Jimmy Havoc versus Joey Janela. The Best Friends versus the Dark Order.
00:09:40
Speaker
luchasaurus jungle boy and marco stunt versus socal uncensored and then we have a 21 woman casino battle royal and then private party versus angelico and jack evans and then riho versus hikaru shida oh hikaru shida am i saying that right marco i'm probably not
00:09:59
Speaker
But anyway, we got those matches and we're just gonna touch on a few of the bigger ones because we got a lot to talk about and we can't run down all these matches. We'll touch on them in our review show next week. But I think the biggest match on the card is Chris Jericho versus Hangman Adam Page for the inaugural crowning of the AEW World Championship.
00:10:23
Speaker
Who are you picking in this one, Phil? Who do you think is going to go? I don't know. I really don't know. And I don't really understand. I guess this is just, there's really been no build up to this. Have you been watching the all of these? Been no build up. I mean, between the two of them. I mean, I guess it's just so far in between shows that it kind of, I mean, there's been so much wrestling on my mind and it hasn't been AEW because it's been a while since they've been on my radar.
00:10:48
Speaker
What's I mean, what is do you have been watching this all lead videos or whatever they're being the elite in my Opinion I think they're gonna go with Chris Jericho. Honestly, I think it's the smart decision I think you know having your world in
00:11:08
Speaker
like title holder be a former WWE world title holder. Um, you know, he's a household name amongst wrestling fans. So that's a huge draw whenever they go to TV. Um, you know, not that, you know, hangman's amazing. You know, we're fans of hangman page over here in the chick Foley house, but I just feel like in the grand scheme of things, when you're bringing a show, a product to television, you want that draw and you want that big name. So I don't see, I, I see Chris Jericho going over in this. What about you, Marco?
00:11:39
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I see Chris Jericho, uh, winning the title. Um, I love, uh, hangman page. I think he's definitely going to be a future superstar. Um, but yeah, he, it's not his time just because of the kickoff for the company and where they need to go. They need it. And like you said, uh, you know, a name to win that title. So I think it will be Jericho.
00:12:01
Speaker
He is a young upstart. So he's definitely carrying that title to where it needs to be. So yeah, even if he only carries it for a little while, I think that's the thing about Jericho. Like he doesn't have to have this long reign. I think it's just really to draw eyes and to get those initial numbers up, right? To get those ratings up. I think it's just, it's just one of those things. It's just a business decision. You know, I know I don't, I don't like to talk non kayfabe here all the time. You know, I like to,
00:12:30
Speaker
Just to spend my disbelief, but I think Chris Jericho is what's best for business in this situation moving on We're gonna go on to Kenny Omega versus pack So Kenny Omega was supposed to there's been this whole build-up with him and John Moxley You know for your fight for the fallen and you know double or nothing and all these things unfortunately, John Moxley is out with a severe case of staph infection in his
00:13:00
Speaker
in his elbow again. So this is something that has been reoccurring. This is something that he experienced before. Um, and it's back. And I know, I mean, you know, all, whatever you think about John Moxley, like this sucks. You know what I mean? And that's, that's a pretty serious injury that can spiral out of control without any kind of like attention to it. Or if you're not hospitalized for a while, a lot of football players get that.
00:13:22
Speaker
So, you know, for him to miss this match, it had to be pretty serious because it's, you know, this was announced, you know, two, three weeks before the event went down. So, I mean, it's a pretty good replacement, though. Obviously, Pac was supposed to be on the first show, had some sort of visa issue, and wasn't he supposed to... Creative differences. Oh, is that what it was? Okay, it was always rumors.
00:13:43
Speaker
Yeah, there was different stories going around like it was a visa issue But then you know it came out that there was creative differences between you know him and the company or whatever But I mean so let's be real kitty omega versus pack is gonna tear the house down. It's gonna be awesome It's gonna be a great match these guys are going to put on a hell of a show And you're just gonna have to take it for what it is like it's gonna be a great a great bout of wrestling But there's no story nobody's invested in this right because there's no story. There's no I
00:14:09
Speaker
um there's no build to this it's just literally like a plug-and-play situation where they like you know john moxley's out who can we put in they put they put pack in which was probably the best choice in this situation like i'm not gonna lie um they they probably made the best decision with what they had available but um yeah it's it kind of just kills a little bit of the buzz because i mean in all honesty it'll probably end up being a better
00:14:32
Speaker
match, like technical match than Kenny Omega versus Jon Moxley. But again, it's just a shame that all of that build and all of those, you know, all and Jerry and him actually getting to make his like pay-per-view debut, you know, because Fight for the Fallen was not a paper. It was a free event. You know what I mean? And he has he hasn't gotten to fight like on a paid pay-per-view yet. So it kind of sucks that, you know, this this took him out of
00:14:58
Speaker
out of that. So sending all of our love out to John Moxley, hopefully he gets better. Because like you said, it is a serious thing. It's not something just to be taken lightly. It's extremely contagious. So it's like one of those things like he can't. I mean, he just can't.
00:15:12
Speaker
Yeah, I can't risk it, you know. Yeah, and we've criticized, and people have criticized AEW for so far just being kind of exhibition matches, and this doesn't help because there's no build to this, but I think once this TV show starts, once they get into weekly storylines, hopefully that's going to change.
00:15:29
Speaker
We talked before the show, I mean, when you run down this card, it's a good card. All the AEW shows have been good cards on paper, and they've been pretty fire matches, but it's getting to get a little repetitive when you see a Darby Allen, Jimmy Havoc, Joey Janelle match, and these guys have been in matches already together and tag team matches together, and it's just, all three of them are good wrestlers.
00:15:51
Speaker
It's just getting to the point, Lucha Bros versus Young Bucks again at this time in a ladder match, I think it is. It's going to be an awesome match, but at some point, you're going to have to increase the number of people on these shows because once you add titles to this, you can't have the same four people just rotating back and forth between the title matches. It's just going to get monotonous after a while, and I'm sure they know that.
00:16:15
Speaker
yeah you know i mean cody roads came out and like announced that they they have only announced um you know for like they they've been doing like periodic announcements throughout the the the months you know saying who's signed to um
00:16:27
Speaker
to AEW and he said at this point there's only about 40% of the roster has been announced. So I mean I don't know when they plan on like you know having a full roster if they're trying to plan on having it before October because that's going to be a lot of growth and a lot of movement in a short period of time. But you know like you said they really have depth problems.
00:16:47
Speaker
um at this moment because yeah it's a good card like there's there's enough to have an enjoyable show but to have a weekly television show and to put i don't know how often they're going to put on paper use going forward you know um whether it's going to be monthly or every couple of months like it like it's been recently um but yeah they're going to have to get a deeper a deeper roster and again like i'm sure i'm sure they know that
00:17:08
Speaker
I'm probably most excited for this private party versus the Angelico and Jack Evans match, because those are four dudes. I mean, pretty similar to Lucha Bros and the Young Bucks. I mean, it's just going to be an awesome flying around spot fest, I mean, with those four guys. And they might not have the biggest names. I mean, private party made a name for themselves at that last show. But that's going to be a really fun match to watch. Yeah, it'll be on the buy-in, which is the IAW's pre-show.
00:17:37
Speaker
pre-show so um you know i think that's a good way like we talked about before like everybody tries to crap on the pre-show and like why is this on the pre-show even in even in wwe like i can't believe that mattress on the pre-show but like the pre-show the pre-show's intention is to like get you hype for the actual show you know and get people who may be on the fence about buying it or maybe on the fence about watching the show to actually watch it so yeah it will be a lot of fun um what about this cody versus shawn spears do you think this is going to be like
00:18:05
Speaker
the culmination of this kind of build up in this feud or do you think we're just getting started with Cody versus Sean?
AEW and WWE Storylines
00:18:12
Speaker
I think then Cody at the end will give a little speech and then they'll tag next time he gets a young buck. Just keep doing the same story. No, I mean, this one probably has the best buildup as far as month over month and over a couple of shows and some of the social media stuff. I'm not super excited about Sean Spears. He never did anything for me in WWE. I mean, the gimmick was kind of cool, but he's just kind of a basic rest. He's just never has done anything for me.
00:18:39
Speaker
But it'll be a good, you know, probably a bloody match. I would assume this is going to be kind of similar to his match with his brother. I think it's going to be kind of just a brawl, right? Yeah, I would think so. You know, I mean, I don't know. I don't know how bloody they'll get after all the controversy between, you know, with the chair shot, the infamous chair shot. But like you said, I think I think it's going to be a good match. What do you think, Marco? I think it'll be good. Like you said, it'll be like a blood match, essentially.
00:19:10
Speaker
I think, I mean, I think Sean Spears might take the win on this one for some reason. I don't know why. Um, but actually my reason is I think they, they want to put him over as much as possible. Um, so I think Cody will, you know, hopefully take the fall for in the, in the first round. Anyway, I think they may have like a trilogy of matches, um, just like, and the feud off that way. Cause they were friends and stuff like that. And they can build off of this, this first match here. But yeah, I think, uh,
00:19:39
Speaker
I think it'll be actually a really good match. He's a great storyteller meeting Cody, Sean Spears. You guys can hate on Sean Spears all you want, but he pulled the ultimate win this weekend.
00:19:59
Speaker
Peyton Royce. I mean, I know, I know, I know the heel husband's heart was broken this weekend because there was a lot, there was a lot of love in the air, you know, and I know my husband loves me more than anything, but I know that he loves him some Becky Lynch and he loves him some Peyton Royce and both of them got scooped up this weekend. So I know like a little part of his heart was just like,
00:20:20
Speaker
He's got the best catch of all. It's all water under the bridge. But yeah, props to Sean Spears and Peyton Royce, whatever her real name is, to tie in the knot. So that's pretty cool to see. We talked about Lucha Bros and Young Bucks. I mean, this is going to be...
00:20:36
Speaker
At what point does, you know, how many matches does Cody and the young folks have to win in a row before, you know, the fan, these diehard fans of AEW start complaining that they always, you know, they're getting the Roman Reigns treatment or something because, um, I don't, I mean, I guess if you're going to have this continue on, you let the Lucha Bros win and then you make, I guess you're going to do a tech, you're doing the tag team tournament starting with the TV show in October. So yeah.
