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Royal Rumble 2020 Preview: Who
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Phil and Marco welcome Sheena back to the show to discuss the Tessa Blanchard drama, Royal Rumble predictions, surprise entrants, and favorite Rumble memories. Plus the guys discuss the rumored lineup for Elite 78 and when Peyton Royce and Jim Neidhart will likely hit stores!
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Introduction with Bill, Marco, and Sheena
00:00:15
Speaker
Oh, it feels so good to be back. Welcome back to the Chick Foley Show. We are here in the Jimmy's Famous Seafood Lounge. And I am your one of your hosts, Bill Gentile, aka The Hot Take Kid. Marco, the MVP is up in Boston. What's going on, Marco? Nothing much. It's chilling out over here on this late evening. I'm trying to
00:00:43
Speaker
trying to stay quiet so the, uh, the brew doesn't wake up. So we're, uh, we're live over here. We're live pal. We had a couple of weeks, uh, just the two of us, some dude talk, but now we got the queen of pod style chick Foley, Sheena Phelps back on the line. Sheena, how are you this evening?
00:01:01
Speaker
I'm feeling good, man. I'm watching the monitor, so hopefully I get to hang with you guys for a little while tonight, but you never know. The Future Women's Champion, she's in this phase where she's like up every couple of hours, you know, the newborn stuff. So we'll see how long I get to hang out with you guys, but it feels so good to hear your voices. It's been so long. I know, I know. It's been so long.
Recent Podcast Events and Social Media
00:01:24
Speaker
We just got done filming an awesome, very, very long mailbag episode for the Patreon subscribers, and that'll be posted in the next couple days. I think we answered like 20 questions. It felt like 40 questions because we went into some cool stories and had some fun with it. So hopefully you guys check that out. But you can follow us on Instagram. Sheena's at Chick Foley there. You can follow the show on Twitter.
00:01:51
Speaker
at Chick Foley's show, I usually run that. And you can follow Marco to it, IngloriousGent on Twitter. And yeah, we got a big, big show. We got a lot of stuff to talk about outside the ring. We're going to get into some Royal Rumble predictions and do that kind of first off the bat here.
00:02:06
Speaker
If you have any questions or concerns, you can hit us up via email at askchickfoli at gmail.com. We talked about the Patreon page. Patreon.com slash Chick Foley is where you can become a Patreon subscriber. It starts at $1 per month. It goes up from there. We don't talk about it too often. We have the highest tier. You can come on and guest co-host the show with us. You can do that previewing a pay-per-view or recapping a pay-per-view or whatever you want to do.
00:02:36
Speaker
When it starts at $1 per month, you get access to our Facebook group and our show notes emailed to each and every single week. We actually did a pretty cool little sale on the Facebook group, like a purge sale. I sold some stuff. People were posting all kinds of stuff. We had like over 300 comments on the thread and it's just a cool place, Sheena, for people to find stuff in the wild. I found some Royal Rumble figures at the store today and posted them there and sold one to Skyler, one of our Patreon subscribers. It's been pretty fun.
00:03:06
Speaker
Yeah, it's super cool. I think it's cool because I think a lot of people are selling stuff in their collection to make room for newer stuff that's coming out. So you never know what people are going to throw up there. And we have some people with some sick collection. So it's always interesting to see what people put on the chopping block. And we have a really great group of great group of dudes in there, slang and figure.
00:03:28
Speaker
Yeah, we should we need some more chicks. We you're the only one I know. Where's all that? Where's all the female love? Yeah, we need some female collectors in there for sure. But yeah, it's patreon.com slash chick Foley. And that's where you can hit us up there.
Tessa Blanchard's Championship and Controversy
00:03:43
Speaker
Let's get into I guess the biggest news of the week. And we missed it last week. Me and Marco were going to record I fell asleep in my son's bed because he was being a little biatch and scared of the dark or something. I forget what it was.
00:03:58
Speaker
and totally fell asleep. And I woke up, it was like 11 o'clock and I had a couple of messages from Marco. I was like, dude, I apologize. So we were back here this week. But the biggest news last week, Sheena Tessa Blanchard winning the Impact World Championship from Sammy Callahan. And in the days leading up, she sent a pretty innocuous tweet about, you know, hey, girls, we should support each other, blah, blah, blah. Wouldn't that be cool if females all support each other in the wrestling business?
00:04:28
Speaker
And wow, she got a shitstorm of if I've ever seen one. Yeah, I was I was kind of keeping loose loose tabs on that and I saw like Chelsea Green replied and I can't remember who else replied and just like basically like Drugger via Twitter and and pretty much called her out and Like said some some pretty
00:04:52
Speaker
Some pretty like things that I just didn't expect to see like that. She had Sorry, I'm watching the baby monitor, but she had said some like racially insensitive things to a chick and what was it Japan and then like spit on her and like called her like the n-word and all this stuff and I was just like oh damn like that escalated quickly I
00:05:14
Speaker
you know like it was just like she sent that tweet out and then all of a sudden like all her shit got splayed out there um but i mean it obviously didn't affect impact's decision to go ahead and and run with their uh you know their choice to make her the the champion so yeah
00:05:29
Speaker
I didn't think it
Impact of Allegations on Tessa's Career
00:05:31
Speaker
would. I mean, it was a pretty cool moment. I mean, obviously, how many times have we seen a female win the main title for a wrestling company? I know Lucha Underground did it a couple of years ago with Sexy Star, but they were more of a TV show than a wrestling promotion. But you don't send that kind of tweet if you've got a bunch of skeletons in the closet.
00:05:51
Speaker
One skeleton that did emerge was that she has a Patreon too, just like us, but she does some things that we don't do. She allegedly was taking money for people and filming herself doing a number two.
00:06:10
Speaker
Just the audio, right? Like, I don't think it was like video or was it just audio, right? Yeah, it was just audio. Yeah, just audio. Still disgusting. I mean, if someone listening wants me to do that, I can do that. I didn't think that would be something that people would be interested in. Yeah, we can add a hundred dollar tier on to our Patreon for poop audio.
00:06:33
Speaker
Oh, man. Yeah, I have I have I have like multiple beings in my house right now that that shit on the regular. So I can be too. I could I have all the poop audio. Yeah. Wow. So that that came out. And, you know, there's probably a reason that she's an impact. I mean, she was in the May Young classic a couple of years ago, didn't get signed on. People talked about, you know, maybe it was because she had a bad attitude or something.
00:07:00
Speaker
I'm not gonna speak on anything I don't know about, but I mean, there's gotta be a reason she's not in AEW or WWE. I mean, she's super talented. I mean, all I hear about is she's the greatest female wrestler in the world. And it's probably because she's an indie star, so people love her.
00:07:19
Speaker
but you know she's super talented but I mean yeah you're in impact and I don't know do you think this is going to prevent her from ever becoming a part of one of the big two companies or what? No I mean I don't think so I mean
00:07:33
Speaker
Because it was all allegations, right? Nothing ever came out that it was—there was never any concrete. I know a lot of people corroborated the stories that the other ladies had said about her making those racial remarks and stuff like that, but she didn't tweet it, you know what I mean? It wasn't caught on video, so there's really no proof of it.
00:07:54
Speaker
I mean, I don't think it'll ever prevent her from joining any of the companies. I mean, obviously, like, you know, that's it won't be any time in the near future. So by the time like AEW or WWE were to sign her, all that stuff is going to kind of just be like in the background. You know what I mean? Like the world moves so quickly. It'll be on to the next scandal and
Royal Rumble Predictions Begin
00:08:15
Speaker
like people will have forgotten about Tessa Blanchard.
00:08:18
Speaker
Yeah, I mean she just has to lay low for a couple months and just let things go to the wayside. It was interesting, I think Marco sent me the video or sent the video to us of her. She had a little speech after she won the title and a bunch of the wrestlers came out to
00:08:37
Speaker
to congratulate her and all this kind of stuff. But there was no female wrestlers from Impact that came out and congratulated her. So that has to be, you know, a telltale sign. That's definitely a telltale. Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say. It's definitely a telltale sign. I mean, you don't you don't get that kind of like shoot heat unless you're just legitimately like
00:08:56
Speaker
you know, doing something shitty behind the scenes, you know? No pun intended. No pun intended. No pun intended. In our group chat, we were thinking of some names. If she was to sign with AEW, I think some of my favorite ones were diarrhea Ripley would be good.
00:09:16
Speaker
Oh, my God. The Queen of Poop style was a good one. Yeah. The big brown machine. The sharkfish. Zach and Mike. The shark break kid. Yeah. Zach Eagoff and Mike Lanham are like the one-liner kings. They're so good. Yeah, they're super funny. So Defication X, a little play on the generation X. Defication X. Yeah, that was good stuff. So yeah.
