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AEW Unrivaled Series 3 Preview + TLC Predictions
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Sheena, Marco, and Seth discuss the AEW Unrivaled 3 reveal and all the latest in a big week of figure news. Can Sheena take back The Chick Foley Show Prediction Championship from Marco after losing it at War Games? All that is in addition to your usual favorite segments! Plus, we are giving away an AEW Blood & Guts 2-Pack! Listen to find out details!
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Transcript
Introduction and Merchandising
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to the Chick Foley show.
00:00:29
Speaker
First up, let me introduce the stars of the show, Sheena. What's going on, everybody? Happy week before Christmas. And our favorite asshole, Marco. What's going on? Just buried in snow over here. I know you guys are freaking getting it up there, man. I hope it stays up there. I'm not a fan of snow. I've said it on the show several times. I just don't like it at all. So you guys can keep that up there. Keep shoveling, keep blowing, all the things.
00:00:55
Speaker
Yeah, it's been okay down here. It's been cold in the mornings, but it's been warming up a little bit by the afternoon time. But yeah, I'm definitely not down for the snow at all. If we have our second straight snow for a year down here in Virginia, I'm good with that. I want to let everybody know that right before we went on air tonight, we have a new shirt that just went live on Pro Wrestling Tees. It's based on the classic Royal Rumble logo with the Chick Foley show name. So definitely check that out on ProWrestlingTees.com.
00:01:19
Speaker
and just search Chick Foley Show on there. If you buy them now, you still got time to get them in, in time for the Royal Rumble. But I imagine with everybody getting gift cards and stuff from Pro Wrestling Tees for Christmas, they're gonna be backed up here shortly. So go and get those orders in so you got a swag shirt to wear for the Rumble. And there's no bad time to get a Chick Foley Show Rumble t-shirt if you're a Foley fan member because we do our 2K Rumbles all the time. So you gotta have something swag to wear during the 2K Rumble giveaways. Yeah, and speaking of which, the Chick Foley Rumble 4 is gonna be going down this Monday night.
00:01:49
Speaker
For those that don't know, it is a Patreon exclusive event. You got to be a member of the Facebook group to enter, but you basically get to pick a wrestler to represent you, and then we simulate a Royal Rumble on WWE2K and live stream it there in the Facebook group. It's been a blast, the first three that we've had. We got a custom championship belt that goes along with it, and we're going to be giving away a figure to the winner.
00:02:09
Speaker
So definitely check that out. Chick-fil-A-Rumble-4 going down on Monday night. Sheena, tell the folks again about how successful our toy drive was this year. Yeah, you guys. I can't thank you enough again. I know we talked about it last week, but I just wanted to reiterate for anybody who may have not gotten the list to last week's show, thank you guys so much for kicking in and making this our most successful toy drive yet. We were able to donate over 450 items.
00:02:32
Speaker
to Toys for Tots, which was amazing. They were so happy to receive all of that stuff. They were blown away by the contribution that the Chick Foley community made. So thank you guys so much. I look forward to doing it again next year. And it just makes me so happy to know that we collectively were able to help so many families that are in need this year and help some kids wake up on Christmas morning and have a little holiday magic. Yeah, the Foley fam definitely showed out this year. And now we want to start giving some love back to you guys. So we're going to get the giveaway train rolling again. And we're starting next week with a big one.
00:03:02
Speaker
On this episode, or on this show next week, we're going to be giving away the Blood and Guts AW2 pack of Cody and Dustin Rhodes. So it's amazing figures if you guys haven't seen him yet. And it's going to be really easy to enter. All you got to do is post a review of the podcast on iTunes. All right. So we're not even asking for a five star review. You know, if you think we're only worth one star, give us one star. Whatever you think. I'm asking for five stars. We just want to get some fresh reviews up there. So.
00:03:28
Speaker
So go on and leave a review on iTunes and then you can DM the screenshot to Sheena on Instagram. If you've already left a review before, then go on and just update it, you know, because iTunes bumps those back up to the top of the queue. So, you know, change up the wording on a little bit and drop us another review, send that in. If you don't have an iPhone, you say, oh, I'm not on, I'm not on Apple Podcast.
Social Media and Partnerships
00:03:50
Speaker
I'm sure you have a friend or a family member that does have an iPhone, grab theirs and take a picture of dropping a review on their phone.
00:03:56
Speaker
Whatever you got to do, find a way to enter because it's going to be totally free to give yourself a shot at winning the AEW two pack. Sheena, tell me they can find you out on social media. You can find me always on Instagram at Chick Foley. You can find Marco the MVP at Chick Foley show on Twitter. And then you can always join our Foley fam over at chickfollyshow.com. Yeah. And on the Patreon right now, we just dropped the Royal Rumble Watch Along last week where
00:04:22
Speaker
We had a live watch along of the first ever Royal Rumble in honor of Pat Patterson and we're gonna make that a running series where we go through every rumble from 88 to present and then we got figure Friday starting back up this week we're gonna have figure Friday with unboxing of the Ultimate Edition Fiend in Hollywood Hogan and then we're gonna be unboxing the latest Elite Ricochet and Gronk so Definitely check that out and make sure when you're making your own figure purchases that you're using code chick Foley at ringsidecollectibles.com the number one retailer of wrestling figures
00:04:52
Speaker
Worldwide so housekeeping out of the way it's time to move inside the squared circle again This segment is brought to you by homage make sure you use the link off of the chick Foley Instagram page Anytime you're buying something from homage to help support the show a little bit when you when you buy your stuff They just dropped their first set of WWE slam t-shirts so good yeah, these shirts are based off of the the team select screen on NBA Jam for those those old-school gamers and
00:05:18
Speaker
Very cool. It was the Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heena and the Heart Foundation and the Bushwhackers were the first set of figures. So head over to Amish and take a look at those. And again, that's probably cutting a little close on the shipping time now, but it could make for a great late Christmas present for the wrestling fan in your life.
Wrestling Cross-Promotions
00:05:34
Speaker
So let's get started with the chicks top six.
00:05:40
Speaker
reminder in two weeks we will be bringing back the chickies so for the premium foley fan members stay tuned to the Facebook group because the voting is going to start shortly for the different categories on that so we'll start off talking about Kenny Omega's continued forays into impact wrestling it's been announced that Kenny and the good brother is going to be taken on wrist swan and the motor city machine guns it impacts next pay-per-view hard to kill in January Marco what's your thoughts on this
00:06:04
Speaker
Obviously I'm a Kenny Omega fan and I actually love the idea because I know a lot of people are figuring out what his appearance was the first time. Was it just like a one-time crossover event? Apparently it's not. It looks like he's going to foray into almost like an invasion type of thing. Hopefully they can do it the right way and not the other way that we've seen an invasion happen.
00:06:29
Speaker
But yeah, I enjoyed it. I think it's watched a whole episode. I got to see the few clips of Kenny Omega and the Good Brothers taken out over to City Machine Guns. It was a rich swan as well, yeah.
00:06:48
Speaker
Yeah, I'm super stoked about it because, I mean, I think everyone's wanted like kind of like a crossover thing to happen, be it a WWE AEW, which would probably never happen, but never say never. But this is the closest we're gonna get right now where two promotions are gonna swap talent. And I'm just looking forward to the day when like, you know, the Good Brothers Orbitz one hops over to AEW and, you know, does the same thing. So next year is looking good at the top of the year for
00:07:18
Speaker
for professional wrestling. Yeah, it should get interesting. Yes, you know, where do you think we're headed long term with this? Like, do you think it's going to end up being some sort of AW versus impact pay-per-view or what's your best case scenario for how this angle is going to play out long term?
WWE Hall of Fame and Event Anticipation
00:07:33
Speaker
I mean, best case scenario, I mean, I think, you know, if anything, it's just going to serve to, you know, improve impact ratings, bring impact more to the forefront to people who don't watch it. I personally, I mean, I don't add any more, I can't add any more wrestling into my repertoire right now. So I'm not going to be watching impact on the regular, but it does make it interesting when you hear Kenny Omega is going to show up. So I mean, you know, I do go find those clips online. I do find, you know, the
00:07:57
Speaker
All the videos and stuff and go back and watch those segments and whatnot. But again, I've said before there's something for everybody in wrestling. I think that I'm not hating on impact. There's people that love the look of impact. They love the talent down there. That's cool. I don't like to shit on any other promotions. I just think that...
00:08:17
Speaker
As far as where this is headed long term, I can't see this being something that's long lasting. I think it'll last for a little while and then AEW is just going to get back on doing their own thing. What do you think, Seth? Yeah, I'm really hoping that this is just the first step in a lot of other cross promotion. We can see with AEW doing stuff with the NWA, with Ring of Honor, with New Japan. I think that would be the best case if we end up basically just having
00:08:43
Speaker
every single organization outside of WWE, basically unified and doing a lot of cross promotion stuff. It could be cool. It's been interesting to me because, um, in addition to Kenny Omega appearing on there, you've also had Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone doing these, um, kind of like promos where they're basically trashing on impact. So it's, that's what's kind of got me kind of confused. Like if this is supposed to be something where AW and impact or working together, or if we're supposed to believe in kayfabe, at least that their rival, um, organization. So.
00:09:12
Speaker
Uh, it's a little bit intriguing to me on that standpoint where we go, but it's still just weird because I think anybody objectively would have to say that AWS off operating in a whole different stratosphere than impact right now. Yeah. But I mean, the thing about AWS, they have the platform to bring the other promotions.
00:09:29
Speaker
you know, into the viewing audience's, you know, world, right? Like I think there's people that just casually stumbled upon AEW, maybe they were wrestling fans back in the day and they just kind of found AEW on TNT and they started watching that and they don't even realize that there's so much other wrestling out there besides, you know, obviously WWE. So I think it's a good way to, you know, extend that exposure, help some talent, really kind of get some shine. And I mean, I'm interested to see where it goes, but you know,
00:09:57
Speaker
I'm not hopeful that it's going to be a long lasting thing. Right. But at the end of the day, it's still Rich Swann coming in as your world champ. So I just, you know, I have a hard time seeing Rich Swann be able to go at Kenny Omega in kayfabe or in real life at that point. You know, Rich Swann about half the size of Kenny Omega is not a big guy anyways. Yeah. We'll see how it goes. I definitely wouldn't mind seeing the Good Brothers and Young Bucks match up in the squared circle on the big stage. That could be very interesting.
00:10:24
Speaker
But I'm still kind of waiting C mode on this on this angle for now Marco are you watching cartoons? Yeah, a little bit here and there I think there's a commercial on right now Oh my god Marco's trying to rally or wrangle his kids while he's doing the Podcast tonight, you know I've had to wrangle my kids on numerous occasions while while we're recording
00:10:55
Speaker
All right, so we'll move to story number five on the chicks top six. So during some media appearances earlier this week, Ric Flair let it slip that WWE is currently working on a physical Hall of Fame. So this is something that's been rumored for years. I think everybody has always kind of imagined what this could possibly be. But supposedly it's going down in Orlando. Marco, what's your take on this? Are you down with WWE Hall of Fame going in Orlando? Is there a better place for it? What do you think about it?
00:11:25
Speaker
I mean, the only other like better place would probably be like in like Los Angeles or something like that. But right now with everything going on, probably not going to happen. So Orlando is probably the best bet for them. Orlando has, I mean, Florida has like the most lax COVID regulations. You know what I mean? They're definitely not going to take their ass to California. You know what I mean? They're like, Oh no, we see how you guys operate. We're going to, we're going to stay down here in Florida where it's just like the wild, wild West, you know?
00:11:52
Speaker
Yeah, I actually like it. I think we talked about this before, like a while back, about the Hall of Fame, and there should be a physical one. Yeah, when you go to WWE Access, they have those sections where you can walk through and see all the historical things. And that's only a small portion. I mean, just imagine all the stuff they haul out for Access. I mean, that's literally like just like a small, like
00:12:15
Speaker
like bit of what is in the warehouse. You know what I mean? I can't even imagine all the stuff that is hidden back there in the warehouse. So yeah, there should definitely be a hall of fame. And the cool thing about Orlando is that it's already a tourist draw. I mean, you have Disney World there, which by itself, I mean, brings people down to Florida. So yeah, it's warm year round pretty much. I think Orlando is where it's at.
