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Our Mega Summerslam Preview Episode!
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With the biggest event of the summer approaching this weekend, Phil and Sheena make their predictions and debate their favorite wrestling figure from each match on the card! Plus they discuss WWE2k20, AEW's potential TV show name, Sheena's big decision regarding her collection, and much more!
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Transcript
Introduction and Summer Transition
00:00:21
Speaker
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the SummerSlam preview episode of the Chick Foley Show. I am the hot take kid Phil Gentile here in the Jimmy's Famous Seafood Studios.
00:00:35
Speaker
It's almost the end of summer here. Hard knocks has started. Pumpkin beer has showed up in stores. And we're talking about SummerSlam. But it should be a jam-packed show. I have a couple guests with me here as
Excited for Future WWE Stars
00:00:47
Speaker
always. My lovely co-host, Sheena Phelps, is on the line. Does Sheena know what's going on this evening?
00:00:53
Speaker
Not a whole lot, man. It's been a, it's been a good day for me today. We got to see, uh, the future women's world champion today for the first time in forever. We went to, we went to the OBGYN and, uh, it's a dangerous place. I didn't get pinned for, uh, the 24 seven title, but no, it actually wasn't the OBGYN. It was just the ultrasound, um, lab, but we went there. We got to see, we got to see the future, the future baby face, uh, 2.0. And that was really exciting. And then.
00:01:20
Speaker
I have to celebrate a positive health report. Everything looked good. I stopped by Krispy Kreme donuts and they were doing limited edition Reese's cups. Oh my God. Dude. You had this thing. I saw this on Twitter. This looks amazing. Oh my God. It was so good. I mean, I love Krispy Kreme. You know, we didn't have it in Hawaii. So it was like, it's like, you know, it's just one of those things. Like the longer you go with that, the more you like build it up in your mind. And I've always loved Krispy Kreme donuts.
00:01:45
Speaker
And like now that there's one like near my house, I'm like, God, this is dangerous. And then somebody tagged me the other day that they were doing a limited edition Reese's donut. And you know what I love just about as much as I love Krispy Kreme donuts Reese's cups. And when the two came together, Oh my God, it was a beautiful, a beautiful collaboration. Like there was like a chocolate lovers and a peanut butter lovers. And then the chocolate lovers is like filled with peanut butter. Oh dude. Just.
00:02:12
Speaker
freaking stick a fork in me. I'm done. It was, it was beautiful. Wow. This is a great week to say I've been like, uh, trying to eat healthy. Normally, normally the roles are reversed. Normally, you know, you're like, yeah, I'm just sitting here with my beer and just chilling. And I'm like, you know, I'm like the, the healthy influence, but you know what? Sometimes you just got to live your life. And uh, when they do live,
00:02:33
Speaker
I've missed so many Krispy Kreme limited releases in my life from living in Hawaii. I wasn't going to miss this one. They did an eclipse donut when the eclipse was happening. They covered the whole thing in chocolate glaze. And I was like, damn it, man. I really want this donut. Of course, I missed out. So I'm like, I'm never missing a limited run. Krispy Kreme's ever again. Well, your sights set up pretty high. So that's good to hear. I like to set the bar really high.
00:03:02
Speaker
Marco Denton, the MVP and the intern are here, is here. Marco, how are you this evening?
Sports and Parenting Adventures
00:03:09
Speaker
I am doing very well, living the dream over here. One third of the faction is still awake. So good thing the wife is here tonight. We're actually both on vacation this week. Staycation not really going anywhere. But yeah, she's with him right now trying to get him to go to sleep. So that was kind of a close call.
00:03:34
Speaker
No, believe me we Phil and I know we know how that goes with the with the parenting life when you're like It's like show night and then like all of a sudden like the kid just decides No, you're not recording tonight. You're gonna you're gonna be with me. You're gonna be with me, bitch That's exactly what he said to me He healed off on you hardcore, huh
00:03:55
Speaker
Marco, I saw you went to Fenway this week, man. As much as I'm a Boston hater, that is a wonderful place to watch a baseball game, I have to say. Oh, yeah, no. It's always awesome going to Fenway. I'm a semi baseball fan. I do play little league and stuff like that. But yeah, Fenway Park, it's history. So that was really fun. They actually won that game. I don't think I've ever went to a Red Sox game where they won. So that was pretty historic on my end.
00:04:24
Speaker
Um, they got over pretty fast. It didn't end at like five in the morning. So that was also really good. But yeah, it was a great time. Uh, great weather. It was, it was fun.
00:04:35
Speaker
Very nice. So we have a jam-packed show.
SummerSlam Buildup
00:04:37
Speaker
Obviously, we're going to preview NXT TakeOver, preview SummerSlam. We have a huge announcement for the winner of our Slim Jim Macho Main Elite giveaway. Marco has some sort of revealing announcement that he needs to make. We'll go through our weekly purchases and get to some questions. So I say let's jump right into it here. We're not going to do our normal recaping of Raw and SmackDown like we normally do. That'll kind of happen organically as we go through this SummerSlam card.
00:05:04
Speaker
Sheena, I'm going to start with you. We've seen the buildup. We're kind of at the point now. This is, you know, basically the second biggest event of the year after WrestleMania. How do you feel that this buildup has been? How excited are you for this event? Give me your overall thoughts before we get into the individual matches.
00:05:19
Speaker
Oh, I'm super pumped for SummerSlam. I feel like SummerSlam, obviously, it's one of the big four-paper views. So they're definitely pulling out all the stops for SummerSlam, which they usually do. They bring in some big stars, like we saw. We got Goldberg. We got Brock. We got all the big names. We got some cheap pops. We got with Natty and Trish. Not that they're cheap. I love both those women. But let's be real, they're playing to the home
00:05:48
Speaker
the hometown crowd with that. So I think it's gonna be a lot of fun. Toronto's a really good wrestling city. I think the crowd is gonna be super hype. And I think it's just gonna be a super fun weekend, especially with NXT TakeOver Toronto. We have a really awesome car with that. And this past week, we also saw the reveal of the 2K20 cover, WWE 2K20. So it's been a really fun and exciting week. So before we jump into the matches, I wanted to ask you guys what you thought of
00:06:16
Speaker
the cover reveal for WWE 2K20.
WWE 2K20 Cover Controversy
00:06:19
Speaker
I like it a lot. I don't know how much is going to be different. I was hoping we would be able to get some female versus male action in the ring, even though we can't do that in the real ring. So I don't know really what they're going to add. Obviously, the biggest draw is going to be the graphic. It's going to be the updated roster. I think Hogan's in it this year, which is great.
00:06:39
Speaker
I love the two on the cover. I would have loved to see Becky alone on the cover because of the year she's had, but I understand why they had to do it and it makes sense and the commercial was cool and I'm pretty pumped for it. Yeah, I loved the commercial. I saw a lot of people talking about how corny it was and campy it was.
00:06:59
Speaker
It definitely wasn't the Seth Rollins commercial or the burning down of the warehouse and all of that. I mean, that's probably one of my favorite 2K commercials ever. But I did like the breaking through the glass ceiling and all of that. Like you, I wish Becky was on the cover alone. I don't know what the reasoning behind that was. I know Roman had, he overcame cancer and that is huge and he had a huge year and all that kind of stuff. He wanted S before it and whatnot.
00:07:29
Speaker
Um, I just, to me, I was talking to heel husband and he took the stance, like, you know, I like it. He's, he's usually like an optimist. He's like, I like the cover, you know, with both of them on there. I think it's great, but I feel like both of them could have had individual covers and it just, it would have been just as effective. Um, but Seth, his line to me was.
00:07:47
Speaker
He was like, uh, Roman beat cancer. Becky only beat Ronda Rousey. And I was like, I was like, Oh my gosh, you know? So, um, I mean, yeah, I get it, but, um, I would have liked to see her be like the first cover girl of, of like the WWE two K series. Cause I'm sure China or somebody has been on, you know, a cover, like a collaboration cover, like a faction cover or something in the background, you know, with, with a lot of other people, but I don't think.
Gaming Culture and Pre-Orders
00:08:15
Speaker
if my memory serves me that there has been like a single female cover star for any wrestling video game. No, I remember during the SmackDown days we had kind of a hodgepodge of people and I remember Stacey Keebler. I think Stacey Keebler was on by herself or there was people in the background or something like that and Stacey Keebler and Tori Wilson and all those people.
00:08:39
Speaker
But yeah, this is, I mean, the fact that they tweeted out this is a history making thing. I mean, come on, not everything has to be like history making. It's just cool. And I'm with you, though. I think I think it would be cool to have multiple covers for people that want to get one with just Becky or one with just Roman. So I'm excited about the game. I know you you're not a big preorder person for figures, but you always preorder the game. I'm the opposite. I wait till Black Friday and get that shit for half off.
00:09:05
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know why. You know, he'll husband like we just always preordered games whenever like the games that we want, you know, like for sure. I don't know if it's just because, you know, when the Xbox 360 first came out, like I had it preordered. And I mean, I don't remember. I don't know if you remember when the Xbox 360 launch, but it was like revolutionary for for the gaming world. And it was so huge.
00:09:29
Speaker
And they were sold out every freaking way. It was like, I think it came out in the fall of, I don't know, like what, like 2005 or something like that. I can't remember. But anyway, I had pre-ordered one for Heal Husband as a gift. And then the pre-order, somehow they over pre-ordered them and I didn't get mine. And Heal Husband was just like crushed, you know?
00:09:53
Speaker
And so then I ended up finding one for him for the holidays. But I think ever since then, that moment and that disappointment of him not having it, he wants to make sure he's got his name on the list for whatever game he wants. I think he has some sort of PTSD from the pre-order getting dropped on that Xbox 360 console. So yeah, we always pre-order the games. It's just easier. I don't know. Then we just go pick them up.
00:10:19
Speaker
it's not like the good old days they used to do like launches and releases and they would have like game nights I don't know they may still do that
AEW Revolution Rumors
00:10:25
Speaker
maybe I'm just too old and I don't go to those things anymore but when we used to go pick up get Gears of War they would have like big events and they would have people you could go play Gears of War and they would be handing out drinks and snacks and stuff in line and it was super super cool but we did the SmackDown edition the the deluxe edition this year wasn't as
00:10:43
Speaker
Exciting Marco says it still happens. Marco, you're at the mall. Are you at the mall at midnight with all the the youngsters once the kids go to bed and you're in line playing a, you know, Red Dead Redemption with them? I'm not doing that, but yeah, I know I do have friends that work retail and stuff like that and they do say it still goes on. It's very rare. It's like for only for the big game. So like, you know, like the Maddens and the. Yeah, it's like you said, Call of Duty stuff like that, but not very frequent, but it does happen.
00:11:13
Speaker
awesome yeah well it still happens i'm just too old i don't i just go pick mine up first thing in the morning on the on the day of the release but um the the smackdown edition like i said it's not as good as as previous editions like you know um last year we had like the woo edition which was super cool you got the rick flare pop you got the piece of the rick flare robe um and then you know previous editions you got we had like a john sina basic figure
00:11:35
Speaker
Um, and then there was like the stone cold Steve Austin pop, and then there was a Hogan pop. So we don't have any action figures or pops in, in this ultimate edition, which is kind of a bummer, right? Like I was, I was really kind of, you know, let down by that, but you do get an acrylic plaque with, um, some smackdown ring skirt in it. You get an autographed card, you get a choice. Oh yeah. You don't get a choice, but you're either going to get Ray or Mysterio edge or Kurt angle. Um, you're going to get some premium supercard stuff, which we don't play supercard. So we'll probably just.
00:12:05
Speaker
you know, put those on eBay or something. I don't know. And then you get a lot of, like we talked about earlier, exclusive in-game content. Like I think they're going to do a rock and sock connection. Um, Mick Foley and then obviously China and stuff like that. So yeah, we don't know all the details yet. They haven't released a lot of it, but we know, I mean, we always get the deluxe edition regardless. So, um, it didn't really matter what the upgrades are.
00:12:27
Speaker
Yeah, I'm excited for it. It should be fun. I mean, I don't know how they're going to top 2k 19. It's a pretty much a perfect game. We had it. We did a Patreon episode about it myself and you and heel husband. So, uh, are you, are you a big gamer Marco? I never, never talked about this. Oh yeah. I'm a huge gamer. Uh, Xbox one I have, um, all the way back to, Oh my God. The probably the first Nintendo show on my age, but yeah, definitely the first Nintendo. Um, but yeah, definitely.
00:12:56
Speaker
big time game or not as much obviously now because the faction takes up most of my time. So yeah, just sports, really, really gates of sports games and, you know, things I can just pick up and play and drop when I need to.
00:13:09
Speaker
Yeah, that's what me and the heel husband back before back before the babyface. That's what I used to be a lot more into games than you know, I am now. But yeah, we used to have, you know, all we would play rock band. We were going on tours on rock band and guitar hero and all those things like I know that's that's taking it way back. It feels like you know, those when those games came out and then we had, you know, we played Madden and
00:13:32
Speaker
all that together and now you have a kid and it's like, you know, one of you got to watch the kid while the other one gets in some, uh, you know, personal time. So usually it's the heel has been gaming and, um, you know, I'll, uh, I'll put the, he usually does it after the kid goes to bed. So, you know,
00:13:47
Speaker
Not much time for that anymore. Yeah. Well, I'm sure we'll do a full review of the game. Uh, once it comes out, I'm pretty stoked about that. Do we want to talk about AW real quick, uh, naming their TV show? I think they're naming it revolution. Is that what, is that what the news was today? I must've, I must've missed it. Yeah. I was, uh, I was not in the, on the Twitter sphere today. So what happened with the AW they, they went ahead and named their, their weekly TV show.
00:14:14
Speaker
I think it was a rumor from Ryan Satin that they found a trademark for AW Revolution, and that might be the name of their TV show. Well, they have several trademarks. I mean, I thought it was going to be Tuesday Night Dynamite. But think about how stupid that name is, though. I mean, if they want to be a more realistic, I think it was Wednesday Night Dynamite anyway. But I think either way, they're both awful names.