00:09:46
Speaker
We'll see what happens with her, but definitely interesting to see that they put their main title on a female and pretty cool, pretty progressive to do. Hopefully all this stuff with her clears up. Also wanted to talk about, have you guys been watching NWA at all?
00:10:03
Speaker
I have not, yeah, I haven't. Is there something happen, something scandals or something good? No, like Scott Steiner's there now and they have, you know, it's kind of gotten to the point where they're adding some people. They're actually doing like a crossover with Ring of Honor where Nick Aldis and I think Marty Scurll are fighting at a pay-per-view coming up.
00:10:22
Speaker
We've talked about on the show how some of these smaller companies to survive really should be teaming up. AEW has talked about New Japan and them doing a partnership, but hopefully something comes with that. That would be pretty cool. Should we get into Royal Rumble? I don't really want to spend too much time on SmackDown and Raw. I know your time is valuable.
00:10:44
Speaker
None of it really matters to what the card is. We can preview that and go over. I have a list of names, and I want to get some odds from you guys on the odds of them becoming a surprise entrance. So you want to do a little quick Royal Rumble preview? Yeah, let's do it. And then if you have to hop off, you can hop off. OK. So let's run down the card from top to bottom here. Marco, do you have that in front of you? Yeah, so far it looks like they could announce more stuff
00:11:13
Speaker
That's what they like to do nowadays, and we have a full card. But right now, it looks like it's, do you want me to just say what the whole card is, what they have up on their site? No, let's just run down match by match, and we'll talk about the preview, yeah. So we'll start with, it seems like this is going to be the main event. The Universal Champion, the feed, Bray Wyatt versus Daniel Bryan. In a strap match. In a strap match. In a strap match, yes.
00:11:37
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Um, I mean I definitely I think the fiend is gonna roll with this one I don't I mean, I don't see like Daniel Bryan doesn't have anything to lose You know I'm saying if he puts on a good fight like it's gonna it's like I think he'll still come out looking okay But the fiend has just been so hyped like if he loses the title now I don't know what's next for the fiend You know what I mean? I think I think they've got to let him roll with it for at least a while So I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with the fiend winning this one. I
00:12:04
Speaker
Yeah, I'm with you. I think Dana Bryan is just kind of like a good stopgap here. But I think he goes into WrestleMania, has a big entrance there as the champion, and we'll see what happens going forward, whether he fights Roman Reigns and probably ends up being whoever wins this Royal Rumble is probably going to challenge him. So we'll see there. Next up, Becky Lynch versus Asuka. They've actually done a pretty nice build for this matchup.
00:12:30
Speaker
I don't see Becky Lynch losing the title here just because I think Asuka is kind of entrenched as a tag team wrestler now at this point for the foreseeable future. But it is cool that this is the one person that she hasn't beaten in a singles match for the title. So I'm going Becky Lynch. What about you, Sheena?
00:12:48
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going Becky Lynch too. I just think because Asuka has kind of like bested her the last few times they've been seen on TV together, you know, I think it's really setting Becky up to like come out on top in this, in this Rumble match. So I think, I think Becky retains and I think Asuka and you know, the Kabuki warriors stay together and kind of just like, you know, go a different direction.
00:13:09
Speaker
Roman Reigns versus King Corbin in a falls count anywhere match. I think these two are just gonna end up fighting on every pay-per-view for the end of time. For the rest of forever, yeah.
Match Predictions and Future Storylines
00:13:23
Speaker
I mean, I don't know if you're gonna put, if you're gonna put Roman in the Rumble, maybe you can have Corbin win this thing? Yeah, I mean, I guess so.
00:13:35
Speaker
I mean, it would have, yeah, it would have to be right. Like, I don't think it would, I think, I think Corbin goes over some, some sort of shenanigans happen. Like Dolph comes in or, or something. You know what I mean? Um, there's going to be some sort of shenanigans, but yeah, if Roman's in the rumble match, I don't think it makes sense for him to win here. I feel like he's going to have to get his, his shine in the rumble. Cool.
00:13:56
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I feel the same way. I think it's going to be a pretty open and shut case here. So far, this car is not really doing anything for me. I don't know about you. I mean, I know the rumble was really always the main attraction here. Shorty G versus Seamus. This feels like a squash match. I think they're setting up Seamus for one more solid push. That's Seth Phelps, favorite wrestler.
00:14:24
Speaker
He's better than the bulldog. I wasn't fucking there. I'm going Seamus. Do you agree? Yeah. Yeah. I think Seamus is going over, dude. Bailey versus Lacey Evans. I'm not sure if this is where we see kind of the beginning of a Bailey-Sasha feud, which would be pretty cool, but I think Sasha gets involved here at some point somehow. I wouldn't mind seeing Lacey Evans. I didn't really like her as a face originally, but I think she
00:14:52
Speaker
She gets a different kind of energy as a face than she does as a heel. I think it'd be a cool, interesting switch. I think I'm going to go Lacey Evans in this one. I'm going to go with Bailey. I think Bailey is going to retain. I think we're going to see them fight again. But I think this time Bailey retains.
00:15:14
Speaker
Cool. All right. Well, that's the one we have different so far. So that might be the deciding factor. That's the deciding factor. I'm still the champion, right? Yeah. I was trying to think of the last time we actually did a prediction for pay-per-view. I mean, it's been, you've been off for only like a month, but I feel like it's been- I know, but it feels like six years. I'm telling you right now. It feels like the CM Punk, the summer of punk here.
00:15:35
Speaker
It is. It is. Andrade versus Humberto Carrillo for the United States title. Should be a pretty good match. These guys can both go. I don't know. I could see them taking the belt off of him if they have got better, bigger, better things playing for Andrade. But I would say keep the belt on him and just have them. You know, at this point, I'd like to see anybody that has a title keep and just kind of roll into WrestleMania and build up a feud.
00:16:04
Speaker
But yeah for sure. He just won that ladder match. You know what I mean? I don't think it makes sense for him to lose at the Rumble I think I think I think it'll be an awesome match You know we've seen Humberto Carrillo kick ass in the ring go against Seth Rollins and who else did he fight AJ Styles, too? Yeah Yeah Yeah, he obviously they obviously think highly of him because they put him in some pretty high-profile Matches on on raw and stuff so far, so I think it'll be a good match, but I definitely think Andrade's gonna retain
00:16:34
Speaker
Marco, let's go down to the men's Royal Rumble here. Have they announced, I mean, I remember when Lesnar announced he was going to be in the Rumble, have they said anything about what happens if he wins or if the Royal Rumble is, I mean, on the Wikipedia page, it says it's for the World Championship match at WrestleMania. Has that been confirmed on WWE television? No, they haven't actually mentioned anything.
Speculation on Surprise Entrants
00:16:59
Speaker
They just said he was in it and that's pretty much it. They haven't said if it was a
00:17:03
Speaker
Championship match at media or the winner was winning the championship or anything with that? Her dog whining in the background. The Phelps fam house. That's not it. Was it come from my house? I think that I think that's a I think that's Marco's brood. Yeah. Is that a pumpernickel? Yeah, no, it's a that's a dog. It's it's our dog. We're in the background. What's a baby? What's the name of that dog?
00:17:29
Speaker
Winston. Oh, OK. That's a good name. That is a cute dog name. I don't know if there's a name in this royal rumble that I can, you know, confidently say is going to win this thing. And, you know, which is probably a good thing, which is good. I think I think this is good. This is the first year in a while that I've kind of just been like, hmm, this could really go a lot of different ways. I mean, when you got, you know, Seth Rollins, Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns, Drew McIntyre, Ricochet, is Ricochet in the rumble? Yeah.
00:17:58
Speaker
I think there's just a lot of star power in this rumble.
00:18:04
Speaker
Otis and Tucker in it somehow. That's interesting. We've talked about in our group chat of what Lesnar is going to do. He's coming in number one. I guess he's already determined. I guess now you can just pick which number you're in. You can. And like Sarah Logan just announced on Twitter that she's going to be in the women's Royal Rumble. You just declare the same way that Michael Scott declared bankruptcy. You just declare that you're going to be in the Royal Rumble.
00:18:31
Speaker
All right. Let me run down these names, Sheena, and I'm going to, I'm going to have you give me a percentage out of a hundred that you think they could be a surprise entrant. And then Marco, if you have any disagreements at the end, you can, you can weigh in. Okay. Kane Velasquez, Sheena. Oh, um, I think I w I'm going to put him, I think it could be like a 75% chance that we see Kane in the, in the rumble. CM Punk.