00:12:40
Speaker
Yeah, I guess my concern is just like the sustainability of this thing year round, because obviously you're going to get a ton of people stuff like this on WrestleMania weekends. But, um, I don't know. I just, I wonder if wrestling is mainstream enough to, to really make this a profitable enterprise. If you're going to keep it in Orlando year round, you know, I don't know how many people on a random Saturday.
00:13:00
Speaker
or on their vacation, they're gonna make time to go see the WWE Hall of Fame. But they can make use of it in other ways, you know what I mean? They could have matches there, they could do legends appearances and have wrestlers show up there and stuff like that, and host events. They could have a rental space where you could do your freaking WWE wedding reception. The possibilities are endless for the ways to utilize this.
00:13:25
Speaker
this amazing space. So I don't think, if anything, WWE can get creative. If it's going to be in Orlando, I would put it like right next to the Performance Center if that's possible. So you kind of do like tag team tours, you know, you can see the Hall of Fame, then you also take a tour of the Performance Center and stuff like that. And we know that they can already run matches from the Performance Center. So like Sheena said, that could be a good way to do special events from the Hall of Fame.
Podcast Collaborations
00:13:49
Speaker
Yeah, it would definitely be cool. They have more than enough memorabilia. I would love to go. It'd be a dream of mine to see this thing happen. But I'm just wondering, especially with the current environment with the pandemic. This is definitely the worst time ever to think about doing this. I'm just wondering if this thing would be last. Because I would hate to see this thing start up. And then, you know, after like two or three years, it's like, you know, it's like WWE New York and Times Square back in the late 90s that had a very short shelf life.
00:14:14
Speaker
All right, story number four. After Kyle O'Reilly beat Pete Dunn on this past week of NXT to become the number one contender again, we're going to see the rematch. Finn Balor versus Kyle O'Reilly, part two at NXT New Year's Evil on December 30th. So we know the last match, Finn Balor walked out of there with a broken jaw. Both guys really just beat the hell out of each other. What are you guys hoping to see in part two? Mark, I'll throw it to you first.
00:14:42
Speaker
I'm hoping we don't see a lot of UE interaction there because obviously they're all back together. They're back in action. That's a possibility.
00:14:52
Speaker
It's always a possibility with those guys. Yeah. I'm not sure their faces seems like they are, but so that may not happen. But I'm excited to see his match again, regardless of who wins or what happens. The first one was kind of like an underrated. You didn't think it was going to happen. You didn't think it was going to be a good match at first, like a match of its kind of low rally. You haven't seen him really solo in the WWE.
00:15:20
Speaker
But I think it'll be another surprise and you definitely have to have something to offset what I AWS is coming with next week. Cause that's, that's quite a doozy for a main event. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to discuss that one a little later on in the night. Um, I'm trying to see, you know, last time they pretty much had a clean match. I'm wondering what the swerve is going to be this time. I feel like, you know, I don't anticipate it's going to be just a straight up, uh, one-on-one match with no interference or anything. Again, you guys mentioned undisputed era. They seem to be just, you know, firmly in the,
00:15:50
Speaker
the baby face category now, so I don't think they're gonna cheat.
00:15:53
Speaker
I think I think that the Maca faction could could get involved because you know, yeah Kyle O'Reilly beat Pete Dunn So I mean he's definitely gonna be looking for for a little bit of revenge So I could see those guys getting involved Yeah, and that could be a good way for them to get their heatbag after getting beat at at war games everything I was seeing it was killer cross, you know, he's got a match with Damien priests that night if he can carry on cross, excuse me using his lucha underground name carry on cross
00:16:21
Speaker
comes in and takes out Damien Priest pretty easily. He can try to get right back in the NXT Championship picture quickly so we can see him make an appearance also. We know he's got Finn Balor on his radar. Marco, who's your pick for the match? Picking O'Reilly or Balor? Oof, I'm gonna go Balor.
00:16:40
Speaker
only because if he does cross paths with Karrion Kross, no pun intended, because they said Kross there, we'll probably see the demon emerge. We haven't seen the demon in a while. And I think in order to beat Karrion Kross, if you are going to face him, you have to bring a demon Finn Balor back out to play. So I think he's keeping the strap and that's where it's heading.
00:17:02
Speaker
Brett will be thrilled. My son Brett will be stoked if the demon comes back. That's his favorite. That's his favorite version of Finn Balor. But yeah, I'm going with Balor too. I just think like you said, if he's going to go up against Kerry and Cross, I think he's going to need to be as strong as possible. And beating Kyle O'Reilly again would definitely be a good way to pave that path. All right, it's time for the chick.
00:17:27
Speaker
Foley Show beverage break. Sheena, what are you drinking this week? I'm drinking, once again, the 19 Crimes Snoop Dogg Cali Red. It's so smooth. It's so good. I had gotten out of the wine game for a little while, you know, just strictly drinking beer. Well, I got out of the whole drinking game for a little while because, you know, pregnancy and whatnot. But I came back and, you know, I'm feeling this 19 Crimes. It's pretty reasonably priced. It's smooth. Gets the job done. I'm here for it.
00:17:56
Speaker
Marco, what are you sipping on? Same as last week. Some Imperial Stout. It's called Godmother Imperial Stout. I do fancy the 19 crime Snoop Dogg. It's good, yeah. So good. I bought two bottles. I haven't opened the other one yet.
00:18:17
Speaker
but definitely going to crack that open.
Drink Preferences and Toy Drives
00:18:19
Speaker
I like having that as like a kind of like a little nightcap at the end of the night. Yeah, I did an Amazon Prime, the grocery order today from Whole Foods and I had chicken in the cart and I had to get something to get put over. You have to get over $35 to get like free, you know, delivery. I was like, let me just add this bottle of wine right here. I thought. Yeah, it was a good choice.
00:18:42
Speaker
I'm keeping it simple, drinking the official beer at the Chick Foley show, Miller Lite. Still got a holiday coddles left over, so I'm trying to finish those off. All right, let's get back into the chicks top six. So number three, we got a little bit of a podcast announcement here, forces aligning. This is basically like the Avengers assembling. We are going to be doing a fully poseable invasion in January next year. We've been friends with Scott and Jeff for a long time.
00:19:11
Speaker
And, uh, we're basically gonna do like a, like a home and home series, like in college football. Um, and we're going to be appearing on their show and they're going to be appearing on our. So when we go on their show, we're going to talk a little bit about our history of wrestling figure collecting and just our overall collection strategies and, you know, our love of wrestling figures. And then we're going to bring them on our show to talk about their love of, uh, the actual product in the ring. You know, their, their background is wrestling fans growing up.
00:19:35
Speaker
and all that. So that should be a lot of fun. It's the first time we've done something like this. We've been listening to Fully Poseable a long time since I think 2016. How did you discover them, Sheena? Because you're the one that originally turned me on to them.
00:19:47
Speaker
I can't remember who I just happened to see it on on Instagram. And I was like, holy crap, dude, there's like a the whole podcast about just wrestling action figures. And I had never seen that before. I mean, obviously, there was just a plethora of wrestling podcasts out there and podcasts about other things. But I had never seen a podcast strictly for wrestling figure podcast. So
00:20:07
Speaker
I turned Seth onto it and we started listening to it. That was back in the early, early days. I think they came out in like 2015, right? 16. They came out and started in 2016. I think they've been around for five years now though. Yeah, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Oh yeah, we're going into 2021. Okay, so yeah, 2016. We've been there since day one-ish and watched them grow and all that stuff. Yeah, we're super excited to collaborate with those guys.
00:20:31
Speaker
Yeah, it should be a lot of fun. Scott and Jeff are the best. We actually met Jeff at WrestleMania 33 in Orlando, him and Celeste. We basically were running into them all weekend long. So looking forward to that. Stay tuned for details. We'll get the exact dates out as soon as we get them firmed up. Marco, are you looking forward to going on fully posable?
00:20:50
Speaker
Oh, of course. Yeah, those guys, I mean, those are great guys right there. I actually found them through, through you, Sheena, through the Chick Foley page, actually. So when I was a bear infant, I grew up and actually is on the show. Now you're a real boy. No, I'm a real boy. No, but yeah, no, they're a great listen. They just, they just hold up guys. I mean, it's the most wholesome.
00:21:23
Speaker
They're in a more PG-13 era now. They used to be super family friendly, and I think they've loosened the reins a little bit. They're a little bit more, you know,
00:21:33
Speaker
PG-13 but uh, yeah, we love those guys. If you haven't listened to the episode, I can't remember what it is. We'll have to remind everybody. We'll find it. But there was an episode that they interviewed their parents and their parents just talked about like, you know, their, their love of wrestling figures growing up and taking, you know, Scott and Jeff to all the toy stores. And like when they would go on vacation, the mom would like put the wrestling ring in the middle, in the back of the,
00:21:54
Speaker
You know a car and like have to put all their suitcases and stuff like around it And it was just it was literally like the most wholesome interview i've ever heard in podcasting. So super super awesome super fun Um, we we just love those guys All right time for number two on the chicks top six. So, uh, we know last time nxt ran a special event on wednesday night on halloween havoc They beat aew in the ratings. So index, you know as soon as nxt announced new year's evil on december 30th
00:22:23
Speaker
We knew AEW was going to come with something to counteract it, and boy have they. So pot came out on Wednesday night, made the good point that Kenny Omega kind of got a free pass to the finals of that number one contenders tournament because Phoenix got hurt and was unable to compete. And now it has been announced that on December 30th, Kenny Omega and Ray Phoenix will be going one on one for the AEW Championship.
00:22:47
Speaker
Ray Phoenix is without a doubt one of the top three or four luchadores in the world right now. And I have no doubt that this match is gonna be probably a late entry into the match of the year category. Marco, what's your thoughts on this one? How do you see this one playing out?
00:23:02
Speaker
I definitely see obviously see Katie Omega keeping it simply gonna be like you said definitely one of the Late five-star batches if you want to call it that at the just at the tail end of the year Is that the episode where Snoop Dogg's doing the next one? Yes January 6 he's gonna be out there making it new I think they're called New Year's bash they're making a
00:23:27
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be a two or three episode thing, but Snoop Dogg is going to be on the January 6th episode. Yeah, but I'm actually looking forward to that as well. Because if you've been to talk about this or get to talk about it, if you watch the Roy Jones Tyson fight, his commentary pretty much overshadowed that whole, that whole pay-per-view pretty much. I love his commentary on a knockout.
00:23:50
Speaker
Um, but yeah, I'm definitely, uh, see, that's the thing. I think I alluded to this earlier, like I'm going to definitely be either flipping back and forth or having two screens running. Cause definitely want to see Kyle O'Reilly and fit baller. Uh, but this match might take my interest a little bit more only because I know it's going to be probably one of the craziest matches you're going to see at the end of the year. Yeah, it should be insane. I got a feeling we're not going to get a, uh,
00:24:15
Speaker
a clean finish just because, you know, Kenny Omega is basically feuding with everyone right now. And then Ray Phoenix and Pentagon, they got their issues with Eddie Kingston and his whole crew. So there's a whole lot of room for shenanigans. But in the meantime, like, yeah, this is definitely got the potential to be the best in ring match that we've seen all year. So I can't wait to get it. You know, Kenny Omega and Pentagon's match in the tournament was awesome. And I think Phoenix is a little bit better than Pentagon in ring at this point. So it's pretty insane.