00:14:38
Speaker
somebody suggested this on either Facebook or Twitter why not just do AEW on TNT that's their Twitter handle and I think if you want to be more of a sport yeah I mean NXT is just NXT it's not like the NXT revolution like that just makes it sound like a pay-per-view I don't think it's like I think revolution is lame I hope that that's not what would it if it that's true I hope that's not
00:15:00
Speaker
what they end up doing if they did follow the trademark for that because I think that is lame like you said it sounds like a pay-per-view I would just yeah I would just much rather it be AEW on TNT you know what I mean like you said like NXT is it carries its own weight its own brand it doesn't need all the shenanigans I mean every NXT pay-per-view is NXT takeover you know what I'm saying and then they
00:15:21
Speaker
But whatever city it's in, I don't feel like AEW, they don't have to call their show something. It doesn't have to be Raw or SmackDown. Raw and SmackDown, that stuff happened how many years ago? It's kind of outdated. You know what I mean at this point? It should just be called WWF, tell our WWE TV. But it's been going on for so long that obviously it's just part of the culture now. But I feel like if you're starting something in 2019
00:15:51
Speaker
want it to be a more sports like product, like, yeah, just call it AW, all elite wrestling. I think that's perfect.
00:15:57
Speaker
Uh, they did announce that the, uh, after the show here in DC sold out, they're going to have another show in, I think the second and third shows were announced one with Boston. So you could be able to go to that one Marco. And the third one is in Philadelphia. Uh, so yeah, uh, I have a buddy who actually has, might have an extra ticket for that, uh, the first, uh, show. So I might be going to that. So I'll, I might be reporting live from, uh, whatever that arena is. It's changed names like every couple of years, but, uh,
00:16:27
Speaker
Yeah, I might be going to that first AEW show. So for everybody who thinks I'm an AEW hater, I've watched every pay-per-view and I might be going to the first TV show.
Anticipation for AEW Event
00:16:36
Speaker
So kiss my ass. See? Listen, look at you trying to be amicable and appease the smarts. I'm so proud of you. Yeah, I'm going to bring a whole case of deodorant and just fucking throw that shit into the crowd. There you go. There you go. Like Oprah. Like Oprah does.
00:16:52
Speaker
Yeah, you get a stick, you get a stick, you get a stick. Oh man, I feel like that should be standard protocol at any at any wrestling event. I have been part of a crowd with some serious BO before and yeah, it definitely puts a damper on your experience when you're sitting behind somebody with some
00:17:13
Speaker
some serious stank so yeah passing out deodorant that should just be standard um standard issue at at wrestling shows but yeah let's go ahead and we have a packed episode so let's go ahead and get right into summer slam um because we have so much to talk about and what's what we're gonna do here and we're gonna go through
00:17:30
Speaker
We're going to touch on each match. And just for funsies, we are going to pick our favorite figure from each of these matchups. So for instance, Rollins, Lesnar, we're going to pick our favorite Rollins or Brock Lesnar figure, one figure for each match. So Phil and I went through and we've selected our favorites. And yeah, I'm excited for you guys to go through. If you want to send us your favorites from each match, you can just send those.
00:17:53
Speaker
to the Twitter or to, um, you know, askjicboliergmail.com or if you're on our Patreon Facebook page, I would love to see your guys's list for your favorite figures for the SummerSlam matchups.
00:18:04
Speaker
Uh, yeah, that's uh, you said it perfectly here. Let's get started with the, uh, the, uh, the kickoff
SummerSlam Card Issues
00:18:09
Speaker
show. I mean, I think there's going to be some matches added to this before we get real real into it. Uh, obviously Roman Reigns is going to have a match. That's not showing up on my list as of yet, but do we, do we have any clarification? It was, it was super, super confusing on raw and SmackDown what was happening and, uh, Samoa Joe hijacking the show and then just, and just stopping once Becky Lynch's music played like, Oh, I guess I'll give some.
00:18:34
Speaker
That was really funny to me. I was really into the whole Joe opening raw with like the, you know, like on top of the announced desk. I thought that was awesome. I thought, I thought Joe did a really, really good job. Um, but it was hilarious that he was like, I'm, you know, taking over the show and I'm not going to stop until I get my apology. And then the man's music hits and he just like, like you said, he just like, why aren't, why aren't, why aren't like, he like folds over like Pac-Man, you know?
00:18:58
Speaker
Yeah. And it was really hilarious. Because I was thinking, when her music hit, I was like, oh, shit. Is Becky coming out to confront Joe? What is happening right now? That would have been sick.
00:19:09
Speaker
Yeah. I was like, what is going on? But then she just walked down to the ring and I was like, Oh, well that was kind of not the ending I wanted. Um, I did think Joe looked really, I liked that. I thought it was weird that all of a sudden like the announcers, like they were being held, like you could hear them over the whole arena. You know, like normally you can't hear what the announcers are saying, but all of a sudden like Joe takes over the desk and like the whole, they're like talking and like everybody in the audience can hear them. So it was kind of like weird seeing that, you know,
00:19:36
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it was definitely odd. So I think we'll see something with, I mean, obviously, Reigns isn't on this card. We don't have any for the Nakamura match. I think we'll see something with him. But let's just go off of what we have now. I think the kickoff match right now is going to be Drew Gulak versus Oney Lorcan for the Cruiserweight Championship.
Cruiserweight Championship Preview
00:19:56
Speaker
Man, both of these guys are my favorite style of wrestling. And they're going to kick the shit out of each other. And it's going to be a great match. And not enough people are talking about it. Yeah.
00:20:25
Speaker
doesn't know who these guys are for the most part you know I mean the hardcore audience does but it is gonna be a great match I think it's it's perfectly placed on the pre-show I mean I'm not like super super invested I'll probably be like you know still cooking or doing something before the show starts and just kind of watching it in the background but
00:20:26
Speaker
What do you think?
00:20:44
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's going to be a good match. I'm going to go with Drew Gulak for this one. What about you? I'm going Drew Gulak as well by submission here. I think he keeps the title for a little bit longer, but it's definitely going to be a fun match. I'm hoping we see more Oney Lorcan on our TVs going forward because he's definitely a throwback kind of guy.
00:21:04
Speaker
Yeah. And, um, this one was easy as far as like the figure. I mean, uh, only, only Lorcan doesn't have a figure and drew has a basic, I want to say it's like basic, um,
00:21:16
Speaker
Is it like series 91 or something like that, I think, is his basic series? So yeah. So that one wins by default, is Drew Gulak's basic figure. It is 91. That is a good looking basic, though. He's got a good scowl on his face. I like that figure. It's still been hanging around the pegs a little bit. Which is so funny, because the card has him with this little smirk and grin, and then his figure looks so angry.
00:21:45
Speaker
What's next? The next match, let's talk about some women's matches here.
Becky Lynch vs. Natalya Preview
00:21:54
Speaker
We got Becky versus Natalya for the Raw Women's Championship. This is a submission match. I don't know if it happened on the social meds or what happened, but they actually did
00:22:07
Speaker
they they put the stipulation on this that it is a submission match because remember they had that like weird interview with Natalia where she's like i'm not going to issue a a you know the challenge because i don't think becky would take it of a submission match and then all of a sudden like the next week it was like they're having a submission match i'm like wait a minute i didn't think she's i didn't think she put that challenge out there but hey what do i know um but yeah it is a submission match i mean
00:22:32
Speaker
Let's be real here the shark like I don't think I don't think Natty is gonna win this I think they just put her in like I said, she's she's got the you know, the heart the heart family
00:22:43
Speaker
um heritage she boosts some ticket sales pop the hometown crowd all of that stuff you know um she is an amazing women's wrestler but i don't feel like the build has been enough for her to um you know for her to be considered a serious contender for her to take down becky after like after we said like all the the year that becky's had and the reign that she's had they haven't really built her um enough but like let's be real if it's a submission match i mean the sharpshooter is
00:23:11
Speaker
like way superior to the disarmor. Yeah. I don't know if this, uh, submission stipulation really changes anything since they both have submission moves is, you know, how, both, how they both win their matches. Uh, I do like the name shark shooter a little bit better sort of sharpshooter. Um, no, no reaction to that. What happened? Chart. Did I miss it? Chart is like when you like shit in your pants a little bit.
00:23:35
Speaker
Did I say shark? No, no, no. I just think that's what we should. That's what I'm going to call it from now on. The shark. I was like, wait a minute. I was like, I know it's late, but I'm pretty, I'm pretty certain that I did not say shark shooter. So yeah, I, I, I'm not excited about this.
00:24:08
Speaker
business plan to go with. But I'm going to go Becky Lynch. I don't think there's any way that they can take the belt off of her here. I don't know who would kind of get involved. This is kind of a placeholder match. And you know my feelings about Natalia. I try to think about a good figure. I do like the Natalia figure that they showed at SDCC. But as far as Becky figures,
00:24:16
Speaker
What if Becky puts Natty in the sharpshooter and makes her tap out?
00:24:29
Speaker
Kind of confusing that they haven't, I mean, we're almost a year removed from that, you know, SummerSlam build where she was in the SmackDown shirt covered in blood and, you know, pretty infamous moment. We still haven't gotten a good demand figure with like two belts in the package. Like, why has that not happened yet? I mean, has it really been that hard to do? We've gotten some pretty, pretty crappy Becky figures. I think maybe the one with the SmackDown title, the Walgreens exclusive might be the best, but I don't really have a strong contender here.
00:24:58
Speaker
Yeah, I chose a Natty figure because as much as I love Becky, you're right. I don't think they have nailed down her figures or really done her any justice as far as her like elite figures and stuff like that. So I went with the Natty Basic 61. I think that's like a really, really good figure for a Basic. It's got like the vest. She's got this like silver bra on her hair as a ponytail. I think the face sculpt is really good.
00:25:26
Speaker
That's probably, that's my favorite, you know, natty figure, obviously we saw a new one at SDCC, but yeah, basic 61 for me. Cool, so we both have Becky Lynch winning here, obviously. What's the next match on the card? Let's go with Bailey versus Ember, since we're talking about women's wrestling, let's go Bailey versus Ember for this SmackDown Women's Championship.
Bayley vs. Ember Moon Excitement
00:25:51
Speaker
For me,
00:25:53
Speaker
I think this is gonna be a crazy, I think this could be a crazy good match. If it has the potential to be that dark horse match that like everybody's talking about, like, oh my God, like that was such an amazing match, right? I definitely think Amber could win this and become the new SmackDown Women's Champion. I think, you know, she's due for a championship run. I love Amber. I don't think this feud was built properly. It was just kind of like spur of the moment. You know, Bayley just announced it in the middle of the ring and I thought it kind of lacked a little bit of
00:26:22
Speaker
fire. Um, but these two women are great in the ring. I think they're going to work really well together. So, um, but that's all, that's all contingent upon them getting enough time or where they put this match on the card. Like a lot of factors could play into whether this is a very memorable match or not. You know what I mean? We both, we know that the women can go, but there's a lot of situational things that could happen that make this match like completely forgettable.
00:26:50
Speaker
Yeah, it's kind of a weird pairing here. Do you think we see Sasha Banks show up? I don't know whether she's going to help Bailey or hurt Bailey, but do you think we see Sasha Banks show up here?
00:27:04
Speaker
That's an interesting I don't know I you know I hadn't even thought about it because you know typically with something like that's going to happen you know WWE they like to show their hand they would have like been mentioning you know former best friend of Sasha Banks Bailey you know like they would be kind of like dropping Sasha Banks hints I feel like they wouldn't just like
00:27:24
Speaker
I don't know.
00:27:42
Speaker
like reimagined, you know, she can keep the boss gimmick. That's totally fine. But she needs to just start her own thing and be on her own like singles push. You know what I mean? I don't think she needs to be tied to Bailey. I think she needs to leave the tag titles behind and really just focus on like a singles push for herself.
00:28:00
Speaker
Yeah, I'm hoping, I don't really know what the deal is with her. I know she's still under contract. We haven't heard any rumors about her coming back yet, but this has to be a good break for her. I mean, you've seen her. I mean, she's like 105 pounds soaking wet, and she was taking a beating in her matches.
00:28:18
Speaker
I don't want her to go down the Dan O'Brien route because she was probably likely heading that way. Oh, yeah. Just because she's a very physical wrestler and she doesn't have the meat on her. She doesn't have the muscle behind taking these bumps like she was. So hopefully this break did her some good. Hopefully we do see her again soon. I'd love to see her at SummerSlam.
00:28:39
Speaker
But yeah, I'd like to see her coming into a heel roll and just kind of drop all the crying and colorful outfits and just be like a badass and maybe have a stable behind her or something and do it right. So I think we do see her in this match. I think she maybe interferes, but trying to cause Bayley the match, but it doesn't happen and Bayley retains and we see a program with them. But I wouldn't mind seeing Ember Moon win this title. They've kind of painted her as kind of the underdog here.
00:29:09
Speaker
yeah i think i i think that isn't it funny to like put some like you know bailey's like the ultimate underdog and then you have ember who's like even an underdog below below bailey which is which is pretty funny because ember is like she's just incredible but i uh i i
00:29:25
Speaker
That would be cool. I could see Ember winning this. And I wouldn't mind seeing a Sasha and Ember feud. I think that could be really cool. Because like you said, I love me some heel Sasha. You know what I mean? Like I, the first time I saw Sasha Banks, she was a heel. I just, I love that part of her persona. I don't like the, you know, I'm glad that she gets to like partake in all these historical moments and make history and you know, do all these things and live out her dream. But like, I don't like her to talk about it. You know, I just like her to be like a badass. Like, like, I like her to be the boss.
00:29:53
Speaker
You know, um, and just come out and wrestle and just freaking kill people and just, just put on amazing matches like she's been known to do. But, um, anyway, Bayley versus Ember, I'm going with Ember moon. I want Ember to win this. I want her to be the Smackdown women's champion. And my figure.
00:30:10
Speaker
is actually a Bailey figure. It's the network spotlight. You remember that series from Toys R Us, RIP Toys R Us? Yeah, it was the white gear. She had like the, it was like white and gold. She had the dusty roads, like the wrist wraps with the polka dots. And then it was from takeover Brooklyn against Sasha since we're speaking about Sasha. I love, love, love that figure. It's a beautiful, beautiful Bailey figure.
00:30:33
Speaker
Yeah, I was almost going to pick that figure. I'm actually going to pick. I'm going to do the exact opposite. I'm going to pick Bailey to win. And my figure is the Ember Moon NXT Elite, which I've. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, it's a great, great figure. They have kind of the face wrap on her. She looks very kind of sinister. And I just always love those NXT Elite packages and RIP to those. But yeah, that's a cool figure. That's her only figure so far. I'm sure we'll see some more going forward.