00:21:03
Speaker
yeah i would i would say the lucha brothers are gonna are gonna retain here with the you know the triple-a tag team championships uh and then the young bucks i think they're gonna really make their make their presence known in in the aew when those are announced the aew tag tag division so um it's gonna be a good match i mean it's gonna be a lot of fun it's gonna be you know a lot of near falls
00:21:24
Speaker
and all of that, just like we expect. But it's going to be a lot of fun to watch. But I'm in for it. So you guys are all watching it on Saturday, or are you guys going to be watching on delay? I don't know. I was probably going to go to Jimmy's Famous Seafood. They're showing it on the TVs there with a couple of buddies and watch it there. I have a wine tasting in the afternoon, so it's going to be interesting. So posh. No, no. I'm pouring it. I'm not drinking it.
00:21:52
Speaker
Yeah, so we'll see what goes on there, but I mean that's the place to watch it because I'm not spending 50 bucks on this again. Even though I think it's going to be a good card, I'm excited about it. I'm not too excited about Reho versus Akira Shido, whatever that is, some of the other matches.
00:22:11
Speaker
The first Battle Royale match was awful. It was just a waste of talent. I'm not too excited about this Dark Order match. I think that's a slap dick gimmick that just needs to, if you want to be taken seriously, you need to turn this into more of a fiend thing and not a whatever this is because it's awful. And where's MJF on this card?
00:22:32
Speaker
Um, I have a feeling we might see MJF in the Cody and Sean match, you know, cause they, they tagged, um, Sean and MJF tagged together last time at visit fighter fest or fight for the fall. And I get them mixed up. I think it was fighter fest, the most recent or.
00:22:48
Speaker
Yeah, but anyway him and him and Sean Spears tagged together and then you know They were kind of like on the outs and stuff So I think there may be some sort of interference here and that may be where Cody goes over, you know MJF might come and you know Send Cody over Sean Spears. So who knows but that is your a ew quick answer
00:23:07
Speaker
quick review for All Out. I'm excited. I think it's going to be a good show. But also on that day, we have NXT TakeOver Cardiff, which comes on before the All Out pay-per-view.
NXT Moves to USA Network
00:23:20
Speaker
So what are your thoughts? What match are you most looking forward to, Marco? Probably Walter and Tyler Bate, definitely. I was watching. Walter is amazing. I'm not sure if anyone's seen him last week.
00:23:35
Speaker
Pull off that six one nine Yeah, so the one the running joke was I forget who was all they go back and look but they made a joke that Ray Mysterio's son was doubling as Walter So so he actually he obviously he caught wind of this and
00:24:03
Speaker
And it was at a show he pulled off a 619 because someone brought it to the guy he faced, brought it up about him being Dominic. And he actually pulled it off pretty sweet for a big guy. A giant guy. But he actually did it. And it was great.
00:24:20
Speaker
That's awesome. Yeah. I'm going to have to check that out. Um, you know, admittedly with being, you know, solo parenting and having, you know, my parents coming and visiting and things like that, I have not been able to keep up with NXT, um, UK, but you know, like I said, I'm definitely watching the, the pay-per-view because it's going to be freaking awesome. Um, I think we see some, sorry to interrupt you. I apologize. I think we see some WWE superstars. I know there's rumors that Cesaro is going to make an appearance.
00:24:45
Speaker
Yeah, he's actually confirmed he's making appearance. Oh, cool. That's news to me. I must have happened today. Cool. Yeah. In the post-raw interview, he was going to China to do some promotional work, and he said, I'm going to stop by Cardiff and maybe get a more hands-on approach. So he's basically confirming. He didn't say, I'm going to be at
00:25:07
Speaker
you know, NXT, Cardiff, he just said he was going to Cardiff and it was gonna be a hands-on approach. So, I mean, I can only take that to mean one thing. So, I'm curious as to where he will get involved in this. And that's something that, you know, we're gonna talk about here in a minute with NXT going to USA on Wednesday nights. Like, are we gonna see more main roster talent kind of like intermingling into the NXT universe?
00:25:33
Speaker
You know, they're already kind of making it happen with Cesaro going over there. So I'm interested to see how that plays out. But we'll keep talking about this card. I'm actually really excited for Dave Mastiff versus Joe Coffee. I think that is going to just be a freaking slobber knocker of a match. I mean, these guys are awesome.
00:25:55
Speaker
I think Dave Mastiff is just like, his name says it all. He's like a huge. Yeah, he's a beast. A huge dude. So I'm super excited. And then Joe Coffey's match with Pete Dunn at Blackpool was just amazing. So I'm excited to see these guys go head to head.
00:26:15
Speaker
I wonder if these guys are ever going to get elite figures from Mattel. I don't know if they'll have to show up on to NXT proper or show up to the main roster or whatnot. But it'd be cool to maybe fantasy book some of these figures, because they've got some cool dudes over here, especially Tony Storm and Rhea Ripley. Oh, yeah. We've seen a Tyler Bate and a Pete Dunn figure.
00:26:38
Speaker
But it'd be pretty interesting especially with you know There's some hardcore fans over there that don't get figures as easily as we do be cool to see them get a first crack at some of these things and Change the title a little but yeah that that's a match. I'm looking forward to people people I guess not shitting on this card because it's the thing is going to compete with I think it's just in place to compete with AEW and
00:27:02
Speaker
But I mean, this is at like two or three in the afternoon, right? If they really wanted to, they could just tape delay this fucking thing and just play it at the same time as AEW. I mean, I would have done that with or without the AEW show because don't you want this more as like a seven or eight o'clock prime time thing? I always wonder that when like, you know, baseball playoff games are like three in the afternoon, like just push it to the evening. I'm sure you get way more eyeballs on it. You know, people are doing stuff on Saturday after Sunday afternoons, whatever day it's on.
00:27:31
Speaker
For sure, but that's the beauty of the network. You can literally just watch it at your disposal whenever you're ready. It's funny that you say that because I'm so used to watching things at like two or three in the afternoon that it doesn't even phase me. I'm like, yeah, cool. We got a pay-per-view at two in the afternoon. Nowadays when I have to watch something at eight o'clock at night, I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to be up until midnight. This is insane.
00:27:56
Speaker
But yeah, there was a lot of speculation that WWE just put this show just because AEW announced its show on August 31st that NXT just put this show just to go head to head with it. And maybe they did, but I mean, like I said, I mean, you have to be careful what you wish for. You go up against the machine, the machine's gonna.
00:28:17
Speaker
pump out the competition, you know? There you go. Yeah. I mean, it's a cool day for wrestling and it's cool that people can watch both of them. So yeah, even if I can't watch them live, I'm definitely going to be watching this one the next day. And like you said, it's the best part of the network, but I'm really hoping to catch the
00:28:33
Speaker
AW show live from Jimmy's Famous Seafood. They show all the every wrestling pay-per-view there and you can just have some cold beverage to eat some good food and all that stuff. So the biggest news besides those two events this weekend is the the news that we broke here on the show months ago, I feel like. That NXT was going to pop up on primetime television opposite of
00:28:56
Speaker
AEW on Wednesday nights. I thought it was going to be on FS1. That's what I was hearing. But it looks like it's going to be on USA Network, which is probably a better spot for it. There's way more eyeballs, more people have USA. But I know some of you guys are mixed. We'll go around the table here. I'm all for this. I think this needs to happen. They need two hours. I'm not scared of it watering down the product or whatever. I think you've got enough people on NXT where you can
00:29:22
Speaker
still have people not wrestling every single week. I'm sure they'll start out with all their main players coming on the show every single week, but I think it needs to be seen by more people because Raw and SmackDown just for years have not given any love to NXT until guys get called up. I mean, I don't know if you saw Raw this week, but there was zero fucking reaction to the Viking Warriors coming out.
00:29:48
Speaker
at all during that gauntlet match. I mean, the crowd was dead silent and they're trying to keep them looking strong. But this is a good way to legitimize these guys before they show up on Raw and SmackDown. And I think it's gonna be, it's awesome for wrestling fans. We get even more quality wrestling on primetime free television.
00:30:08
Speaker
Yeah, you know, I go I go back and forth in my head, you know, I like the logical side of me is like, yes, this NXT is going to make a metric boatload of money by going to USA. Right. So, you know, WWE and the talent and everyone. I'm sure there's there's a big payday for all these guys, everyone involved, which is super awesome. Like, you know, I don't want to crap on anyone's payday. But also like part of me is like I love
00:30:35
Speaker
Like I love NXT so much and I've loved I love it the way that it is that like I'm like very I'm protective over it You know, I don't want it to change. I don't want You know, I don't want this new format like two hours, but there's gonna be so many more ads Which you know is to be expected if you're on USA, I mean they gotta they gotta pay the bills, right? So they gotta run ads Yeah, I'm so you're gonna get like half an hour of freaking commercials and you know, you might get an extra half an hour of wrestling but like
00:31:04
Speaker
I don't, I don't know how I feel about that. The potential is there for really cool things. I was listening to another show last week and they were talking about how it would be cool, you know, like WWE and NXT, like do like an invasion angle and all these things. Like the potential is there for some really cool stuff that we've never seen before, but also like, I don't care to see anything I haven't seen before because I love what I'm seeing right now so much that why, why would I want it to change? Marco.
00:31:31
Speaker
I'm actually with Phil on this and I'm all for this. I think it's a great move for NXT mainly because we always say I'd see guys they show up on and gals they show up on the main roster and they end up getting lost in the shuffle Right now they'll have their own show. They'll be able to showcase their own talents My man dream is gonna probably be the main star of it I think he's gonna be like the guy that they push the most and
00:32:00
Speaker
I'm calling that right now. I think he has the star potential to carry that show himself. But then you have like the undisputed error that can get their shine for two hours. And like, just think of all the segments that they can do like for two hours. And the other thing is, I don't think anyone really thought of, I don't listen to any like other podcasts or shows, but you may see NXT matches on WWE pay-per-views, kind of like how they do with 205 Live. So you may see a featured match from NXT on like a,
00:32:29
Speaker
Clash of Champions or Survivor Series or Royal Rumble, things like that. Besides just having their own pay reviews, they may be showcased on the main product, but not in that capacity where they're intermingling with the main roster, they're doing their own thing.