00:18:57
Speaker
Um, I think there's probably, I'm going to go 50 50. I don't know. I mean, I don't, I don't think it's going to, I don't think it's going to happen. I don't, I don't think, but I mean, dude, crazier things have happened. I mean, the hard voice showed up at WrestleMania. So, you know, um, you, you never know what can happen. And I mean, he, he's definitely got his toes in the water, you know? So nothing's, nothing's off the table. Johnny Cena.
00:19:25
Speaker
Johnny Cena, I'm gonna say 10% chance we see John Cena. Okay, must be filming Doolittle 2 or something. Killer Cross. Killer Cross. Yeah, he's an indie guy that's been rumored to be signing with the WWE, you know, possibly. Well, if I'm not excited about him, I'm gonna say probably like 10% chance. I'm gonna put him right there with John Cena. Jeffrey Hardy.
00:19:55
Speaker
Jeff Hardy. Um, no, 0% chance. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. The women's champion. All right. You want us to tag out for a minute? Yep. Oh, I will be back hopefully. So Marco, I'm turning it over to you, man. Don't disappoint. All right. Get that baby. Oh, jeez. Peace out. I'll be back. OK.
00:20:17
Speaker
All right, you want to take over here Matt Riddle? What do you think the odds are Matt Riddle shows up in the 2020 Royal Rumble, Marco? Matt Riddle, they... I read a thing saying there was no NXT people showing up, but I don't believe that at all. So I'm going to say just for the moment with Brock Lesnar, I'm going to say 90% chance. Wow. Matt Riddle will show up. I like that. I like that. Walter. Oh.
00:20:45
Speaker
probably Walter 20% or 30 20% chance Walter will show up scattered showers 20% edge the rated-r superstar edge oh he's been a big rumor
00:21:01
Speaker
I don't want to bring up any more interviews I watch, so I'm going to say, I'll say 50% chance for Edge. Oh, wow. Man, I like that. Dio Madden. Oh, God. You sounded very enthusiastic about throwing that name out there. 30% chance. I got a couple of female names. Ruby Riot. Oh, I'll probably say Ruby Riot.
00:21:29
Speaker
80% chance cuz I think she's doing a return at some point and the baddest woman on the planet Ronda Rousey. Oh, that's the big question her debut at the Royal Rumble she did so I mean
00:21:47
Speaker
I'm going to go 100% chance. Let's go. That's going to be the first and only 100% chance. All right. I like that. I like how Sheena has 50% on CM Punk, 10% on John Cena. CM Punk. That's my favorite. That's my favorite one.
00:22:05
Speaker
I would have flip-flopped those, too. I would have went 50 on Siena, then 10 on Sienpong, but hey, you know, like she said, you never know. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's not crazy. I mean, I could see all of these names making an appearance. And is there any any surprise entrance? I did not say. I mean, like a big show or somebody. I mean, that's not super surprise, but Cain Cain, I actually know he announced he was going to be in the Royal Rumble on SmackDown. So, yeah, he he declared, as they call it, I guess.
00:22:33
Speaker
He's gonna be horrible, so yeah Undertaker I'm not sure he's gonna show up, but that'd be pretty cool if he made a parents at all Yeah, I can't think of anyone else maybe a Pete done or He has to be a big name at Tommaso Ciampa someone from NXT. Yeah, I'm not coming on any NXT guys not showing up so I'm gonna say the big names of NXT will probably make an appearance and
00:23:02
Speaker
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00:23:17
Speaker
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00:24:02
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00:24:29
Speaker
Let's get into so that's that's the Royal Rumble card. I think I'm going to steal that belt back from Sheena. Who do you think? Who do you think is going to win? That's what we'll get back from her. If we get her back on the line or we can text her, who do you think is going to win the Royal Rumble? Like if you had to pay money on a male and female participant. Oh, man. Oh, I didn't think I'd pick him female yet. My guy is going to be Drew Mack. I think he's I think he's one of the Royal Rumble.
00:24:59
Speaker
I don't know why I just have a feeling he's they've been there's been a lot of focus on him for the past few weeks. I just think I think he's something's happening. He's either going to win it or there's going to be like a big something big going to happen around before Drew Mack where he's going to definitely get into the title picture somehow on media.
00:25:18
Speaker
But I'm picking him to win. I'm picking him to win it for the Manzanera Rumble. I hope so. I actually like what they're doing with him as a face. I think it's just giving him something fresh to do. He was just Shane McMahon's lackey for the better part of 2019. So that would be cool. And use this as an opportunity for someone new to step up and become part of the main event scene. I think it would be great.
00:25:43
Speaker
and
00:26:03
Speaker
just eliminate Brock set up a match between the two of them at WrestleMania, or I don't think Brock's gonna last for, he's not gonna be in this thing for very long. So how do you get him out? There has to be a reason they put him in this, you know what I mean? Like they're setting something up for WrestleMania. But I mean, to give Kane Velasquez a world title match is pretty crazy. That would mean whoever
Post-Royal Rumble Future Matchups
00:26:27
Speaker
would win this would go up against Bray, so it'd have to be a SmackDown person.
00:26:33
Speaker
That's tough. Well, I thought you could choose whoever. Yeah. Like if you want the rumble, you can choose whoever you want. So like if Drew McIntyre does win, he could choose a feed. But I think he would obviously choose Brock Lesnar. But the other thing I think we brought up, I brought up in the group chat was Tyson Fury, even though he does have a fight coming up in February. He might make an appearance at at at the Royal Rumble because I think I mentioned on Corey Gray's podcast that he
00:27:02
Speaker
mentioned that he wants to face Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania. I'm not sure if it's this WrestleMania or the next one, but that's one of his goals. That's his next match. That's what he wants, is Brock Lesnar in a ring.
00:27:14
Speaker
Um, so crazy. That would be cool. Could happen. Yeah. He's, he's better than I thought on the mic. Um, you know, he was doing some stuff with, with Strowman there for, you know, and that the debut of smack down. So, um, uh, yeah, I mean, it's, it's, there's a bunch of good names in this thing. I mean, they've only announced, I think 20 or so of the, of the folks in it. So yeah, we'll see who the next 10 are. I think it's, I think the women's rumble with Charlotte's to win. You know, I don't think they've only announced four people. Um, I don't know.
00:27:44
Speaker
This could be where we see the breakup between bliss and cross maybe turn turn Alexa heal again So you pickin Charlotte you said I think Charlotte's gonna win. I think they're gonna I think they I think they think Sasha Banks they haven't announced it yet, but I think she might be the The rumble winner mainly cuz she's been off TV for a few weeks. So they're trying to save her up for the To last a long time, maybe
00:28:12
Speaker
I would like that. I think if you can do, if you bring Rhonda back in some capacity and maybe Becky comes out and messes with her, I would think Rhonda versus Becky and Sasha versus Bailey and your two women's title matches, you're gold. But then what do you do with Charlotte? I mean, you give her a tag team match or put her against Lacey Evans or? Yeah, they could do that.
00:28:40
Speaker
Tag her up with someone tag her with lacy evans and go against the kabuki warriors or something like that maybe I mean lacy lacy definitely needs like the I mean she obviously she's really good, but she could use like the
00:28:54
Speaker
the Charlotte rub, as they call it. And I don't think Charlotte needs the rub of the Royal Rumble. I mean, whenever they want to put her back on the title picture, she'll slide in there in five seconds and be a legit contender. So she's kind of like in the limbo space of where AJ Styles is right now.
00:29:15
Speaker
Sorry, I had to turn my little heater off down there. It's cold in this basement, man. I don't have any heat down here yet, so. Yeah, I mean, the Royal Rumble's always my favorite. I've been going back and watching some of the old ones. I listened to the Bruce Pritchard show. They did Royal Rumble 1990. I did too. Yeah, that was right before I became a hardcore fan, but I remember watching it in the years past, and it was just so many big... That was when wrestlers were just larger than life, man.