00:24:43
Speaker
So out of the two matches, which one are you more excited for Sheena? Omega and Phoenix or Balor and O'Reilly? I gotta go with Omega Phoenix, man I think they're just gonna tear the house down I mean, I just want to piggyback on everything that you guys just said Obviously, Colorado, I mean, we've already seen it once, you know with Finn and O'Reilly there I mean, it's gonna be great but I have to I only had to pick one to watch I'm gonna pick Omega and Phoenix Marco Omega Phoenix
00:25:10
Speaker
All right. I'll be the, uh, the outlier. I still would rather, if I could only watch one, I'd still pick ballad O'Reilly just cause as amazing as a Megan Phoenix is going to be entering. I still have much more of an emotional connection with, with Finn Balor and Kyle O'Reilly. So, and at the end of the day, it's the, I'm still all about the stories over the entering action. So, but it's a treat for us. It's a hell of, it's going to be a hell of a night of wrestling and I'm just, it's awesome. We're getting it on free TV.
00:25:34
Speaker
All right. And without further ado, we kind of rushed to the first five so we could say plenty of time for this. Ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready to rumble. All right. We have the new defending champion, Marco, trying to make it two straight shows where he successfully defends the Chick Foley show prediction championship. She added to say a reign of terror with the belt, but it's finally
00:26:04
Speaker
Finally come to an end and now we have it six matches on the cards right now as always if any additional matches get added on Friday night or on Saturday via social media We'll get those updated predictions out via Sheena's Instagram story on at chick Foley, but let's get right into it first match The new day Kofi Kingston and Xavier was defending the raw tag team championships against Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin of the herb business and
00:26:34
Speaker
Sheena, what's your pick? I got to go with the hurt business, man. We've seen New Day beat the hurt business a couple of times, but I think this is where they're going to get their come up instead. I think the hurt business is going home with the belts. I'm going with the hurt business. Marco?
00:26:53
Speaker
Yeah, I'm high on the hurt business. And I think they're definitely going to win the titles this time. I think they were just, you know, they had those series of matches that established them as a tag team contender to the new day. Because you need to build that opponent up before they can see him as a threat. And obviously, the hurt business is a threat in that sense. So I think the title is changing hands that night.
00:27:23
Speaker
Wow, both you guys picking a title change. I think New Day's gonna retain. I think we may see Biggie come out and give him the assist, get a little mini New Day reunion action. Biggie's not on the card anywhere else as of right now. Should be a great match. Every time those guys got in the ring together so far, it's been awesome. All right, next up, rematch from this past episode of SmackDown. Sasha Banks defending the SmackDown Women's Championship.
00:27:51
Speaker
against Carmela. Marco, you're up first. I got to go with the blueprint, Sasha Banks. I don't see her losing. Hopefully not. Hopefully I'm not eating my words. But yeah, I think she's going to retain. I think they kind of have Bailey as kind of like a put over person now with
00:28:15
Speaker
Bianca Belair and stuff like that. So I think they need a lady to go into the new year as a SmackDown Women's Champion to be a possible contender to whoever wins the Royal Rumble next year. So I think she's keeping it. All right, Shana, your pick. Yeah, 100%. I'm going with, I'm going with Massachia Banks.
00:28:36
Speaker
I mean, Carmella's good, you know, she, she has, she has her fair share of accolades. Um, I, I'm not feeling her new character. I'm just, for whatever reason, it just doesn't resonate with me. Um, and she, I just don't feel like it's been, she has been given a long enough storyline to come in and beat Sasha Banks, who was literally like the top star of 2020 her in between her and Bailey. Like they literally led the women's division and the freaking, you know, ratings for WWE.
00:29:02
Speaker
uh, for the entire year, pretty much. So I'm going to say, I'm going to say it's going to be Sasha Banks. They, they put way too much time, energy, money, and everything behind Sasha Banks to have her lose to Carmella. Yeah, I agree. Unless we're just going for some kind of crazy swerve. It doesn't feel like Carmella is at the level to be able to knock off Sasha Banks at this time. All right. TLC match for the universal championship. The tribal chief, Roman Reigns, defending against Kevin Owens. She knew you're up first.
00:29:32
Speaker
I mean, is anybody picking against the range train right now? I just, I like, I can't imagine that there's anybody out there that thinks Roman Reigns is going to go into rumble season, which is going into mania season without the universal title. I just don't, I don't see it happening. I don't necessarily think it's going to be a clean win over Kevin Owens. I definitely think that, you know, maybe Jay gets involved or something, but, um, I, I got to go with Roman Reigns.
00:29:59
Speaker
Margot. Oh, yeah. I mean, Roman Reigns, of course, he's, he's definitely, uh, he's having the, uh, the half year of his career right now. And I think, um, well, I think it's going to happen. He's going to look like he's going to lose. Cause I think you are right. I think Jason had get in there, get involved, but it's kind of kind of almost, almost cost, uh, room reads the title, but not just, not just enough where he's going to lose it, but, um,
00:30:25
Speaker
I mean Kevin Owens is a threat. He could easily take that title if he wanted to. He's, he's a crafty guy as well. He's kind of a universal champion. Yeah. I mean, for me, yeah, for me, I mean, he did win it fashion and against as well. So yeah.
00:30:42
Speaker
But yeah, no definitely Roman Reigns is no much like as much as much like she you know when she Would pick Seth Rollins and when every single match are these predictions? It's gonna be the same thing or Roman Reigns for bees not losing
00:30:56
Speaker
I in kayfabe. Yeah, I agree. I don't think Kevin Owens is touching Roman Reigns right now. But one thing to note, Raw did have the lowest ratings of all time in the history of the show on Monday night. And supposedly Vince McMahon is just really upset about it. And they're going to be making a lot of reactionary decisions. So I wouldn't put it past them to take the belt off Roman and set up Roman for a big chase going into WrestleMania. You know, that's when in doubt, have Roman Reigns chasing for the title.
00:31:23
Speaker
I could see him possibly going back to that formula. So that, that's the only thing that makes me, that's the only possible way I see KO beating him is if they're just looking for something to create some buzz to get people's eyeballs back.
Wrestling Match Predictions
00:31:33
Speaker
True. I feel like that's going to make Roman lose a lot of steam. If he's like chasing KO for the, I don't know. I just feel like, I feel like he has to be on top. Um, I see where you're coming from. I think I had that same thought, but I feel like that's going to be the situation for a different match. Like I was thinking that for another match on the card, like they're going to just like change.
00:31:53
Speaker
change hands to get some eyeballs on Raw. All right. Sheena hitting us with a tease for our later prediction. Well, you know what? Justin Piggyback of us, Seth, you are right. They could go that route. They could have him lose. And then he doesn't have to chase Kevin Owens. He could chase someone that he beat already for a title. And that's Drew McIntyre. Yeah, that's a lot of different ways you could do. We'll talk about that. But yeah, I don't know.
00:32:19
Speaker
I just think they're going to keep pushing Roman as, as high as he can go, dude. I just can't think, I can't imagine a world where they're going to take their foot off the throttle. Well, the thing is, like Marco's kind of alluding to it. Roman loses the universal championship that frees him up to come over to raw. Yeah. He is the biggest star that they have right now in the whole thing. I'd say it's, there's not even else even kind of sniffing where he's at as far as being a mainstream star right now.
00:32:46
Speaker
So yeah, that's the only thing that makes me think like this is a mat and it's a TLC match There's a lot of different ways you can go where he could lose And not necessarily really take the loss, you know, it's a lot of screwy finishes you can do in these matches So yeah, it's just one to keep an eye on I got a funny feeling they may try something with Roman if they're really gonna shake things up That's the spot you want to start at because he's definitely the guy that moves the needle for them. Alright, so we'll move on
00:33:11
Speaker
to the women's tag team championship match. This one should be pretty intriguing. So we got Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler, who have had a pretty solid reign going since they won the belts, going up against Asuka and a mystery opponent since Lana was taken out. So Marco, I'm asking for your prediction and who the mystery opponent is going to be. Oh, geez. Do we get double points?
00:33:29
Speaker
This will be the tiebreaker if you get the mystery partner right. So I see a lot of people, including you guys, thinking that Charlotte or someone, I think someone said Rhonda Rousey is going to show up. I think neither one of them are showing up. I think it's either going to be, I think it's either going to be, what do you call it?
00:33:49
Speaker
Mandy Rose or Dana Brokley, one of those two that are going to show up as our partners. That would be the wet fart. I mean, I like both of them. Yeah, one is in a fake misery and come back. That's the only... There's no big... They're not going to... I mean, I could be wrong. TLC is in a pay-per-view where you have all eyes on it. This is kind of like a Passover.
00:34:14
Speaker
But here's my thing. They have literally put Lana on our TVs for months. Like they have, they have like given her so much TV time. They put so much behind her. They, they freaking made her the sole survivor at survivor series. And then they just like take her out of the match, which is whatever. Like I was kind of pissed off about that. Not that I love seeing Lana. I'm not, I'm not the biggest Lana, you know, fan in the world, but.
00:34:38
Speaker
I just think like, why did you even spend all that time and energy just to like, write her out of the match, you know, write her out of TLC, um, if you're not going to bring back somebody like super mage. So if they, if they wrote her out of the, of the match and they're going to bring back Dana, they're going to bring Dana Brooke in here, like,
00:34:54
Speaker
Come on, like, that's a no-go. On a pay-per-view television, no. I think Marco, you made a good point where you said it could possibly be Lana coming back. That's my worst fear for this match. Like, the darkest timeline for me is the match starts up, Asuka has no partner, and we do the standard, like, oh, you know, we don't even know who her mystery partner is. Yeah, Lana shows up. She's finally in trouble. All of a sudden, Lana's music hits, and Lana comes out, and she's the partner all along. Like, I could see them doing it. They've done stuff similar to that before.
00:35:24
Speaker
I really hope it's something better than that. Charlotte would be cool. Ronda Rousey, are people actually talking about that? Is that something that's being discussed? Yeah, I've seen the Twitter verse people throwing Ronda Rousey's name. But she'd be opposite of Shayna Baszler, which is our bestie. So I don't see that happening here. I feel like if Ronda's making a surprise return, it's going to be at the rumble. Yeah. To me, I think it's going to be Charlotte. I think it's going to be Charlotte. And I see it start planting the seeds for Oscar versus Charlotte at Mania.
00:35:54
Speaker
Yeah, I mean that's the other thing like she hasn't won the tag titles yet either, right? So like Charlotte so that that's a possibility I am I am paying Oscar to win. I'm not sure who her partner is only because I think Night night and Shana had their run already with the titles and it's kind of like going nowhere So I say throw them on Oscar and whoever her partner is who's your final pick for her? Oh
00:36:25
Speaker
We'll go, I'm gonna go Lana, we'll go Lana just to be opposite, but I am picking Asuka to win. Okay, Sheena. Okay, I'm picking Asuka and TBD as well, but I think it's gonna be Charlotte instead. I think Charlotte is coming back. I mean, it's, you know...
00:36:42
Speaker
Rumble season is upon us. Mania season is upon us. It would be no better time than to bring Charlotte back. I mean, I can, I mean, obviously I could totally see them bringing her back as a surprise entrant in the Rumble, which would be super awesome. But I mean, without a real audience there and stuff like that, I think it's not really going to make that big of a difference, whether they bring her back now or bring her back for the Rumble. So yeah, I'm going with Asuka and Charlotte. So I think Charlotte's going to be a mystery opponent, but I think Nia and Shane is going to win. I think Charlotte's going to come back.
00:37:12
Speaker
And then at the opportune time, she's going to turn on Asuka and take her out, cost her the match, and get the ball rolling for Asuka and Charlotte at WrestleMania. I can see that.
00:37:22
Speaker
All right. So up next, we're never really for sure what kind of match this is going to be. WAB announced today that the Fiend versus Randy Ordon match is going to be a Firefly Inferno match. So in my mind, I'm kind of picturing a like an Inferno match, but done as a cinematic style. That's what I'm thinking. Obviously, who knows? Sheena, you're up first on this one. What's your what's your pick for this match? So
00:37:53
Speaker
I'm going to go ahead and say that the Fiend wins. This isn't a match that I'm like super, super hyped on. I don't know. I don't know what it is that hasn't gotten me really excited about this. Maybe because we saw this match in person at WrestleMania 33 that stuck up the joint. That is so true. That is so true. All I could think about is those...