00:31:01
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to say Billy keeps the bell here with some Tom Foolery or something happens, but we get a good showing for member. I'm looking forward to this match, probably the most of the three female matches on this card.
00:31:15
Speaker
For sure, for sure. So let's get into one of the bigger
Randy Orton and Kofi Kingston's Story
00:31:20
Speaker
matches. So we have Randy Orton versus Kofi Kingston. I'm loving the story that they were telling, kind of like I talked about last week. I love the video package that Randy put together. And Randy is just one of those guys. You can always count on him. I feel like the WWE, he's like their break glass in case of emergency guy. You can always count on him.
00:31:43
Speaker
to perform and just be there for these types of moments. And I feel like he's really delivered in this storytelling aspect of this story. I mean, he legit like injured Ali, which legit gave Kofi the stepping stone to become the WWE champion and basically like
00:32:04
Speaker
built the landscape that we know as of right now for the WWE, which is pretty cool. I do think that Kofi answered and did a video package of his own on SmackDown. It was good, it was really heartfelt. He talked about how.
00:32:20
Speaker
You know, he uses his influence for good and how Randy Orton was trying to use his influence, you know, to bring people down. But Kofi builds people up and it was a really good, feel good heartfelt moment. But I feel like that should have been the week before. And then Randy should have had the go home show. I feel like Randy's video package was way more impactful and it kind of just got me in like this, like, holy crap, this is going to be an amazing match type of thing. Whereas Kofi's was just like, yeah, I love Kofi. Kofi's a good guy, you know?
00:32:47
Speaker
the
00:33:09
Speaker
I'm looking forward to this match and I think they could pull it off here I think they could do something with Randy Orton as the champion because I just miss having a heel champion champion on one of the shows It just just doesn't feel right to have two face champions. You know what I mean?
00:33:25
Speaker
Brock's not really considered a face, I wouldn't think. Yeah, I mean, I'm assuming Seth is gonna win the title back. I'm jumping ahead, I'm jumping ahead, my bad. Yeah, well, I mean, not that one also, it's not that Brock doesn't appear on the show when he is a champion. So really, it doesn't matter either way. He's not on the show as a heel champion. So yeah, you do need that heel champ. I'm just messing with you.
00:33:49
Speaker
I can see them giving Orton another title run. I wouldn't put that past them at all. I think Orton is a guy that could be respected to beat Kofi and it would be okay. I feel like Kofi wouldn't
00:34:05
Speaker
lose a lot by losing to Orton versus like, you know, like if they just threw some feud together like they've done with, you know, some of these other matches on the card, I feel like if he lost, it would just be like, what was the point of that, right? Versus, you know, this Randy Orton thing, I really think that like Kofi wouldn't look bad losing to Randy Orton because we know Randy Orton is a legend in the business. He has had so many high profile matches. He's a freaking, you know, highly decorated champion in WWE. So I don't think it's anything
00:34:34
Speaker
like to say he would have to be ashamed of if he loses, you know. So who do you have one there? Um, Oh, who do I want to win? I should have thought about this before I, um, I think I want Kofi to win. I think my heart is saying that Randy Orton is going to win. So my pick is going to be Randy Orton.
00:34:56
Speaker
OK, wow, we're both going Randy Orton here, OK. I know, shocker. Yeah, I don't know where they would take the belt off of Kofi if they don't do it here, because you have AJ kind of on the other brand, and Daniel Bryan is tied up with some other things.
00:35:12
Speaker
Yeah, I think it fits and you could get some kind of fresh blood there as far as contenders, some face contenders for Randy. My favorite Randy Orton figure of these two is the WrestleMania elites that had the WrestleMania 33 outfit when he fought Bray Wyatt.
00:35:31
Speaker
The newer lead is really nice, but this one is just what I think of when I think of Randy Orton, the short hair, that black vest, like the hood vest with the title. It's a great figure for sure.
00:35:45
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to go with a Randy Orton figure as well. And I'm going with Elite 49, Randy Orton. It's, yeah, like young legend killer Randy Orton. Like it just looks like, I don't know, like his face sculpt is so good and it just really captures Randy of that era. And he's got the RKO shirt that was like in the NWO style lettering, which I'm a total mark for that shirt. And it was like soft goods, which you know I love. I love a good soft goods.
00:36:15
Speaker
uh figure T uh versus like the the rubber clam shell so um love love love that that figure that's definitely my favorite Randy Orton figure I'd love to see how much more expensive it is to do cloth than plastic I'm sure it's I'm sure it's a pretty big difference
00:36:30
Speaker
Yeah, I I don't I don't know you know I mean there's some there's some you know rubber goods that I think are better I mean the jackets and stuff like that obviously there's no way like for the cost of elites they would be able to give you the level of detail and like a lot of the Accessories and the jackets and the cloaks and stuff like that if they did them in soft goods I think they would look kind of cheap if they tried to do I'm like so I do like the rubber and those types of situations but t-shirts and
00:36:53
Speaker
Yeah, you know, that's why we commissioned custom figure tees to make all of our all of our figures like their own soft goods t-shirts I mean, and he's the man he's official official figure clothing of chick Foley. Oh nice. I like that's a good title to have
00:37:09
Speaker
Nice. I know. Yeah. For sure. For sure. What match you want to go into next? Let's finish up these female matches. Let's go Trish Stratus versus Charlotte Flair. This is supposedly Trish Stratus' last match. She told someone I saw on the interwebs. I'm interested here because
00:37:29
Speaker
I think this is good. I mean, she's a hometown girl. If you're, if you're having Natty Lou's, I think maybe you have Trish go over. What does that really
Trish Stratus vs. Charlotte Flair
00:37:37
Speaker
do for Charlotte? I mean, what does she, you know, if it's our last match, does she want to put Charlotte over? Either way, it's going to be a great match. I think Trish can still go to the extent that she needs to against Charlotte, who can, you know, can wrestle against anybody.
00:37:50
Speaker
It was interesting on Raw that she was in a tag team match and really to no real kind of a claim or pop She just kind of came out and didn't even get into the match, which I guess was probably on purpose but
00:38:02
Speaker
Yeah, it was definitely weird them having that fatal, and it was a tag match. Yeah, there was four of them, but it was a tag match. And she looked like, I went on my Instagram story, she looked like she was wearing some of Natty's hand-me-downs. She was wearing that black cat suit, and I was like, that doesn't look like trash. I don't know, it was really weird. But yeah, she looks amazing, you know what I mean? She's in incredible shape.
00:38:28
Speaker
And she's I mean she's beautiful. I think it's gonna be a really really good match. I hope she's still got it I mean obviously after this long I mean there's got to be some level of ring rust, but I can't imagine that she's not been training and
00:38:41
Speaker
to for this for this huge event that she's about to participate in right so um hopefully she she can still bring it and um you know i mean she's no um she's no freaking body to be like taken lightly right like seven time women's champ hardcore champ freaking hall of famer you know what i mean um and it's not like charlotte doesn't need to be put over i know a lot of times in these like last match
00:39:05
Speaker
situations. You know what I mean? Like people are like, Oh, well the, the legend should put over the, the newer, the newer talent or whatever. But I mean, Charlotte's a freaking what? Nine time champ. And I don't think she needs anybody to put her over, you know? No, no, no. She's yeah, she's over as much as she's ever going to be. So yeah, uh, I'm going to say, Ooh, I am going to say Charlotte though. You're going Trish.
00:39:29
Speaker
Um, I wouldn't mind seeing Trish get the win. I know Charlotte's got a lot more wins under her belt. Um, so I would, I would pop for, for a Trish, for a Trish win. I think it would be awesome, especially in Toronto. I think it would be, I think it would be hot. I think it would keep the crowd hot. I think it would, you know, just keep the, keep the night feeling good. Right.
00:39:49
Speaker
For sure. I like the, I mean, there isn't too many figures to pick from here. The Charlotte flair 50 elite 54 was a notorious peg warmer, even though it's a pretty good figure. Both of these ladies ironically have WrestleMania basics that are hanging around the five below pegs. And both of those figures are pretty good. What's what's your favorite of these two ladies?
00:40:14
Speaker
I mean, I put Elite 54. I mean, it's one of the greatest peg warmers of all time, especially everywhere that I've been. It was everywhere in Hawaii. And it's literally, well, I mean, there's nothing on the shelves right now. But even when there was figures on the shelves, you could always find that Charlotte figure, which was very surprising because when that figure launched, I thought it was going to be one of those female figures that was like snatched up. And I don't know what the deal was if it was just overproduced or what happened.
00:40:42
Speaker
But that figure just didn't sell and the blue robe, her makeup, everything was beautiful on that figure. But for some reason, it just didn't translate to sales.
00:40:56
Speaker
Yeah, that was a weird series. That was with Rich Swann, the Usos, Bray Wyatt, and Cena. And I saw all those figures at a bunch of big lots and other discount stores. So I don't know what happened there. But yeah, it is a good figure. I'm going to go with you there. I like that. I like that Charlotte. My kid has it. He plays with it quite frequently. So let's go with that. I'll let you pick the next match on this long card.
00:41:22
Speaker
So let's, yeah, I know when they actually cut some of the matches out, I mean, we're not going to get Alistair and Sammy now, which I thought was going to be on the SummerSlam card. We're not going to get Cedric and Drew, which again, I thought would probably be on the SummerSlam card. Um, but yeah, so they've, they've cut a lot of the fat and I still feel like this is like a super bloated card. And, um, we don't even know what Roman's doing. Like we said, so we don't know if Roman's fighting or if we're just going to get some sort of like, you know,
00:41:50
Speaker
future setup for you know feuds going forward I don't know so yeah you better pack your pack your lunch and you know make sure you pace yourself on your beer drinking because this is gonna be a long a long night for us and this is I mean like I said this is one of my first
00:42:05
Speaker
paper views. I've watched some events over here, but this is my first super long event over here on the East Coast, so I'm going to be burning the midnight oil. I'm used to getting these things over with in the middle of the day, you know? Yeah, it's going to be a long night, but it'll be fun. If you're Jimmy's Famous Seafood, just call yourself an Uber. If you're at home, just hang tight. Make sure you're by the bathroom. It may wear some depends. You don't have to go to the bathroom.
00:42:29
Speaker
Yeah, just chase your beer with Red Bull. You'll be totally good to go. There you go. Let's go with KO versus Shane McMahon. Okay. And a few that's been building pretty nicely over on SmackDown, and two guys that can go as much as everyone is sick of Shane McMahon. I mean, he rises to the occasion in matches like this, so I think this one's going to be a barn burner.
00:42:54
Speaker
He does. Um, should we take bets on how much sweat he's going to be producing by the time he like dances down to the ring? Um, he had summer slam. He's going to be that, uh, that Matt Ryan shade of red for sure. Oh man. Taking shots at Matt Ryan is too early in the season for that. Um, but, um, yeah, I think this is going to be a good match.
00:43:19
Speaker
I hope, I can only hope that this rids us of the Shane era. I feel like Shane is the biggest problem with WWE TV right now. I mean, everything is going really well. I mean, Raw and SmackDown, it's been so refreshing for me.
00:43:37
Speaker
to be on the internet and on social media and hear people saying, Rob was really good. I enjoyed Smackdown versus like, you know, just ripping it to shreds every week. Um, but I still feel like we have this one big glaring flaw and that is Shane McMahon. He's just got all of these superstars like wrapped up in his Shane vortex and they're playing second fiddle to him. Like, like Drew McIntyre should be like the number one heel on Smackdown. You know, like he should be,
00:44:06
Speaker
the guy and he's not because he's playing second fiddle to Shane. You know, so here, here's this perfectly good superstar who needs a push, needs a title reign, like, you know, all these things and he's hiding in Shane's shadow. Um, and I just, I hate it. So anyway, hopefully KO puts, puts Shane out to pasture. I know he, uh, this week on TV, he tried to get Shane to put his career on the line and Shane refused.
00:44:35
Speaker
So I don't know if that's setting us up for like maybe at SummerSlam, like something will happen and he'll accept that offer. And then, um, you know, then KO actually overcomes the odds and beats him. I don't know. Um, I'm definitely pulling for KO in this one.
00:44:51
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to go KO here, too. I think it would be a nice change of pace to have him kind of win and put an end to this book here. I think we haven't, like, the last two, three weeks, but we haven't seen Lacey Evans or Baron Corbin since that Extreme Rules match. So maybe that's why people- Are you complaining? No, no, no. Maybe that's why people are loving life a little bit here. But I mean, yeah, you touched the nail on the head here. There's no Drew McIntyre. There's no Baron Corbin.
00:45:20
Speaker
Braun Strowman, no Roman Reigns, no Daniel Bryan, no Samoa Joe. I mean, this card is still pretty stacked without those guys. So it's a testament here. So I'm going to go Kevin Owens. Sounds like we're both going with Kevin Owens here. Best figure from these two gentlemen.
00:45:38
Speaker
I'm going with Elite 66, the Chase KO. It was the KO Mania 3. Did you have that one? I did, but I have a backup. Okay. I have the Ringside exclusive Shane McMahon figure. Okay. With the red.
00:45:55
Speaker
outfit. I'm going to pull it out right now. But yeah, I need to pull that one up, too. I love that KO. That's an awesome KO. Yeah, it's from the king of the ring when he fought Kurt Angle. Shame he did. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the red jersey. Yeah, I remember. Yep. Yeah, that is a really good figure. But yeah, I definitely think the KO. The KO mania three tops that one. Great figure.
00:46:23
Speaker
So let's get into, so you said you're taking KO in that, right? Yes. So we're pretty similar in all our matches here. Marco is keeping tracked here. So now we finally have an intern here to keep track of our predictions. We'll have to make some bets and some wagers or something.
00:46:38
Speaker
I know we never, we never remember a week to week, like the next week we'll be like, wait a minute, did I pick this person? Um, you know, because some of these matches I'm really close. Like, you know, they're more picking for pay for you. Sometimes it's like, it's like bio, like hair. I'm like, well, my heart's telling me one thing, but the logic is telling me another thing.
00:46:54
Speaker
You know, it's hard to remember if you went with your heart or your head, you know. I want to talk about Finn Balor, hopefully demon Finn Balor and the Fiend Bray Wyatt.