00:29:44
Speaker
Comic book heroes, but exactly definitely go back and watch that I would love to do if we have time permitting I mean a Royal Rumbles this weekend But I'd love to do a watch along and start doing some of those for the for the patreon group That would be pretty fun because Royal Rumble 97 was great 98. I love 92. So What's your what's your favorite memory from from a Royal Rumble oh Man, it has to be because I'm out
00:30:13
Speaker
Warrior Fanatic would be the the actually the my one of my favorite podcasts out there the our vantage point podcast They actually had a clip on on their on their Twitter timeline of but I was the it was a moment where and right around 1990 when the Hulk and warrior Actually faced off like I was like that like they had their backs towards II like towards each other and they they found out they were the only two of the ring together and
00:30:43
Speaker
And then they just had that like stare down and they pushed each other. And that's like one of my, my biggest memories. Cause obviously I was a Hulk Hogan fanatic before the warrior came along and you know, took, took the love of Marco away from Hogan. But, uh, but yeah, no, that's, that's probably one of my, like, one of my most vivid moments is that just like that epic, like all this has happened and it's, it's warrior Hogan and they're gonna, when someone's going down, I'm not sure who it is. Yeah. And, um,
00:31:12
Speaker
And it was just like the what do you call it? How does Google want to call it? A stop on the forest, first they move a little object. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. That's all. Yeah, that's how it looked like. It was basically just John at each other and then the the the shoving. And then, you know, they did the cross, the cross ropes. Oh, they don't double clothes on. And I was like, oh, God, this is I was like, as a kid, I was like, this is I was like, we can't get any better this. I was like, how's the years from now? I was going to get better. This is no way.
00:31:41
Speaker
at all, but obviously someone came along and changed that, but yeah, that's my vivid moment there. How about you? What's your most vivid, wearable moment? What's cool about that is we never saw before that a good guy versus a good guy wrestling. It was pretty revolutionary for the WWF.
00:32:03
Speaker
whoo I mean I love that when when Bret Hart and Lex Luger went over the the top rope at the same time I mean I was like yeah I was a kid I was like man what what are they gonna like that made you really want to tune into raw I don't know if they even know if they had raw at that time I'm sure they did but
00:32:19
Speaker
It was just cool. I mean, Bret Hart, they've talked about that on the Pritchard Show too, that Bret Hart was kind of the man in charge of making sure they both landed at the same time and just perfectly done. And also when AJ Styles debuted four or five years ago, when Roman was... Oh, that was, yeah. Yeah, the crowd popped huge for that. That was a cool, we weren't told ahead of time type of thing.
00:32:42
Speaker
Yeah, that was that. That was just the rumor mill. It was like, Oh, is AJ cells? I think people knew that he was signed to the WWE or he was signing, but no, in no way, shape or form that they think he was going to show up at. Yeah. Another cool one that I thought it was the, um, cause I'm just remembering, um, cause I obviously seen on Twitter again, OVP stone cold when he gets thrown out by Bret Hart, then,
00:33:11
Speaker
without the referee seeing him gets back into the rumble, tosses like three dudes over, and then Brett Hart's tossing some guys out, then he runs over and tosses Brett over, and that controversy happened where like, obviously Austin was eliminated, we all see that happen, but he somehow sneakily got in and eliminated Brett, that was pretty
00:33:32
Speaker
That was pretty good. I'm assuming that was a Bret Hart doing as well. I'm pretty sure he's behind that. I watched that the other day, and it's so cool to look. I mean, he was stone cold that time, but he came out, and then nobody really popped. I mean, it was a year later, he's like the biggest thing in the history of wrestling. And he's still, at that point, still like, I mean, I'm sure he was still a heel. That was before the Bret Hart match at WrestleMania, where they kind of flipped.
00:33:57
Speaker
Um, that was such a well done time and that was an underrated time. That was not the attitude area yet, but it was getting there and that was, uh, yeah, but yeah, you, you gave two shadows there to, to our vantage point and I, you know, I can't recommend those guys enough, man. What a, what a great, uh, podcast and they do an awesome Twitter. They're always posting videos of like old school stuff. I love it, man. Like, uh,
00:34:18
Speaker
Now that it's Royal Rumble season, just post on old school stuff. It's OVP podcast on Twitter. Definitely check them out on their show there. They do a weekly show. It's really good. Drops on Mondays. Yeah, so that's Royal Rumble. I don't want to get too much into SmackDown or Raw, AEW. I mean, there's a couple of things going on, but let's go inside the squared circle. This is brought to you in part by our friends.
00:34:44
Speaker
at Chalk Line, you can use code CHICK for 15% off your order there. They have a ton of great stuff. I know they just dropped a cool Bray Wyatt fiend jacket there. They're always introducing new stuff, so check it out. I did watch NXT last week, which was an awesome, they had this women's battle royal, which the amount of talent in that ring, I mean, I took a picture of it.
00:35:10
Speaker
there's 15 females in there that could go right to the main roster. And I don't remember a time, I don't know if I'm just looking at it with rose-colored glasses, but not only women's wrestling, I don't remember a time where there's so much talent at
NXT Women's Division Praise
00:35:25
Speaker
one time. And it's like, I could see any of those people being the NXT Women's Champion. I mean, Bianca Belair's been there for a while. I really didn't expect her to win, but she did, and I'm a huge fan of hers.
00:35:37
Speaker
she and a baser came back for that she wasn't really announced for it, Candice LeRae I think is you know pound for pound one of the best wrestlers period in the world yeah it was just I mean if you haven't watched that go back Bianca Belair wins spoiler alert sorry I mean that was you know over a week ago
00:35:55
Speaker
I mean, it was just a little battle royal on NXT. It wasn't like, you know, spoiling the Royal Rumble or something. But it was pretty fun to watch. And Katie Cantanzaro, Ricochet's girlfriend, formerly of American Ninja Warrior fame. Yeah, I guess she's back. I remember she like took a break from wrestling. But she like retired or something. Not retired, but like quit or yeah. Yeah, she's like four feet two. I mean, she's not really built like a wrestler, but she's pretty cool. She did some cool stuff in last year's Royal Rumble, that's for sure.
00:36:26
Speaker
That he had Tegan Knox making a return from her injury. Yeah after the attack from him I was thinking of the Dakota Kai. Yes And then the big return which everyone was everyone in that ring was I think was shocked was out of the return of Shayna baser, which is That was pretty epic there. I wasn't expecting her to return so soon. I
00:36:49
Speaker
But yeah, it was pretty awesome. That Battle Royal was actually really, like you said, it's literally that whole room is filled with talent. And I think last week I alluded to like a hot take of what I was going to say is it was basically just women, the women's division in general, I think is probably the best division out of any, anything that's going right now, as far as top to bottom talent. And that's probably, I'm probably alone on that. Or maybe that might be a couple of people that think the same way, I think.
00:37:17
Speaker
But just like you said, just seeing that ring and see all the talent in every at once, they could all easily be in the title picture. All those women and that proves it right there. They'll get their rosters on the main on the main rosters. The caliber of women that they have wrestling there. If you want to take a W, they have they have talented women there as well. ROH, they have the or they have women of honor, the WOH. It says, I think just the women in general are
00:37:46
Speaker
I think that just top to bottom, I think they just have the most talent right now when it comes to wrestling. Like I said, it might be the only one in that bracket, but I just think they're doing it a lot better than the guys are right now when it comes to in-ring performance. It's just the passion, I think, that they have over, not that the men are like, they're not like,
00:38:07
Speaker
the men to be like, we're here, we know we got the spot already. The women are having to try harder to prove themselves because for years and years that was when you got up and went to the bathroom at the arena when the women's match came on. But that's totally flipped from when I was a kid. Now it's taken seriously and there's some damn good performers. Yeah, definitely.
00:38:31
Speaker
I want you to, whether Sheena comes back on or not, I want you to talk to her, have her pick two surprise entrants, and I want us to get a point each for these if they come true. For the men's, I'm going to pick Walter. It's going to make an appearance. And for the women's, I'm going to say Sheena Baszler. So don't tell her what mine are. And those will count as whatever point system that you give us if we get a match correct.
00:38:55
Speaker
All right. That's a shot in the dark. I mean, I don't have any inside info. But I think those two would make a perfect little preview of what they can do on the main roster, quote, unquote. So yeah, anything you want to talk about from Raw in SmackDown? Let's see. I really like the Otis and Mandy stuff they got going on. That's been pretty fun. Yeah, they're really doing that storyline really well, better than Raw's doing their storyline over there with their love interest.