00:38:11
Speaker
those projections onto the ring you know the the bugs and the worms. I actually thought that was kind of cool but it was just like it didn't have anything like Randy Orton didn't sell it at all like I think the last time they did it Randy Orton got up and just gave Bray Wyatt an RKO and pinned him right after. So um I'm gonna go with the Fiend is gonna win this match
00:38:32
Speaker
I don't know what a what a Firefly inferno matches I I don't know if it's gonna be the full cinematic experience or if it's gonna be more like a Greatest match ever type of experience where it's just like pre-recorded and they do some cools like cool cut-ins and shots and cameos and stuff like that But yeah, I'm going with the fiend Marco
00:38:52
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going with the feed as well only because he ready already beat him and hit that type of match that they had the What the heck with mattress that when he was very quiet? The heart house of hardest match was not a great one that remember they had Luke Harper came back and interfered at the end
00:39:10
Speaker
Did he? Yeah, so remember Randy Orton, I think Randy Orton threw him in the refrigerator, threw a refrigerator on top of him, and then for some reason got in the limo to ride back to the arena. And for whatever reason, he came in the ring, and then Bray showed up, and Luke Harper came out and helped Bray pin Randy.
00:39:26
Speaker
Oh, okay. Well, he's winning anyway. The feed's winning. That was like the original cinematic match. Wow. It's horrible. Yeah. Yeah, that match was god-awful. And he's kind of, I mean, the feed is undefeated in cinematic matches anyway, so I'm going with the feed.
00:39:43
Speaker
Yeah, we have he had the swamp fight with Braun and then he had with the Firefly Funhouse match. Yeah. So, yeah, maybe that's why I said I'm thinking this is going to be a cinematic inferno match, which, you know, if it's a true inferno match, that means that you got to win by setting your opponent on fire. So they're going to see how they pull that off. Maybe if Randy comes out in street clothes, that's going to be the big tip that. Yeah.
00:40:03
Speaker
He's going to put on fire, but should be interesting either way. You know, it's another new match that we've never seen before. We saw the, you know, we got to see an eye for an eye match earlier this year. That was a five star classic. Yeah, we're getting the Firefly. Big stars. Yeah. All right. And without further ado, it's time for the main event. DLC match for the WWE Championship. Drew McIntyre defending against AJ Styles.
00:40:31
Speaker
Marco, you're up first. Oh, oh man. This is, this is, this is tough. Um, so this is, uh, so I love the, uh, the Charlotte coming back. That's the big surprise. But I think the big surprise is Drew's going back into next year strapless. I think AJ sounds has taken the title from him.
00:40:56
Speaker
Yeah, that was my prediction too. I think this is where they're going to shake things up. Um, you know, because of the, the piss poor ratings from this past week, I think they're going to take the, the, um, you know, Vince is always has to, has to have a sacrificial lamb. You know what I mean? So in his eyes, he's like, Oh, God, God damn Drew's the champion. So, uh, you know, that's gotta be why the ratings are shit. So he's going to go ahead and, uh,
00:41:20
Speaker
Swap it and give it to AJ Styles. So I can totally see AJ Styles when in this and AJ Styles is actually my pick for this match Yeah, all right. So did you guys pick the same people for every man? We did I think the tiebreaker is gonna be who comes back to All right. So yeah, the mystery opponent for Oscar is gonna be the deciding tiebreaker. So Marco had Lana Sheena had Charlotte. I think that's definitely the two most realistic picks So that's what to keep your eyes on the chick fully show prediction championship hinges
00:41:48
Speaker
on that one spot. I was going to say, doesn't it always usually come down to tag matches? The tag matches are usually the ones that have a little bit more stakes to them, and there's always the most random matches. The tag matches usually got the most variance to you. They're the most fast and loose with the tag match. You can see the tag tag titles just change on a random episode of Raw just because if they just feel like, hey, we need to get a title change on the show, that's usually the one they go with.
Collectible Pre-orders and Figures
00:42:14
Speaker
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00:42:36
Speaker
segment is sponsored by our good friends at ringside collectibles. Make sure you guys using code chick Foley for 10% off all your purchases there. Marco, take us away with figure news.
00:42:46
Speaker
Oh, man, big announcement. Those rumblings of it happened earlier in the week. There was pictures floating around, and a lot of people wanted to wait for the actual confirmation of this thing happening. But it actually happened. And as soon as I posted anything on Twitter, I was like, oh, I can't wait till they put this up on ringside for pre-order. And I go to ringside, and it's already up for pre-order. So that was fast.
00:43:13
Speaker
Yeah, I was like freaked out because Seth was on duty so which means he has to work and like work overnight And I was you know taking care of the kids by myself and so like all of a sudden I just like checked in cuz you know I don't get to get online that much so I like checked in and all of a sudden I was like oh my god the pre-orders are up and I was thinking like it's already gonna be on like pre-order 7 And so yeah, but I we actually got to get them in and we got them in in time So everything was was good to go. We got everybody that we wanted. You said you ended up getting the whole set and
00:43:41
Speaker
Yeah, so yeah, so AW Unrivaled Series 3 is up for pre-order on ringside. Obviously use Co-Check Foley for 10% off the order. Can't even talk tonight. But yeah, I got everyone. No band left behind. I like your style. We got everybody except Pac. I felt like the Pac figure was extremely similar to the Elite 55 Neville.
00:44:05
Speaker
that came out. So I want to pass on that one. You know, maybe once everybody gets in hand, it will be the most incredible figure of all time.
00:44:12
Speaker
and I'll be regretting it, but yeah, we got five out of the six. I'm really kind of starting to get some anxiety even before these things start hitting the pegs, because that chased R.B. Allen is incredible. That's the first chase I've seen that I'm like, okay, I need that in my collection. So I'm definitely gonna be watching like a hawk if ringside doesn't need drops just on the chase, or if not that, then I'm gonna have to be just checking Walmart every single day, hoping that thing shows up at my local Walmart.
00:44:42
Speaker
Yeah, I posted on our Twitter when they announced that I post a picture and everything. And I said, my early faves personally are the the Orange Cassidy and the Darby Allen. Bailey cause Orange Cassidy with the hands in the pocket. The pockets are so like amazing, dude. I love his sneakers. I love the little hole and with the patch with the tights underneath like the the soft goods denim jacket. The Orange Cassidy figure is just
00:45:12
Speaker
Amazing. Yeah, he has the uh, I think he has the thumb to like the Yeah, the lazy thumbs up is there it's it's like I said figure this year and next year I I don't know if anything's coming out. That's gonna be better that we'll see But yeah, it looks like the the jacket and the shirt are like one piece like it's like the it's got a shirt It's like a t-shirt front and then the the jacket is actually just like the back of the shirt So it's not like two separate
00:45:37
Speaker
soft good pieces. So you don't get like a t shirt and a denim jacket. It's all one sewn together piece. Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty sweet. Yeah, I'm looking at it right now the so awesome folks that we're concerned about the articulation on orange Cassie if he was going to have
00:45:53
Speaker
full motion of the hips and stuff and magic the guy that's actually the figure sculptor for these he came out and said that yeah he does have full articulation in the legs so I don't know exactly how that's gonna work just from looking at pictures of it I don't know if maybe the maybe like we because we haven't seen a picture from the back so I don't know if maybe like the top part of his jeans like comes off or not yeah it looks like they may be detachable or something I'm not sure how they're gonna work it we're still gonna have full articulation because
00:46:20
Speaker
If you look at it, his legs really don't look like they bend with the front with the pockets on it, but amazing figure anyways. They say he's going to have full articulation, so I don't know how they pulled it off, but it's going to be pretty cool and definitely one of the most innovative figures we've seen in a while.
00:46:38
Speaker
And we shall see. So speaking of chases, the other chases, Rio, haven't seen her in a while, but she does come with the AW Women's Championship as well, which is pretty cool. I think the chase actually, she's wearing the title and her gear is different as well. So
00:46:55
Speaker
Yeah, it looks like more of like an MOC thing because yeah, it was almost similar to like a King Mabel thing for me. It was hard for me to tell a lot of difference between the chase and the regular release. I think she's got a crown on in one and there's like boots in the other. Like her boots are different colors. Like she's got the pink boot fronts and then like the light pink boot fronts.
00:47:16
Speaker
Yeah, the other weird thing too, and it's not weird, but the other first for this series, for what I've seen anyway, is the extra head sculpt that's on Pac. Pac comes with kind of like the, for reference, Drew McIntyre. I was going to say, Drew McIntyre, like Bret Hart. I don't really love how it looks. It literally covers the whole face.
00:47:39
Speaker
Definitely, I don't really love those hair and face sculpts. I thought the Drew McIntyre one, I thought they nailed that one. Drew McIntyre looks good, yeah. Pox looks a little bit weird. He looks like he's somewhere between Drew and Brett.
00:47:54
Speaker
It's not a bad thing to compare it to. Speaking of unrivaled, we have unrivaled series two back up for back order on ringside collectibles. If you miss the first go around for that series, definitely get back there and order those. Did you guys order the first name? No, we didn't. We passed up on these. I've been hating myself.
00:48:22
Speaker
ever since. Luckily, we got a friend across the pond in the UK that scooped them up for us and we should have those on the way here shortly. Or if you live in Houston, Texas, we saw our buddy MyDamnToys posted that someone posted in a forum somewhere that they found them in Houston, Texas. It was like the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. It was like a Walmart shelf with a fully loaded
00:48:45
Speaker
Unrivaled series just like hanging on the pegs just chillin, you know, I still haven't seen a single AWW figure and any Walmart that I've been in since they since they released so Yeah, it was pretty cool to just see them all hanging there on the pegs. Yeah, start hitting those Walmart's, you know, you don't know when these things are gonna show up Yeah, I've been to a Walmart and I don't even know how long since Yeah, we definitely don't go as much as we used to for sure Did you get did you get series 2 on order when they will pop back up Marco? I
00:49:13
Speaker
Yeah, yep. Of course. Yeah, definitely. Definitely the full set. Definitely the definitely everyone in that set. That's like that's all right. That's probably my favorite one out of three if I have to pick one. So I was I was the same way as set as series three. I got five out of the six. So we still have we have an amazing hangman page custom elite from the mad reaper. And so that kind of, you know, we didn't really need that.
00:49:40
Speaker
And I think mad, mad rebra actually kind of outdid our good friends jazz where it's just a little bit on on this hangman. I was bummed that they got rid of the if you remember when they were showing the prototypes, there was an alternate head sculpt of hangman that actually had the bandana on his face. Yeah. And then somehow that just disappeared somewhere in the production. So hopefully that shows back up in the line because I would love if they had that, I definitely would have been grabbing hangman. But when that went away, it just made it kind of extra for me to get another hangman in all black.
00:50:10
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. So I think that's it for the unrivaled stuff. But moving on, so there were images of the New Japan Pro Wrestling Ultimates popping up. Yeah, the packaging looks awesome. But if you've seen any of the Super 7 packaging, it's pretty similar. But yeah, it's a real thing. Yeah, actually, you're seeing in front of that box, man. I want to see these figures in the box.
00:50:39
Speaker
Yeah, I think they actually have the Series 1 backup for pre-order. Some have said not full Series 1. I think it's just three of the four figures on our ringside right now. I believe Will Osprey, Okada, and...