The Fiend vs. Finn Balor Anticipation
00:47:05
Speaker
So we saw Bray Wyatt interrupt the the Drew Cedric match this week and attack Kurt Angle with the mandible claw, which I'm assuming that's his thing now. Like that's maybe that's the second time he's done it. Yeah, you know, so
00:47:20
Speaker
It was pretty cool. Maybe like, you know, him attacking Mick Foley. That was like a passing of the torch, you know, to use the, to use the mandible claw, which, you know, I'm cool with that. I don't mind the mandible claw. Um, but I feel like then we saw the, the Firefly Fun House this week. And I said this months ago, whenever this thing first started kicking off is like WWE has a way of running these things into the ground.
00:47:48
Speaker
to where you're not even excited to see them anymore. I remember when the Firefly Funhouse first started and I'd be like, oh my God, what's gonna happen? And now I'm just like, these look the same every week. They're not any different.
00:48:02
Speaker
Yeah, they haven't changed them up enough. And it's just kind of now that the character has kind of been in ring and we've seen him in person, the vignettes kind of lose a little bit. It's a little bit of a mystery gone. But I just don't think they're making them dark. They need to just become darker and darker and darker. But they're not really doing that. They're just kind of being more tiptoeing around the subject. So it's lost a little bit for sure.
00:48:28
Speaker
Yeah, I'm hopeful though. I'm hopeful because we have not seen like, you know, I don't want to give up on it yet because we have not even seen the Fiend wrestle in ring yet and see what it's all about, what it's going to be like, the experience, the entrance, any of that stuff. Right. We've only seen him just kind of like pop up in the middle of these matches and interrupt things. Um,
00:48:48
Speaker
So I'm excited to see how that all plays out. And then again, I'm excited to see whether or not Finn brings, brings the demon out to play because, um, if he doesn't, that's going to be a huge disappointment. I know, um, from what I had read, Finn had asked for some time off. So I think this would be the perfect time for him to, you know, if he gets beat to take some time off, you know, and like I had mentioned before, maybe come back and join, um, join the OC as they are.
00:49:16
Speaker
So lovingly known now Yeah, I don't think we see The demon I think that's gonna be saved for another time and I think they haven't mentioned it at all No, nothing. Nothing. They always want to promote that, you know, pretty hard course and I'm gonna go with the fiend
00:49:33
Speaker
Bray Wyatt here. I'm excited to see him. He looks good. He looks like a totally different guy. He's slimmed down quite a bit. I think everyone's interested to see if he's going to wrestle in that mask. I'm assuming he is because he's, you know, he hasn't really shown, he hasn't appeared as the fiend without that mask. So I think that's, that's, you know, that's it. That's what makes it. That's the gimmick. That's the whole thing. Yeah. I mean, and this is, this is a must win for Bray Wyatt. If he loses here. Oh my God.
00:49:59
Speaker
though the month's worth of buildup is for nothing is for nothing so um they they have to he has to win here you know what i mean like no no no offense to finn like i love finn i i don't like to see finn lose but if bray white doesn't win here like i'm i'm done with the fiend already you know i'm like okay well this is the same bray white that we that we knew and loved back in the day you know the the lovable loser
00:50:23
Speaker
Yeah, it has to be different this time. And I think it will be. I think they have something pretty good here that they don't want to spoil, especially if Finn wants to go on a break. Just put the mandible claw on them and just hold it down. Have like 100 refs come out and try to separate them and just put them on the shelf for a while. So yeah, I think we're in agreement here with Finn Balor. I'll let you pick the figure here. Actually, no, you picked the KO one. I'm going to go first here, god damn it.
00:50:50
Speaker
Yeah, we're picking, we picked Fiend. We're picking the Fiend. Yeah, we're picking the Fiend. Yeah, we're picking the Fiend. So you're going first with your figure? I'm going first with my figure. All right. I'm going Finn Balor Elite 46. This is my, this is one of the first Finn Balor demon figures, but I mean, it's like the NXT packaging.
00:51:09
Speaker
And it's just a perfect figure. I mean, they've made a lot since then. They've all been pretty good. This one is just, you know, it's a perfect, a perfect Finn Balor demon figure. And, uh, I think it's, you know, just nothing you can say about it. I mean, they have the, it has the hat, has the tassels, uh, the paints well done. And, uh, doesn't hurt that it was at, uh, Toys R Us on, you know, on the pegs when they were closing and you can get it for pretty cheap. So.
00:51:35
Speaker
Yeah, that is definitely an epic figure. I'm going with, for sentimental reasons, I'm going with Bray Wyatt Elite 28 figure. It was our very first Mattel Elite. I told this story not too long ago on the show, but we got it autographed by Bray. It was the figure that started
00:51:54
Speaker
love for Mattel elites so I'll always have a special place for that Bray Elite and I love that version of Bray with the the linen pants and like the cult leader and like the you know the the voodoo the voodoo mama juju I love his little Hawaiian shirt and the hat like I loved that Bray Wyatt so I'll always have a special place for for that figure for sure
00:52:18
Speaker
Very nice. Let's go over to a match that we didn't think was going to happen. It's Goldberg versus Dolph Ziegler. It's originally supposed to be Dolph Ziegler versus Miz. And I crapped on it last week and said this was what, the 22nd or 23rd time these guys have met on TV or pay-per-view. So they changed it up on us, but I really thought we were getting Shawn Michaels, Dolph Ziegler, and they swerved us, bro.
00:52:42
Speaker
Yeah. Um, it was, it was a good, it was a good surprise. You know, um, they, you know, Ms told him they were in the middle of the ring doing the contract signing and he told him, you know, you didn't read the fine print. You know, you're not facing me. Um, you're facing someone else. Well, the obvious answer is he's standing in the ring with Sean Michaels. He turns to Sean Michaels and Sean Michaels says, well, it's not me. And then all of a sudden, yeah, then Goldberg's music hits and you know,
00:53:12
Speaker
I got a good pop and I'm excited to see Goldberg and Dolph. I think it could be a really good match. Again, um, breaking kayfabe here. I think it's just like that, that he's trying to erase that horrible super showdown memory from all of our, all of our memories. Um, he's trying to erase that, that from us. And I think it's.
00:53:32
Speaker
You know, just kind of like the Undertaker did when he fought at Extreme Rules with Roman Reigns. He had a much better showing than he did at Super Showdown. So I'm excited to see what he does. And I mean, I love Dolph and I love Goldberg. So I'm there for it. But you think this match will last longer than 90 seconds?
00:53:49
Speaker
Oh, I was just going to ask you something similar. I was going to say three minutes. I think it does. But I think Dolph Ziggler is taking the L here. And I think he better sell his ass off. He should be bouncing all around that ring. And they did pick somebody, obviously, for Goldberg to be able to get that jack hammer, whatever it's called.
00:54:12
Speaker
the jack hammer jack knife whatever it is but you know Goldberg's best Asia behind him but he's still a draw I mean you add him to this this card and it definitely adds some big name appeal
00:54:28
Speaker
I'm not that he would come out during this match, but I'm wondering, I guess the rumor is or the news is that the Undertaker signed this new lifetime contract to be with the WWE for basically forever. I wonder if he makes an appearance here at SummerSlam. And like you said, they're pulling out all the stops.
00:54:44
Speaker
They have so many big names here that, you know, you're bringing Tristratus out of retirement. Uh, Goldberg, it's, I mean, it's, I don't think it's out of, out of reach, but, uh, I think, yeah, I think Goldberg wins this thing in pretty short order.
00:54:59
Speaker
Yeah, I don't, I don't think it's going to be, I don't think it's going to be a long, a long match at all. And like you said, I think it's just going to be pretty much, I don't know if Dolph is even going to get in any offense on this, on this match. Um, I think it's just going to be a total squash. They may surprise us. Um, but yeah, I'm going, I'm going with Goldberg here.
00:55:17
Speaker
Marco is letting me know that Goldberg is rumored for more matches here on this run.
Goldberg vs. Dolph Ziggler Expectations
00:55:23
Speaker
I don't think, I mean, they kept this pretty quiet too. They didn't really, usually you hear like, oh, the WWE is negotiating with so and so about, you know, we didn't hear any of that with this Goldberg thing. So I mean, they kept that close to the vest. That's good. Maybe they're learning.
00:55:37
Speaker
You'd like you said I mean Goldberg's best days are behind him, but I mean he still just looks amazing You know what I mean? He still is like an incredible an incredible shape and I think I mean I don't know we haven't really gotten to see a true like a
00:55:55
Speaker
match with him. You know what I mean? Everything's either been a squash or it's like some, you know, we haven't gotten to see like an actual real match. So I'm excited to see if he does have more matches. Like, you know, he can't just squash everyone, right? I mean, I know that was like his thing back in the day, but I mean, that's going to get old really quickly.
00:56:12
Speaker
the the
00:56:30
Speaker
Let's go to AJ Styles, the US champion defending against Ricochet. These guys have traded the title back and forth here and they've had some pretty good matches and no reason to think this one will be any different, Sheena.
00:56:45
Speaker
No, but I'm not going to let you talk about that match until you tell me what your favorite figure is out of Goldberg and Dolph. Oh my God, what is wrong with me tonight? Ah, you're right. Jesus, you skipping figure talk? I mean, what is happening here? I know. I'm going to go Ziegler Elite 24 with the little pink biker shorts. This was the one. Interesting. Yeah, I believe this is the figure when he cashed in on Del Rio. I'm pretty sure. I don't have that in front of me.
00:57:12
Speaker
It's an older figure, he's got the short hair, kind of the bleach blonde look, but this was prime Ziegler here.
00:57:21
Speaker
Oh my gosh. Yeah. That face sculpt is not great though. That's like the Bailey, like the network spotlight Bailey with like the open mouth and like the, you know, the yelling face. Um, but yeah, that is definitely an early Dolph. I'm also picking Dolph, but I'm picking Dolph, uh, elite 48. And ironically, this is Dolph like wearing his best Sean Michaels gear.
00:57:47
Speaker
He's got the chains and the red and silver. It's a really, really cool figure. I love that doll figure. I almost picked this one, too. But the face on it is, I mean, they haven't really gotten the face right on either of these figures. But it does not look like him. But I do like, if it wasn't for the face, not that the one I picked was any better, I do love this. I like him better in the long pants for some reason. I like all men in long pants. I don't like anything shorter than that.
00:58:16
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I'm definitely for wrestling in, in pants. I think, you know, that's always been my favorite look. I mean, some guys can pull off trunks. That's cool, but I, and some guys wear the singlet, but yeah, my favorite wrestling look is like pants. And you know, whether you want to wear a top or not, that's completely up to you and your physique. But, um, I do think like, you know, pants and boots. That's my, that's my favorite look.
00:58:40
Speaker
But yeah, this Elite 48, it does have the Jack Nicholson eyebrows. Yeah, it does. But I love, love, love the ring gear from this one. But yeah, so let's jump into what you were just talking about, AJ versus Ricochet for the United States Championship. I mean, let's be real.
00:58:59
Speaker
There's no doubt that these guys are going to put on an epic match, right? If given the time placement on the card, all of these things matter, right? We've seen before that like these matches, some, there's been some matches that we've seen before that were supposed to be epic. And because of like the card placement and you know, the time they were given, like it just was not good. So I think this could be really super awesome. Um, and I think,
00:59:26
Speaker
I don't know. I don't, I think I'm going with AJ on this. I know Ricochet, I mean, he earned his spot in that gauntlet match. Um, you know, he's, he's the, the underdog, the, the, you know, baby face, all of that. But I think, I think AJ is keeping this one, man. I can, I think the OC is, is there to reign for a little while.
00:59:44
Speaker
I agree. I think AJ is keeping the belt, but I think Ricochet wins this match with some sort of interference from the club, from the Good Brothers or something wonky happening where we can keep this thing going for a little bit longer. I think Ricochet wins by disqualification, let's call it. I don't know if that's a cheap way out here.
01:00:05
Speaker
No, I could see that. I could 100% see that. Yeah. But I mean, it's going to be this. This is probably one of the matches I'm most excited for. This is match of the night quality, you know, contender here, I would say, even though they've wrestled, you know, several times before already on Raw and a couple other papers. But it's always been good. Yeah, it's always good. It's like that Andrade Rey Mysterio match we've seen 20 times now. I mean, I'll watch that every week. You know, it's always a damn good match. So this is no different.
01:00:33
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. I have AJ going over in this one too. Again, I don't think it's going to be a clean win, but I do think he's going to get a definitive win in this match. And you have kind of a win by disqualification. But either way, we both have AJ. My favorite AJ figure is Elite 51 AJ. He's got the black and silver gear. It's got the vest with the removable hood.
01:00:56
Speaker
Love this version of AJ. It's just such a beautiful figure. I love the face scan, everything about it. So Elite 51 AJ is my pick. What about you?
01:01:06
Speaker
I looked that one up. I don't remember that one. I'm going to go with the Elite Network Spotlight, AJ Styles, from his WrestleMania 33 match with the white attire, has like a red glove and a blue glove, and just a great figure. He's looked pretty similar in a lot of his elites, but this one kind of stood out with the white outfit. So he's had some, I mean,
01:01:32
Speaker
For a guy that's only been in the company for, what, five, six years maybe? I mean, he's easily has 10, 12 elites.
01:01:41
Speaker
He's a top pick, bro. He is a fan favorite. People love them some AJ Styles. So yeah, it's no surprise to me that he always sells a boatload of figures, even though a lot of them are very, like you said, very, very similar. So love that. Is that the last match on the card besides Rollins Lesnar, right?
01:02:04
Speaker
Yeah, I do want to give a shout out to that Elite 66. AJ Styles is really nice too with the baby blue shirt. That's, you know, he's probably his newest Elite, but that's a great one too. Yeah, I think the last match we have is the main event here, which we've seen before, but it's, they've built this match.
Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar Main Event
01:02:25
Speaker
I mean, do you remember a main event build as good as they've done with this match over the last two, three weeks? It's been, I mean,
01:02:32
Speaker
As much as we should on WWE or criticize WWE on this podcast, I gotta give them some love for how they've built this into a match we've seen before between two guys. It just feels like it's gonna be a big fight feel, like a USC type of feel or something.
01:02:52
Speaker
Yeah, you know, after last week, I know last week we were kind of like, we were talking about how they fought, you know, over and over again. And we were like, you know, we feel like we've seen this match so many times. But then I was like, let me think about this for a minute. So after we quit recording, I was like thinking about it. And honestly, like, as many times as we've seen them face off and as much buildup as we've seen with the matches with them in, you know, previous years,
01:03:16
Speaker
They haven't had a true definitive match, just a hardcore, hard-fought match between the two of them, right? So WrestleMania 31, obviously we know what happened there. It was a hard-fought match between Roman.