00:32:44
Speaker
So true true. But what is that? But if we have if we have matches from NXT going to the the main roster pay peruse, like where does that leave takeover? Right. Like takeover is usually just like a handful of like amazing matches. And I feel like if you like start taking picking picking those away and picking away the good ones that you want to go to like SummerSlam or, you know, Survivor Series or any of those bigger pay peruse, it's like what's going to happen to take over then, you know? Yeah. I mean, you just give a taste, you give like
00:33:14
Speaker
One-off match you know like multiple matches all night or maybe it's like maybe one NXT match every other pay-per-view or every couple pay-per-views or maybe assume on the main pay-per-views not like the ones in between just like the WrestleMania as you showcase your NXT stars and like I said your Survivor Series Royal Rumble SummerSlam like I think you can I think I think it'll work for them if they if they do it that way and
00:33:39
Speaker
For sure, for sure. And like I said, I'm all for it. I love that it's competition. I was reading something recently about how WWE basically just like,
00:33:50
Speaker
you know, they, they always are a step ahead. You know what I mean? Like as much as we like to crap on WWE and like, you know, be like, Oh, they're like old school and you know, they're, they're, you know, they don't know the new product and all this stuff. Like they basically like, like made AEW, they, they compared AEW to their developmental talent. Do you know what I mean? Like they're like, Oh no, we're not going to put you up against our real shows. We're going to put you up against our developmental show, you know, and we're still going to beat you with our developmental talent that isn't even main roster.
00:34:20
Speaker
Talent, you know, so they basically just like they basically dunked on AEW like no No Like we're not gonna put like raw or smack down up against you like, you know, you guys aren't you guys aren't on that level We'll put NXT up against you and see how you do
00:34:33
Speaker
Yeah, it's like saying something without saying something, and it's just been annoying. I watch AW, I'm not, I criticize them as much as I criticize some of the things WWE does, but there was a video that came out with Cody and the Young Bucks at a table when they were talking about what to do now that Moxley's injured.
00:34:53
Speaker
and it was just like shot on like a Nokia flip phone or something just awful awful sound quality it was fucking awful and one of them was like well let's just do a triple threat match for the title you know we'll just throw them in there and one of them was like oh that's what the WWE would do let's not do that stupid shit or something like just like come on man like you're never gonna
00:35:13
Speaker
just, you know, I don't know, just like making fun of somebody else's house doesn't make your house look any better. You know, like, yeah, you know, just focus on your shit because, you know, what I've seen from you guys has been good, not great. And, you know, it just gets that's what that's what their fans want. Probably they want to hear, you know, people, you know, them shitting on WWE because they think it's cool. But, you know, it's just not it's not going to get you to where you need to be. True. But I just feel like, like,
00:35:43
Speaker
I feel like NXT audience and AEW audience are the same people, right? So they're the hardcore fans. They're not your just regular, you know, USA TV watchers who like casually watch Ron Smackdown. Like you have to have a network subscription to watch NXT. You know, NXT people are our hardcore fans. Um, and they're the same people that watch AEW and vice versa.
00:36:06
Speaker
So my thing is, is like on Wednesday night, like what are you going to watch? So how long is the, how long is the AEW show going to be? Is it an hour or two hours? Do you know? I think it's, I think they're both two hours. Pretty sure. Yeah. So that's, so that's four hours of wrestling on a Wednesday night. You know what I mean? Like, are you going to, like, I can barely get through like all overall, like, and just be like, oh my God, like, and feel good about it. I can't imagine sitting through,
00:36:34
Speaker
four hours of wrestling. You know what I mean? And then we have, we're going to have Smackdown. So where does this leave Smackdown? Smackdown is going to get shit on. I feel like, you know, cause we're going to be like, awesome. We're going to watch raw on Monday. That's three hours of television. We're going to watch AEW and NXT on Wednesday. That's four hours of television. Now we're like, Oh shit. At the end of the week, we got two more hours of wrestling. You know what I mean?
00:36:54
Speaker
Yeah, and there's rumors that they want to go to three hours for SmackDown. And I can definitely see it. Oh my god, please no. I know. That would be awful. But we're going to talk about what we're going to do on this show, because it's going to mess up everything that we do.
Impact of New Wrestling Schedules
00:37:10
Speaker
Obviously, we record here on Wednesday nights. And if we do that, we're going to miss AEW and NXT. And we're not going to get to watch SmackDown.
00:37:19
Speaker
So we don't know. People have been messaging us, messaging me at least. I don't know if they've asked you guys, but we're going to figure something out if it means breaking the episodes down into two separate episodes and doing something right after Raw and then over the weekend maybe could work. Yeah. We're flexible, guys. We go with the flow. We will figure it out. Don't you worry about that.
00:37:44
Speaker
But yeah, it is crazy like how the landscape of wrestling has changed is changing. You know what I mean? Like, and it's just it's exciting and it's awesome. And, you know, I know people are probably listening to this and be like, oh, my gosh, you know, complaining about.
00:37:57
Speaker
too much wrestling like having four hours here but i mean guys like that that is a lot of your life and a lot of time and a lot of things you know that you are sitting down and watching wrestling and focusing on um you know and especially like late at night like you know people got jobs and people got things they got to go to and you know people got events and things especially on friday night like
00:38:18
Speaker
Yeah, you know I got football I need to watch too. I mean I got other TV shows, you know, oh my god Yeah, I forgot football seasons coming up too So yeah, so we got football season and that's this is this is outside of like a pay-per-view So think about on a pay-per-view weekend Not only do you have all of that to to watch and digest you also have an NXT takeover to watch you also have a pay-per-view to watch and you then you're gonna have a W pay-per-views and you know, it is a
00:38:45
Speaker
It's it's awesome because you have the options, you know and not everybody you don't have to watch it all You know, I mean that's the thing I know we watch a lot of it because we do this show and it's part of what we do and you know We run wrestling accounts on social media and stuff like that But you know, I know that the average person probably isn't going to watch it all But it is cool that you do have have those options and you have the flexibility to watch what you want But at the same time like I'm like, holy
00:39:10
Speaker
Moly like now you have to make those decisions. I think I don't think you don't think there's any way that you can watch it all Yeah, I mean people have to pick for sure what they record and what they watch on Wednesday nights So we'll see, you know, it's interesting. Yeah, I mean this it's a good problem to have There's a problem to have yeah, it is a good problem to have and I feel like all of the all of the products are
00:39:32
Speaker
Have been elevated by this you know we've seen it. We've seen the elevation with raw and smackdown in recent weeks like how good the shows have been you know and we haven't been able to say that God and you know months and months and months like I don't I can't remember a time since we started this podcast that we've been able to be like oh my god Rob is so amazing right and then like the last few weeks we've had some really really awesome episodes of
00:39:55
Speaker
Overall and Smackdown and some really good pay-per-muse and stuff like that. So it is a good problem to have But it's just like it's it's crazy. You know what's going on in wrestling right now And I feel like it's only gonna get
00:40:06
Speaker
bigger and broader and there's there for all the new japan marks there's a new japan show like royal quest or something like that this is happening on saturday too so there's three shows on saturday you know so i don't even keep up with you know new japan for the most part because i just i literally just cannot fit it into my life at the moment um so yeah think about if you're like wwe aw and you watch new japan and ring of honor or whatever the hell else you watch you know
00:40:32
Speaker
Before we get into Raw and SmackDown, like you talked about earlier, we got to give congrats and mazel tov to Seth and Becky getting engaged. That was probably the biggest news of the last week. Peyton Royce and Shawn Spears getting married. I didn't even know about this. Finn Balor got married?
00:40:49
Speaker
Yeah, Finn Balor got married to his girlfriend, fiancรฉ. She's a reporter. I can't remember what she reports on, but anyway, she's some sort of reporter, broadcaster. Her name's Veronica Rodriguez, but yeah, they got married in a private ceremony and there was like a
00:41:05
Speaker
um the only picture i've seen from it is the picture that i posted on instagram it's like a picture like that looks like they got married at some sort of like really nice resort or like you know um like wedding venue somewhere it's like really like green like in a jungle and you can see fin and his wife down there um you know getting getting married and like there's no one around it's actually a really you know really cool picture but um yeah congrats to all love is love is in the air i was asking on instagram who
00:41:30
Speaker
Um, who people thought were the next people that were going to walk down the aisle because, you know, obviously the wedding bug is, it's happening. You got permission to post that photo? I think so. I don't know. Uh, it was a private ceremony. So, you know, the internet, I don't, I don't know what the Instagram internet rules are these days. So we'll see.
00:41:48
Speaker
I also want to give props to one of our Twitter followers, gdubs at gdubs collects, who had a young baby this, uh, this week. So, uh, congrats to him. New addition to the Foley family. So, uh, little babies being born. Yeah. Who would have thought me? Oh, Sheena would, would be such, such a mom. Such a softy, such a softy, such a softy.
00:42:15
Speaker
But yeah, let's talk about really quickly, let's talk on Raw and SmackDown. It wasn't a whole lot happened on Raw and SmackDown, but there were some developments that took place. I think the main one from Raw is that we officially have, and we didn't get to talk about this last week because we weren't on the show, but Braun Strowman and Seth Rollins became the new Raw Tag Team Champions. And then this week, there was a new development where Braun is now challenging Seth Rollins for his Universal.
00:42:45
Speaker
title. So not only at Clash of Champions are they going to defend the tag titles, they're also going to go head to head and fight for the universal title. This was a very polarizing topic among the marks. Some people were like, cool, I'm into it. I'm down for it. And other people were like,
00:43:07
Speaker
This is the worst. So I'm interested to hear what you guys think about, one, um, Braun and Seth being a tag team and going against another makeshift tag team in Bobby Roode and Dolph Ziggler. Um, and then two, like them turning, like using the tag titles as like a mechanism for Braun to get a title shot for the universal title.
00:43:30
Speaker
I think
00:43:46
Speaker
Cool in this role where he's not like just a quiet shit kicking heel and he's not like a super baby face He's kind of in between. Yeah, I don't expect him to win the title but I expect something to happen in this match to you know, at least be interesting and He's better over the last couple weeks. Like he's been a lot quicker I feel like I don't know like just he's moving around a lot better I don't know if his knees or his back is better and what was ailing him before but I
00:44:13
Speaker
Um, you know, it's something different. And, um, the announcers told us about 4,000 times that this is the, the first time ever that we've had, you know, two tag team champs defending and also wrestling for the main, whatever title, who cares. But yeah, on the same, on the same night. Yeah.
00:44:31
Speaker
Yeah, I picked our retro wrestling recommendation based on on that theory because um, you know It's not the first time that it's it's happened essentially, but it's like yeah I guess it's the first time it's happened like in on on the same night and I agree with you brawn He looks a lot better in recent weeks and months. Actually, I mean even his stuff with bobby lashley I feel like they've done a really good job of rebuilding him because brawn was kind of like in this like
00:44:54
Speaker
weird place where like I felt like WWE for a long time didn't know what they were doing with him. They didn't know what, like, what kind of character he was. And he was just kind of like lost in the shuffle. And it was kind of sad because I mean, I don't, I don't dislike Braun. I don't think he's the most interesting character and not to feel like he's lost a little bit of his luster as far as like being the monster among men. But I do feel like they've, they've done a good job of rebuilding his character up into this point. And I mean, I definitely think that a Braun
00:45:21
Speaker
title run is long overdue. I mean, he's definitely deserved it. Um, but we'll see, you know, we'll see what happened to cluster champions. I don't, I don't foresee him, you know, dethroning Seth this soon, you know? No, no, I don't, I don't think so either, but I think something interesting will happen. And I think this could lead us to new tag team champions. You talked about rude and, uh, Ziegler who, uh, where there was zero explanation why the fuck they were a tag team. What?
