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Full Throttle to Full Gear
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We preview all aspects of the AEW super show Full Gear for this weekend!
In Figure 4, we pick our most wanted AEW figure!
We have a Survivor Series-themed Retro Wrestling Recommendation
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Transcript
Introduction and Personal Updates
00:00:01
Speaker
Welcome to the Chick Foley Show.
00:00:24
Speaker
What is up, Foley fam? It is another AEW pay-per-view weekend and we are here to preview all the action for full gear. But before we get into that, let me introduce the stars of the show. Sheena, how are you doing? I'm doing okay. It's been a pretty stressful week over here at the Phelps house, but I am, I'm ready to dive in, talk some wrestling and escape for a little while. That's what wrestling is good for, right? Is to allow us to escape from all the crappy things that are happening around us. You know what I mean?
00:00:52
Speaker
Oh yeah, definitely. One of our pups is having some pretty serious health issues. So we're just trying to surround her with love over the next couple of days. So definitely looking forward to having a little bit of amazing wrestling action this week to at least take our mind off of it for a little bit, like Sheena said. And we'll have our pup Penny snuggle up right there on the couch with us the entire show. Marco, what's going on, man? What's up in Massachusetts?
00:01:15
Speaker
Nothing much, just same here, just getting ready to kick it into full gear, no pun intended over here. But I was actually just thinking about, because you guys are talking about your petting. If you guys listen closely, probably on every episode you can hear bells jingling a little bit in the background. That's why I- It's not just because it's the holiday season. Yeah, no, it's all year long. It's our cat, she has a little bell. And she does it, I believe she does it on purpose. Every time I get ready to record, she comes down in the living room area, pops herself down on the couch, starts
00:01:44
Speaker
Cleaning herself and making all types of ghosts. I hear it every week. I hear the little like ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah, she's not a nice animal sometimes. Cats are like that though, you know what I mean? They only allow you to love them when they want to be loved. Yeah. I'm not a cat fan. Never have been, never will be. Sheena, remind the listeners where they can find you guys on social media.
00:02:08
Speaker
You can find me on Instagram at Chick Foley, Marco running the Twitter machine over at Chick Foley show. Most importantly, you can join our Foley fam.
00:02:16
Speaker
at chick Foley show.com. Uh, we just stitched together all of our Halloween havoc, watch a long episodes and posted that over on the feed. So make sure you check that out. You know, all you gotta do is hit play once and you get to experience all of the Halloween havoc, uh, effery as we called it during the, uh, the Patreon exclusive episodes. So I'm going to keep a PG here. I'm going to drop F bomb right at the top of the show, but, uh, yeah, lots of
AEW Full Gear Preview
00:02:41
Speaker
fun over there. So make sure you check it out chick fully show.com.
00:02:44
Speaker
Facebook group's been popping as well. A lot of people finding some great stuff on the pegs, some amazing collections going up for sale over there. And we got the Foley picks league. We're over halfway through with season two now with full gear. And that's going to be events. This is a big event, like 25 points. Potentially worth 25 points. So I'm looking to claw myself up from the bottom of the standings. I still got the hangover from blowing it in the championship round last season. So hopefully I can get back on track.
00:03:13
Speaker
You know that lowlife Alex Eubank is going to try to get one over on you. Yeah, that scumbag Alex stole the championship from me. He's a sleeper, man. Marco, tell us what's new with the Pod Foundation this week. All
Pod Foundation Rundown
00:03:27
Speaker
right. Actually, I added a new segment. I'm calling it the Pod Foundation rundown. Basically, I have a bullet point thing I'm going to do with this so I can get more insight into what's going on.
00:03:42
Speaker
We'll start off, obviously, you know, Turnbuckle Tavern. They're the guys that pretty much run the whole week when it comes to wrestling talk. So they have debate 52 up right now. Their special guest this week is on the Pro Wrestling Podcast. And they, you know, they talk about, should there be WrestleMania for two nights? Should top flight reunite? Which was a huge one. That was actually very entertaining to listen to.
00:04:06
Speaker
And do TV ratings matter? I wish I was on that. Yeah, it was a good episode. I had so much to say. Me too. I was like, are they going to say it? No, they didn't say it. Yeah. But yeah, so definitely listen to that. The debates are always great. We're frequent guests on there, so can't wait to do another one with those guys. Turnbuckle Sessions, special edition this week.
00:04:30
Speaker
Cause you're going to plug yourself. Yeah. So I have to put myself over right now. Um, I joined, uh, Tom, the, uh, the OG fake kid. Um, so we got to do a part two cause we didn't get to everything that we wanted to talk to. So I'll be on there again, but, uh, we dove in a little bit deeper to, you know, my, the, the roots of my wrestling background.