00:39:25
Speaker
They're taking it slow, they're doing the right things, they're making it fun, they're making it comedic, they're making it, they're making it all about love, apparently, with these two. Just the, if everyone's seen the gif or a gif, however you pronounce it, where he sees Mandy, he catches her, like solid, doesn't drop her at all, just grabs her and she gives him a look and he gives her a look and it's, I'm not sure where they're going with this, hopefully it's not a,
00:39:54
Speaker
a heel turn where she slaps with the face. I want Trish Stratus and Chris Jericho. Um, but yeah, actually I love where this is going. I'm not a big person with the love angles, but this one's really, this one's entertaining. We actually like it. Yeah. I think it's done really well. Uh, raw. We saw a pretty cool, we saw Seth and, uh, uh, buddy Murphy become tag team champions. You and Sheena didn't like this. I'm a fan of it. What's, what's your problem with this? It seems like everyone that they,
00:40:23
Speaker
Literally, you can go, I mean, I don't have anything in front of me right now. I'm just speaking from my own mental history. I think everyone that Seth Rollins has, they partnered him with, they've won the titles with. He's won the tag titles with everyone he's partnered with, if I'm not mistaken. So like, go back to the, yeah, go back to the Shield days. Jason Jordan, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose,
00:40:53
Speaker
Braun Strowman, but he like, there's no, I just don't, I just don't get it. Like why, I mean, I'm not a booker. I'm not a writer. I have no clue, but why not keep the, I think everyone's big deal is like, why did they give it to AOP? That's what I think everyone's like, why did, if there, if there's a faction with all four of them, the tag title should be on the AOP, not on Buddy Murphy and Seth Rollins. I'm assuming that's what everyone's collective thoughts are.
00:41:21
Speaker
And they're all assuming that AOP is going to turn on them at some point and all this stuff. But why not just keep the belts on the Viking Raiders and just make them like they have no, the tag division isn't really, there's nothing going on with it right now. And you have this bad-ass team that's just like mowing through everybody, just destroying people. They're super athletic in the ring and they're really charismatic and all this stuff. And you take the titles off them and put them on Buddy Murphy and Seth Rollins. That's why I don't get it. That's, that's my own personal gripe.
00:41:51
Speaker
Um, my idea would have been that you keep the titles on Viking Raiders, just keep, have them both or everybody. And at WrestleMania, you have that bad-ass show now between them and the AOP, like build the AOP. That's a few more months to build the AOP up as a, as a, like a bad-ass tag team. Um, and then at WrestleMania, there's a combination. Like they, they, they have these two, two teams that, that are like unstoppable. And one of them has to lose essentially. One of them is going to lose that title. One's going to gain a title.
00:42:21
Speaker
Why did, I'm not sure why they go that route, but I mean, they said I'm not a writer, I'm not a booker, so there might be something else that they're going for. But I don't know. It's just, it's just Seth Rollins winning the tag titles again. Like that, that, that didn't do anything for me at all, personally.
00:42:41
Speaker
Yeah, I think, I mean, AOP with the tag team titles would have been, I'd feel the same way as I feel about the Viking Raiders with it. Like, you know, they have them, they're big, big badass shit kickers, but I mean, they don't do anything on the mic. We don't hear anything from them. There's no storylines with them. At least with Seth, you can have him kind of promoting Buddy Murphy as like the next thing. They can eventually split up and you can turn Buddy Murphy face and have him get his ass beat.
00:43:09
Speaker
by AOP and Seth and set up a Seth versus Buddy Murphy match and really promote him and push him a little bit heavier. I'm all for it. I mean, I just don't think it would make more sense to have AOP win it, but then what do you do? Then it's just the same board. Then you just don't care. I mean, I don't care if they were the tag team champions. They're big, badass dudes, whether they have the titles or not.
00:43:35
Speaker
I completely forgot to forget Viking Raiders even had the tag team bells. I mean, they've had the titles for a while, but have they had any storylines? Have they even talked? Have they done anything with them besides squash some dudes? You have to give me a little bit more for me to really care, and I think they can do that. They just want to keep Seth in the mind's eye from people and keep a title on them, which makes sense.
00:44:00
Speaker
It's it's something a little bit different given buddy Murphy a title and seeing where that goes and I Can see I don't think they should split that group up anytime soon though I think I mean I like what they're doing with those guys. They should give me a name, but yeah, that's what I think that I think that's where the the other main the other thing comes in is we're like now that they won the titles is it are they gonna break are they breaking them up this soon like because normally that would happen it's like now the AOP is gonna be jealous that they are the tag titles and it's like
00:44:28
Speaker
Now there's inner turmoil. They're too early in those stages to have that type of thing going on. That's why I think everyone's confused as to why they won the titles so fast. Unless they do something where they just give the title to AOP. Like, hey, we won it for you guys. Now you guys are the tag team champs, that type of thing. I don't know. I think people are just catching on to the fact that everyone
00:44:56
Speaker
that teams up with Seth Rollins wins a tag title for some reason. And it's kind of strange that they're doing that. It's literally, it's a list of people and it's just, I don't know, is this weird? Is it, is this a weird accolade that they need him to have? He's a multiple tag team champion for some reason. Is that how they see him? Just a tag champ? Do they not see him as a single? Like I think they, I think the idea behind it was like AOP wins the tag titles.
00:45:21
Speaker
And then like Seth Rollins and Buddy Murphy would like singles titles and they become like a kind of like an undisputed error. I think Sheena actually brought that up. Like that was like kind of like an idea of what they should be doing, but I don't know. I could be wrong.
00:45:36
Speaker
Yeah, it'd be interesting to see where they go with it, but I think it's cool. Let's go outside the squared circle now. Rest in peace to a couple big name wrestling superstars. LaParca passed away after the, you know, I totally forgot that was him that got hurt, that injury where he did a suicide dive to the outside and just basically, that dude didn't catch him, he just landed like face first into the guardrail. Yeah,
Tribute to LaParca and Rocky Johnson
00:46:03
Speaker
I was brutal if you see that video.
00:46:05
Speaker
That was five or six months ago. I guess he's been in just bad health and just failing and his body shut down. So that is not the LaParca that was in WCW. He actually wrestles his LaParc now, but still sad. And the soul man, Rocky Johnson, the Rock's father,
00:46:26
Speaker
Pass passes away. I think it was over the weekend. Yeah, that was a that was a sudden one. Yeah, that was sad. It's a it's pretty pretty cool to see like everybody the outpouring of support of the rock. And he went on Instagram and thanked everybody for that. And, you know, he's before our time. But, you know, yeah, I probably paved the way for a lot of African-American wrestlers that we that we see today. You know, so pretty cool. Yeah, definitely. He was the one half of the first ever African-American tag team champs back in the day.
00:46:56
Speaker
Tony Atlas. Um, yeah. So actually bet Tony Atlas at that, uh, event that I went to where Mark Henry was at. We actually took a picture with him in, in the, in the ranking stuff like that. It was pretty cool. But, uh, yeah, since we last recorded, I don't know if we have no, no, no, no, we haven't. No, we actually haven't at all. Yeah. I went to some, I went to an event. Um, it's a John Cena, John Cena's father and Tony Atlas, uh, run this wrestling organization.
00:47:25
Speaker
in Massachusetts, M.W.F. is Massachusetts Wrestling Federation.
Marco's Wrestling Event Experience
00:47:31
Speaker
And they held a like a toy drive slash benefit. But they had some matches and stuff like that, some meet and greets, and they had Mark Henry was there, Vicki Guerrero, TJ Perkins, and Evan Bourne were the main people there. So it was pretty cool, actually. I took a picture with Mark Henry. I posted it.
00:47:53
Speaker
Um, actually took a group photo with all them. Oh, um, in general, Briscoe was actually there too as well. He was, um, actually, I think he was, I think he was, uh, he was there for a seminar before the show actually started. So he did like a seminar for all the, the guys are also there, all the up and comers and stuff like that. He's probably there. Uh, he's a Scott, he's still scouting. So he's probably starting some guys, um, there for the, for NXT, but, um, yeah, it was a group photo with all of them actually actually should post that too as well. Um,
00:48:23
Speaker
And he, uh, Mark Henry called my, I was wearing the, uh, the chalk line jacket, the chick pulley one. He was like, Oh, remember, he was like, Oh, you have a member's only jacket. I was like, I'm not going to say if anyone knows the members only isn't probably aging myself right now. But, um, I didn't say anything back to me because it's Mark Henry squash me. If I made a joke back, but yeah, he was, he was really awesome. Actually. Yeah. We can't, we converse a little bit stuff like that. He's he's pretty cool. Uh, but yeah, it was, it was awesome. I actually really enjoyed that. They're actually doing another one in a few.
00:48:53
Speaker
Um, and a few months, I believe in April, they do like an eighties inspired with Jake, the snakes. And it'd be there, Paul, and a couple other guys. So probably go to that. We're just, uh, see those guys, but yeah, it was pretty cool. I didn't know John Cena senior was involved with. Yeah, he, uh, so he's so in the, in the Massachusetts area, he's like a celebrity pretty much. So he, uh, he has, he has his own face printed on, uh, dollars that he passes out and stuff like that, which is.