00:45:51
Speaker
I'm so confused. I mean, I've made my opinion known on this show more than once that like, I do not like just bull crap tag teams. Like I don't like when two guys, I mean, yeah, you can have like a tag match and just pair people up. I mean, WWE is notorious for that. You know, yeah, you guys are going to fight in a tag match tonight, right? But to call people a tag team and to enter these guys.
00:46:12
Speaker
in a tag team turmoil match, which is essentially just a gauntlet match, but they called it something else for some odd reason. I don't, I don't understand why. Um, they like have all these tag teams and you basically just buried them. And I don't use that term very often because I think it's like one of the most overused terms among wrestling fans, like, oh, he's getting buried. But they did. They just buried all of the tag teams on an already like struggling.
00:46:38
Speaker
tag team division. You know what I mean? Um, it's just, it doesn't make any sense to me. I heard them referred to on another show as, um, Rudolph the red nose tag team. So it's like, you know, Rudolph, I was like, Oh, like that's actually pretty good. I don't know who came up with that, but that's actually pretty good. Um, but yeah, I, I don't understand why these guys are together and,
00:47:00
Speaker
and they're going against two other guys that don't belong together. So I'm just like so confused. What do you think Marco? What is like, what are you, what are you thinking about the tag division in raw right now? Um, I do. Um, I just, I was more in shock that Seth Rollins and Bronson would actually won the titles that I'd even actually really think about it at all. But, uh, I just, I just don't think that's,
00:47:27
Speaker
The tag team division is like a focus at all, really. Obviously. Yeah, it just seems like it's like you said, makeshift teams all the time. It's never like an established team. I think the last time they really had like something going was like New Day and the Usos and they had the revival going for a little bit. But it just seems like they just get bored with like actual tag teams.
00:47:51
Speaker
And they go, you know, let's just throw two guys together and see what happens. They actually, the other thing I actually liked them as a tag team rooted Ziggler. I thought they actually did because they're both heels. Yeah. They're doing like hellish things and they kind of clicked well together. It was really weird. It wasn't like, yeah, it was weird seeing them together, but they actually like, they did a good job as a tag team, which is kind of mind blowing, but
00:48:16
Speaker
just because we're together like that. I thought they, I mean, I think Bobby Rood, he's good with the tag team. He was good with Gable. You know, I think, I think, you know, he, he can wrestle with anyone. We know Dolph is amazing, but yeah, just to like put these guys together with no explanation was just like mind boggling. And, um,
00:48:33
Speaker
I don't know I mean they had a good match but it was just like you're gonna tell me that these guys are gonna beat heavy machinery like an established tag team that has been together fighting for you know however however long and then they're just gonna like you know basically like squash them you know I mean it was a decent match but I mean
00:48:51
Speaker
Come on. How about having a tag team that's been on NXT forever announced them as the eighth team? Like, why wasn't Street Profits in this thing? You had eight teams, you couldn't even get Street Profits in? Well, when are they gonna wrestle?
00:49:06
Speaker
The Street Profits, yeah, they made mention to that in their little backstage segment. They were like, you could tell, they were like, why aren't we in this? But they weren't. And I thought, I was thinking, maybe after they dropped that little hint that maybe they're going to come out. But no, no, no, they didn't. It was strange.
00:49:28
Speaker
I guess I'm excited to see what happens at Clash of Champions. I don't feel like Dolph Ziggler and Bobby Roode are going to beat Seth and Braun. They're 100% going to beat them. What are you talking about?
00:49:39
Speaker
You think they are? Yes. Here's exactly what's going to happen. They're going to beat them. Or something's going to happen where Braun turns heel and leaves the ringside area, a la Sid Vicious or something, or turns on Seth and they lose the titles. And then you have that the main event becomes a face versus heel match. I mean, that's the only way you can do it, right?
00:50:04
Speaker
I guess so. I don't know. I'm just going to watch it and, you know, take my take what they're giving me. And I'm going to be glad that I have the ability to watch wrestling on on Sundays. But the other big thing was Sasha Banks coming out and giving this weird promo.
Raw Storylines & Critiques
00:50:23
Speaker
I was watching it and I was thinking, like, this is going to be good.
00:50:26
Speaker
And then it just slowly progressed into like not being good. You know, she just, it's like they're trying to make it real, like, you know, make her promo like kayfabe or not kayfabe, but it's just like, it just didn't, it just didn't click. You know what I mean? There was like something there that was just like missing. It was very, and she's normally really good on the mic, but I just felt like it was very rigid and kind of like she felt like she was very scripted.
00:50:52
Speaker
Well, she's shit all over the tag, the women's tag team division. Oh my God. Buried the fuck out of it. I made, I made a note of that. Like I was like, I was, as I was listening to it, I was like, Oh my God, I have to make a note of this because she legitimately just like shit all over it. Like, I mean, not just like, you know, said, Oh, you know, like I lost the tag team titles and I don't care. Like it was like titles that are irrelevant and don't even matter. And I never even cared about, I was like, Oh, what?
00:51:21
Speaker
like oh my god here you are trying to get these i mean i guess they're not really trying to get them um established because i mean they've like you know they gave them to the iconics which was kind of more of a comedy act and now they have bliss and nicki cross and
00:51:34
Speaker
It's you know, it is what it is. But but yeah, yeah, she crapped right on him. Yep. Took a nice big steamy dump right on the women's tag bills. And then she basically admitted that she was on the floor crying after WrestleMania that they lost the titles or, you know, basically, you know, why would you ever like as a heel? Why are you like like bragging about being on the floor, you know, crying about the tag team like
00:52:02
Speaker
I think it was just I think it was just trying yeah trying to get us to like see where the evolution of this blue haired heel Sasha Banks came from you know what I mean like you know this is what caused me to snap and you know just and make all this stuff happen but yeah it was it was weird because I didn't know like you know she was talking about
00:52:23
Speaker
you know, uh, Natty. And then she was talking about Becky and I'm like, well, wait a minute. Can we focus here for a second? Like you're going against Becky Lynch. So like, why are you still messing with Natty? Like, what does Natty have to do with any of this? You know? Yeah, it was confusing for sure. Well, I mean, she fought Natty later that night, but still it wasn't, it was nice to have like a different start to raw. Yeah. Yeah. Just, you know, her coming out, her coming out. Um, we did have some king of the ring matches. We had,
00:52:51
Speaker
Ricochet versus Drew McIntyre, which was a really really good match. I thought I mean, that's the best I've seen Drew McIntyre look in a really long time Yeah, yeah, he's looked really good But I mean still losing and that was one of the you know between that and the alley and buddy Murphy matches are probably the two of the better matches of the week between the you know, the two shows but Fuck Drew McIntyre needs to be rebooted or something. Maybe make him show up to Cardiff, you know, like
00:53:18
Speaker
He needs something, man, because he was on a trajectory around WrestleMania and has just been, you know, just fallen to the wayside here. It's sad. I mean, he was my pick to win this King of the Ring tournament. We posted the updated bracket to the Patreon page just moments ago and loses in the first round. Like, what the fuck?
00:53:39
Speaker
Yeah, he got he got sucked into the Shane vortex. You know, there's no coming. There's no coming back from that. I mean, he just he was there was no no recovery, poor guy, because I mean, Drew McIntyre is one of those guys. He should be a top heel. But he was always in the shadow of Shane, who was like.
00:53:56
Speaker
Dominating both shows so yeah, I hope they give him a reboot and give him something new to do because I mean he definitely deserves it but Yeah, I mean I think ricochet is a favorite among a lot of people to win because I was asking
00:54:10
Speaker
who people wanted to win king of the ring and i mean i saw so many people say ricochet but i not that i don't want ricochet to win this because i don't want ricochet to win but i don't feel like this is a good thing for ricochet to win i feel like this is legitimately like a better gimmick for a heel character and i said i think i said it the week before last when we were recording like this is not this king of the ring gimmick does not do the way it's the way it's presented in 2019 does not do a baby face
00:54:37
Speaker
Any justice, you know what I mean? Like it's meant to be like a sniveling like thing, right? Yeah, exactly come down and be obnoxious and carry your scepter and wear your crown and sit on your throne and you know Just gloat and do all those things and those that is not Ricochet's gimmick, you know, I mean and I I don't didn't think I would say this but I could absolutely see King Corbin and
00:55:04
Speaker
Well, 100 percent. I mean, he almost needs to in my mind. I don't think he will. I think it's going to be Ricochet or Ali, but it doesn't make it. What do you do with them as as like in that role after it's over? Like, are you going to make them come down to the ring with that corny ass shit on like?
00:55:19
Speaker
exactly exactly like they don't need that they're good enough on their own that they don't need that you know i feel like when i saw um him when when baron corbin sat in that throne and he was kind of like you know cutting his little promo i was like oh my god like this like this looks legit like i could see this happening like every week for a while like him you know sitting on his throne and cutting a promo and you know wearing the crown like it's it's and i think it's a good way to kind of
00:55:46
Speaker
Reboot Baron Corbin because I've said it numerous times. I don't hate Baron Corbin I just hated what they were doing with them And you know what like like how they were like booking him and all those things I think Baron Corbin could be really awesome if given the chance cuz he's a freakin heat magnet You know I mean so much fucking heat man I love I love how much heat he has and I posted something today about like I posted a medium of like people just like falling asleep like a bunch of people like asleep in their chairs and like I
00:56:13
Speaker
I said which wrestler are these people watching and like 90% of the responses said Corbin I know but you know people I mean a lot of people are like oh it's like it's like go away heat it's like expo heat and I'm like you know to a certain degree I see that but I mean at the same time like
00:56:29
Speaker
It's not though. It's different. I feel like it's not just strictly go away heat. At least not in my opinion. I mean, maybe I'm wrong. I mean, I'm not the end all be all opinion of wrestling, but I feel like he really does draw. And I think he does a good job of like making a baby face, like a true baby face, you know?
00:56:48
Speaker
Yeah, no, 100%. I have no problem with him. I think, I mean, we need more people like him. I don't know if he's like just not appreciated because people, I don't know. Well, WWE loves him because they push the hell out of him. 100%. Yeah, they do.