00:04:50
Speaker
you know, how I got into it. I love for collecting, you know, that stuff. And we just we kind of just became chatty Kathy's and just like veered off. Like I took him off his his question sheet of his script. Yeah, you guys both both you and Tommy are both pretty long winded. So, yeah, I'm not shocked to hear that we're going to need a part to, you know, the the saga continues of Marco on the sessions. But that's good. It gives a little tease, you know. Yeah.
Special Guest: OG Fig Kid
00:05:16
Speaker
So, yeah, because we want to get to more like the, you know, how I started on the show and all that stuff.
00:05:43
Speaker
We just started going off the rails.
00:05:53
Speaker
It's live, but you can go back and watch it. And then the extra cool show. Last but not least, obviously, the extra cool show. So they didn't have the full Survivor Series team this week. So they did some extra, extra credit. So they covered the WWE releases. They give their flowers to Eddie Kingston and CM Punk. And they talk full gear as well. They'll be back next week to cover Survivor Series 1991.
00:05:59
Speaker
That whole card.
00:06:22
Speaker
That's it. That's it for the Foundation. Yeah, oh yeah, some more some more pod Foundation collaboration. We're actually going to have.
00:06:30
Speaker
Thomas Montalto, the OG Fig Kid, he's going to be joining us next week on the Chick Foley show to help us review full gear. Yeah, we've been trying to make that happen for a while, but the schedule's just kind of, you know, haven't worked out, but I'm stoked to have Tom on next week. And on Monday night, she's going to be joining an affiliate of the Pot Foundation, coming down the aisle with J-Bone, our good friend, John Swallow. She's going to be on there for his one-year anniversary show.
00:06:55
Speaker
That's uh, that's gonna be a lot of fun Always things pop with a pot foundation again follow at pot foundation on Instagram to stay up on all the latest content From all of our shows she and you ready to give away some action figures always
Giveaways and Promotions
00:07:08
Speaker
alright, so this is the giveaway for The ECW bam bam bigelow legend series 11 sorry to even keep all these series straight anymore. Legend series 11 bam bam comes with a TV title She and you ready for me hit the drums
00:07:25
Speaker
Always hit them baby. All right. And to enter, remember to enter this one, you needed to submit a review on Apple podcasts. And the winner is. No stranger to the chick Foley show or the pod foundation. It is our good buddy Tyson, Neil Trevino TNT 26 has won the Bambam Bigelow. Uh, there, there's a few things that you can count on in this, in this lifetime. Um, but you know, death and, and, uh,
00:07:55
Speaker
freaking Tyson listening to any pod foundation production is definitely one of them. So, uh, he may be the pod foundation's biggest fan. I think so. He listens to everything, everything we put out and he's been a long time, uh, Chick Foley, uh, Chick Foley fan. So thank you for all the support and so stoked to be able to pay it back a little bit to you, Tyson. So send us your details and we will get that figure over to you. Hell yeah. Yeah. Again, shout out to Tyson for his, uh, legendary undertaker costume. Uh,
00:08:23
Speaker
that he was rocking on Halloween. Saw him rolling with his crew there at Arby's, man. So very cool. Very glad to be exiting this figure at Tyson. Tyson, man, we'll get you a few Chick Foley show stickers, too. So you have one for yourself, and you can share some with the rest of the crew there at Arby's while you're slinging your curly fries. Speaking of Arby's, did you see someone posted in the group that they're making an Arby's vodka? I don't know if it's just like Arby's potatoes that they're using for the vodka or what, but I didn't really get to look into it. It was curly fries flavor.
00:08:53
Speaker
Oh, it's curly fries, curly fries flavor. Okay. Well, I'm still skeptical. I don't know if it was real or if it was like those, um, those like Hillman mayo cups that were mockups for a few years back to you. Yeah. I didn't check to see if it was a fake news. I didn't fact check them, but, uh, yeah, I just saw it posted in the group and I was thinking, I was like, Oh man, we need to ask Tyson about the, uh, the new, uh, Arby's vodka.
00:09:17
Speaker
All right. And for our next giveaway, I think Sheena, for our viewers on YouTube right now, Sheena is showing off the figure. We're going to be giving away the fan takeover, Randy Orton. This is going to be one of the just standard giveaway for us. Shoot a screenshot to Marco or Sheena showing you listen to this week's show. And we'll announce the winner of this beautiful Randy Orton figure next week. We want to remind you guys to use code CHICKFOLI to save 10% on all your figure purchases at Ringside Collectibles. And you guys ready to get into the story of the week? Yep.