00:49:22
Speaker
Pretty cool. When I used to work retail, um, I'll just say it best buy back years ago, he would, uh, he would actually come in a lot. Like he was like a frequent person. He would come in and pass out his dollar bills and stuff like that with his face on it. Yeah. He was actually a manager too. He managed something and you guys and stuff like that. So he's definitely, he's definitely in the, in the wrestling business and stuff like that, but not on the, uh, not on the main stream as a son was, but.
00:49:47
Speaker
Tony Atlas and Rocky Johnson back in the day were just too freaking carved out of rock man. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're literally elite figures We have here I have a couple things on my list so I have a
00:50:06
Speaker
Sheena talked about it on the bonus episode, but I've commissioned our good friend at Extra Cooler for some shirt ideas. I gave him three ideas for shirts, and he's going to make those up. And we're actually going to post the pictures in the Patreon page, and our Patreon subscribers are going to pick which shirt we get made. I'm not going to spoil any of the details, but it'll be pretty cool. Yeah, yeah.
00:50:29
Speaker
If you need any artwork done, he is the best in the business at Extra Cooler on Twitter and Instagram. I think we talked about it last show, but we are in the early stages of doing a prep for a SummerSlam Chick-Foli meetup. So if you're in the mid-Atlantic New England area and you want to make the trip up to Boston for SummerSlam, Marco
00:50:55
Speaker
lives there already, so he'll be there. Sheena has talked about going if the heel husband's back in town and I'd like to go up. So if you wanna split a hotel room with me, I snore pretty bad and I have night terrors, but don't be alarmed and we'll have some fun. But yeah, we're gonna hopefully get together and talk wrestling and drink some beers and watch wrestling, watch SummerSlam up in Boston. So it's not too far of a hike for me up there.
00:51:21
Speaker
Definitely should be a good time. Yeah, our good buddy heal Cerny on on Twitter. I tweeted about this today and I'll kind of post the tweet over the next couple of days. His son is special needs. He's autistic, I believe, and he needs 24 hour care there. They have a
00:51:40
Speaker
and a
00:51:57
Speaker
So definitely check it out. He is at heal underscore C-E-R-N-E-Y. He's a great part of the figure community and he needs our help. So definitely check his Twitter out. And again, I will post the link to that continually. And yeah, good stuff there. Let's get into, should we get into our weekly purchases, Marco? Yeah, why not? Let's do it.
00:52:30
Speaker
Alright. The Major Brothers do their weekly purchases. We do our... What do we call ours? I don't remember what we call ours.
00:52:40
Speaker
Go figure. Go figure, yeah. It's our go figure segment. You know what? It's brought to you by our friends at Ringside Collectibles who now have announced the new lineup for Elite 76.
Wrestling Figure Releases and Issues
00:52:51
Speaker
And yeah, you can get anything on their website your heart desires for 10% off. Just use code Chick Foley. Don't wait for them to show up at Walmarts or Targets because you know what? They're probably not going to show up there. And if they do,
00:53:05
Speaker
the freaking morons that work there. The mouth breathers that work at Walmart and Target are probably going to kick the boxes and make them look like crap. So just order from Ringside Collectibles. You'll pay a little bit extra, but it's worth the money. So definitely check that out there. Let's talk about our purchases, and then we'll get into some news and some photos we've seen of some figures coming out. Do you have any purchases over the last week, Mr. Marco Denton? Just two.
00:53:35
Speaker
local target they actually started putting out the uh the series with velvety dream and becky lynch which uh what so i yeah just just now yeah this it's been very very bare i've been i haven't i actually just happened to stop by because i stopped going there because i do exactly what they were putting out so they're starting to put those out so um i didn't own any either one of those i grabbed them i don't i don't know why i didn't grab becky lynch or velvety dream but uh
00:54:05
Speaker
I picked those two up, and the queen of fig style, Sheena herself actually grabbed me the rock and Bobby Lashley from the Royal Rumble Elite series. So that was pretty awesome of her doing that. But yeah, that's pretty much it. It's been pretty quiet on my end for fig collecting. I'm doing the behind the scenes LJN type of thing.
00:54:35
Speaker
We able to deal with on that. So, oh, really nice. Nice. Yeah. I'm just, I'm trying to, I'm not, I'm not sure what I want to do as far as, um, the collection goes, but I've been looking at that and I'm not a has, I haven't done Hasbro's at all, but actually, uh, I was at one of my local comic stores and, um, and they actually had like a glass case of a bunch of different figures and including LJN and they had a lot of, uh, Hasbro's for like 15, 20 bucks.
00:55:04
Speaker
So I was like, should I jump into the Hasbro collection? I really only wanted the warrior because I've collected a lot of pretty much all the warrior figures. And they do have one of the warrior figures in there for like 15 bucks. So I was looking at grabbing that, but yeah, that's my news. LJN's and Hasbro's, I'm looking to dive into those collections. So that should be,
00:55:31
Speaker
pretty expensive and cost a marriage, so. Yeah, the second one's the worst part. It's funny you mention that. It's funny you mention that. I went over to my buddy, Daris' house, who I haven't seen in quite a while. He had a, up in Pittsburgh, he picked up a Jax Pacific Card Angle WrestleMania figure for me.
00:55:52
Speaker
To add to my Kurt Angle collection and he showed me his collection. He's actually He's doing two things. He's almost complete. I think he's like 10 or 15 away from the complete Hasbro collection, but he's starting a Ultimate warrior collection as well and he's got a bunch of figures He has a bunch of a couple details up and he's got a whole like room up in his like top floor of his house It's gonna be like his office for figs and stuff
00:56:16
Speaker
He has a whole detail of his favorite figures and then one of all African American WWE elites and it's pretty cool to see all of them together. Yeah, he's got everything. So yeah, he's got a pretty cool collection going on. I found him, and I've had him for a month in my car, just we haven't been able to meet up. Had the Rock and Bobby Lashley Royal Rumble elites to give him that he bought from me, I found at Target.
00:56:44
Speaker
I hooked them up with those, and actually on the Patreon purge sale, I sold a bunch of elites. I had a couple, I forget the names of who I sold them to, but I have the Neville Elite with the Cruiserweight title, the Elias, I think that's Elite 50, oh Elite 60, and then the Edge and Dean Ambrose SummerSlam elites, I've sold all of those. Just kind of clearing some stuff out that I didn't really have a place for.
00:57:12
Speaker
I was like, let me put this money towards something. No, Marco, I just ended up using it and starting another collection of WWF magazines. I cannot wait for this. I'm going to get a binder with some of those big protectors. In the last 48 hours or so, I have bought
00:57:34
Speaker
1994, February, March, April, June, July, August, September, October, and November of 1994. Oh my god. Yeah. And March of 95. So those are all coming. And they're like six or seven bucks. Some are like around $10. But I found people grouping them together for some good prices. Nice. So yeah, I'm just going to do 94, 95, 96, same as I do with my Loose Figures, kind of the new generation collection.
00:58:02
Speaker
That'll be pretty cool. Um, what else did I pick up here? Um, I picked up the Mandalorian, um, which I guess is a, is a hard figure to get. It's a Star Wars Mandalorian based on the TV show. I picked it up for, uh, yeah, our buddy TJ McHugh. And actually I'm going to be on the hunt for those because there's a three or four other folks in our Patreon group that are looking for those. So, um, I don't just hunt for wrestling figures. If you guys, you know, if our buddies need something else, I'm more than, if I'm already at the store, I don't mind looking, you know, so.
00:58:29
Speaker
I can't get into collecting anything besides wrestling figures, so if I find them, they're there for you guys. Today I found the Royal Rumble Rock figure for our buddy Skylar Davis. I'm going to send him that. Our good buddy Mike Lanham found for my son the Sting Masters of the Universe, which have not really
00:58:49
Speaker
I haven't really seen them hit stores here. I bought the Finn Balor and the Ultimate Warrior off of Walmart's website, and now I have the Sting. So I'm going to give those probably... Do you do Valentine's Day for your kids? I'll give them a little something with some candy. I haven't done that. That's actually a really
00:59:09
Speaker
Yeah. Good idea. Not something I wouldn't do. I would definitely do something like that, actually. Yeah, it's fun. My mom and dad used to do it for me as a kid, just like a little basket of like, you know, one little toy with some candy, you know, just pretty cool. So I'll probably do that for him. And then his birthday is in March, too. So I don't know. I got to spread things out a little bit.