00:57:03
Speaker
So they obviously see something in him that we don't. So yeah, that was pretty much all that happened on Raw. I'm kind of going through. Let me swing through here and make sure I'm not missing any big things. Marco, was there anything on Raw that you thought was noteworthy? I don't think there was anything else.
00:57:23
Speaker
Yeah, nothing nothing crazy. Just to be the 24 seven title. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Drake Maverick is, yeah, the 24 seven champion again. So hopefully he gets consummate his marriage. Done with that shit, man. It's fucking old now. Get ready.
00:57:40
Speaker
I don't hate it. I just. I don't hate it either. I just don't ever think like that is like it comes on. It's just like a funny little thing for a couple of seconds. But it's not like it's just lost its luster. I think you need to give it to like you just need to give it to like imagine Brock Lesnar with the thing and people trying like him to like flicking people off his back like, you know, yeah, just like a bad ass. I don't know.
00:58:02
Speaker
I do want to touch on something that our boy Marco brought up that Bray Wyatt being advertised for the universal title match at Hell in the Cell against whoever wins this Clash of the Champions match between Braun and Seth Rollins.
00:58:21
Speaker
I love this. I would love to see Bray get one more match in like maybe even on the pre-show at Clash of the Champions or something. I don't want to see him on any Raw. We've talked about this. I don't want to see him on TV. But give him a title. This is another good another like interesting opponent for Seth.
00:58:38
Speaker
my fantasy booking of this is you know have this burner match and have it so close the fiend is like dominating the entire match going back and forth and then at the very end he's about to win and then we get the demon.
00:58:53
Speaker
And we set up for maybe a Royal Rumble match between the two, or I don't know if you can stretch it all the way to WrestleMania. But the demon cost in the match. Finn Balor's been gone for a couple months. And then you make Bray look good. I mean, you can't make Bray lose, right? I mean, I'd love to see him win, but definitely can't see him lose. So here's my thing. I think it has to be some sort of schmaz or disqualification or something.
00:59:21
Speaker
I personally, I don't know why the fiend, like I want him to win and I want him to be dominant and I want him to assert his place in the roster and like be the, be the Bray Wyatt that we've always wanted. Um, but with this specific character, I don't know why he would care about being a champion. You know, like, I don't know how that connects, um, storytelling wise. I mean, I guess if you're a wrestler, you're always trying to be the champion, but I'm like, he's just like a psycho. Like he's like leather face.
00:59:51
Speaker
You know, um, so why does he care about being the universal champion? It's not, it's not for clout. It's not for bragging rights. Like he's just there to like destruct and dominate and like kill people. You know what I mean? So what does being a champion, like the universal champion, how does that help the fiend? Uh, you could say the same thing about the undertaker back in the day. It really doesn't make much sense why they would want the title, but you know, it makes an interesting opponent, you know,
01:00:19
Speaker
True. I mean, I, I would like to see this match, but at the same time, I'm just kind of like, I would rather just see him dominate for a while. And I mean, I guess eventually you have to win a title because that's just the whole, that's the whole purpose of being, you know, in the WWE is to, to hold titles and to, you know, be a champion and all of those things. But his, what we've seen of his character right now, it really doesn't resonate with me. Like why, like why he would even care, you know, like I've just felt like he's there to kind of like,
01:00:47
Speaker
Deconstruct the WWE and like kill legends, you know But yeah, that's exciting and I can't I mean I don't know if that was intentional an intentional leak to like sell more tickets or what it was Or if it was an accident if the people at you know, the what was it like golden one arena or something like that? Sacramento, but uh
01:01:08
Speaker
Sacked down if they were if they were suppo Yeah, what the kids are saying if they were supposed to tweet that out, but yeah, it is an interesting turn of events You know, I mean card is subject to change. So I mean nothing is nothing is permanent But that was interesting to see that that pop up moving on to smack down. Give me those hands, right? I know Kofi and Randy Orton continue their feud Kofi Randy Orton read a note from Kofi Sun
01:01:37
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know why it just like irritates me or bothers me that like the heels are like always like trying to like Like be menacing toward the baby faces family like what does that have to do with anything? Leave the families alone
01:01:55
Speaker
Um, it's like, it's just so weird to me, you know, like Samoa Joe with AJ Styles' family and then Roman's family and like all those things. And then now we have Randy Orton going to go visit Kofi's family at the hotel. And I'm like, this has nothing to do with why, with why Kofi is amazing. Like they've, they've completely spun this storyline around because it was supposed to be
01:02:16
Speaker
you know, we're behind Kofi because he's an underdog. He's fought for 11 years without, you know, really getting his due. And Randy Orton was the guy who like, you know, put a boot on his throat before and stopped his push. And like, that's why these guys are fighting. And now it's like, you know, Kofi's this family guy that we're all supposed to get behind. And I'm like, I don't, um, I don't know. It's just, it's just weird to me anytime they do that. But anyway, that ended up with them having a brawl.
01:02:45
Speaker
Kofi getting beat down and then Big E's gonna fight Randy Orton later in the night and Big E was like all business like he wasn't his like gyrating pancake throwing, you know Yeah, he was there he was there to fight which was which was really interesting to see you know, you don't get to see that side of Big E very often because I love Big E and I think Big E's do for a singles push himself
01:03:10
Speaker
Yeah, so it was cool to see him in that capacity just being like super, super serious. So that's still continuing to go on. Roman Reigns, finally, everybody wants an apology from Roman Reigns. Everybody's like, I'm not leaving here till Roman Reigns is he sorry? Oh my God, dang.
01:03:28
Speaker
You know, can we just like, you know, squash this off air, but like everybody's like, you know, taking over the the arena and they're not going to leave until until Roman Reigns gives them a public apology. But I don't understand that storyline. What is going on? Who was the guy that they found? Is he the one he's not the one that did it? Why does he look just like Eric Rowan? What is going on? No.
01:03:53
Speaker
Honestly, I don't think they know where this is going I think they had I think I think they had an idea like when it first started I think they were like, ooh, let's try to get Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns together Like to fight right cuz that'll be cool
01:04:07
Speaker
But then they were like, well, how are we going to get there? And then they've like, they've done the whole like, go around all the way around what could actually make this make sense and try everything. Um, and it's just, it's, it's awful. I mean, it's the storyline right now as it is, it's just, it's just terrible. What do you think, Marco? Yeah, I'm pretty much done. I wanted an apology from Daniel.
01:04:32
Speaker
and Eric ruins. Oh, one apology from all of them. Everybody, the whole SmackDown organization. I want to apology from all of them. It takes me back to the when the when Stone Cold got hit with a car and they kind of like. Yeah. Yeah. Rikishi. It was like it was like even if you listen to like something to wrestle, they said it was kind of like a we had to find somebody to
01:04:58
Speaker
say it was that person. It was Rikishi. So maybe it won't be Eric or maybe someone else. I don't know. I lost interest. It's bad. And did they and did they edit that that footage? Like, did they like Photoshop that footage? Because I did not see that the first time. And I don't know if maybe we just didn't see that angle.
01:05:17
Speaker
They cut off the top of it like the original they cut off like the top you couldn't see like okay I was like that is so obvious right there Like how could they not have like how could nobody have seen that like even like this? You know the internet would have seen that if that would have been shown during those hands, right? I need to run But yeah, is it I mean is it the guy that they found is it Rowan? I don't freaking know you know and then Daniel Bryan is
01:05:43
Speaker
turning into a complete like Ike Turner and just like beating the hell out of Rowan and saying like I hate liars and just like you know slapping him across the face I was like this is getting awkward you know and then Daniel Bryan charging the ring saying he had nothing to do with it like I have no idea what I'm supposed to feel or what I'm supposed to
01:06:05
Speaker
Like who I'm supposed to be believed that this is. I don't know. I'm just completely confused. I mean I'm sure we'll find out eventually maybe or they'll maybe they'll just drop it pretend like none of this never happened. But as it stands right now I feel like they're just they're just basically shooting in the dark just hoping that something something sticks. You know what I mean.
01:06:26
Speaker
Yeah, it's super convoluted. It's way too much. Just fucking get them in the ring and wrestle. I mean, it would have been perfect at SummerSlam if you could have moved on. I mean, I know Roman's in a squash, Daniel Bryan, whatever. So that's Raw and SmackDown. There were some promising things there next week. Yeah, your girl, your nasty girl came back. Did you see that? No, my nasty girl.
01:06:49
Speaker
Yeah, Lacey Evans, she made her reappearance against Bayley, which was okay. The match was just okay, but I thought you'd appreciate Lacey making her hurry. No butthole close-ups. That's the only bad part. Not this time, at least. Wait till Clash of Champions. That's the pay-per-view thing, yeah. Say that for the pay-per-view. That's the fiend. It's like the fiend.
01:07:12
Speaker
You only see it every month on the pay-per-view. All right, let's get into our go figure segment.
01:07:27
Speaker
and go figure is our weekly segment where Sheena, myself, and Marco let you know what wrestling figures we purchased, what memorabilia we purchased. Just whatever we spent our money on that didn't need to be spent. It could have been used for bills and food and things like that.
01:07:47
Speaker
School supplies. School supplies. Listen, these are an investment, okay? Just like baseball cards. They're an investment. Oh yeah, I got plenty of those. That was a terrible investment. So my haul this week was pretty light. We got our Becky Lynch, the man pop, finally. We canceled our Amazon. It just kept getting delayed and delayed and delayed. And finally they came available on WWE shop.
01:08:17
Speaker
and the heel husband got on there and pulled the trigger on that and it showed up so i was like wow this thing i ordered like back in i think it was like march when i pre-ordered that thing from amazon um i finally finally got it in hand i know dude i was like what the hell you know then i would see some people like getting them from amazon and mine's still like showing delay and i'm like you bastards um but we do have it now so
01:08:42
Speaker
You know, uh, that's awesome. And then we got, I can't remember if I mentioned this week before last or, you know, all the days run together, but we got elite 70, uh, from ringside. So we got complete set of elite 70. Oh, there's some dope figures in there that Johnny Gargano is just, I unboxed it live on Instagram. Um, it is just sick. He's like in his like venom gear from Brooklyn four. Uh, yeah, I, I love that figure so much.
01:09:06
Speaker
Marco, you have a hot take on Johnny Gargano. I want to hear it. I want the world to hear it, because I agree with it. Oh, my God. I did actually mention it on her live. I moderated it. I did an intern on her live. I did actually say Gargano is greater than Omega. And she immediately goes, what are you trying to say? I'm like, my live? What's wrong with you?