Food and Full Gear
00:09:48
Speaker
All right, so it is another AEW pay-per-view weekend. It's always such a big deal anytime one of these come around because since we only have four a year and they do a great job with the slow build to a lot of these matches. So one of the highlights on the calendar for wrestling fans, it's full gear. It was a great show last year. It looks on paper. They should be able to top what they did last year at full gear. Marco, are you excited for this one? You got anything big planned for food and drink for this event?
00:10:15
Speaker
Nothing in particular. No, I haven't really planned anything out yet. Maybe tomorrow I'll get the pen and notepad out and start writing some things out. It just might be a regular night. Maybe order some food. Obviously, drinks are involved because, I mean, hangman's there, so beers have to be on tap for that whole pay-per-view.
00:10:37
Speaker
Yeah, nothing in particular. Nothing themed. I haven't thought of anything theme for full gear yet. Yeah, I don't know what you could do to tie in the theme for full gear. Maybe early Thanksgiving just because it's November, but there's not any really gear related foods. True. Shane, we haven't really talked about it yet either. You got anything? What do you plan on doing for the menu?
Match Previews and Predictions
00:10:57
Speaker
I don't know, you know, it's funny. I was a preview in the listener mail and, uh, it was, oh, sorry, my phone's, my phone's playing a video. My bad. Yeah. She's so excited. She got AW videos just automatically popping up. I think that was Tony. I was trying to give you guys a nice little soundtrack to get you prep for the, uh, for the show.
00:11:14
Speaker
No, I don't know what we're gonna eat. I haven't figured it out yet That's the one thing like as a you know as a the matriarch of the of the household is like planning What everybody's gonna eat every meal of every freaking day, you know what I mean? So I love doing these big themed meals and stuff But yeah, this one got by me dude. So I'm thinking maybe we do some wings man I'm kind you know what I'm kind of feeling for for the fall. Maybe some good old Bay wings, man Maybe you do some standard
00:11:38
Speaker
Maybe some standard buffalo and then maybe do up some Old Bay wings and it's either some fries or something. Like a baked in sauce. Don't we have that Old Bay hot sauce still? Yeah. I'm thinking we do that Old Bay. I'm thinking we just go over the top. I'm thinking we hit it with the Old Bay hot sauce and then dust it with some Old Bay on top of that, man. Oh, man. Actually, it kind of ties in because Kenny Omega's finishing move, what's it called? One wing game, Joel, so.
00:12:02
Speaker
Oh yeah. So you can actually tie it in a little bit. I love how you reached. You reached all the way out for that one, Marco. We also still have some deer sausage from the deer my dad killed last year. So we could tie in with the buckshot Larry and also with hangman. Wow. Look at that. Wow. Starting to steamroll down all these ideas. This is why men don't plan the menu. No. No.
00:12:28
Speaker
I mean, we could still do the wings, but you know, you can make a little charcuterie platter before the show with the deer sausage being the centerpiece.
00:12:36
Speaker
Yeah, let's get into it. Let's talk some wrestling. I don't think anybody came here for a culinary exploration. Let's start picking these matches for the members in the Foley picks league. Remember anything, any predictions we have on this show are strictly kayfabe. So don't get your panties in a wad. If we end up, you know, when that picks matrix comes out shortly before the show Saturday night, you see some stuff that didn't quite line up with what we said on the show. So if you think you're going to get an edge from hearing all our picks, think again, I'm talking to you, Alex.
00:13:06
Speaker
All right. First up, six man tag falls count anywhere. It's Christian who, you know, I'll let Sheena talk about this one first because she's got some thoughts on it. Christian and Jurassic Express going up against the super-click Adam Cole in the Young Bucks. Sheena, talk about your heartburn with Christian still kind of riding the coattails of Jurassic Express.
00:13:27
Speaker
I mean, it's not really heartburn. I just don't understand it. I just feel like Jurassic Express has so much more potential than to be hanging out with Christian, you know? And they already have a third member. Yeah, they already have a third member. Where the heck is he at? Where the heck is Marco? You know, I love, I love Marco. Everybody gives him a lot of crap because he's tiny, but who cares? I think that's part of his gimmick, dude. I love that. And Christian should just be doing his own thing. I mean, I've said from the beginning, Christian doesn't really interest me. I don't dislike Christian. He's just Christian.
00:13:56
Speaker
Yeah, he's just Christian. Yeah, I appreciate what he's done in the wrestling business. I just feel like why the hell is he hanging out with Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus? Like he's just, like he said, he's just like hanging around, like riding their coattails. So for them to be like a faction, it needs to be done with because I'm over it. You know, Jungle Boy and Christian had that
00:14:19
Speaker
You know awesome moment at the oh my gosh, I always forget with their casino battle royal That was cool. But yeah, it's like they've they've drug it out too long like end it end it
00:14:32
Speaker
Yeah, Christian's just, he's just the most vanilla wrestler to me. I've never seen Christian have a bad match, but I've also never been excited to hear Christian's music hit and he's coming in to get it going. Yeah. Even his little entrance thing is lame. You know what I mean?