00:50:54
Speaker
I'm forgetting the third one, but yeah, there's only three of the four, but if you miss out on that first wave, definitely go back there and pre-order now, because you have the chance to do that. Lucky for me, I pre-ordered these things on November 22nd of 2019. There you go. 13 months ago, I gave 150 bucks to Ringside Collectibles for these. Yeah, I'm still waiting for them. If they're anything close,
00:51:19
Speaker
to what the prototype shots look like then they're going to be worth the wait because these things looked just incredible so you know my excitement form hasn't died down i'm still dying to get these things i've seen some people on the figure forums who are like they've gone back and cancelled their orders and they don't think these things are ever coming out but like i said they look incredible so
00:51:40
Speaker
I'm definitely all about it. Well, it's not like Kickstarter. I mean, if they end up just never coming, like you get your refund from ringside, you know what I mean? But still, I mean, it's, you know, 150 bucks that you've done whatever with over the past year. Yeah, I'm looking at a picture of all of them right now. Yeah, they're just November 1st, last year is when these things went up.
00:51:59
Speaker
Yeah, you got to think like what happened like last year so you have like you pre-order in November You have January February and that's pretty much the beginning of like everything's stopping so you can't like you can't judge like I'm not speaking for those people, but I wouldn't judge like oh, they're never coming out on that it's things happen in the world where that that took a took a back a backseat to everything so
00:52:25
Speaker
So I will work my gimmick a little bit as the heel husband. I'll say that you're right. Things did happen. But in the meantime, you know, we've had companies come together and already like developed a vaccine for freaking Covid. In the meantime, these guys can't get out for action figures. You know what I mean? Like AEW had a whole line start up to.
00:52:43
Speaker
And Mattel's been cranking him out. So super seven is no small. Well, whenever a big pharma starts backing super seven I'm pretty sure that they'll be able to have a lot more production and you know, yeah They still had the turtle figures dropping the turtle figures still come out this year I think super seven just need to show some love to new Japan because that the wrestling fans ready to snap these things up. I
00:53:04
Speaker
I mean, I would say, I think Super Severn's model is quality over quantity. So they want to make the best quality product that money can buy. So like, when you actually have those physically in your hand, you're like, I don't even want my whole collection anymore. I'm selling everything. And these are the only figures I'm keeping for the rest of my life. I want Mattel to be able to be your life designer.
00:53:26
Speaker
I've been looking at their this sevens turtles man Like I I can't pull the trigger on them just cuz I'm so OCD that like if I get one of them Then I'm gonna have to just get rid of all my neck of turtles and go super seven But yeah, you're right super seven is crushing it their figures are incredible. I was looking at some detailed pictures of super sevens Rocksteady and their mutagen man in the turtles line and
00:53:48
Speaker
They're just insane, man, the detail on these figures and just the way that I don't know what kind of paints they're using or what, but it's like the colors really pop off of these things in a way that they don't even on NECA figures, you know, as amazing as NECA is. So yeah, I think Super 7 is the best in the game right now. So we'll give them a pass. Like I said, I got series one and they already got my money for series two also. So I keep as much as I'm complaining about them. I am still giving these guys my cash.
00:54:11
Speaker
This is basically our savings fund for our kids college. We'll just keep buying, pre-ordering these figures. And then when they never come out, like in 10 years, we'll be like, hey man, we have enough to send our kid to college. This is great. Hopefully January is when they're going to ship. So I just, hopefully they can stick with that man. Cause I am ready to get these things in hand and hopefully the wait for series two is a lot less.
00:54:31
Speaker
trying to get that Super 7 endorsement and trying to get them to make us some figures, all three of us. So if you don't know what I was trying to do there, let's have some quality check fully show figures. You gotta let me know, man. I'm ruining it right now. Yeah. Gosh, damn. But speaking of pre-orders, today, actually, the 24 hours you have to pre-order the Big Van Vader micro brawler, because obviously Lexi. It looks awesome.
00:55:01
Speaker
He said it looks awful. No, it looks awesome. He said awful. I was like, whoa, that looks pretty sexy. I love it. I told you last week, I'm so glad that I never dove into the micro brawlers game, because these are right in my wheelhouse. I love Funko Pops. I love dorbs. I love any little cute characterization of a figure. It's right in my wheelhouse. And I'm so glad I never got into these, because man, I would feel like I would need all of these. Yeah.
00:55:30
Speaker
Obviously, the first time they did this, they had the Owen Hart micro-brawler. It just popped up and it sold out rather fast. A lot of people are pretty much upset about it.
00:55:45
Speaker
And rightfully so, it's Owen Hart and it's the first time he's had a figure in God knows how long. So I mean, that was going to be a thing. But I feel like if they were giving money to the Owen Hart Foundation, how cool would it have been if they did a pre-order? And I mean, got like, you know, 10 times as many orders, you know what I mean, to donate to the actual foundation and stuff. I mean, I get, you know, the allure of like doing
00:56:11
Speaker
Limited drops and things like that and I know people like there's always gonna be people that are pissed off There's always gonna be people that are missing out. That's just part of being a collector But I feel like when you are doing it for charity, like why don't you just like go big or go home, you know?
00:56:25
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. They learned from that and now you can pre-order the Big Van Vader. Hopefully, I mean, by tomorrow, sometimes you should be able to. When we do this to the show, do it now. Yeah, you can use the available pre-order right now. Yeah. Yeah. The pre-order system, I like this, the pre-order system. I think it's just awesome because if there's a super specific figure or something like that, we all want the Gooker, right? We've been clamoring for Gooker first.
00:56:52
Speaker
Years and years and years. Um, but I feel like it would be cool for them to just be like, Hey, you know what? We know this probably won't be like one of those figures that is, you know, widely accepted. Like kids aren't going to be looking for a Gooker figure. So we're just going to do a pre-order for all you crazy marks that want a Gooker figure. Like go ahead and put in your pre-orders and you know, you'll, you'll get it almost like a Kickstarter type situation. You know, I think that would be a really cool system for these like really, really obscure characters.
00:57:18
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. And then you can gauge on how many people are actually ordering these. I mean, the demand for micro-browsers are pretty huge anyway, but now you actually see an actual number of how many people are ordering these things. So next time, maybe you spice it up a little bit more the next go around for your pre-orders and stuff like that.
00:57:39
Speaker
Yeah, I'm super pumped about that. Like I said, I've only been collecting them through the pro wrestling trade, because they pretty much give you one every single trade that you get. This month's was Tatanka, which is pretty cool. That is cool. But if you got the WWE gift shop, like the Legends shop, you got those gift sets, the Macho Man Undertaker and Ultimate Warrior, they all came with their own kind of like,
00:58:07
Speaker
micro brawler so how did those scale up i was interested in how did those scale up with the micro brawler identical like in size of like look at it and everything so like so technically i have like a if you want to call it undertaker and paul bear actually the undertakers came with two it's a paul bear one as well as an undertaker that's um macho man uh has his and then obviously ultimate warrior has his but um but yeah i mean i didn't think i'd be collecting these um i'm kind of like not really collecting them but collecting them like i'm not gonna like
00:58:37
Speaker
You're not a completionist. Yeah, I'm not going to scour eBay and try to find every single one, but they are pretty cool. My kids love them. Every time they say that they look like little cartoon characters. Yeah. Well, another cool thing about the pre-order system, especially for these micro brawlers and stuff, is it kills that immediate resale value. Because everybody who wants one has the ability to get one, right?
00:59:00
Speaker
So it's not like people people aren't missing out I mean maybe obviously later on down the road once these things like close up and people like oh damn I didn't even know there was a Vader micro brawler like they'll be pissed because they'll have to buy on the secondary market but like it doesn't people aren't gonna be buying these and just Immediately flipping them for for big money because again everybody that wanted one had the opportunity to purchase, right? Exactly. So I kind of like that too. Yeah
00:59:24
Speaker
Yeah, we'll move on to WWE Elite 83 figure reveals. Did you guys get to see the pictures? Oh, yeah. What do you guys think? What's the favorite?
00:59:40
Speaker
So honestly, we're going to talk about a little bit later on. I really couldn't get past that WrestleMania 12 warrior. We'll save that discussion for later on that, but that out of that gallery on www.com, that was definitely the best one. But for Elite 83, the blue hair Sasha is going to be awesome. If you guys remember that figure was originally going to be a ringside collectibles exclusive. So I don't know if that means we're getting something I guess.
01:00:02
Speaker
I don't know if they got bumped for the warrior or if we're getting something else down the road in her place But so that one's a really great figure and then the dusty roads with the the black and red polka dots the poncho He's got the the kind of Hawks foot necklace on with the top hat Just a really awesome figure, you know, we're getting closer and closer to be able to piece together the entire match from the undertakers and
01:00:24
Speaker
debut at Survivor Series 1990. We just need to get, we need to get Coco Beware and then we need to get Rhythm & Blues Greg Valentine and we'll be all set. But yeah, I think for Elite 83, it's probably Dusty Rhodes is my most excited and then Sasha's a close second. How about you?
01:00:41
Speaker
I think the sleeper that everyone's not really looking at is the King Corbin figure. Oh my god. You don't like it at all? No, the figure is cool. Don't get me wrong. The figure's cool, but I can't separate the figure from the performer, man.
01:01:00
Speaker
That's my problem too because the figure is cool and we knew we were gonna get it I mean he's been carrying this gimmick for how long now, you know, I mean we knew we were gonna get a King Corbin figure I wouldn't mind grabbing him and maybe doing like a figure mash-up and throwing those accessories on my Elite 57 Corbin But I think Elite 57 Corbin with the long hair that's probably gonna be the only Baron Corbin figure in my collection for the time being I just I
01:01:25
Speaker
You know, when I see bald head Baron Corbin, I immediately think of. Olive Garden, Baron Corbin. Well, yeah, that. But I just think of the wasted, like, first three months of Seth Rollins' run with Universal. Seth Rollins' title run. I really blame, you know, let's break kayfabe for a minute. I blame the failure of Seth Rollins' baby face run as the top guy. I wouldn't say it was a failure. I mean, he was the top guy for, like, you know, eight months, which that's an achievement in and of itself.
01:01:54
Speaker
It would have been way better if he would have had a better feud than Baron Corbin. 100%. He had the awesome crowd-pleasing win against Brock at WrestleMania, goes and beats AJ in just a hell of a match in Money in the Bank, and then gets tied in this just never-ending feud with Baron Corbin. A big card of evil. Yeah, it was just horrible, man. I don't know.
01:02:16
Speaker
Baron Corbin has just not been exciting to me since he shaved his head. I don't know what it is I mean, it's not so much about him shaving his head It's just so that coincided with him being the constable or whatever when he was Kurt angle sidekicks and then becoming King Corbin He's just there's been so much bad TV With him right at the center of it that I don't need to figure to remind me of it I do like the accessories. They're cool
01:02:39
Speaker
if they work on like the other beer and corn figure, I might keep them just to have them. But no, I'm not excited for that figure. So I mean, yeah, strong disagreement on that one, Marco. I'm not excited for I'm saying that's a sleeper one. That's that's one that would they would you get it in hand? I think that's going to be the one that everyone's going to like.
01:02:57
Speaker
Not the both side of everyone but like it's gonna be the sleeper one that's I'm telling you that's because if you look at it like you obviously does see everyone wants Edge edges obviously. Yeah, that's probably gonna be the hottest seller out of that said I think returning edge. Yeah base also
01:03:20
Speaker
Yeah, but as far as like a figure, like the way it looks and the accessories and stuff like that, what would Baron Corbin on that one? The accessories are mage. I mean, they are like the cape and the robe and the, you know, all, all the things. The black crown is pretty cool. You could like use that on it. Someone else obviously. I will say, dude, as much, I've hated the king of the ring, you know, gimmick over the last several years. Um, I will say that Baron Corbin's attire has been the best
01:03:46
Speaker
kinked attire of anybody in recent history, you know, they had freaking Wade Barrett and that little he was like Cruella de Vil. Wade Barrett looked like he went to like Spirit of Halloween and got a kink. Oh, it was terrible. It was so terrible. Yeah, he definitely has had the best look of them all. He has the entrance that coincides with it. So yeah, if anybody's made the most out of the King of the Ring gimmick, it's definitely been Baron Corbin.
01:04:13
Speaker
Let's just move on to it because I think we'll move on from our disagreement on Baron Corbin and we'll move on for our love of this next figure. How about that, Seth? Yeah, let's do it. RSC exclusive, Ultimate Warrior.