01:09:35
Speaker
Everything was going smooth. Everybody was like, oh yeah, that's an awesome figure. And then here comes the intern with the freaking slobber knocker from the left. I was like, oh shit. I'm here to state facts. Kenny Omega is not Kenny wrestling. His last name isn't wrestling. There's one Johnny wrestling, and he's a better wrestler. I'm going to say it.
01:09:59
Speaker
We didn't talk about this, but another of the benefits of NXT getting a bigger platform is you can leave Johnny Gargano on NXT for another couple years and just have him
01:10:17
Speaker
be the gatekeeper and have him have banger matches and make people look legitimate for years to come. I mean, I don't want to see him on 205 Live or beating the first round of the King of the Ring tournament. I want to see him, you know, putting on five star matches on takeovers every fucking couple of months. Like I want to see him, him and Champa fight forever. That's what I want to see.
01:10:41
Speaker
Leave him and Champa on NXT forever and just let them be, like you said, the gatekeepers. If Champa comes back for that first NXT on USA, just cancel it AEW, it's over, right? It's so true, I didn't even think about that. That's definitely what they're doing. I guarantee it. I don't even know why that hadn't even occurred to me, but that just made me so excited.
01:11:08
Speaker
They're going to do something. They're going to bring somebody back. Bring Lex Luger back like Mall of America style.
01:11:15
Speaker
True. Can you imagine the pop though? I mean, it's going to be insane, but yeah, getting back to things I wasted my money on this week. Um, I also got, um, I bought the, it wasn't for me, but I got the heel has been the new ravishing Rick Rude chalk line shorts. Oh my gosh. They're so awesome. They like remind me of like saved by the bill. You know, like they have a very, a very nineties, like early nineties vibe, um, about them. And, uh, then he also got his chalk line Ninja turtle shorts in this week. So other than that,
01:11:46
Speaker
I think that's all for this week. Pretty light haul. We're in the process of, like I said, going through. It's a slow process, because the heel husband's going through everything, and he's gone a lot. So he's going through, and he's purged. We have a whole bin of loose figures, like I said before, that we're getting rid of. So he's parceling those out, and then we'll start posting them here before long.
01:12:08
Speaker
to the Facebook, Patreon page, patreon.com, slash Chick Foley show. That's the one. Yeah, I'm excited about the Toyota-thon or whatever we're calling it, the Lucie-a-thon. Because, I mean, you're going to sell, like, what, 300 figures, loose figures? God. Yeah, at least. It's probably going to be over 300 figures, yeah. But like I said, the craziest thing about that is we're letting go of 300 figures, and we're still going to be over 500 deep.
01:12:37
Speaker
That's crazy. Yeah. I mean, it's I'm sure you have to you have to have it. I mean, I'm staring at around 200 or whatever it is on card. And I'm like, you know, I got to I've decided I have four shelves in my basement here and I'm not going to go any more than these four. So I need to make, you know, I'm going to whatever sparks joy is
Collecting Figures and Community Ethics
01:12:56
Speaker
going to be kept. So I've been. Yeah. I've been selling some stuff on the Facebook group to the people here and there just to get, you know, just to get some extra space for things. But yeah. Hey, you know what makes extra space?
01:13:07
Speaker
Uh, don't tell me. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. Whenever you take them out of the box, you have so much more space. Oh my god, you do. Oh, Mark, oh no, man. Mark, a whole new world. Yeah, you have room for so many more figures. That's why we can have 800 figures, because they're out of the box, you know? But yeah, like you said, it just gets to a point where you're just like, how many Rey Mysterio figures
01:13:33
Speaker
Do I need like can I have you know when you're a completionist you have to get it because it's like? You can't you can't just not get it because it's just it's just in your mentality It's always gonna be that tick mark that you didn't check off You know so we had to like let go of the completionist mentality because we're like okay like well Let's just let's just use the figures that we're gonna enjoy you know yeah, yeah, oh man Marco what what did you pick up? over the last a couple weeks here since we last recorded I
01:14:03
Speaker
So obviously the rock Pick up that bad boy from our from our buddy Mike Lanham hooked me up with that one there Picked up a pat actually found a pat patterson, which is insane. That's awesome I Did I'm not a completionist but for some reason the elite 70 I'd seem like I needed all of them and
01:14:33
Speaker
I don't know why. So you got you got the bug. You got the bug. Well, yeah, even that in that collection, like there's something about all those figures that like, I don't know, unique and it's something with Vince McMahon when he's a part of a collection. I think it's I think it says something about the collection. It's like they're throwing Vince McMahon in the middle of these guys. So yeah, I love I love that Vince McMahon figure is so dope.
01:14:59
Speaker
that and um oh yeah the uh so the uh fashion police they were part of the oh yeah um the game shop five dollar sale um and i will say that they are they're definitely i posted bail and they're definitely out of those uh those classic presents just flying high they're living free you know they're driving around right now with their hair blown in the wind and you know just living life on probation on probation yeah
01:15:29
Speaker
Oh my god. What about you Phil?
01:15:33
Speaker
I got a laundry list here of stuff. I've picked up some trade skis and all kinds of stuff. I do want to touch on a couple of things that Marco mentioned. Sunday, I took my son to go see Spider-Man in the movie theater, just the two of us, a little daddy-son day. And I get a message or see somebody, I think it was Big Mouth AJ and then our buddy Zack Eagle off both, let me know that GameStop was having this $5 sale. Usually our buddy Mike Lanham tells us, but he was on
01:16:03
Speaker
like a work trip, he was on the road, he was on vacation, whatever it was, he couldn't let us know ahead of time. So I'm sitting in the movie kind of like punching the buttons on my phone in the dark, trying to reserve some figures like a crackhead, but I went to a couple of my local GameStops and grabbed a couple more Rick Flares, a couple more, I never had the hacksaw, I hate that figure with a burning
01:16:27
Speaker
and a
01:16:44
Speaker
Yeah, it was it was a good a good time. And, you know, got to love those GameStop giveaway. Five. I mean, five dollars. Jesus Christ. It's insane. Like that is insane. And somebody else hit me up. Hipster Norm, a friend of Chick Foley, hit me up and said that Walgreens was having five dollar elites. Yeah, I got to stop in there. Yeah, that is so crazy. Like, yeah, I'm definitely going out this weekend. I don't know if it was just this weekend or if all the stores got cleaned out. But yeah, I totally like dropped the ball on because my mom was here.
01:17:13
Speaker
Getting some I'm like ma'am. Yeah, I'm definitely gonna go get some stuff for the toy drive because I mean you're not I mean five dollar elites like that I mean you're not even gonna get like a Shitty toy for five dollars. You know I mean like barely get a basic for that. Yeah Resale resale stores. Yeah, it was it was it was a sweet deal. So that you know props to GameStop for that hookup I pulled up the lister while I was away at the beach my
01:17:36
Speaker
Brett Hart Pop Funko finally came in, got delivered, so I have that. Our buddy Mike Lanham sent me two rock elites, one that I gave to our buddy Kyle Peterson at SirPaul64, who you need to follow immediately if you're on Twitter, SirPaul64 sent him one of those Elite 69 rocks, and he sent me a Miz and a Red Chase Ali from Elite 69.
01:18:03
Speaker
because those were showing up for some people on the West Coast and the Midwest for $7 at Walmart. I mean, this is insane. I can't pay $20 for an Alita anymore. I'm spoiled.
01:18:13
Speaker
I know. It was crazy. I saw so many people. I mean, obviously, our Walmarts haven't had crap forever. But I'm hoping they'll do a restock. But yeah, people freaking scanning figures for $7. Like, holy freaking moly. Like, I don't know what's going on. I mean, I'm sure stores are just clearing out merch to make room for holiday stock. But I mean, yeah, keep checking the price of those figures, dudes. Because I mean, you're not going to beat that. There's figures that you need to want that are possibly out there on the pegs. Like, start pounding the pavement again.
01:18:42
Speaker
Yeah, so Mike Lanham sent me those two Rockalets and the Achampa Elite 69, which I can't thank him enough for. He's been great. And, you know, one of the mainstays of our Facebook group, and I've seen people buy that Elite 69 Rock on eBay and on different, you know, for 30, 40, 50 bucks because we haven't seen it here on the East Coast. I don't know if you have Sheena at Walmart. We haven't seen any Elite 69. No, I haven't.
01:19:08
Speaker
I would assume they're going to fix that $7 price. It's going to be a mistake. These are brand new figures. They're selling, I don't know if they're listed under an old SKU number or something. We don't have too much confirmation on that. But if you see them out there, I'm sure if you post them to any kind of social media, there's some fake collectors that'll take them if you see them in your stores. Yeah.
01:19:28
Speaker
Ethan deck another another awesome follow on Twitter at Ethan deck six He sent us a an elite another elite 69 rocks. So this one is gonna be for our giveaway Which we will announce details for I guess I can announce that right now. So when we post this episode tomorrow, I want people on Twitter and Facebook to retweet us and also send us a picture of you listening to the episode just a screenshot of your phone or whatever and
01:19:57
Speaker
device you use and you'll be entered to win an Elite 69 Rock. Pretty easy to do. You don't have to be a Patreon subscriber. This is for anybody listening to the show and we will get that out to you. We'll announce that winner next week on the show. I mentioned Kyle Peterson sent me the Miz and the Red Ali, so I mean I have that and the Champa and the Rock. I'm pretty much set there.
01:20:21
Speaker
It was a great haul. I didn't want to wait for these figures to get here. She and I drive 500 miles a week for work. I'm in my car all day. I was on vacation last week. Obviously selling alcohol the next couple months leading into the holidays is when most of my business is done. It's kind of tax time for me coming up here. I didn't even think about that yet. It gets pretty crazy. I'm going to have less and less time to be out and about.
01:20:48
Speaker
figure hunting so you know say for the fourth or fifth time it's the best part of this Facebook group if you know if I see something or if Sheena sees something or if any there's 40 or 50 of us in this group we're selling it for people in our Facebook group for retail price plus shipping you don't have to listen to the other noise on social media it's a closed group just for us so it's a dollar a month to get into our group here and kind of be able to get some of these figures before having to pay eBay and scalper prices I mean I've
01:21:18
Speaker
I love some of these Facebook groups. I'm sorry I'm going on a kind of a tangent here, but I'm on like four or five Facebook figure groups. They're all pretty cool. They're all, you know, just people like us that just collect figures. But I mean with the stuff from GameStop, with these Elite 69s, I mean people were posting them for
01:21:37
Speaker
whatever they were costing on eBay. They were $30, $40, and they were getting them for less than $10 and whatever. It's a free market system. You do whatever the hell you want. If people are willing to pay the price, I don't mind you going and getting that money, but I don't want to do that to people that listen to our show and people we're friends with that we interact with. Because if we need something or roles are reversed, I definitely want to get the hookup.