01:03:31
Speaker
and Brock and then Seth cashed in at the last minute. So you can't really count that as a legit Brock and Seth match, right? Then you had Royal Rumble 2015, um, you know, the triple threat with John Cena and Brock, which was an amazing match. I want to say it was like one of our retro wrestling recommendations of the week. And if you haven't seen that, you should still go back and watch that. Um, it's, it's just an incredible match. Um, but it was a triple threat match. So again, not just a one-on-one head to head against Brock and Seth. Then they had battleground.
01:04:01
Speaker
Battlegrounds 2015 at the end Undertaker interfered, right? So like, you know, Brock was doing the F5 and then Undertaker interfered. So we didn't really get a definitive ending to that match either. Extreme Rules recently Brock cashed in, but that was after, you know, Seth and Becky had been fighting Lacey and Baron and then WrestleMania or WrestleMania 35, obviously before that, we got that. But like,
01:04:25
Speaker
He was doing low, like Seth was doing low blows. It wasn't the best performance. It was kind of a squash by Seth, you know, by all measures, right? So I'm excited to see if this is like the true match between these two guys.
01:04:39
Speaker
Yeah, I kind of think it is. I think that they want a position. I mean, Seth has taken a beating over the last month or so. I mean, his stock has plummeted from the most social media kind of troll, smart assholes out there that used to be riding his coattails. And now he says two things and gets outspoken about something. And he's not the darling anymore. But he's still the best pound for pound guy in this company. And I think he's going to show it in this match.
01:05:08
Speaker
I think Lesnar wants to give him a full, not send off, but he wants to elevate. I mean, we saw in that 24-7 on the network that he got pissed off that he couldn't lose the belt to Roman. I think he wants to give Seth a big push here and I think Seth goes over. I think Seth wins the title back and we kind of run this thing back again and kind of hit the restart button.
01:05:33
Speaker
Yeah, that's exactly, you know, we've talked about it over the last few weeks. I think this is just a way to kind of reset the system, give Seth a definitive win, reboot his title run since creative really screwed up his previous run, hitching his wagon to Baron Corbin, which was just horrible. You know, no offense to Baron Corbin. I mean, Baron Corbin is a great wrestler too, but that whole period of time was just
01:05:59
Speaker
awful, you know, um, and Seth was lumped right into that, which was, which was again, awful. You know, as the universal champion, like he should not have been lumped into a few, a long ongoing feud.
01:06:12
Speaker
with Baron freaking Corbin, right? So I think this is a kind of way to just kind of like wipe the slate clean, start fresh. The week before, the whole getting F5'd on the gurney and, you know, getting beat up by Brock, like I freaking loved it. It was amazing. Like I was like, holy shit. But this week, I had a little bit different sentiment. It just kind of like...
01:06:39
Speaker
I don't know. Like I didn't like how Seth limped out and kind of like feebly got into the ring and then got his ass kicked and then was like giving this like speech with which nobody responded to. I don't know if you paid attention to the to the audience and the crowd, but like everybody was just kind of like dead, you know, and.
01:06:58
Speaker
You know me, I don't like to criticize things that Seth Rollins does cause I'm a huge Seth Rollins mark myself, but I was like, Oh, that was not the best. That was not, that was not the best showing of your, of your mic skills and your acting chops. You know what I mean? It was just kind of like, he was like, I'm, I will be at SummerSlam and I will beat Brock Lesnar.
01:07:17
Speaker
I guarantee it, you know, and it was just, I don't know. I just was not a fan of it. Seth got, he was, my Seth, the heel husband was making fun of me for not liking it. He was like, well, how can you say you don't like it? I'm like, because it was just corny, you know? But I do think it is going to be a match of epic proportions. And I know they're just trying to set up for this complete underdog story. You know, like he's completely battered and bruised right now. So how is he going to show up to SummerSlam?
01:07:47
Speaker
and beat the beast, you know, or slay the beast. Um, but he's going to, you know, I agree. And, uh, Marco, let me know. We only disagreed on two matches, so we'll have to like, if this was Fox, Fox news would be fired. We're supposed to disagree on everything. Uh, but, uh, you know, I think that's just that we think that we're both really smart. You know, that's how it goes. We can't help it if, we can't help it if we're right. We've been different on a lot of these figures, so people can vote on those. Do you want to go first or do you want me to go first on this Lesnar Ron's figure?
01:08:17
Speaker
I will go first. My favorite is Elite 45. Oh, no, motherfucker. White Ranger Rollins from SummerSlam 2015 when he was double champ, US title. That's not a wrong answer. So I mean, you picked the right figure. True. You just let me go first and steal your thunder. But I just love that figure.
01:08:45
Speaker
he like Seth Rollins has went on record and said like that gear will never be worn again like it's actually in like the whatever they call like the WWE like archives you know like they it's it they own it WWE owns that now and it's gonna be part I mean they'll take it to access and all these different things but I just remember because you know me I'm a Seth Rollins mark like he always worn black like just black black and gray black on black on black you know the whole thing um and then for SummerSlam
01:09:14
Speaker
Just comes out in this all white and gold Attire and I was just like jaw dropped, you know, I mean he's done lots of crazy things since then but that was really the first time that I remember him just like Completely changing up his gear and it was just like amazing and of course they nailed that figure and I love it so much and
01:09:36
Speaker
I might jump on eBay while we're recording this show and buy this figure because I love it that much as well. Yeah. We did the same figure kind of picking thing for WrestleMania. I picked the money in the bank, Seth Rollins, which I have. It's a great question. That's an amazing figure, too. That's number two. That's my number two Rollins figure.
Seth Rollins' Heel Run and Figure Value
01:09:55
Speaker
Yeah, I wanted to do something different, so I didn't want to pick that again. So yeah, this 45 lead is perfect. And it ties in with SummerSlam, too. So it's perfect. And this was right when Seth Rollins was in this heel run, which was awesome. But like you said, he'd always worn black on black. And since this outfit, I mean, he's had Karp launch to just go over the top with the Night King and Chicago Bears colors and everything under the sun. Yeah, Thanos.
01:10:24
Speaker
Yeah, so it's been pretty cool to watch. So this figure is pretty expensive on eBay right now. So if anyone has an extra one they want to sell me, let me know. What's the going right? Look at the most recent sold listings and let me know what it's actually selling for, because you can't go buy.
01:10:42
Speaker
what it's listed for. You know, look at the most recent sold listings and let me know because I I'd be interested to know what that figure is going for. But yeah, that is our SummerSlam card.
Need for Tag Team Wrestling Importance
01:10:55
Speaker
Man, that is it's a lot of matches. I'm super excited. I think all these matches have potential to be really, really, really, really good. But yeah, it's just going to be how how they how they let them play out, you know, and what what how they're going to set up
01:11:12
Speaker
going forward, you know, like what's going to be set up at SummerSlam for for the future and for the fall. So that's going to be exciting, too. Do we not have a single tag team match on this card? No, no, no, no tag titles. No, not a single. We have we have three tag team championships in the WWE and not a single one of them is being defended on
01:11:53
Speaker
having any tag team wrestling, but I did pick a tag, a tag team match for our wrestling, retro wrestling recommendation of the week for you guys who want to see some amazing tag, some tag wrestling. So stay tuned for that. But yeah, I was, I was really shocked when I was going through the card, like what the hell, you know? Wow. Like why not? You know, and we talked about this before, but like they, they, they have to make tag wrestling mean something, right? Like.
01:12:03
Speaker
this SummerSlam card.
01:12:17
Speaker
They need to consolidate the branded tag titles and just have one, right? And that way when you win it, it actually is important and it actually means something. You know, it's like, it's a big deal when you win the WWE tag titles, right?
24/7 Title Changes and Comedy
01:12:33
Speaker
Wouldn't that be better than like having two sets of tag titles floating around and like, you know, three tag teams on each brand. I mean, there's not really a brands anymore, but you know what I mean? Like fighting for these same, these titles all the time. I think it, I think it just kind of waters it down a bit.
01:12:48
Speaker
I totally agree. I have another question that Marco can add to our tally here. The 24 seven title, does it get, does it change hands zero times one time or two or more times during this show? Two or more times. I think it's going to change hands on the pre-show. Um, and then something's going to happen during the show too.
01:13:12
Speaker
Um, I have, I have no doubt. I'll say, I'm going to say one time. Okay. Okay. You going pre-show or main show? Uh, go main show. Okay.
01:13:23
Speaker
Yeah, I am. So if for those of you who didn't watch, uh, our truth is again, unless it's changed chance since then, I haven't been on a WWE social media, but, um, our truth is again, the 24 seven champion, Mike Kanellis pinned his wife at the OBGYN appointment, which I don't, I think you may have said that I said it was going to be Carmela. And I think you may have, you may have mentioned that Mike could pin her. Um, but he pender and then our truth was in the waiting room. He pinned Mike and him and Carmela ran off with the 24 seven with the 24 seven title. So.
01:13:53
Speaker
Who knows what can happen at SummerSlam? We didn't even discuss Roman Reigns, which I think is a big question
Roman Reigns' Storyline Critique
01:14:02
Speaker
mark. What is going to happen with Roman Reigns? Are we to assume, because it was very confusing the way that they ended Raw or SmackDown, are we to assume that he's fighting Roman at
01:14:15
Speaker
at SummerSlam or is it just like are they going to set something up for going forward? Was it even Rowan? Like what's the deal?
01:14:25
Speaker
I just want someone legitimate to fight Roman Reigns that can actually get a win over him. If you put him against Eric Rowan, I'm not an Eric Rowan hater, but he's just going to squash Eric Rowan and then keep moving on. Give me something. We talked about this during the Elias feud. He just beat Elias two straight times, three straight times, and he beat Drew McIntyre two or three straight times. That's why people end up booing Roman Reigns, because
01:14:52
Speaker
It's not really him. It's like you don't even give us any like threat of like that. He could actually lose a match. So why even to get invested in him or the matches and the character? It's just, you know, and I don't know. Marco says he thinks the Roman match will be a filler after the short Goldberg match. I could see that.
01:15:16
Speaker
But it's like, I mean, I can't believe at this point in Roman's career, he's like going to be a filler match. You know what I mean? Like, and that's kind of what they've, what they've like.
01:15:25
Speaker
presented us, you know, like, where, like, where's Roman Reigns going to be? You know, and, and you know, it would have been cooler if he was fighting Daniel Bryan, which I wouldn't understand that feud anyway. I mean, Daniel never made his life altering announcement. I, I, that's what made me think maybe it could be Daniel Bryan. Maybe it was something to do with Roman Reigns, but then it was just Rowan. Um, and then I was really marking out because he went into the locker room and cleared out the locker room and it was him and buddy Murphy. And I was like, okay, I'm here for this.
01:15:53
Speaker
And it didn't end up being anything, you know, so, um, that was kind of a, that was kind of a wet fart, you know, that it was like, they were going to make us think it was buddy Murphy. And then they give us.
01:16:06
Speaker
mother effing Rowan, like if you're going to make us think it's buddy Murphy, you better give us somebody like fucking stone cold Steve Austin to like make us pop after that. You know what I mean? Um, and then, but instead you like give us Rowan and I just did not understand it. I didn't understand how it ended with them just standing in the ring, looking all perplexed, like, Oh, you know, like the Tim Allen, I feel like it was Tim Allen. Yeah. Home improvement noise. Um, but.
01:16:31
Speaker
Yeah, we shall see what happens with Roman on on Sunday and I'll be interested to see if he actually fights or if it's just something that you know continues to develop over over the TV shows Do you have any big plans for I know you always cook a nice
SummerSlam Viewing Plans
01:16:46
Speaker
meal? Do you have a theme for all your food at pay-per-use? What's going on for the first major pay-per-view and the new digs?
01:16:54
Speaker
So for SummerSlam, we'll probably just order out. We'll probably get wings or something like that to make it easy since it's gonna be a long show. We'll probably just settle in. The last thing you wanna be doing after a long pay-per-view like that is like cleaning the kitchen. So we'll probably order out. But for TakeOver, we always do NXT Stakeover and we always have steak. So this time since it's in Toronto, we're gonna cook us up some steaks and then we're gonna have poutine to make it very thematic.
01:17:22
Speaker
Yeah. Very, very Canadian. So we're going to, I'm going to make up some, make us up some poutine and steak. And that is going to be our meal for NXT steak over. What about you guys?
01:17:32
Speaker
Uh, no plans whatsoever. Uh, I will be watching. I don't know if we'll be watching takeover live or not. I got some plans on Saturday night, but, uh, I'm excited for summer slam with a four year old. Uh, I'm trying to get him excited to watch, but it's, it's tough because with these long shows, I mean, he doesn't see anybody he really like is invested in until he's already been asleep for two hours. So, uh, it'd be fun. Uh, I like being able to watch with him and, um,
01:18:00
Speaker
Are you watching at the house, or are you watching at Jimmy's Famous Seafood? No, just at the house, because I wanted to hang out with him, because he's kind of pumped to see some people. So yeah, we're just going to watch it at home here. It's going to be a long night, too. So I don't want to be out. True. You can't take the kid. Yeah, you can't take the kid out for that long. What about you, Marco? Where are you watching? I have some plans on Saturday. It's a party I'm going to, but definitely have a phone on me. So I'll probably be watching NXT while I'm at the party.
01:18:32
Speaker
I mean, she doesn't, I mean, I'll just hide the phone. Um, but, um, Sunday, um, probably going over to buddy's house, um, and watching it just a group of us. We usually do that. Um, the big pair of views, we all get together and, um, watch the paper views together. So probably ended up doing something like that.
01:18:53
Speaker
That's fun. It must be nice to have like wrestling friends. Like all my wrestling friends are virtual. So I don't have any like, I don't have any like live and in-person wrestling.
01:19:01
Speaker
wrestling friends we usually like when we lived in Hawaii we would invite people over like some people over like watch mania and stuff like that obviously that was before we had the babyface but you know just some friends because they like they used to be into wrestling but they enjoy they'll still enjoy it and watch what we got going on now without being like hypercritical or anything so we had a couple of friends that we would invite over for that but yeah for the most part it's always just me and the heel husband and the babyface hanging out watching watching pay per views at the crib
01:19:28
Speaker
Well, you guys are both close enough that we can do a Jimmy's Seafood.