01:04:27
Speaker
Oh man that's like a day one hour one pre-order as soon as that goes live that's that's probably the uh that's probably the most mage ultimate warrior that we had left to to be released um that's definitely his most famous attire i think that we hadn't gotten in figure form yet um we're finally getting it it looks awesome i think it's finally going to replace um the uh the jax series two bone crunching action is the best restomania 12 ultimate warrior figure
01:04:54
Speaker
The packaging looks amazing, you know, it just it's it's a shame that you know warriors no longer with us because that thing would be absolutely perfect to get autographed man, but Yeah, it's awesome figure. The duster looks great. Cannot wait to have this thing in hand. Yeah
01:05:12
Speaker
Yeah, right when I seen it, I think when they revealed the pictures for it, I think I checked ringside maybe 100 times that day to make sure it wasn't popping up as a pre-order at some point. I was like, every time I read it, I read the description wrong. It was like, I'm for pre-order soon. My mind just got rid of the soon part, and I just went to ringside to check. But yeah, I'm definitely interested in this one. Like you said, it's probably the best warrior figure out right now.
01:05:42
Speaker
You have all the Raven stereos that pop up, all the different John Cena's, all the different AJ Styles, and people get like, you're like, oh, why the hell is another one? But with Warrior, it's different. The Warrior has a presence, and his figure is so iconic, essentially. The most poetic, man. He's the most poetic guy ever. You can't go wrong with it. Literally a superhero. Yeah. Yeah. Any kid, even if you're...
01:06:05
Speaker
Like my son right now, he's going to be four years old. If he's seen an alter warrior figure hanging on the pegs, he's probably going to want it. It's colorful. It comes to life, essentially. The other thing too is, the other great thing about this, it actually, for as many people that hate Triple H and how he buries everyone and all this stuff, you're owning a figure where he got the burial.
01:06:32
Speaker
We have that figure, you know, we have the network spotlight Triple H from back in 2016 when he was still in his Greenwich snob Gear so yeah, you can totally recreate that you know triple undertaker getting him with a pedigree and just straight up no selling it
01:06:47
Speaker
Yeah, for all the people out there that dislike Triple H for all the things that they say he does, oh, this figure, it'll change your life. It's a literal image of what
01:07:02
Speaker
So what Triple H looks like when he gets buried essentially. It was between WrestleMania 12 when Warrior just no sold the pedigree. And in your house from December 1995 when Henry Godwin threw him in the hog pen for Triple H's two low points in his career. But yeah, I can't wait for this one. Cheetah, are you excited as Seth and I about this Warrior figure?
01:07:27
Speaker
Oh, yeah, it's I mean, I mean, like I said, again, once I'll just piggyback on everything you guys said, it's a beautiful figure. Obviously, I love it because Brett's really into ultimate warrior right now. He says ultimate oil. And so he loves anything to look super rad. I mean, the packaging is just insane. I love the the pyro and everything I like. I love how he's posed. It's just it's incredible.
01:07:53
Speaker
Yeah, ringside's really been killing it with their exclusive packaging. Last year and a half is prior to that, a lot of times they were kind of going with the standard elite packaging, maybe just with a different color scheme. But yeah, the unique packaging they've been having for the last five or six releases really sets it off.
01:08:09
Speaker
Yeah, like how the windows cut out in the, uh, the warrior symbol too as well, which is pretty cool. Uh, if you look at it as a top there, um, but we'll move on since we're speaking of Triple H. Um, they, uh, released an image of the, uh, WWE, uh, 86 Triple H. Uh, he's also the chase of this and it's, uh, his gear from SummerSlam 98, his ladder match with the rock. Yeah, of course this comes out right at like literally like two months after I dropped like 60 bucks on a, uh,
01:08:38
Speaker
a custom Triple H. I know. I can't remember who it was. Oh, no, it was it was Stack Guy Greg. Stack Guy Greg hit me up in the messages after he saw that release and he was like, oh my God, you just got the custom. Harry's like, you know, you husband just got the custom. So on the bright side, this may be, you know, it's been occasions before I think, you know, Chase Arcade formerly Burnout Inc. He got us a custom.
01:09:01
Speaker
a custom do love that was actually better than the Mattel release and I think there's a chance that this Triple H will end up holding up better than what Mattel pumps out because if it's one thing that Mattel has struggled with like over 10 years and she's never gotten better. It's metallic. Yeah, it's metallic finishes on stuff and that was the big thing with Triple H's attire from this event. It was like a nice metallic purple. So action figure attack said on the Russell Fix forums that it's going to be a metallic finish on the tights but
01:09:29
Speaker
We'll see how it turns out, you know, the the basic and stuff and they even the Motu and the retro figure all have like a flat purple finish. None of them had the metallic finish. So so we'll see because that was the elite alpha figs that did our custom. He definitely captured the metallic purple look. Yeah, it's beautiful. Great figure, though. It's awesome. We're finally getting it. Like I said, it's the prior to his main event run, that's the best. That's kind of the most iconic Triple H look that we've had.
01:09:55
Speaker
Oh, yeah, definitely.
Action Figures: Origins and Critique
01:09:56
Speaker
What do you guys think of the the chase, the chase of that, like the red yellow? That's cool. I probably won't be adding it to the collection just because what what big event was that from? Or is it just just a random Triple H attire from that time? I don't remember wearing any red and yellow. I could be wrong. Yeah, I don't either. I don't remember. So that's why I'm saying I think it's probably just from some like one off raw match or something like that. But
01:10:23
Speaker
Yeah, probably. It looks like a nice figure, but probably making my collection just because I'm not the biggest Triple H fan anyway. So I really just go for his main looks.
01:10:32
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. Next up, the Kama Kama collector's edition reveal was pretty awesome as well, which was actual figure reveal. I love that figure. Kama was, you know, very memorable heel from the mid 90s. But I was a little bit bummed out because if we're getting another Kama figure, I want nation. I really want to finish out my nation of domination set. So hopefully the fact that they made they're making the
01:10:58
Speaker
Supreme fighting machine means that the nation version isn't far behind. But yeah, I was, it was a little bit bittersweet seeing that because I definitely want it, but I would have preferred nation domination version. How about you? Yeah, same here. I think that's what everyone is thinking when they actually, when the combo was revealed. They wanted that, they wanted that version, the nation of domination version to show up. I mean, I'm all for it. I used to love that.
01:11:26
Speaker
that gimmick, the Supreme Fighting Machine. Yeah, he was kind of like MMA. He was a little bit ahead of his time with the MMA stuff. Yeah. So I mean, he kind of reminded me of like a, what was his name? From Street Fighter. Is it Balrog? The boxer from Street Fighter. That's what he kind of reminded me of. So I was like, obviously I was way into Kama when he appeared. So a little Street Fighter trivia. So you remember how there was M. Bison also?
01:11:54
Speaker
Yes. So M. Bison was originally supposed to be Balrog's name, but they thought with the look and the name that it was too close to Mike Tyson. And that's why they just swap names. That's why that, you know, international military guy was M. Bison and why the the black boxer was Balrog. That makes that actually makes sense now. Yeah. Up until the game released. Yeah, it was going to he was actually Balrog was going to be M. Bison. And I guess somebody was like screw and they just swapped those two names.
01:12:21
Speaker
Well, that's that's kind of where because like every fighting game had a Bruce Lee character in it back in the day. So like like his actual likeness was like in every single like fighting game. So yeah, Luke Kang. Yeah, Luke Kang. I think the the virtual fight ahead one as well and Tekken had a Bruce Lee character. He was like law or something like that. His name was. Yeah.
01:12:43
Speaker
But yeah, definitely excited about this one. That was a surprise to many, I think. I didn't hear rumblings of a comma elite figure popping up at all. Like I said, I'm just glad because that means he's definitely still on good terms with WWE. And I really hope we get the nation nomination down the road. If not, I'm going to be hitting up one of my customizer friends because we got to have him at this point. We got everybody else.
01:13:06
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. We could move on, but if not, we could talk about the Basic 117 reveal, which was Undertaker, First in Line, Tony Storm, Roman Reigns, and both Heavy Machinery shirtless, actually, both of them.
01:13:25
Speaker
pretty cool you guys picking these up or probably just a storm for me yeah i was gonna say the same thing this is your first figure we already have elites of everyone else yeah i definitely grabbed the tony storm um wasn't a huge fan of the head sculpt on that figure for some it looked a little bit similar to a gold dust figure um back in the day but um but yeah i will be grabbing uh i will be grabbing her anyways just because um it's her first time in the line and hopefully it'll hold us over until we get um
01:13:55
Speaker
Toyota Elite, how about you? What are you adding?
01:13:58
Speaker
I have to look at this gold dust figure now to see the comparison. Look at Elite 47 gold dust and then look at this Tony Storm basic. Maybe I'm just... That's what it made me think of. I think it's just because she has a contour or something. I'm just curious to see the back of this figure to see if they got her booty sculpt right. Or if she's gonna have a little pancake booty like some of the other... She definitely got a caboose on her.
01:14:27
Speaker
Yeah, actually, you know what? I can see it. I can see what you're talking about now. I'm looking at a screen cap of the gold dust figure. Yeah, it's almost like the same facial expression. That's why. Yeah, that's what I'm going to say. Yeah, they got kind of like, I don't know if you call it like a, yeah, it's like a sneer a little bit. Yeah, I can see it. Don't sneer right now. Take a look at Tony.
01:14:53
Speaker
I need to look at this gold dust again because to me I was like, it looks like it looks like Tony storm. Yeah. It's going back and forth side by side. Yeah. It's even more than I thought. Yeah. That's first. Maybe it's just because I'm a psycho and I pay way too much attention to these figures. But as soon as I saw that Tony storm, I was like, Oh, that looks like elite 47 gold dust.
01:15:13
Speaker
Yeah, the uh, it's it's the crooked mouth. I think it's kind of like like the dead eyes with no expression with the wig on and then uh, yeah, that's what that's what it is with the wig on it definitely the blonde wig And the other thing so is this supposed to be We love Mattel. All right, we love Mattel So i'm not trying to curse those but is that supposed to be panty hose on her legs? Because look at how much darker her legs are than the rest of her body
01:15:38
Speaker
Yeah, she was. I know. She does wear tights. I mean, most most female wrestlers too wear the tights underneath. Well, that's yeah. If that's what they're going for, then yeah, they definitely pulled it off.
01:15:48
Speaker
That might be the, cause some of her gear is like, she wears shorts and then like fishnets. So maybe they're going for the fishnet type of look. It looks weird because if they are going with the fishnets, there's no pattern at all. Like there's like literally no, like, you know, I mean, there's no fishnet pattern, so. Yeah, just like she got in a tannin bag with a sweater on. Yeah. Yeah.
01:16:10
Speaker
Yeah. But I mean, the thing is, is like a lot of women wrestlers wear tights. Those are, there's a tattoo or famous tattoo. Um, the, the, a lot of women wrestlers wear those tights, you know, I mean, just like hold everything in place and just, you know, keep your legs all smooth looking at everything. But I've never noticed any figure that had like extremely, extremely darker legs like this. Then it is very, very different.
01:16:39
Speaker
Hey, we could pick it apart all day long. The end of the day is definitely adding this to my collection. And I actually think I have an extra leather jacket that either came with a Becky Lynch or a Ronda Rouse or something. But I'm going to throw it on this one just to kind of church it up a little bit until we actually get the Elite. So cool figure either way. And I'm a big fan of getting some of these first time in the line figures cranked out in the in the basic line because they can just hold us over until we get the Elite.
01:17:03
Speaker
Yeah, but she definitely deserves an Elite though with like the NXT UK women's title and everything. You know what I mean? Oh yeah. Yeah, that'd be a great way to get that belt out also. I still want to see, we still need the UK women's belt and the UK tag team belts to come out. So hopefully that'd be a great way to make sure that her first Elite is a hot seller. And then Sheena, tell us about the new Undertaker pop that dropped today.