01:22:03
Speaker
um figure figure karma is a real thing i will i will tell you that straightforward figure figure karma is real and i mean i've experienced it like more more times than not you know what i mean like i'm always generous with figs and you know even before we started this podcast like the heel husband and i we gave away like so many freaking figs on our own dime and we always seem to find and get what we wanted you know i think you just gotta keep
01:22:25
Speaker
Keep the universal, uh, you know, figure karma rolling in your favor. Um, and that's what we do in our group and it's super awesome. And I mean, yeah, like you said, like 40, 50 people, like that's, that's 50 sets of eyeballs that are out and about in different parts of the country that are, you know, hunting and seeing things and going to Walmart's and targets and Walgreens and all of these things and game stops. Um, and you're, you're expanding your chances to find what you want, um, you know, exponentially.
01:22:54
Speaker
For sure, yeah. It's an awesome group we've built there and we've been interacting with those folks every single day. A couple other folks on Twitter I want to shout out that have messaged me with, you know, just letting me know if they were out hunting and asked me if I needed anything without any kind of, you know, ask on my part at Ringside Art and at Retro King Six. Appreciate you guys for checking on me and seeing if I need anything. And listen to this, the the Major Brothers have a Patreon page and I'm on their Facebook group.
01:23:20
Speaker
Mark Colano messaged me and said, hey man, they have $4 Charlotte Flares at my store. I messaged Sheena about this and the ones at her store had a bunch of stains, we'll call it, on her boxes.
01:23:35
Speaker
a a
01:23:55
Speaker
For some reason I'm starting a Minton Card women's collection because I picked up that Ronda, Nia Jax, I have the Sherry, I have the Niki Cross, our buddy Zach Eaglehoff grabbed me, the Sasha Banks WrestleMania figure, so now I'm in the midst of trying to grab Minton Card women's figures and it's just another rabbit hole that I've buried myself under.
01:24:20
Speaker
Yep, yep, yep. I got Ruby, I got Ruby Riot and it's just, it's just, it's just, you know, it's just fun to do, you know, I can't, I can't help myself. And, um, yep. So, uh, that's, that's about, oh, uh, somebody tweeted out today that Walmart has a bunch of a couple of figures, the WWE elite ultimate maniac, Randy Savage, which is not a new figure. Uh, this, I would say what's six years old, five, six years old, Sheena?
01:24:47
Speaker
The ultimate, the ultimate, uh, like the red and yellow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's on, it's on Walmart's website for 9 99 and you can do free pickup at Eddie local Walmart. So I bought one of those today, uh, because yeah, it's a, it's a cool figure. Oh yeah. Super cool. Yeah. It's just, that's very random.
01:25:06
Speaker
It's very random and they had a bow Dallas elite for like $7.99 so I did not grab that I don't that doesn't spark joy in my figure collecting the macho man does so I grabbed that up and Yeah, it's a we kind of talk about some of these ringside pre-orders you have that pulled up that list of all the new pre-orders on ringside and
01:25:27
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. So the pre-orders are available on Ringside. The new elite top talents are available. You got Jeff Hardy, Rey Mysterio, AJ Styles, and Seth Rollins are the top talent for the elites currently. There's also the WrestleMania 36 elites, which is Matt Hardy, Booker T, Kofi Kingston, and Mick Foley. You got the
01:25:47
Speaker
WrestleMania 36 Basics, Seth, Becky Batista, Stephanie, Shane, and The Rock. And then you got the Battle Packs, the Mania 36 Battle Packs, which is Drewd Roman, you got Orton and Mysterio, and then Kane and Daniel Bryan. So those were all announced alongside Elite 72, which is gonna be The Man, Becky Lynch.
01:26:09
Speaker
Roderick Strong, Buddy Murphy, Batista, Dream, and Ray Mysterio. So all those are up for pre-order. You can obviously use, you know, Code Chick to get yourself some, you know, discounts on, on your ringside figs or don't and just spend more money than you have to. Actually, it's Chick Foley. My bad. Chick Foley. And you get 10% off of your ringside order. So you can go to their page and check out, check out the figs and, you know, start to pre-order.
01:26:34
Speaker
we also if you use code chick foley at ringside and you screenshot your order we are going to give away one random figure every month to someone that does that and um you know so an added bonus to using our 10 off code on their website there did you talk about the cane as undertaker ringside exclusive
01:26:54
Speaker
No, I didn't I totally I totally dropped the ball on that. Yeah, so you got like the dead man's revenge It's the the cane. It's essentially an undertaker figure in a cane costume, right? Like remember that remember that gimmick It's it's pretty pretty dope figure. But yeah, it's also available for pre-order right now at ringside. I
01:27:14
Speaker
For sure. Ringside is pumping out some beauties. I'm not too high on this Elite 72. And I don't really know why. But it's one of the first series that I haven't wanted like three or four of the people, which is pretty good for my wallet. When was the last time we got a Batista figure, though?
01:27:31
Speaker
True. True. I mean, I'm excited about Batista. I'm excited about The Man. I'm excited, you know, The Man Figure. I think that's something that we definitely need. Buddy Murphy, Roddy. This is Roddy's first solo elite, right? Not in the Undisputed Era pack. I think the only one I'm not excited about is Rey Mysterio.
01:27:50
Speaker
Well, also, I mean, the dream figure they've already come out with was perfect. I don't know if this is going to be like, it would be cool if this is a chase variant with maybe one of the takeover outfits or something. I know our buddy Marco is a huge Velveteen Dream fan, so I'm sure he hasn't fantasy booked something for this, but
01:28:06
Speaker
It's pretty quick turnaround for Velveteen Dream to get a second Elite figure, but yeah, I guess those two kind of weigh it down for me a little bit. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, they're good. They're not great to me in my mind.
01:28:22
Speaker
I'll probably pick up a couple of them I would like that Ronak strong and maybe get one of our custom buddies to pick and to make one of those undisputed era shirts for him and Add him to the collection there, but I'm definitely picking up Becky Lynch. That's for sure Yeah for sure. Yeah, like I said, I mean at first glance it's kind of like yeah, but then when she started breaking it down like it's uh, you know, it's it's actually a really good set but I mean I
01:28:50
Speaker
Ringside, I mean, I guess not ringside, but Mattel must know something that we don't know about Rey Mysterio figures. They must fly off the shelves like hotcakes because I don't know why we get so many freaking Rey figures. No shade to Rey, he's a legend in the business and he's amazing, but Jesus Christ. How many Rey Mysterio figures do we need?
01:29:15
Speaker
I think he's like the warrior where he's just like a cool action figure. True, yeah. He has so many different varieties of attire that he has and different colors and things like that. So I think it's probably more appealing when you have a Rey Mysterio. I'm not sure if they're done doing warrior figures, but I think he's like the next warrior type figure where they just put him in every single set.
Collectibles & Sneaker Comparisons
01:29:40
Speaker
But I could see that also the kid I mean for kids I mean that's a big draw I mean kids don't watch NXT so dream and run it stronger out there I don't know who Batista is and you know so that's half the series there and that's anyone I mean I'm sure there is some kids I watch NXT I don't want to say every kid doesn't watch NXT but you know what I'm saying I mean kids gravitate toward those topic that's why they created the top picks line I'm sure I'm surprised we're in the studio hasn't shown up in there because
01:30:08
Speaker
He is. He's the elite top talent. Jeff Hardy, Ray Mysterio, AJ Styles, and Seth Rollins are the top talent for the 2020s. And I think he's in one of the basic series, too. Yeah, he's in the battle pack.
01:30:24
Speaker
So he's in the battle pack, he's in Elite 72, and he's in the Elite top talent. So I'm just like, holy freaking crap. And we just got Elite Rey in the Riddler gear recently. My son's only four, so I don't know if he's the best barometer for this. But he'll do a battle royal with his wrestlers and only pick the guys who either have face paint or a mask on. Yeah. It's just like fun. It's cool. It's something different.
01:30:51
Speaker
Yeah, it makes sense. I mean, they look like superheroes. Luchastar starts with their masks and their crazy paint apps and all that stuff. Yeah, they definitely draw to the little kids. But yeah, so we'll move on to random merch of the week. I'm excited because I want to change up the random merch segment because before, previously, what I would do is I would just pick a random thing on eBay.
01:31:14
Speaker
and you know kind of share it with you guys and hope one of you guys would buy it unless it's like that you know $27,000 honky tonk man suit so um but i want to change it up a little bit and have our fans and our listeners send in random merch and tell a story about it you know um so i um i wanted to start because last week we had um
01:31:37
Speaker
who's right we did somebody's um random merch oh my gosh i can't believe i can't remember the name i feel bad um i'll think of it here in a minute but um this week i did a piece of my own random merch and it's one of my favorite pieces of my of my you know random merch collection it is a pair of pearlized pink foam posits do you know what those are phil i have no idea
01:31:58
Speaker
It is a sneaker. It's a, you know, it's a Nike sneaker. Me and the heel has been used to be huge sneaker heads. And you know, like before we collected figures, we collected sneakers. And I can tell you one thing is for sure.
01:32:14
Speaker
collecting figures is way less frustrating than collecting sneakers because we used to get up like at the crack of dawn, zero, dark 30 and go to Foot Locker or Foot Action or wherever the hell, you know, Nike town or wherever we had to be to pick up a pair of shoes and you get in line and you just wait and you just hope that when you get up there that you they still have your size available and you could have waited in this line for like five hours and like they don't have your shoe, you know, so
01:32:42
Speaker
Yeah, so you're sizing everybody up in front of you. You're like, I wonder if they're a nine and a half. Oh, that guy's definitely a 13, so I don't have to worry about him. Oh my gosh.
01:32:51
Speaker
Yeah, it's a thing that you do. But anyway, this is what we used to do. So we got the pink foams. I sat in line. I got the pink foams because I love pink. It was my wedding colors. Pink and black were my wedding colors. I love the pink foams. So I stood in line and got these. And then that was 2012. Then along came WrestleMania 31, and we were going to meet Bret Hart. And we were like, what can we get him to autograph? This was before we really got into collecting figures hardcore. So we're like, what are we going to have him autograph?