NXT TakeOver Preview
01:19:32
Speaker
Just bring all the families and all the kids, and we'll just crash at the Hotel Gentile here. And you can go to Jimmy's Seafood and get a big Uber back, and I'll hang out.
01:19:43
Speaker
Yeah. Like we need an Uber with six car seats. Yeah. Marco needs three. You're going to need two. I need one. So yeah, that's tough. Yeah. That would be, that would be an exciting, exciting Uber ride home. But we would be able to watch a single minute of any wrestling. We just need to, yeah, we just need to rent a big banquet hall. I think that needs to be our, our needs to be our plan, you know, and then just everybody bring like cots and a pack and plays and we can just all like crash at the, at the banquet hall.
01:20:13
Speaker
Um, but yeah, so yeah, we'll just be here. Um, and then like I said, Saturday, you guys, I'll be watching takeover live because takeover it like, you know, we don't have anything going on on Saturday. So we takeovers, what we have going on on Saturday. So that's what we'll be watching. Um, and then we're going to run over the card really quickly. We're not going to go too in depth. We'll just pick our, pick our winners, um, for the takeover matches. It's going to be an awesome card as usual takeover always sets the bar so freaking high.
01:20:39
Speaker
especially for these bigger events like SummerSlam and Mania weekend. I feel like the TakeOver, the NXT crew always pulls out all the stops and just puts on a freaking hellacious match.
01:20:52
Speaker
Oh, man, 100%. And there's some names on this car that are not on here. And I think there's maybe a reason why. We'll get to that at the end. But let's start with Io Shirai versus Candice LeRae. Yeah, former buddies gone sour. Yeah, I love the turn that they've done with Io Shirai. I'm thinking it's tough with Shayna Baszler still as a champion to really promote another heel here. But Io Shirai seems to have all the momentum here. Candice LeRae is like the
01:21:19
Speaker
You know, almost like the Bayley 2.0 kind of the underdog type of character. Yeah, I feel like she's always going to be known as like Johnny Gargano's wife. You know, like I feel like she's just going to have kind of like that that title. And I think she's going to get the crap kicked out of her by by Io Shirai. So I'm definitely going with Io Shirai in this one. All right. Shayna Baszler versus Mia Yim for the NXT Women's Championship. I love me some Mia Yim, but I don't see her beating Shayna Baszler here. What say you?
01:21:49
Speaker
I don't know. I don't see anybody beating Shayna Baszler. It's so hard for me to imagine anyone beating her at this point. Like it's like, I mean, it could be anyone at any time, depending on who, who, who's ready to take the next, the next title reign. You know what I mean? Like, you know, they, they could push anybody at any moment. Um, but.
01:22:06
Speaker
I just feel like Shayna's been so dominating and just such a force in NXT. I mean, she's had that title since ever freaking Lucian. Do you know what I mean? Like think about how long ago you watched evolution and like that's how long Shayna Baszler has been the freaking champ. Um, so Mia Yim, I think it's going to be a hellacious match again. I love her. I think she's an awesome contender for Shayna.
01:22:30
Speaker
But yeah, I'm going with Shayna Baszler. I think she's gonna, I think with the help of the horsewomen, Shayna cannot lose. She's been, yeah, she's been champion. We started the podcast like middle of October and she's been champion since like a couple of days before Halloween. So almost a year now. It feels like it's been, honestly, it feels longer than that. Yeah. So yeah, it's been a nice run for her. She's definitely earned it.
01:22:57
Speaker
This might be the match of the weekend. Velveteen Dream, Pete Dunne, and Roderick Strong for the North American Championship. Of these three guys, Roderick Strong is the least known name, but god damn it, that guy is freaking strong. I don't even call it strong style. I don't even know what you call it, Sheena, but every move he does sounds like it's a career ender. I don't know.
01:23:25
Speaker
Trying to stay here.
Weekend Highlights and Predictions
01:23:27
Speaker
I totally get what you're, he's a hard hitter. He's a hard hitter. Freaking, joining the undisputed era was by far and away the most career altering thing that happened to Roderick Strong. Like he was great before, you know, but he was kind of like that, you know, underdog babyface. Ty Dillinger, right? I mean, I would put him in the same class.
01:23:49
Speaker
Yeah, exactly exactly and it's I feel like they elevated him to a different level and I think when you're competing with that level of talent, you know with Adam Cole and Bobby Fish and all those guys like I think
01:24:05
Speaker
he just really stepped his game up and got to really show what he's capable of. And I mean, he's awesome. And like you said, I feel like this could be match. This could be like match of the night, match of the weekend contender. It's going to be a freaking banger. I mean, there's, and all three of these guys have like three different styles of wrestling, which I think is like so super cool. You know, I'm excited to see like these three, these three guys go head to head. I do think, I mean, Roddy's probably,
01:24:32
Speaker
the least likely to win but at the same time I feel like he could because this could be that opportunity for undisputed era to take all the gold. You know like the thing that we've been talking about for months and months and months you know the thing that they promised us you know last year that this was like this year 2019 was going to be the year that undisputed era was dripping in championship gold
01:24:56
Speaker
Like this could be the moment, right? And when we got We got them fighting for the tag titles. We got freaking Roddy fighting for the North American title and then we got Adam Cole fighting for the NXT title. So
01:25:10
Speaker
Pretty fun, yeah. I'm going to say, it's really tough here. I'm going to say Pete Dunne wins this, and they strap a rocket to him. I don't know. I think there was a reason they called him up here. True. I think he's going to be on this heavy name, a big name on NXT leading into WrestleMania before he makes his debut on the main roster. But I think this is the beginning of the Pete Dunne show. Yeah.
01:25:39
Speaker
Yeah, I have to agree. I think it's going to be. I know. Actually, you know what? I'm not going to agree. I'm going to go with my original. I'm going to go with my original prediction. I think Roderick Strong is going to be the new North American chain. I'd love to see that. That'd be cool.
01:25:55
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going with Roddy. So make sure you no take that Marco. We disagree. We disagreed on one. So yeah, I'm going with Roderick Strong. I'm so pumped to see, to see this match. So next up we have street profits versus undisputed era. Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby fish. Um, dude, this is going to be a freaking banger too. I don't know if you got to watch any of NXT tonight, but, um, Montes,
01:26:21
Speaker
cut a freaking killer promo on Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly like in the middle of the ring they were doing the contract signing and he was talking about how amazing undisputed era is how they've been featured on every NXT takeover since they debuted and how they've won all these championships and been given all these opportunities and you know everybody knows the undisputed era and all this stuff and you know he's like building these guys up you're thinking like where is this going you know
01:26:48
Speaker
And then he's like, you know, so if you thought that, you know, um, that I, what did he say? If you thought that I, that losing was an option, like, you know, it's not. So I mean, he's like bringing it all to the table. You know, he's like, all these people, they finally get to see us. You know, we've been down here grinding. We've been doing the damn thing in NXT and these people and the people at home, like they finally get to see us. Like if you think we're going to give it up now, like you're, you're effing crazy. You know what I mean? He just cut this killer promo. Obviously I'm not doing it a damn bit of justice because I'm not Montez Ford. I'm not a freaking
01:27:18
Speaker
star, but it was so good. And so I don't know as much as I want the street profits to retain, I think Undisputed Era could possibly win this again for the same reason them winning all the gold. But maybe Adam Cole loses and then they just all get called up. And you know, we never see any of the Undisputed Era and NXT again, it can be the complete and polar opposite of what I'm thinking.
01:27:46
Speaker
Ah, man, this is tough. This is really tough. I feel like now that the Street Profits are on Raw every single week, they've kind of hinted that these guys are going to be up on the main roster. And I'm kind of doubling down. I'm siding with you here. If Roderick Strong does win, I'm assuming that we're going to get straight gold for everybody in undisputed era. So I want to say they win the tag team titles here.
01:28:11
Speaker
Yeah, I think undisputed era. I mean, I hate to see the Street Profits reign in so briefly, but like you said, I think they've been really getting some shine up on Raw. I think people are seeing them and loving what they're seeing, and I think they're going to call them up.
01:28:28
Speaker
I don't know. Part of me thinks like if they lose, like, do I want Montes Ford to go off and get a singles push on his own? Like I hate leaving Angelo Dawkins in the dust, but I mean, I feel like he's kind of like a, an anchor for, for Montes, you know?
01:28:43
Speaker
Montez Ford is the star here, obviously. I think they're going to be a tag team for a while on the main roster, and then they split up. I don't know if they don't do that enough. What was the last time we've seen a tag team split up and promote one guy to the moon and just use it as a feud? That was the way they did everything back in the day.
01:29:04
Speaker
and we just don't see that enough. I think that you could do that with these guys and have like a six month, I mean they did do that with Champa and Gargano, so I guess that's the big one here. Everyone's probably yelling at their radio right now as I'm talking, but that just shows you how well this can be done. I mean both those guys came out smelling like roses from that, and I think you could do that here with street profits at a different level.
01:29:44
Speaker
Adam Cole.
01:29:47
Speaker
Angela were friends too, right? But I mean, like they had like a history together. Like they legit were like friends. And I think that's what really made them have the chemistry that they have. And just, it was just like, there's nothing like Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano, like their whole, their whole story arc, you know, it's just freaking incredible. And I don't, I don't think we've seen the end of it either. I think there, I think there's still so much more to, to tell, but that's not, that's where another, that's where another show, but, um,
01:30:15
Speaker
Yeah. Um, I'm going to go with undisputed era here. Um, because again, I think, I think it could be a thing for the street profits to get called up. I hope, like I said, I hope they get called up and Montez does his own thing. Um, because obviously they don't put any value in tag team wrestling and I would hate to see these guys kind of like fade into oblivion. Um, so at least one of them's got to come out.
01:30:36
Speaker
with something, you know, so give give Montez a chance. That's my new hashtag. Give Montez a chance. I like that. Yeah. Adam Cole versus Johnny Gargano at NXT TakeOver. We've seen it before. This is a rematch of a rematch. Yeah. I mean, this is a two out of three falls here. This is going to put the icing on the cake here. And man, I am so excited for this match. I know the wife will be asleep at this point of the night, so I'll be able to turn this on and watch it live.
01:31:06
Speaker
But I can't think of two better guys. I would love to see these guys in NXT forever, and obviously it's not going to happen. But it's just never going to be the same when they go up to the main roster. And they're so fun to watch. They have the best chemistry together. I would say these two almost have better chemistry together in the ring than Gargano and Champa. And I know that's a hot take upon hot takes.
01:31:33
Speaker
That is a hot take. I think you're just too far removed from. Maybe. Maybe. From the black heart. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I love that dude as well. But I mean, it's splitting hairs. This is three consummate athletes here. And this is going to be a match for the ages. I'm super excited for this. What are your thoughts?
01:31:55
Speaker
okay so like you said this is this is you know this is coal versus gargano part three um it's two out of three falls match they each got to pick a stipulation for one of the falls um first of all let me let me go on record as saying i hate that it's a two out of three falls match um i i just don't think it's necessary they've done it before um i i think it takes a lot of the anticipation and the excitement out of the match because
01:32:21
Speaker
Let's be real, Breaking Cave Abe here, it's going to go to the third fall, especially considering that Regal gets to pick the stipulation on the third fall if it goes to the third fall, right? Which we know it is because they didn't even announce what the mystery stipulation was tonight on NXT.
01:32:43
Speaker
you know that that's really really telegraphing what's going to happen in this match is it still going to be an amazing match regardless yes but i feel like it takes you out of the match knowing that you know there's going to be two falls before the finish of the match right um so the they're doing a straight singles match
01:33:03
Speaker
um fall they're doing a street fight fall and then there's obviously the mystery stipulation in play that regal gets to choose if and when it does get there um it's gonna be a hellacious match they're gonna beat the hell out of each other i think adam cole is gonna retain um and again we're gonna drip championship gold here um but yeah i i don't i don't love that it's another three two out of three falls match
01:33:29
Speaker
on the
01:33:45
Speaker
I think, well, I mean, Johnny Gorgano is a Cleveland guy, so I'm not really cheering for him, so I'm going to go Adam Cole here. I think the undisputed era is going to walk away with all three of these titles, even though I have Pete Dunn winning. I think Adam Cole is the guy here, and I think
01:34:04
Speaker
I don't know, I just think I'm super excited for this match. It's gonna be awesome. And if you don't watch NXT, if you're listening to this podcast, you don't watch NXT, watch this thing on Sunday morning. You don't have to watch it live on Saturday night. I'm sure you have the network if you're listening to this podcast. But watch this freaking match on Sunday morning while you're eating your breakfast, man. It's gonna be awesome for sure. Yeah, it's gonna be insane. I'm super excited, especially for this match.
01:34:33
Speaker
I hope, I mean, like I said, I hope that they get their, their championship, their dripping in championship gold moment. I mean, WWE has been really high on factions right now. I mean, of course we have the new day and Kofi with all the championship gold. We have the OC with tons of championship gold. So maybe, just maybe the undisputed era will finally
01:34:52
Speaker
will finally get their moment in the sun to hold all the titles in NXT. And that would be really cool. But yeah, it's gonna be a banger of a show. It's one of my favorite parts of any pay-per-view weekend when we get a takeover. It's just like the cards are, they are small but mighty. Like we used that term last week, they're small but mighty. And I just, I freaking love NXT. But yeah, that is your wrestling for this weekend.
01:35:22
Speaker
Any final thoughts? Marco, you got any final thoughts you want to add on the NXT takeover? Not much. I mean, I'm going to be pulling for my man Dream. That's my guy right there. Yeah. I want him to retain, but he may lose it too. I think Phil's right. I think Dunn might be the one to take the title off of him.
01:35:49
Speaker
It seems like they brought him back for some reason, like he said, and I think it's to, you know, put him on the NXT roster, which I call the main roster, not that NXT UK as the minor leagues, but NXT as the major leagues. So I think they're positioning him to make it to the main roster at some point.
01:36:09
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. I definitely think that they've moved him in that direction for a reason. And they've shown us before that they're not afraid to put a championship on Pete Dunn. I mean, before he lost to Walter, I mean, he had his NXT title for, I mean, God, I don't know how long it was, but it was like four freaking ever, especially in the modern era for somebody to carry a title that long. I'm sure Marco can look that up for us, but off the top of my head, I can't remember how long it was, but it was a long time.