01:17:25
Speaker
Yeah, so we got Boneyard, Boneyard Undertaker Funko Pop went up for order today. We passed on it. Again, we're being very selective with what we add to the collection, just because we gave up the completionist gimmick a little while ago. So yeah, we're not adding it, but it is a really cool figure. It looks really awesome. Like I said, it's like Biker Taker, Boneyard Match attire.
01:17:50
Speaker
It's a good pickup for anybody out there that is completing their, you know, either their Undertaker set or their pop collection. Yeah, and I'm all for Funko going with these, you know, making the deep cuts in the WWE line, grabbing specific looks from different matches. So hopefully this sells well, and we can get some other stuff, you know, like Cough Cough, Bret Hart, Survivor Series 96. Yeah, that'd be dope. Yeah, definitely. Can you
Funko Pops and Imaginative Collectibles
01:18:16
Speaker
imagine? It would be the cutest pop of all time if they did a gobbledygooker.
01:18:21
Speaker
all the little details with like the feathers like all the different color feathers like it would just be amazing yeah if they're gonna release the gobbledygooker not as a an elite definitely as either a pop or a micro brawler would be i would get i would get a gook or micro brawler 100 i would get a gook or micro brawler yeah we'll probably give them uh ideas that's probably gonna be the next uh legends the gift box it's a gobbledygooker gift box is gonna be shaped as an egg
01:18:51
Speaker
If that happens, you know, that's definitely someone's listening to to the show. But if they did, if Ringside did like an exclusive Gooker and he came with like a breakable egg and stuff, I think I'd pay 100 bucks for that, man. I would pay 100 bucks with a smile on my face. If you make it a two pack with a mean gene, I mean, I'm dropping a buck 50 days, like 100 bucks.
01:19:13
Speaker
No questions asked, man. Like, take my money. Yeah. They should, they should just have, well, I mean, it would, it would suck for all the MOC collectors, but they should have it in the box. I guess he could be coming out of the egg, you know, but me and Gene standing there, you know, and then like the egg in the background on the little stand. Yeah. I want the egg in the box, dude. Yeah. I want to see him in the egg. So just to, just to stick it to the MOC collectors out there anyways. Yes. That's you, it's hard on MOC collectors.
01:19:43
Speaker
We try not to shoot hard on the MOCs out there. Play with your toys, people. Yeah. Let him go. Let him run free. If you have a gooker, he's going to be in a plastic prison inside of an egg prison. That's just cruel. If you want more of a...
01:20:02
Speaker
like an explanation. Watch any other Toy Story movies and see how much fun Woody had. I think it was Toy Story 3 or 2 where that collector just threw him up in a box. The prospector was in the box. Yeah, that was ridiculous. They had way more fun running around and getting into crazy mishaps and being locked up in a box. So treat them right. Let them breathe.
01:20:28
Speaker
But I'll start it off. I don't have much this week. Like I mentioned earlier, I got the pro wrestling crate for this month. I won't give away the spoilers, but I would just say I won that Tatanka micro brawler. But pretty cool stuff in there. A good year ender. Next year is going to be really awesome. They're starting off January with a bang.
01:20:51
Speaker
I'm actually excited.
WWE Themed Wines and Closing Thoughts
01:20:52
Speaker
They actually have a Kenny Omega's featured in it, which is pretty cool, as well as a Roddy Piper. I'm not sure what that's going to be. I'm hoping that's the micro brawler because that'd be pretty awesome. But other than that, I posted on our Facebook group page today my
01:21:09
Speaker
My lovely wife went and ordered me the WWE wines, The Undertaker and The Ultimate Warrior. I'm excited to see how they are. The bottles and clothes are pretty awesome. At first I thought the box, I thought it was like the Jericho wine. I was like, oh no.
01:21:29
Speaker
But then I said WWE wines and I was like, oh no, I was like, oh, okay. But yeah, she actually got the set with each one because you could get like two undertaker wines or two warrior wines. You do like a one of each. You got to try both. Yeah. If you're going to get two, you definitely got to try both. Yeah. So she did one of each and the bottles look amazing. I'm definitely going to keep those as
01:21:54
Speaker
as like shelf. So are you actually going to drink the wine or are you going to like MOC? Oh, no, I'm going to drink it. I think you have to break those open on special occasions. Okay, nice. I mean, I don't know. New Year's Eve or something? New Year's Eve, we'll see. I don't know. Maybe hold off until one of the kids graduate or something like that, wait 20.
01:22:21
Speaker
I think you should do it like the first time that WWE opens up back to having fans in the audience I feel like you should you should crack open the bottle of wine dude as a celebratory, you know, welcome back fans Oh, yeah, definitely like like even if like we do like maybe if you do like a
01:22:40
Speaker
If we had some time, if it gets, if everything clears out, we could do like a Chick Foley fan beat up or something like that. And I could bring one of the bottles. Oh, we're gonna, we're gonna go through all the, yeah, we're gonna bring all the wrestling boozes out for that. We're gonna bring Stone Cold, we're gonna bring Broken Skull IPA. We're gonna have the Undertaker wine. We will, I'll bring some 19 Crime Snoop Dogg as a, you know. As a Hall of Fame, yeah, Hall of Fame edition. We're gonna bring all the, all the, the boozes, the table.
01:23:09
Speaker
the rocks yeah terra bono tequila yeah so yeah well then we'll definitely have to do something like that but uh
01:23:16
Speaker
I'm definitely going to pop it open when the time is right. If you watch the second round, the Broken Skull Sessions with Undertaker, and get some cold, actually drank it, they got pretty wasted off of it. If they're going to get hit hard by drinking that, those guys can go hard. I'm kind of scared of drinking it now.
01:23:40
Speaker
Yeah, I was kind of shocked. I was like at a loss for words. I was like, I didn't even think she would, like she even knew about these. First of all, I didn't know what she knew about the WWE wines. Like we spoke about like the Chris Jericho, a little bit of the bubbly. She listens to the podcast, Marco. She does. She does, but you can listen, but it's the retaining part. Like she retained like all that, that stuff. So that was pretty awesome seeing that. So, uh, yeah, early, early Christmas gift on my end with that. But other than that, nothing.
01:24:10
Speaker
Yeah, that was it was it was really it was a it's probably one of the coolest things I've got this year So wait before Christmas you gotta you gotta slow your roll and buying yourself stuff. It's time to give give to others So I totally have a light week this week. What about you Seth? Yeah, we almost we slowed down a little bit only five new figures this week So that's a light week for us picked up all retros this week. No, no, no elites. No has bro. So we got retro Rick flair Brock Lesnar stone cold shinsuke and
01:24:40
Speaker
What was the fourth one that came in? Oh, and mankind. Mankind, yes, look, I love that. Again, we're getting closer and closer. I'm kind of dreading it because there's only a handful of cheap Hasbros and retros I have left to go, and I'm about to start getting into the big money figures, but I'm pretty good at scouring eBay and finding some steals and stuff, so hopefully I can piece it together and not break the bank too much. But yeah, the collection's coming together very nicely. All right, so with that, it is time for quarantine and chill.
01:25:21
Speaker
All right. Quarantine is going to give you guys a recommendation to watch to help by the time everybody's still locked down inside. Marco, kick us off. What's your quarantine recommendation for this week?
01:25:36
Speaker
Yeah, so I think this is kind of like a sleeper Christmas comedy movie. I'm not sure if, have you guys ever heard of this movie called Surviving Christmas? I have not seen it, but I just looked it up just now and I see it's got my man Tony Soprano in it. And so, I mean, yeah, I'm here, I'm here for it. I'll watch it. Yeah, so it's, yeah, actually we watched it, I think last Saturday, my wife and I, she's never heard of it, never.
01:26:05
Speaker
I was like, I think I caught it on 2005. Obviously, it's a comedy. It's got a sterling 7% on Rotten Tomatoes. I mean, it's a Christmas movie. It's a Christmas movie. They're going to be rated a little more toughly on- Yeah, of course. Let me see what Christmas with the Cranks. Christmas with the Cranks is one of my classic Christmas movies that I love. I feel like that nobody really ever gives any shine to. I want to see what its rating is on Rotten Tomatoes, but can you tell us about surviving Christmas?
01:26:33
Speaker
Yeah, so yeah surviving Christmas isn't it's a it's a comedy. It's kind of like a slapstick comedy movie stars Ben Affleck James Gandolfini Christina Applegate as well as Catherine O'Hara from From Home Alone Fame. You don't know Catherine O'Hara. It's funny because what's that? What's the series that she's in now is it's just just Creek? Yeah, yeah, and people are like, oh my god, she's so amazing. I'm like literally she's been in everything. Yes, you know, yeah Yeah, she was
01:27:01
Speaker
Great in Home Alone, but she's even better in Beetlejuice. Yeah, Beetlejuice. Oh my gosh, she's amazing in Beetlejuice. Yeah, definitely, definitely watch her. My wife enjoyed it. She thought it was really funny. It's kind of like a, I think it's PG-13-ish on the cusp of Rated R, the movie.
01:27:19
Speaker
There's a lot of course language, so it's not a family Christmas movie. It's not a family movie. It's a comedy. Yeah, it's really good. It's basically Ben Affleck. He never grew up having a Christmas, and he wants to have a Christmas, so I'll let you watch it so you can see how he enjoys his Christmas. I will watch it. I will get back to you.
01:27:42
Speaker
Like I said, it's a funny movie. It's a good silly movie to watch and not get too serious about Christmas. It is a Christmas movie. We won't get into that debate. It's called Surviving Christmas. So Christmas is in the title, and it is based around Christmas. Yes, it is an actual Christmas movie. So yeah, definitely watch it. Tell me what you think.
01:28:05
Speaker
Well, if it makes you feel any better, Marco, a movie that I love and hold near and dear to my Christmas-loving heart is Christmas with the Cranks. And it has a solid 5% on Rotten. Oh, yes. It's 2% better, yes. I just love to shit on Christmas movies for some reason. I think it's just that most Christmas movies are super predictable and you kind of see all the stories that's coming from a few paces away. But that's why we like them. I say that about wrestling. Sometimes predictable is good.
01:28:32
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, what is there not to love about Tim Allen and the Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis? You know what I mean? And it's got freaking Dan Aykroyd as like, you know, the third man in this movie. I mean, you see him, Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Dan Aykroyd. So I mean, that's not my quarantine and chill recommendation, but if you love Christmas and you want to kind of just feel some good old Christmas feels, Christmas with the cranks is. It's got a lot of good laughs. Yeah. It's got a, it's got a lot of good laughs based on a book called, uh, for getting Christmas, uh, which is just awesome too. So.
01:28:58
Speaker
Anyway, my quarantine and chill recommendation is something that I do every holiday season. Um, and since sadly on January 1st, uh, the office is leaving Netflix and going to the peacock, uh, which is just like, I mean, which is just like the end of an air. Thank God. I never let Seth convince me to get rid of all of my office Blu-rays. Like I, I still have all, I think I might still have DVDs. They're DVDs. I still have like, yeah, I still have the DVDs.
01:29:28
Speaker
It's even better. I kind of like watching the office and like kind of blurry resolution. I don't need to see the office in 4k. For sure. 100%. There was like a hundred times Seth was like, you know, we would have yard sales or whatever. I would like be donating stuff. He'd be like, why don't you? I'm like, no, those are like my comfort blanket. I'm like Linus. I'm not letting go of these DVDs. But for this exact reason, Netflix is, you know, obviously losing the license to the office and it's going to go on, you know, NBC's peacock or whatever.
01:29:54
Speaker
Every holiday season I go through, and this is something I've been doing. It actually popped up in my Facebook memories from like 11 years ago or something insane, where we were watching the Office Christmas episode. So go through the Office Christmas episodes and watch them. I mean, from season two, like Christmas party, Benihana Christmas, Moroccan Christmas. The season two Christmas episode is like one of the best episodes of TV ever.