00:59:27
Speaker
So I picked those up for him, and our buddy TJ McHugh, again, was selling some pretty badass elites on the Facebook page for like 12 bucks. One of them was like the Ultimate Warrior Ultimate Edition. I think he was just clearing space out. So I picked up a Seamus Elite, where he has like the little braids in his beard. Just because I don't have a Seamus figure, so I picked that up. It was $12 shipped for our buddy TJ, so he sent that to me. Just got that today.
00:59:56
Speaker
Other than that, I haven't purchased any fake. I mean, some of these next couple sets coming up, I don't really have. We can go through it. We talked about it last week. So the LEED 75 is shipping now from Ringside Collectibles. That's with Seth Rollins, Mandy Rose, Pete Dunn, Jeff Hardy, Kalisto, and the Hurricane. Yep.
01:00:18
Speaker
And, I mean, we're still, I don't know what's going on with these store exclusives, because that's 75. 73 has hit, you know, my Walmart. They haven't hit Target. And the Target exclusive for that is Peyton Royce. And then the Walmart exclusive for the lead 74 is Jim Nighthart. I think, I mean, you or somebody else posted a picture of Peyton Royce hitting in Australia. So, I mean, if you want to go koala hunting, you can go down there and find out.
01:00:47
Speaker
Pete and Royce on the pegs in Australia, but those have to be coming out pretty soon. I guess the night heart has to be coming out pretty soon. And then Billy Kay is the target exclusive for Elite 75. So a lot of stuff kind of, you know, again, this is why we, you know, we partnered with the ringside because we
01:01:09
Speaker
We use them, we're customers of theirs, but also, like you just said, Elite 72 is finally hitting your store, and people are getting Elite 75 already from Ringside Collectibles.
01:01:24
Speaker
two, three months difference here to get some figures in your hand. Um, I think our buddy D at D freedom 30 on Instagram. I don't know if he's, I think he's on Twitter too. Um, he has a rumored list of the elite 78 is going to be our truth with the, uh, 24 seven, 365, nine 11 championship, Seth Rollins, Matt Riddle, and Randy Orton. So we're finally getting a Seth Rollins elites. That's good.
01:01:54
Speaker
Yeah, I can't wait for that. And I'm excited about the Matt Riddle one. I bought the Basic for my son. I talked about that a couple weeks ago, but I'm hoping they do the flip-flops. I mean, Riddle wasn't really aware too much to the ring, so maybe like a warm-up jacket or something, one of those NXT warm-up jackets, they got to do that, I'm sure, you know? So that'll be a cool figure. What are, whatever these next couple sets are you really going to be gunning for? Because...
01:02:21
Speaker
76, we talked about Otis and Tucker from Heavy Machinery, Lacey Evans, Thuganomics, John Cena, Strowman, and the Brood Christian, which I know a lot of people are excited about. Yeah. Probably the Lacey Evans, because it'd be our first figure. Get him a fan of hers. Now, the Christian Brood would be pretty sick. Definitely not, I mean, John Cena.
01:02:47
Speaker
The Thuganomics one might not be bad, but would that be similar to the Defining Moments one? I'm assuming anyway. Unless they do the Thuganomics. The rumor that I read was it was a Thuganomics one from WrestleMania last year. Oh, that'd be cool. Him coming out as the Doctor of Thuganomics. Now, that'd be pretty cool. But yeah, I mean, they're not super excited.
01:03:16
Speaker
to talk about the Ultimate Edition snafu that they had with Sean Michaels, the head scans and stuff like that. I mean, even those two, I mean, I have all the Ultimate Editions. I might skip those for some reason. I don't know. I think you made a joke about how Brock Lesnar looks like Moe from the Three Stooges with the hat on his head. He was kind of funny, but yeah, I mean,
01:03:46
Speaker
I'm not gunning for anything as of yet. I think with the feed emerges, whatever series that's going to be in, that's going to be probably the hardest figure to find, or the most convenient one to find, depending on the distribution. That's what I'm pretty much waiting for when that hits. Yeah, I don't know if that's going to be in with Elite 78, or because that's only they've only announced four people for that. I think Elite 77 is a SummerSlam series. Yeah.
01:04:15
Speaker
We'll see I mean I'm definitely gonna pre-order that the minute it shows up on ringside I mean they'd be stupid they'd be Stupid to make that a store exclusive because you got to get that thing out there I mean that could be the biggest selling, you know wrestling figure of all you know, you know, that's gonna be everywhere
01:04:32
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I'm with you. I'm going to grab Lacey Evans. I'm going to grab Mandy Rose. I want both Peyton Royce and Billie Kay, but I'm not in a dire need. I'm in a spot right now where I'm really trying to, like you with the LJNs, I'm going back and grabbing some stuff.
01:04:48
Speaker
just because, you know, I'm at the point of my collecting where I don't need any more Seth Rollins, or I really want to stick to one of each person for my, you know, specific collections, like, you know, my Age of Styles or Macho Man type of stuff, so...
01:05:03
Speaker
It's interesting. We'll see if these exclusives show up. I mean, our buddy from Mattel, Steve Ozer, says that the Cashezonos should be shipping in the page, should be shipping out now. But we've had a couple people. I think Jason Cook, one of our Patreon subscribers, said he was at the store for that Elite series and didn't see it in the box. I mean, there was no Cashezono in the box. So, I mean, that's going back to 71, right?
01:05:32
Speaker
that 71 yeah yeah that's still the old the old packaging yeah so that 71 I mean stranger things have happened but that's I mean there's not even any of those on eBay we had the heel husband on for our top figures of 2019 and he you know he didn't even
01:05:53
Speaker
He was looking for one. He couldn't even find one on eBay, you know, so yeah, I think that's gonna become a lot of people think it's gonna show up eventually on ringside. I don't want to take a bet on that. I think it's gonna be great. Yeah, it would be great. I mean, I think it's gonna end up being the next Harley race. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of funny that cash is owner like that. I mean, not that he's not. No one already know that he's not good. He's like his figure has become like the like the like is it like the the one that
01:06:23
Speaker
It's hard to get like you can't find you go to ebay right
Cashes Ono Figure Scarcity and Value
01:06:26
Speaker
now. There's nothing. There's no no I went I literally went on there and I think uh, I think he actually did get one. I think he Seth said he did pull the trigger on one of the Yeah, and they ended up getting it because I think it was the same exact one that I Was watching because I was like, oh maybe I should because they had there was there was two left at that time there was a
01:06:50
Speaker
Casasono by himself and then someone was selling Casasono and page together for like a hundred bucks or something Yeah for like a hundred bucks to get both of them which I was gonna pull the trigger on both of those But then went back. They're both gone like both both accounts Nothing, you know, I was like, oh what the hell? The else that's pretty upsetting. Hopefully hopefully it doesn't happen like that. But I mean even Casasono did he went out? On his Twitter and actually is trying to help with the distribution
01:07:19
Speaker
of his figures. Did you see that? Yeah, I did. But it just ended up being a list of people that all need it. He's trying to connect people that are selling it with people that need it, but it just ended up being like 500 tweets of people that need it. But seriously, I'm on eBay right now. I typed in Caches, Oh No, Elite. There's five listings, but they're all for trading cards. There's not even... Yeah, there's nothing.
01:07:44
Speaker
You would think that someone would put, you know, with the demand, like, I mean, there's probably hardly races on here, but I mean, I'm sure anything that pops up on here probably gets sold in, you know, five minutes, you know? Yep. Yeah. I mean, it's, I mean, maybe they're just waiting to see if it gets even more, it's going to get a lot more valuable if it, if the distribution doesn't happen for cash. So probably the people that are holding onto it are definitely waiting for that to happen.
01:08:12
Speaker
I'm assuming anyway, because I mean, I would definitely pull the trigger on one if I did. Oh, yeah. Not for $1,000, though, if I get that. $1,000? No. Yeah, that's probably going to happen. $500, you get a cash or so? No, it's like, no, I'm all set with that.
01:08:28
Speaker
Yeah, I don't need a toy. It is actually a really good looking figure though. I mean, it's, you know, I know it's been tough for people to get, but it, and people were saying how great it is, but it is a really good looking figure. And it's funny, it also is ironic because Ono is a huge wrestling figure
Critique of Ultimate Edition Figures
01:08:43
Speaker
collector. I mean, he's, you know, he's a guy who's big into collecting. He's on with the Major Brothers on some of their videos sometimes.
01:08:50
Speaker
And it probably sucks even more for him because he knows the problem that it is to go out hunting and finding stuff. So he's probably bummed out for people that they can't get his fig. Yeah, the ultimate additions are garbage. The Lesnar and Shawn Michaels ones are just, they don't look good, especially the Shawns Michaels one. It looks like a Barbie doll, like a Ken doll.