01:36:37
Speaker
I'm excited. I mean, either any one of those three guys, I'm not going to be mad at the outcome of that match regardless, which is what's super exciting about these types of matches in NXT. Like it doesn't matter who loses because everybody's amazing. So yeah, I'm super pumped. I will be watching live for those of you who are not watching live. Do yourself a favor and go back and watch this show. Don't let it fall to the wayside. But I think that's all for our actual in ring action.
Wrestling Figure Collection Downsizing
01:37:02
Speaker
And I'm excited to get to go figure because we have some super exciting stuff. 524 days.
01:37:08
Speaker
524 days, folks. Like, what? Be done. Let's get into our go figure segment. Here comes the money. Here we go. Money.
01:37:31
Speaker
Alright folks, if you listen to the podcast, you know what this is. Myself, Sheena, and now Marco, we let you know what we've purchased over the last week or so since the podcast. Wrestling figures, wrestling merch, all kinds of stuff. I will let Sheena Phelps go first here, because I got quite a bit.
01:37:49
Speaker
Yeah, so for my weekly purchases, I finally got my Macho Man figure, my Slim Jim Macho Man figure from Entertainment Earth. He got forwarded to Kentucky and then forwarded to Virginia. So he took a lot of pit stops along the way, but he finally made it to me. Love, love, love that figure. Super stoked to actually finally have it in hand. I'm going to unbox it probably live on Instagram.
01:38:12
Speaker
pretty soon. Um, and then Seth, the heel husband got, um, a pro wrestling tease t-shirt. I know he posted a picture of it on the feed, but I love this shirt so much. Um, it's jungle boy and Luchasaurus and jungle boy is riding Luchasaurus.
01:38:27
Speaker
Um, and it is a Mario inspired shirt and it is just like the cutest thing. Like, um, Luchasaurus is like Yoshi and, uh, yeah. And jungle boys like Mario and it is like the cutest thing ever. So love, love, love that shirt. Um, we also, he picked up the, um, Sasha and Alexa Abu Dhabi battle pack from ringside collectible. So he, he grabbed that. Those figures are super sick. Like.
01:38:51
Speaker
I don't know if you guys know what that battle pack looks like, but it was when Sasha and Alexa fought in Abu Dhabi, and obviously they weren't able to wear their standard ring gear, which shows a lot of skin. So they wore long sleeves, full body suits, and pretty cool, very unique figure. So that was super excited to get that. He got an Elite 9 MVP figure, which was in my dark ages of wrestling. Yeah, I do not.
01:39:18
Speaker
like MVP. I was like, what the hell is this? Why did you get this? Um, so, you know, we're, we were completionists. So he got that elite nine MVP. Um, and then we got some chalk line, some new, some new chalk line shorts, some WWE WCW versus NWO chalk line shorts. So, um, that was our hall for this week. Um, not, you know, not a ton of stuff, but just a lot of fun, fun pieces here and there.
01:39:44
Speaker
Before you get to your announcement and Marco's announcement, let me announce, do you have anything else that you purchased this week, or is that it? Nope, that was all the purchases for this week. That's good. I want to announce the winner of our Macho Man Slim Jim giveaway. We talked about this at the beginning of the show, so hopefully we're an hour and 40 minutes in here to the freaking podcast. Hopefully you're- An hour and 40 minutes? Yes, we're doubling up. This is going to be a two hour show here, but it's all good. People are listening.
01:40:14
Speaker
the winner
01:40:30
Speaker
the winner and this is a cool story at Ian Miller 18 is our winner. He is a good follow on Twitter. Check him out. And it's, it's, it's karma at its best because I remembered that name. I was like, why don't we know? Why do I know Ian Miller 18?
01:40:47
Speaker
and I guess he had popped up on my feed because he had interacted with the guys from the Major Brothers podcast and He had found I guess Zach or Kurt I think was Zach was looking for some edge sunglasses and Ian found them he tweeted them and said yes, you know Zach said yes, I've been looking for them Ian's gonna bring them I guess they're doing a meeting greet at SummerSlam so he's gonna he's just gonna give them the sunglasses and
01:41:11
Speaker
So, it's pretty cool. Ian seems like a good dude. I've never really talked to him too, too much on Twitter, but I follow him now on our Chick-Fully Twitter account. But, you know, he's helping people out and he gets hooked up with a really cool figure. So, I am not going to tweet Ian. I am not going to tell Ian he won this. I'm going to assume that he is going to listen to this podcast and find out that he won. If someone listening wants to tell him, I'm fine with that.
01:41:38
Speaker
but I am not going to search him out. I'm going to let the winner give him a week and see if he listens to the podcast. It's Ian Miller, 18 on Twitter. And Ian, you are a winner. Just send me your address and I will send out this awesome Macho Man figure to you ASAP.
01:41:58
Speaker
Yeah, dude, that is so sick. I mean, like, Phil, you're the man for freaking hosting that giveaway for us and giving away that Macho Man figure because that is so, such a dope figure, so sought after at the moment. And Ian, you are a lucky son of a gun. And yeah, I'm so happy for you, dude.
01:42:17
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's cool. I love interacting with folks on Twitter. I love doing these giveaways because we get a lot of followers, a lot of extra eyeballs because of it. But after the giveaway is over, when we tweet stuff, we bring up conversations, we talk about different deals going on on Amazon. It just creates more people to interact with and it's just better for the whole community.
01:42:41
Speaker
You know, just given back. That's what it's all about. So Ian Miller, 18, the winner of our giveaway. I do want to give a shout out to two new Patreon subscribers that we did not talk about at the beginning of the show. Jonathan, he just goes by Jonathan, I guess. He's one of our new Patreon subscribers. And Tim Moran, two new Patreon subscribers on the $5 level. So they get all of our
01:43:05
Speaker
bonus episodes. Myself, Sheena and Mike Lanham recorded a history of WW Mattel Retro figures last week and I think at some point next week Sheena and I will get back into the studio and do a our best finishing moves bracket that we've been putting together. So
01:43:22
Speaker
Uh, every three weeks or so, we try to do maybe more than one a month, but we, we've been getting, uh, we can get an almost two a month. And now, uh, these bonus episodes, we do some articles, me and Sheena are doing some unboxing videos on the Patreon page. So it's patreon.com slash chick Foley show.
01:43:39
Speaker
And it basically, Sheena, it starts at $1 a month. You get our show notes emailed to you every single week. And the best part is you get access to our closed Facebook group where we have about 40 or 50 folks in there now that are buying and selling and trading and just kind of talking about Raw and SmackDown and all kinds of different stuff. And Sheena, you have a bomb to drop on our Patreon subscribers that I think I might be more excited about than you are.
01:44:07
Speaker
Yes. So, um, for all of our, all of our VIP chick Foley fam, all of our people who are part of our, our Patreon, um, and you're part of our Facebook group, uh, the heel has been, and I have come to the decision that we are going to downsize our enormous Mattel elite collection. And if you guys know about our collection, I mean, we have some straight fire figures. They are Lucy's so far, you MOC people, I'm sorry.
01:44:37
Speaker
Um, they are Lucy Goosies and we, you know, we play, we play with them and have fun and you know, we, we give them the life that they deserve. Um, but yeah, it's just, it gets to a point. So we just decided like, you know, we're not going to be completionists, completionists anymore. We will have one of each figure at least. And then we're going to have multiples of some, obviously, you know, warrior Rollins, Hogan, all, all of our, all of our faves. But, um, it just gets to a point where like now, I mean, Mattel's line is so.
01:45:06
Speaker
Vast and massive that it's like it's not even enjoyable to have all of them, right? Like as far as displaying them and stuff like that It just becomes more of a headache and a hassle than it is to just like five
01:45:18
Speaker
Pick the figures that you love and keep the figures that you love. Some figures like we just buy them just because we're completionists and you know, we we don't really like love the figure. So we're going into that Marie Kondo method. We're going to be like if it sparks joy, we're keeping it. If not, we're going to let it go. And we do. We have a list of like over 300 figures. I want to say like three. God.
01:45:41
Speaker
350 figures that are on the chopping block as of right now. So yeah, stay tuned for that. We're going to be posting them first to our Patreons. You guys get first dibs at all of our figures, which is still going to leave us like over 500 figures, which is pretty bizarre, right?
01:46:00
Speaker
Like even if we get rid of all 350, like we'll still have, we'll still have over 500. These are all Mattel. These are all Mattel figure. All Mattel. We have some basics. Like we had, you know, we have like some basics and some builder figures, but like, um, the basics are just like the women's figures or if there's like, if we have any like corporate figures, like, you know, Vince McMahon or Stephanie and her like corporate gear or something like that. Like we always got those to kind of round out the collection. But yeah, as far as, I mean, it's like 90.
01:46:30
Speaker
8% elites, Mattel elites. When you have all 350 of those in like a pile or lined up, you need to take a picture and then we'll post it to people and just so they can see the enormousness of it. For sure. I was going through Heal Husband's Excel sheet. I told you he has all of our figure inventory in Excel spreadsheets. And he was like, everything that's highlighted in green is what's going. And I was just scrolling and I was like, oh my God. I mean, I'm talking like,
01:46:58
Speaker
We have figures from Elite 2 that are going. We have defining moments that are going. We have legends figures that are going. It's pretty incredible. If you're not part of our VIP fam and you want to definitely check it out and get in that Facebook group because that's where we're going to be posting everything. Those guys are going to get dibs on what we post.
01:47:24
Speaker
Very nice. Yeah, it's patreon.com slash Chick Foley show that the first year starts at $1 a month. If you listen to the show, all of the money goes back into our giveaways. Obviously, we just gave away a freaking Slim Jim macho man. So you can be the first to attest to that. Yeah, let me get into my purchases before Marco gives his bomb. You guys are all dropping bombshells on me. I know. This is a loaded episode.
01:47:52
Speaker
This is, yeah, we're approaching two hours. Let me fly through some of these purchases here. I don't know if, I think I talked about in last week's show, Pete Dunn showed up on the Target app. I bought two Pete Dunn Elite, so those came in. So those are good. Roman Reigns Elite 65, I believe it is, I'm too lazy to Google it, was found at a big lots by one of our awesome listeners who
01:48:15
Speaker
No pun intended. His handle is simplyawesome85. Dr. Nick Jones, he found that for me for 10 bucks, sends that out to me. So added that to my MOC collection. Those Elite 65 figures have been on sale everywhere. So definitely check, especially GameStop. I've seen them loaded up in every GameStop. So definitely if you're looking for any of those Elite 65 figures, hit up your local GameStops.
01:48:41
Speaker
Speaking of GameStop, shout out to our good buddy and Patreon subscriber Mike Lanham who let me know that starting today, Ronda Rousey and Nia Jax elites were discounted to $9.97. I was there when they opened the doors at 10am and picked up one of each.
01:48:59
Speaker
and added those to my collection. I wasn't really looking for those. That's the way I've been approaching Ashina. I have a kind of a hierarchy. If anything, I really, really want that. I know I'm going to buy. I'm afraid that it's not going to hit stores. I pre-ordered off of Ringside Collectibles. It comes months before it hits the stores.
01:49:19
Speaker
and then if you know there's something I'm a little bit okay on I wait to see if it hits the stores and then you know something like this I mean I'm not a huge Nia Jax fan it's a great figure no doubt about it but wasn't really pressed on buying it but if I can get it for 50% off basically you know I'm gonna pick it up and that's how I've basically built my collection so added both of those figures thank you Mike for the heads up on that
01:49:42
Speaker
David C. Anderson was doing a sale on his Instagram account, so he added the Goldust and the Randy Orton retros from Retro Series 9. I picked up Shinsuke Nakamura defining moments from eBay, so I'm now up to seven of those bad boys and a couple more on the way, so that collection is growing.
01:50:04
Speaker
the
01:50:19
Speaker
More and more, Sheena, Amazon has been discounting some of these figures. I mean, I have it pulled up right now. Elite64, you have Curt Hawkins on Amazon right now for $14, $13 for John Cena, Jimmy and Jay Uso for $13 and $14. I don't know what they're doing, but they've become kind of the third spot, almost maybe the number one spot, above Walmart and Target.
01:50:45
Speaker
To get figures, I mean, they don't always come in the best condition. But if you're a loose collector, it's kind of a no-brainer. I mean, you get two-day shipping for free if you're a Prime subscriber. And some of these things that we haven't even seen in stores, Elite 67, they've had up there for a month.
01:51:02
Speaker
Yeah we love Amazon around here because like I said we're Lucy so if the card's bent like it's not that big a deal to us but yeah be warned if you are MOC like they don't use the best packing materials and sometimes they just throw the stuff in there but I mean you get free shipping free return so if it's F'd up you can you know send it back.
01:51:21
Speaker
that's
01:51:40
Speaker
the
01:51:58
Speaker
uh added those to the collection and just i think it was yesterday we were talking in our group chat uh with mike and me and you and mike about this mr perfect retro fest that just has not shown up to uh game stop nobody really knows where the hell it is and someone on ebay you posted this to your instagram account yeah so on ebay has been has been posting it for
01:52:19
Speaker
I think below retail price before shipping at $19.99 is what I bought it for. I think those were usually $24.99 at GameStop when they showed up. With the shipping, it came out to about the same price, but I didn't feel like waiting any longer, so I added that to my collection. But if you just search Mr. Perfect Retro Fest on eBay, I'm sorry, the guy had like 70 of them, so I don't know if he turned over a GameStop truck or something or what.
01:52:49
Speaker
Well from I got some Intel from some of our you know, our chick Foley fam that that follows us pretty closely on Instagram and you know We posted that cuz yeah, it was like crazy like this guy had like 70 mr. Perfect's listed and you know several of them had sold and I was like What the hell like he's you know, we haven't seen this figure and he's selling them for retail but you know WWF old-school collector and another one of our
01:53:14
Speaker
Another one of our followers, I can't remember who it was, was saying that, yeah, he had them listed and it like if you read the fine print, it was like it was a pre-order because some people had ordered them and then they hadn't gotten shipped out and stuff like that. So it was kind of a sketch situation. So maybe he has some for sale, but he anticipated getting a lot more than he got. I don't know what the deal was, but yeah. Don't play with my heart.
01:53:41
Speaker
Yeah, so we'll see. I think Marco, didn't you say he had removed the listing? Yeah, it was a WWF old school collector who posted about the guy that was selling those Mr. Perfects. I went on because I was like, I want to go buy one. So I went on there and I searched it. So they did show up.