01:30:21
Speaker
I love that episode. I quote, I quote that episode in just like everyday life, like on the regular, like, you know, lampshade on the head. I mean, I don't even know how I worked that in a conversation, but a lot of times I will just say lampshade on the head. But yeah, the season two Christmas, Benihana Christmas is really good too. But season two Christmas party is one of my all time favorite episodes of The Office out like maybe dinner party might
01:30:45
Speaker
might trump that. But go through just watch all the Christmas episodes, it'll give you the warm and fuzzies. That is my quarantine and chill recommendation. All right, so we're getting in the Christmas spirit here on the Chick-Bully show. And we may have a awesome Christmas gift for the wrestling fan in your life coming up next during Random Merch of the Week.
01:31:17
Speaker
All right, random wrestling merch of the week is where we scour the dark corners of the Internet to find you guys something new, something old, just something that we haven't seen before that piques our interest and something you may maybe worth picking up. So Marco, tell us about the newest WWE poster.
01:31:35
Speaker
I think I was trying to find something worse than last week, like the worst looking. It seems pretty cool. I actually kind of like this. I figured that people would think this was cool, but it's not anything that you have to go on eBay to find. It's nothing that's out of production. It's the WWE Retro Toaster. It's on WWE Shop right now.
01:31:59
Speaker
I thought it was a pretty cool thing because you can actually go buy it. I'm not sure about the price. It's 35 bucks. It seems like it's like a $20. That's a high for a gimmick toaster. I mean, regular toasters, I think they're like, you know, what, 20 bucks? But yeah, 35 bucks. I mean, I guess you pay for the licensing. That's always the issue. If you buy it on Amazon right now, it's got free shipping and it still arrives before Christmas, but they're down to 16 left in stock. So this thing is selling.
01:32:26
Speaker
I don't know if this is the same brand or not, Uncanny Brands. There was one a couple of years ago that came out that it basically printed the logo off the WWE Championship. Basically, the front plate off the WWE Heavyweight Championship, it printed that on the toast. Was it toast? I think that was a waffle maker. Oh, yeah. There was a waffle maker that made championship title waffles. Marco, did you see the actual box art on this thing though?
01:32:53
Speaker
No, I didn't see it. OK. Check the group text, dude. So this thing just got about like 10 times cooler to me. So the box art, you see, it's actually it looks like it's Hasbro inspired box art. Yeah. That looks just like the old Hasbro ring and stuff. Yeah.
01:33:11
Speaker
the ultimate mealtime champion. Where like the action would be on a toast two slices. So that is pretty cool. Now that I've seen the box, I kind of feel like I need this thing. Yeah, it's kind of funny. So in the description, I didn't know they had a roster of licensed appliances. Are they more than this toaster? Do they have like coffee makers and
01:33:41
Speaker
I mean, I definitely know that there are WWE licensed waffle makers out there for sure. But fun fact, Seth and I never had a toaster. I mean, I have, I mean, I have literally every kitchen appliance you can imagine. You know, I love kitchen devices and appliances and all those types of things, right? I have some bougie stuff in my kitchen. We never had a toaster until Brett was born and old enough to eat toast. Because
01:34:07
Speaker
I know. It was like the most crazy thing. I took a picture of Brett on my back. We went to Walmart in one day and we went and bought a toaster. I mean, Seth and I have been married. How long have we been married? 12 years. By that point 13 years. Yeah, like 13 years. Okay. And we had never had a toaster in our repertoire. If I ever needed to make toast, I always just made it in the oven, you know, but I guess.
01:34:31
Speaker
We just never made enough toast to like require a toaster. Um, so yeah, when I went and bought it, like our son, whenever he started like eating and doing baby lid weaning and all of that, you know, we, he ate a lot of like different toasts and stuff. And so I was like, shit, man, I hate making this stuff all the time in the oven. And so we went and bought a toaster and it was like life changing. And now we use our toaster every single day. I did some quick research. So yeah, the waffle maker was also made by Uncanny brand, same company.
01:35:00
Speaker
And if you look at the box art for the waffle maker, it's kind of in the Mattel figure style. So, you know, hats off to Uncanny Brands for at least, you know, they're, they're giving a little TLC to these products way more than the whole Kogan mixer, you know, they like the Thunder mixer, the modern championship waffle makers got the modern Mattel style packaging, the classic toasters got the, the retro packaging. So it's a pretty dang cool. And yeah, I would suppose if the waffle maker was a good purchase for you, that you could probably go ahead and grab the,
01:35:29
Speaker
the toaster to add it to your collection, but I'm not super familiar with either products, but it wouldn't make for a great Christmas gift. I'd smile if I unwrap that. Yes, funny, real quick, speaking of the Thunder Mixer, Ryan Belisle hit me up and was talking about how we failed to mention last week on the podcast that, you know,
01:35:47
Speaker
Hulk Hogan, I guess, you know, in folklore, I mean, I guess this is a true story, but you know, I've heard it told a million different ways that he passed on the George Foreman grill and ended up going with the Thunder Mixer. And obviously, you know, we know the fame and fortune of the George Foreman grill and whatnot. And it's funny because we didn't mention that last week on the podcast and he hit me up and was like, fun, funny story, you know? So I wanted to mention that for anybody who didn't know that the Thunder Mixer, I guess he was presented with like all these appliances that he was going to license his name to and,
01:36:16
Speaker
He chose the blender, which ended up being a wet fart. And the grill was presented to George Foreman and literally sold like millions and millions of grills. And it's funny because we actually talked about that before we even started recording and Ryan hit me up and was like, guys, did you know this story? So I wanted to share it for anybody who may not know that out there, that Hulk Hogan missed out on a huge opportunity to have the George Foreman grill be the Hulk Hogan grill.
01:36:44
Speaker
Yeah, pretty wild. You know, who knows if that would have hit. He may not even, we were never seen the NWO, you know, cause that was around 94, 95 timeframes. He may have been living off that grill money. He may have been busy hawking grills on QVC instead of, you know, taking over.
01:36:59
Speaker
the world of professional wrestling with Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. So it's definitely a big fork in the road in the history of home cooking appliances and professional wrestling, you know, when worlds collide. So again, remember, random merch of the week is brought to you by Pro Wrestling Tees and you guys can pick up the new Chick Foley show Royal Rumble inspired t-shirt there as we speak. So hit that up. All right, it's now time for the retro wrestling recommendation of the week.
01:37:34
Speaker
All right, Retro Wrestling Recommendation of the Week is where we give you guys a selection from years gone by to watch and enjoy. This segment is brought to you by our friends at Chalk Line. So you guys know every time we do the Retro Wrestling Recommendation of the Week, it's brought to you by Chalk Line. So the heel husband has an endless supply of Chalk Line shorts, which he is always wearing around the house. So as usual, he has on a pair of Chalk Line shorts. So it is my duty to ask him, which shorts are you wearing today, Seth?
01:38:02
Speaker
So I went with a careful selection. These are the WrestleMania 36 shorts. So they had chocolate ones ready to roll out a whole merch collection for WrestleMania down in Tampa. The WrestleMania that never happened. Yeah, they had jackets, tank tops, and shorts. Obviously, WrestleMania got canceled. So a limited supply. These ended up going up on the website for pretty decent prices. I think I ended up spending just $20 for these shorts, where they're usually closer to
01:38:27
Speaker
I want to say like 40 bucks, right? Yeah, well now depending on the drops down I mean they can be 54 bucks depending on what what design they are Yeah, so I got the the pirate inspired Tampa Bay Buccaneers style WrestleMania shorts So definitely pretty cool and it's kind of neat to own something that for an event that never really happened Yeah, we definitely didn't happen to Tampa. All right. All right, so Marco I think we both went with a little bit of TLC inspiration for this week's Retro wrestling pick what what's your pick?
01:38:54
Speaker
Yeah, so I went with TLC when it wasn't a pay-per-view. It was an actual, just an attraction match.
01:39:04
Speaker
It was a summer slam in 2009, Jeff Hardy versus CM Punk in a TLC match for the World Heavyweight Championship. That was the big gold belt for everyone out there. Awesome match. I actually just watched it earlier, actually before the show started, because I watched it before and I wanted to watch it again.
01:39:27
Speaker
Watch it real quick. It's an awesome match. I think this is one of the gear that was in the fan picks for the Mattel line, I believe 2009, wasn't it?
01:39:43
Speaker
Yeah, it was for Jeff Hardy. Yeah, so those three choices that were like almost identical. Yeah, it was one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a really good match. Definitely. It's Jeff Hardy and a TLC match. So you'll definitely be entertained. You get to see long haired CM Punk as well.
01:40:02
Speaker
And Jim Ross is on commentary, just hyping up CM Punk and his knee strikes and CM Punk's trying to usher in that MMA style of fighting to the WWE. So you get to hear a lot of that on commentary.
01:40:19
Speaker
The other funny thing is my son, one of his first figures was a basic Jeff Hardy. So every time Jeff Hardy's on TV, he's like, oh, I have Jeff Hardy. I have Jeff Hardy. So he's really familiar with Jeff Hardy now. I'm not sure if that's his favorite wrestler, but we'll see. He kind of likes Daniel Bryan as well, which is kind of weird.
01:40:41
Speaker
Yeah, awesome match. If we go back and watch it, it's about 29 minutes. It takes up the rest of that SemperSlam. But you'll definitely be entertained with all the shenanigans that Jeff Hardy brings in that match. He does lose, spoiler alert. Sam Punk does walk away with the world title, so hopefully I didn't ruin that for anyone. I'll let it be just later.
01:41:07
Speaker
Yeah, I also want to pick something a little bit of TLC flavor to it. And I went back to the first ladder match in WWF. So, you know, if you guys listen to our Patreon exclusive Royal Rumble 88 watch along, we saw Bret Hart was the first person
01:41:24
Speaker
and there were a rumble, which we all know and love, and we also all love ladder matches, and Brett was the first one to compete in a ladder match in WWF. July 21st, 1992, it wasn't on any pay-per-view or even any televised event at the time, but Brett Hart defended his Intercontinental Championship against Shawn Michaels in WWF's first ladder match. The ladder match was, depending on who you ask, you may get some different stories, but according to Brett, the ladder match was invented up in Stampede Wrestling in Calgary, his dad's promotion.
01:41:53
Speaker
He had brought it up as an idea to Vince and before Vince wanted to do it on TV or at a pay-per-view or something He kind of wanted to see what it looked like and to test it out. They did it Basically a glorified house show but it was taped for one of the Coliseum video home releases So this match is available to watch on WWE Network If you go to the entering section and then navigate to the Coliseum video classics It's a tape called smack them whack them so that smack
01:42:21
Speaker
EM and then whack EM so smack them whack them features the first ever ladder match for the intercontinental championship It's a little bit similar to the Shawn and Razor Ramon ladder match from WrestleMania 10. So you're not gonna see any Insane like crash and burn spots. It just make you think like oh this guy's gonna die It's really just a wrestling match with the ladder incorporated in it, which is pretty cool Especially if you're more old-school fan
01:42:45
Speaker
You can never go wrong with Brett and Sean and the ring together. And this is definitely one for the record books just because it's the first ever ladder match. So that's one I recommend to check out. It's definitely a little bit of a hidden gem in WWF history that they really don't talk about too much.
01:43:00
Speaker
And that's going to put a bow on episode 107. So again, you can follow Sheena on Instagram at Chick Foley, follow Marco on Twitter at Chick Foley show. And please, again, subscribe and review. Again, we're going to be giving away the Blood and Guts AEW two pack. And all you got to do is leave a review on iTunes for that. So stay tuned to Sheena's Instagram, Marco's Twitter to get the details as we start to publicize those this week.
01:43:26
Speaker
You can join our patreon at chick Foley show calm and remember to always support us on ringside collectibles and save 10% on your orders by using code chick Foley Marco any closing thoughts before we head out Stay classy I Couldn't say it better myself. Enjoy TLC talk to you guys next week