01:09:14
Speaker
And those have been a disappointment, man. I mean, for 30 bucks, it's not a huge price increase, but I would have thought that these would be a lot more... I don't know, they're not terrible. I mean, the Bret Hart one that I have is good, but it's not great. It has the hair and the face. The Naka Mora one Seth really liked, Seth Phelps really liked.
01:09:36
Speaker
the Triple H one looks good, but I mean, I think they should, number one, they should all have title belts with them. There's no reason they should not have a belt. Every single figure should have a belt with it. You know what I mean? Whatever belt like they're most known for, like Brian Hart should have the winged eagle with them 100%. Shawn Michaels one should have the winged eagle.
01:09:54
Speaker
You know, he should have like a DX outfit and like a, like a, you know, whatever boy toy outfit he's wearing with the assless chaps. Um, you know, it should be like, Oh my God, I get a lot of stuff for this. This is $30. Like this is a steal for all this stuff I get, you know? So, I mean, I'm sure they have warehouses of stuff that they've used for showing Michael's figures back in the, you know, can't be hard to throw in a DX t-shirt with it, you know? Oh, exactly. Yeah. Um, so.
01:10:22
Speaker
We'll see. They are good, but I'm not. They've also been heavily discounted on some of these ringside sales because they just haven't sold the way people thought they would. And you're going with Brock Lesnar, who doesn't really warm the pegs. That's going to be a pretty good figure. And Shawn Michaels always sells well, but I think they just missed the mark on both of those.
01:10:44
Speaker
Yeah, so we'll update you guys if anything hits the shelves. We'll be sure to post pictures on our social media. And I hate to bring up the Patreon again, and I want to be a show, but I mean, we're helping out a lot of people that are in our group that want some of these figures that if I see them, or Marco sees them, or Sheena sees them, or anybody in the group sees them. Everybody's helping people out. So it's just great having 88 sets of eyeballs to go out and find figures.
01:11:13
Speaker
And we just sell them for whatever we paid for them, plus shipping. Yeah, definitely. Even if it's not like something in the stores and it's something that someone may have or- Yeah, something old that you missed and didn't pick up. Yeah. You go out there and you just tell the bad signal and say, hey, I'm looking for this guaranteed. I'll probably say 100% of the time someone's going to respond and say, I have this or I know somebody with this. When do you need it? And all that stuff. Yeah, definitely.
01:11:42
Speaker
Everyone's really reliable. We just have a great group of people.
01:11:47
Speaker
Yeah, I'm happy with that. A great ability to help out. Yeah. Let's skip the random merch of the week this week, and we'll bring that up for Royal Rumble recap next week. OK.
Royal Rumble 1990 Retro Match
01:11:58
Speaker
Our retro wrestling recommendation of the week is what we talked about earlier, Royal Rumble 1990.
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Speaker
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01:12:13
Speaker
We talked about it, but let's go further in
Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior Meeting
01:12:16
Speaker
depth. Give me your feel of Royal Rumble 90 and why you picked that for this week. Like I said before, I'm not sure if I'm killing everyone with this, but huge warrior person. And that was the first meeting we spoke about earlier, the first meeting between two baby faces. And that match itself, it spoke volumes.
01:12:43
Speaker
with Hogan and Warrior just matching up, but there were some pretty decent matches on the card. If you ever, if you want to go back and watch it at all, the actual Royal Rumble matches, probably the one you want to watch, if you got to watch anything out of it. But if you're an old school person, you have the, I mean, if we talked about this guy earlier, actually on the, on the other episode, Brooklyn Brawler and Paul Roma, that was a dark match.
01:13:12
Speaker
But yeah If you want to go back and watch that But if you're an old-school person, you're not gonna mind any of those The bushwhackers versus the fabulous Rouge shows, which is a pretty decent match. Yeah Bruce beefcake in the genius. I was it. I like the genius back in the day I didn't know that he was supposed to be gay at first. That's those the other
01:13:38
Speaker
Um, yeah. What was that? What was that about? They talked about that on the podcast and kind of glanced over it. Like, yeah, that would be, uh, uh, something to wrestle. Yeah. Uh, that's something I didn't know. Um, which was that, that's, that totally went over my head if that was the case, but that's actually pretty cool for 1990 and then having a, a wrestler with that type of gimmick going on. Um, but yeah, that match was actually really good. And they, they, if, if, if you want to accompany this, uh,
01:14:05
Speaker
Retro Retro Retro recommendation and definitely listen to the the something to wrestle podcast where they go over this this card Yeah, if you watch it Any if you watch literally any pay-per-view back in those days, there's always the fans are always into it There's always a huge pop for something even if it's the lowest guy in the total poll to the to Hulk Hogan So you're getting a reaction the crowd's really into it even with this match Bruce Bruce beefcake and uh and the genius
01:14:36
Speaker
Uh, but Bruce BK was way over back, back in those back
Royal Rumble 1990 Outcome
01:14:40
Speaker
in the day. So I know it's hard to believe now cause all the stories and stuff like that, but here's one of the big faces back in the day. Um, the other one, uh, the next match was a Ronnie Garvin and Greg Valentine. Um, I was actually a Valentine fan to the hammer. If anyone, uh, didn't know that I was a Greg, the hammer Valentine fan, little tidbit there. Um, Jim Duggan.
01:15:05
Speaker
who was pretty much, I mean, let's say he was this big as Hogan, I'm not saying he was getting, he was getting some huge, he was getting huge pops next to Hogan. When Jim Duggan would shoot promos or come out to the ring, he was definitely getting big things there. He actually faced a big boss man. A lot of these matches ended in disqualifications, which is pretty weird if you look back at this card, but that was probably like a thing that they were doing just to cut the time a little bit short.
01:15:34
Speaker
But after that, the main event, it's only six, technically six matches, five being singles matches, the six being the, the, uh, Royal Rumble. And obviously spoiler alert, if you haven't seen it yet, Hulk Hogan wins the Royal Rumble, uh, by eliminating Mr. Perfect. Um, but one of the notable things in there that I did not know is Teddy Biase. Do you know how long he lasted in that Royal Rumble? 44 minutes. Wow. Jeez. He was the first entrant.
01:16:03
Speaker
In the Royal Rumble that year and he lasted 44 minutes and 47 seconds. Mind you this is 1990 10 DB I see not Not 80 said did you 10 DB? I see he's like a young young buck He's a little bit older and he lasted 44 minutes and that it's that's pretty insane. But yeah He got eliminated by warrior
01:16:28
Speaker
and then, like I said, the showdown happened. You guys know what happens after that. Warrior and Hogan end up facing each other. But that moment was pretty much the precursor to WrestleMania 6, which would have been the, I think Warrior's the first champ champ, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong in the WWF at the time. He might've been the first ever person to have two titles at once. If I'm wrong. You guys are definitely.
01:16:55
Speaker
Yeah, if you guys know anyone else in the WWF, not WWWWWF, just the WWF. If you guys know anyone, just definitely message me and let me know, put me in my place. But I think Wario was the first ever champ champ in that scenario. But yeah, 1990 was a really awesome. We'll go back and watch it. Definitely good. If you have the time to.
01:17:20
Speaker
Next week we will be here again to recap Royal Rumble 2020 and hopefully Sheena will be with us and I'm glad she was able to get in on this episode and our Patreon exclusive that we recorded.
Bret Hart Statue Giveaway
01:17:35
Speaker
So check it out there. We do have a giveaway this week. We have our good friends at Eagle Moss Collectibles sent us a Bret Hart
01:17:45
Speaker
Eagle Moss statue that we were going to be giving away. So when I post this episode on to Twitter and Instagram and all those kind of things, just make sure you're following us on Twitter. And I'm either going to ask you to retweet it or post a Bret Hart GIF or video or picture or your favorite Bret Hart memory or something. So thank you to our buddy Canik from Eagle Moss who set that up.
01:18:11
Speaker
sent that over to us, we will give that away. And we have some more cool stuff in the coming weeks to give away as well. So keep your eyes peeled here. Anything else, Marco, before we get out of here? I think we touched on all the bases, man. No, that's pretty much it. Yeah. Nothing from my mouth.
01:18:33
Speaker
All right. For Sheena and Marco, thank you guys for listening. We appreciate your support.
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01:18:40
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01:20:03
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01:20:28
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I'm here to rumble. I've got danger in my flavor. Like a raisin. I'm here to rumble. Time might break up. It's my nature. Ready for thunder. Cause I'm here to rumble.