01:54:07
Speaker
But they weren't that guy that was on there previously. It seemed like he removed the post and the guy that he recommended buying from was still there. So I bought my mind from that guy. Who do you recommend buying from?
01:54:25
Speaker
I think it was RTC Toys. RCT Toys, yeah. I bought it from Toys R Us, 8181. Yeah, that's the guy in question. So I would message him quickly.
01:54:40
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty sure if you can cancel it, if it's a pre-order. But yeah, if you go to Instagram, it's at RTC Toys. And yeah, he's got, I don't know if he has any more, but yeah, he's got some listed up here on his Instagram. And I'm sure he has an eBay store, too. So did you buy it from him directly, or did you buy it from him through eBay, Marco? Through eBay. Oh, sorry. Oh, no, definitely through eBay. Yeah, he was the only one. He was legit the only person selling the Mr. Perfect. There was nobody else.
01:55:09
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, we're going to pass on that perfect. I mean, it's solid black, which, you know, we already have a couple of Mr. Perfects, and one of our Mr. Perfects is going on the chopping block, too. I don't know which one it is, but we're going to keep those, and then we're going to pass on this retrofist, even though I've loved all the retrofist figures. But now that since we're not completionists anymore, it's going to feel so weird, like, leaving stuff that we find that is new, you know, that we don't have yet.
01:55:36
Speaker
You got to do what you got to do. I mean, there's only so much room in your house now. The Babyface 2.0 common. I think that's the biggest thing. We're changing up the display. It's going to be a rotating display. And I always said the difference between a collector and a hoarder is a shelf. So if you don't have a shelf for everything that you have, at some point, you got to be like, OK, am I really enjoying these figures? You know what I mean? Because we do our ICW matches and all that stuff. And we have a lot of fun with it.
01:56:05
Speaker
some basic photography and whatnot but yeah at some point you're just like Jesus Christ like inventorying all these and keeping up with all these like it's become such a such a friggin chore and it doesn't it's not like I don't want anybody think we're stopping collecting because uh we're definitely not stopping collecting we still love action figures but we're just thinning the herd a little bit so that we can truly enjoy the figures that we have and let others enjoy the figures that we're going to be giving away because I know there's a lot of people looking for a lot of the figures that we have um so I'm excited to get those into the hands of
01:56:34
Speaker
people who will truly love them and cherish them and give them good homes.
01:56:38
Speaker
All right, good to know. Pat Patterson has started to hit stores here. If you are looking for it, this is the SKU number to search on brickseek.com. It's 5-8-9-0-4-3-0-1-7. So check on brickseek.com. A lot of people have started to receive it. Here in Maryland, we have not yet, Walmart's been talking about this reset that they've been doing for the last two, three months here. I don't know.
01:57:06
Speaker
what kind of reset they're doing. Walmart has looked the same since I started shopping there 30 years ago. So we'll see what happens there. But that's all the purchases that I have.
01:57:20
Speaker
Nice, so since we're running long, I'm going to go ahead and let Marco give his announcement. I don't even know what this is. Marco teased you and I. He sent us like a random DM in the middle of the day. It was like I have an announcement for the show tonight, so I'm curious to know what this is, Marco. So I'm going to preface this by saying. This started off as a question from.
01:57:47
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Papa bear 1983 he's one of the he's a fully fam member He actually listened to the show last week, and he asked me you know You guys are talking about we were talking about the Ali that you're gonna send me that was loose And I'm not really a loose collector and all that stuff and he asked me a question He said hey like he's like I'm considering doing some loose stuff He's like are you gonna if you do it? Are you gonna have a limit or have you even thought about doing that and my answer was I think I am gonna start doing
01:58:17
Speaker
I'm going to start unboxing these these bad boys. Not not all of them. So like the so like the defining moments I'll keep because I love the packaging. Yeah, in the in the the you know, just the elite ones are probably just start cracking them open. I did receive the the Sid Psycho Sid from Phil Psycho Sid and Kamala he sent me. Yeah.
01:58:46
Speaker
My, my pre-test, uh, he's going to be so mad at me right now was Kamala. Oh, that was, that was your one you opened. Okay. He was testing the water to see how it feels to cut that tape. He was like, Oh yeah. Cause he had a lot of accessories and stuff like that. So I was like, Oh, let me see how it is. And I was like, this is
01:59:10
Speaker
It's pretty great. I'm not going to lie. Did it feel good to put your hands on those accessories? It felt amazing, actually. And to be able to dress your figure however you want and not have to look at it the way that Mattel presented it to you. You're not abiding by the man's creativity. You are getting to tap into your own creativity, Marco. Exactly. And everyone has their own things. Let them breathe or whatever the phrase may be.
01:59:40
Speaker
I just like to say I want them to see the light of day. How about that? Yeah. They have to see the light of day, some of them, not all of them. But I am going to start slowly but surely cracking these things open. Well, you can be recording at least, please. Yeah. Marco's trash man is going to be like, why all of a sudden Marco have like 25 bags of trash? I would definitely love to do like an unboxing on some of the ones I have. So yeah.
02:00:10
Speaker
I would definitely consider that. I actually talked to Phil about, I'm not sure if anyone's a fan of Vince Russo. He actually has an action figure coming out. And I told him I would do a unboxing of it, but it would be a different type of unboxing. I'm not gonna say, I don't want people, I'll tell you all fair, but it'll definitely be special if I think I was, I'm actually gonna go purchase it and do the unboxing.
02:00:38
Speaker
if he remembers and he knows what i'm talking about i remember i remember i remember seeing this conversation go down in the group chat so uh yeah that will definitely be interesting if and when that happens but man welcome welcome to the club i know you're not going i know you're not going diving in head first you're you're putting your actually you're going in waist deep you said you're going to open the elite so you're waist deep you're not just putting your toe in
02:01:01
Speaker
But I'm telling you, man, it's going to be addictive when you get to start like, you know, posing your figures and dressing your figures and seeing all the details. Think about how many tattoos that you haven't seen or how many backs of t-shirts that you haven't seen because they're in the box.
02:01:19
Speaker
Um, so yeah, I'm I'm super excited to welcome you to the to the loosey goosey collector side. Um, we're still we're still working on Phil. I know Phil unboxes some of uh of his things, but give me those hands, right? I need those hands. Oh, I love it. I love it.
02:01:38
Speaker
I have a little sound clip here that our boys from Our Vantage Point sent to me from last week's show that I'll play at the end. But Sheena definitely loves getting the accessories and the hands. I like getting those hands, right? I need those hands.
02:01:54
Speaker
Give me those hands. Oh, man. Well, I'm so stoked that that was your announcement, Marco. And so we're going to move right into the random merch of the week. This is, again, another affordable option for you guys. I love finding stuff like this because it hits me right in the freaking fields. This is a vintage WWF 1985 thermos.
02:02:16
Speaker
I know you guys especially, because you guys are in my age bracket, but you remember the little lunch boxes that came with thermoses, like the matching thermoses. So I'm wondering if this had a lunch box that went along with it, because I think that would be a pretty mage set for a kid to carry. I love it. It's just so basic. It's got two guys locked up.
02:02:35
Speaker
with the with the classic WWF logo underneath like it is so rad it's a navy blue with the white thermos lid it's got the straw like a yellow straw lid um looks like it's in like pretty pretty mint condition but it's 1199 um and these little thermoses just give me all the feels because i remember like you know i for the most part i i would buy a lunch box but i still ate school lunch just because like that's just the way i rolled like i would still like my parents i never packed my lunch my parents weren't there to like pack my lunch we were um
02:03:04
Speaker
We weren't kids of this snowflake era where our parents packed our peanut-free lunches every single day for us. I just ate whatever slop they were serving at the school. I felt like I always was hopeful at the beginning of the year. I would buy a lunch box and then it would never come to fruition that my mom would pack a lunch because she worked two jobs. We were like that middle-class family.
02:03:28
Speaker
Um, but this is a pretty, a pretty freaking rad one. If you do pack your kids, pack your kids lunch and you want them to have like a really cool, unique, um, you know, piece of piece of merch up in their lunch box.
02:03:42
Speaker
Yeah. Oh man. I wanted this so bad when I was a kid, man. I never had any cool like lunch boxes. I forget what I had, but it was just like a generic, like, you know, just a blue lunch box. Like an igloo soft cooler. It was probably nicer. You know, it was probably like actually probably kept things cold, you know? Oh yeah. Your mom was like, no, we're going with the logical option.
02:04:03
Speaker
you know, like she probably got you like the thing that like would legit keep your food cold. You're like, no, I want this plastic thing that's going to condense all over my, all over my backpacking. Keep my, get my school books wet. That's a good find.
02:04:16
Speaker
Yeah, it's awesome. We'll post a picture of it on on the feed. But this brings us right to our retro wrestling recommendation of the week. And like I mentioned earlier in the show, since we didn't have any tag team wrestling to watch on Sunday, I want you guys to have some tag team wrestling that you can watch between now and the exciting wrestling weekend that we have coming up this weekend. So
02:04:36
Speaker
I picked SummerSlam 1990. This is the heart foundation versus demolition for the tag championship. Um, I know I kind of crapped on Cole and Gargano's two out of three falls match, but this is also a two out of three falls match. It's Epic. Um, you know, these were the two top tag teams of that time. Like let's be real. Um, these were like the top guys and you know, uh,
02:05:03
Speaker
This is kind of like the build started for this at like WrestleMania 6, you know, it was crush and ended up being crush and smash versus Brett and anvil, right? So Axe was kind of like on the outs, not really participating so much in this. And then Axe and Smash did some sort of like twin magic. They were trying to do some twin magic. LOD comes out. It's just like,
02:05:23
Speaker
craziness, right? LOD took out Ax and Smash, left Crush lying in the ring, where Amble hit him with a flying shoulder tackle, Brett rolled him up, and boom, we have some new tag champions. This is definitely one of the highlights of the Amble's career, and since Natty's probably going to have one of the highlights of her career this weekend, I thought it was a very good pick to kind of just roll into this
02:05:47
Speaker
Toronto weekend that we're having so definitely go watch that it's an incredible incredible match And it just truly just captures the essence of like great tag team wrestling Isn't it crazy from from summer slam 1990 and you go nine years ahead to the attitude era That's it's not too far of a time, but man you couldn't get two different You know none of those guys were still around and it's just a totally different company and
02:06:14
Speaker
And you go back now and look at SummerSlam 2009, so that was 10 years ago now. It was Rey Mysterio defeated Dolph Ziggler for the Intercontinental Championship. You had Randy Orton, Cena, Jeff Hardy, Shawn Michaels, Triple H. A lot of guys that are still here and there around.
02:06:34
Speaker
Yeah. But, you know, it doesn't seem like you could probably watch that show and it doesn't seem like it was that long ago. But when you go from 1990 to 1999, it feels like 100 years difference.
02:06:45
Speaker
it's that is so true and i think one it's because things just moved slower back then too you know i mean i felt like 10 years in wrestling back then felt like 100 years you know there were longer title reigns um we didn't see them as much you know um there there was like only there was only like a few pay-per-views it wasn't like now where we have like you know a pay-per-view every single month and then there's like shows in between all these things
02:07:10
Speaker
But also a lot of these guys were a lot older like the guys that are coming in now. I mean they're coming into developmental I mean they're like, you know 20 21 years old like a lot of these guys had already been wrestling territories like 20 years and they make it in the WWF and they're like older dudes, you know what I mean? They're like You know, they're like middle-aged men so their their time in the spotlight is not
02:07:35
Speaker
that long, do you know what I mean? So that's why it feels so different now is because you can have a guy come in at 20 years old now. And I mean, if he fights for 10 years, he's only 30.
02:07:45
Speaker
Right? He's, he's only 30 and he's been in the WWF for 10 years. So yeah, it is a totally different era. Um, and it's just, it's just an incredible, just an incredible time in wrestling. I mean, there's so many different times in wrestling that I absolutely love, but yeah, I mean the, like the new, the new gin and all of those, those early guys in the golden, the golden era of wrestling, like just so good.
02:08:07
Speaker
Well, we're over two hours here, so we're going to skip our listener mail, even though we have some great questions. We'll do that on next week's show. We just want to do some quick plug skis here. We talked about Patreon. It's patreon.com slash Chick Foley show. You can sign up to support the show there. And we do a bunch of extra content for those folks. Ringside Collectibles. Do your pre-orders and all your ordering of figures there. Use code Chick Foley for 10% off.
02:08:32
Speaker
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02:08:54
Speaker
Survivor Series previews and getting into the fall and pumpkin beers and all kinds of stuff but We'll be on social media. You can follow Sheena on Instagram at chick Foley I run the the Twitter account at chick Foley show on Twitter and
02:09:10
Speaker
and you can follow Marco at IngloriousGent on Twitter as well. We'd love to hear from you guys and talk wrestling with you for sure. Congrats to Ian who won our giveaway and thank you guys for another awesome show. I'm excited for SummerSlam and we won't keep the people here any longer since we're, this might be our longest episode ever, but it definitely didn't feel that long.
02:09:32
Speaker
No, yeah, like I said, we just had a jam-packed episode. I mean, SummerSlam is a loaded card, NXT, we had a lot of awesome things to cover there, and then
02:09:40
Speaker
We had a lot of announcements, too. So thank you guys for hanging with us. We always appreciate you guys listening to the show. We appreciate you guys sharing with us on social media. I love seeing you guys on Instagram, posting your stories that you're listening to the show and tagging us. We always share those. So thank you guys so much. It means so much to us for your support for the show and everything that you guys do. Because we wouldn't do this if there was nobody listening to it. So we appreciate you guys that tune in week after week and just give us feedback and always show your love to the show. So thank you guys so much.
02:10:10
Speaker
For sure. For Marco and Sheena, this is Phil signing off. Enjoy SummerSlam. Be safe and stay classy, Marx. We'll talk to you soon.
02:10:41
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Give me those hands, right? I need those hands. Give me those hands, right? I need those hands.
02:11:34
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This is sort of a buzz.
02:11:48
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He's called the Plateau is where everybody go. Guys out hunting and girls doing likewise. Honking at the honey in front of you with the light eyes. She turn around and see what you're beeping at. It's like the summer's a natural aphrodisiac. And with the pen and pad, I compose this rhyme to hit you and to get you equipped for the summertime.