01:33:20
Speaker
Um, and so I was like, let's have him autograph the pink foams. Like how cool would that be? You know what I mean? Like have him autograph these, this pair of sneakers. Um, and so we took a Sharpie, we met him at wrestle con at WrestleMania 31. And he was like, he's like, actually, I think this paint pan will look better. And he got out a silver paint pan and he signed the foams and it looks so amazing. And it was just like one of my favorite pieces. And I would just remember him like looking at the shoe and just being like, this is so cool. You know, and thinking to myself like, yep,
01:33:50
Speaker
Let's pat on the back for, you know, having him sign it. But he didn't sign any more shoes that day. But that was the only pair of shoes that he signed. And that was the same day that he signed my glasses that I almost lost to, if you guys watch my Instagram stories at all. But that was just a really awesome experience. And we still have those. Even though we sold off most all of our sneaker collection, we still have those those pink foams. And they're in an icebox in our in our Bret Hart display in the Mart cave. So I'll post a picture of those for sure when I post the episode.
01:34:17
Speaker
Yeah, our buddy Eric from the Doing the Favor podcast talks about how on his show, how he used to be a shoe collector. And it sounds super frustrating. Oh my God, it's beyond. Like I said, if you think figure collecting is frustrating, you just have no idea. It's insane. What was he saying about it?
01:34:36
Speaker
Oh, just like you know how it's like if you know figure collectors had just the same thing same as good thing You said a figure collectors had to be shoe collectors They would like really appreciate how easy it is to get figures because it sounds like a pain in the ass But they would they would give up like there's no way because when you're sneaker collecting if you're you have to be on Foot Locker like you're up like you know 20 minutes before it goes live and you're like hitting refresh refresh and
01:35:00
Speaker
Refresh waiting for these things to load on the site. So this is if you're not going to get them in person, right? This is back in the old day now. Everything's pretty much a raffle You know you have to let you go and you enter and then they draw your name like because there was like fights breaking out and stuff like that at sneaker releases and like You know and they didn't want people waiting out in the freaking cold like literally we waited on it was like Christmas Christmas Eve I think is when we waited for the the freaking Concord Jordan to came for what it was like it was like zero degrees outside was for
01:35:27
Speaker
Why are they doing Christmas Eve? What can they do on a different day? What the fuck? Maybe it wasn't Christmas Eve. It was like the week of Christmas, though. Because it was like the holiday launch. It was like the Christmas launch. So it was like the week of Christmas. But I just remember it was cold, and we were all camping out. But yeah, it's crazy. And bots, people use bots and go in and buy their stuff. So the regular person barely has a chance to get out all the sites crash. Yeah, it's like the most frustrating thing. So you put in all this effort, and you still don't get
01:35:55
Speaker
what you want. So be glad. And the markup game, you think the markup game for figures is crazy? The markup game for sneakers is insane. A pair of sneakers that retails for 150, you get on eBay the same day that they release and they're going for 350.
01:36:12
Speaker
It's so funny because I am totally like, that's a world I have no idea anything about. I have two pairs of different shoes that I wear for work and I have a pair of sandals that I wear. That's literally. Do you have like the dad? Do you have like the dad? Nike's the white with like the, the new, the new balance here. No, they're, they're called the air monarchs. Yeah. The air monarchs. Oh my God, Marco. I can't believe you know that. Do you have a pair of monarchs Marco?
01:36:39
Speaker
I do not, but I'm assuming eventually down the line I'll own a pair, but...
01:36:43
Speaker
Uh, we were actually joking about that at work about, uh, one of our workers is a dad and he wears air monarchs essentially. So he makes fun of him a lot. I had a, uh, I went to, I just googled it. It definitely is. I, I, uh, I went to an all boy high school and I remember, uh, one of our teachers walked in on like a casual day and he wore like shoes like this. And one of the dudes in my class called him like the air Moses Malone's.
01:37:10
Speaker
Dude, I'm telling you, the monarchs have been a thing for like 20 years. How long has the dad shoe been around? It's been around for a very, very long time. I'm going to have to buy these and make these popular because I guarantee you, you know what store would sell these? Kohl's. That's like the ultimate dad store.
01:37:28
Speaker
Yes, you go in and you're like, do you want the monarch? Do you want it in white or do you want it in black? You know, I mean, like there's two there's two colors of this shoe and they just they just scream dad and like, you know, your dad's like pissed. He goes out and mows the yard and gets like green grass like on his new one and his white sneakers. You know what I mean?
Listener Interaction & Event Excitement
01:37:46
Speaker
So, yeah, that that is so funny. But that takes us right into our retro wrestling recommendation of the week. And I kind of touched on this a little bit earlier in the show when we were talking about
01:37:58
Speaker
um brawn and seth and like you know they're fighting um they're defending the tag titles and fighting for the universal title all in the same night but um so this is from fully loaded 1998 so this is austin steve austin and undertaker versus kane and mankind um and uh they were they were fighting for the tag championships right fully loaded so austin and taker were already scheduled to fight for the world title at summer slam the following month
01:38:26
Speaker
and won the tag belt so they won the tag belt that night from Kane and Mankind and then they had to fight for the the world title the next month so I thought it was just kind of like mirrored and was kind of kind of appropriate with what's going on now with the with the world title or the Universal title and the tag titles so if you want to go back and watch that is it is the main event from fully loaded 1998.
01:38:50
Speaker
That is a four Hall of Fame dudes right there in attack. That is like the epitome of the Attitude Era. You know what I mean? No, 100%. Yeah. Oh my gosh. I'm looking over this card. Other than that, this is like early Attitude Era, isn't it? Yeah, very early. 98, that's like the very beginning. Because obviously, the Attitude Era started after Survivor Series 97.
01:39:14
Speaker
Because yeah, what a tag team match. Farooq and Scorpio versus Justin Bradshaw and Terry Funk. What the hell is that? What a tag team match. What about Mark Henry and Vader? Oh my gosh. How many forearms were in that match? Forearm punches and clotheslines. Yeah, but definitely go back in and check that out because like I said, I thought it was very, very, you know,
01:39:44
Speaker
reminiscent of what we have going on now.
01:39:46
Speaker
Good call. No listener mail this week, so if you want to get onto the show next week, submit us a listener mail question at askchickfoli at gmail.com. And be sure to rate us and subscribe on iTunes. It's at Chick Foley. Just search Chick Foley show. I'm sure if you have an iPhone, you've already done that. But give us a nice review, and we appreciate it. We'll check it out, and we'll read it on the show, even though people don't want to hear that crap. It's not entertaining to listen to.
01:40:15
Speaker
Hey, listen, we love our listener mails. We get some good ones. That's how we met Marco. Marco was he was the man at sending the listener mails. He said he was. He was. Oh, yeah. Marco said the best listener mails. I do want to say I'm going out. I will be at Smackdown. I give you guys a firsthand in-house in-house review of the quarterfinals of the King of the Ring tournament next week because you're a reporter live on the scene. I will be live on the scene.
01:40:44
Speaker
Smackdown this coming week. It's coming to Norfolk. It's gonna be at the scope which is like, you know Hop skipping a jump from from my house. So I got a babysitter for the baby face He'll be asleep. So I'm just gonna put him to bed and then me and my my homegirl We're gonna go take an uber to to the scope. We're gonna have her husband with us So don't try anything fishy, you know, if you're listening to this show and you're a creep Her husband her husband is big and strong and he will kick your ass. I
01:41:10
Speaker
So we're all going down and we're going to watch SmackDown and have a good time. Nice, very nice. I was thinking about, I was going to mention this when we talked about Raw and SmackDown. You need to have King of the Ring during March Madness next time because that would make this tournament like people would be filling out brackets. You could do some sort of contest on wd.com. I mean, it fits so perfectly that WWE would never think to do it for some reason.
01:41:34
Speaker
true I think it would have been so much better as like a network event like I feel like they should have just done like a like a legitimate king of the ring tournament you know and just done it like all all in one one fail swoop you know like you have to that's because I think to me that's the coolest thing about king of the ring is like you have to fight multiple times in one night and like overcome the odds and like you know whoever can
01:41:58
Speaker
They have the endurance and the toughness to like fight all those fights in one night and still come out on top like truly deserves. To be the king of the ring and that's when it becomes like it's capable for a baby face to win king of the ring you know me like if you can come and like like when all those matches from you know from start to finish like like that that's a true baby face story right there.
01:42:19
Speaker
That's 15 matches on one car. You'd have to do like an eight person, maybe do the qualifying matches on Raw and SmackDown to get people interested. But I think it could work. True. I agree. But the way it's figured out now, 15 matches in one night, you'd be there all night. But I think that has a possibility. And you want to get people onto the network. So yeah, why not do it? I mean, we need to start a campaign for hashtag bring back Halloween Havoc.
01:42:48
Speaker
Oh, yes. Give it to us. I didn't get so bad in my life. Give us Halloween havoc. Yes. So next week we'll preview, not WrestleMania. What the hell am I talking about? It's way too late. Clash of the champions. Clash of the champions. And Sheena will be reporting live from the Norfolk scope with her friend and her big husband. That's about it. Anything we missed or messed up, Stack Guy? No. Everything looks good.
01:43:17
Speaker
I will be in attendance at the AEW show in Boston, their second televised show, so I'll do some live reporting from there. I think the only thing that we messed up is Phil calling it Clash of the Champions instead of Clash of Champions. Yeah, it's Clash of the Champions. There's no foe in there? No, no, no. No, I'm thinking WCW. I'm going back. Clash of the Champions.
01:43:42
Speaker
I will be in Deep Creek, well I'll be here to record next week, but next week and I'll be in Deep Creek Lake with 34 of my closest friends and we get a house every single year and it started with like 10 of us and now it's I think, we have a house now that has an indoor pool and an outdoor pool on a lake. It's just, there's people I don't even know that go to this thing now and I'm like,
01:44:09
Speaker
It's going to be fun and also annoying at the same time. We talked about awkward social situations. Yeah. This is the key, especially when you sell liquor for a living and you're in charge of bringing everything for everybody. Yeah. It's going to be help. But we will see you guys next week. Thank you for listening. And thank you for supporting the show. It's patreon.com slash Chick Foley Show. And next week, we'll have more details on that toy drive. And stay classy, Mark. We'll talk to you soon.
01:44:42
Speaker
Gravy.
01:44:44
Speaker
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01:45:24
Speaker
I could take your bitch while I'm wearing all that I could walk into your label takin' that
01:45:58
Speaker
Hey, this is ROA-
01:46:01
Speaker
new wrist watch out lil bitch that's a knockout hop in walk out pipe up clock out new wrist watch out lil bitch that's a knockout hop in