00:14:50
Speaker
Like who, what is he looking for? Who's he looking for his talent? Like, you know, if you haven't checked out the show on YouTube, you need to check it out. You've seen his, she was mocking, uh, Christian's taunt right now. Looking for my charisma. Where is it at? Oh, man. Marco, what's, what's your take on the six man tag? How do you see it going? Um, I definitely see these super clique, uh, coming out victorious. I don't see, uh, the trio of Jurassic express and Christian getting a win over the super clique. That's definitely not going to happen.
00:15:20
Speaker
And I'm not as harsh as Sheena is with the Christian thing, but yeah, I think anyone watching that dynamic, you can tell it really doesn't make sense. It doesn't click. No pun intended with them three together. I see what you did there. It'd be smart if they like, I mean, I'm not sure if they're going to do this, but after the match, maybe when they do lose, maybe Christian turns on them with something and turns heel, and he feuds. I give you that. I don't know.
00:15:49
Speaker
They just were interested in a heal christian than a than this like weird, you know, white meat baby face type christian I think that would be a much better dynamic for him. Um, you know just all things considered I will say that I also have heat with jungle boy. You guys know my affinity and love for jungle boy What's going on with the facial hair? Like I
00:16:09
Speaker
He's all grown up. If you're going to be a jungle man, I mean, I guess you got to start somewhere. Like if he's trying to go for like the full beard to be like full on like, yeah, man mode, you know, but I don't, I don't like, I mean, he's a, he's a jungle boy. That's what makes, he's so cute and like little, you know, young looking. And now he's got this weird patchy facial hair. I'm like, okay, very patchy. He's a jungle man. Yeah. I'm like, dude, you know, I'm not trying to shame anybody who can't grow on facial hair. You know what I mean? I know, I know that's a, that's an issue for a lot of men. You know, a lot of people keep it clean shaving because they don't really, they have the patches and whatnot, but
00:16:38
Speaker
Yeah, Jungle Boy. You're too cute and too pretty to be covering your face in that patchy mess. Like, get rid of it. Yeah, I think, Marco, you hit on a good point, man. I think if this kicks us off into a Jungle Boy versus Heal Christian feud, I think that would be pretty cool. Because I think Christian's really been at his most entertaining when he's been a Heal. Sheena mentioned they planted the seed for that at the end of the Casino Battle Royale at All Out. So I think that could be a cool way to go in the future. But I agree. So we're all in agreement that Super Click's going over in this one.
00:17:09
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yep. All right. All right. Next up, the finals of the tournament to crown the new number one contender for the AEW Championship, Brian Danielson versus Mira. See, see Marco Lick in his chops to talk about this one. How do you see this from playing out, Marco? I definitely see Daniel Bryan or Bryan Danielson, sorry, winning this match.
00:17:33
Speaker
It's definitely going to be a brutal match. The way Bryan's been wrestling and the way Mero's been wrestling with just sheer brutality, but obviously Bryan's more into it in more of a technical sense. But he could get pretty brutal if he needs to. He's proven that.
00:17:51
Speaker
like 100 matches he's had so far in AEW. I think he's wrestled more in AEW in these past few months than he's ever wrestled in the WWE in his last years. I mean, he's doing some of his best freaking work as all I can say. I don't know how many matches he's wrestled, but he's definitely, the quality of the matches is primo. I mean, I hope he's turned into Seth's heir and he's a good hand. I know, yeah. Seth's historically kind of- He's a good hand.
00:18:18
Speaker
Not been high on a yeah daniel bryant so he's a good hand yeah you do a bunch of moves but i'm not. He to me he's like an improved version of christian like i don't know what who's getting excited. Yeah we can't we can't let you get okay it's a different it's a different scale.
00:18:35
Speaker
No, I will not stand for this planet's champion. You got double pinned at WrestleMania by Roman Reigns. I can't get that image out of my head of him laying there knocked out for like two minutes. He laid there long enough for Roman to knock out Edge and drag Edge on top of him and pin him. I can't get that out of my head. Roman is the best wrestler in the world right now, according to some. I don't think that's a big mark on his freaking win card, you know what I mean? Or his lost card, I guess I should say. Exactly.
00:19:03
Speaker
dude it'd be one thing if he got beat by freaking like matt riddle but i mean dude i'd say it'd be one thing if you just got beat by roman but he didn't just get beat he got stacked up with another dude and then 10 like when have you seen that especially in the main event of wrestlemania who dude he's had some of his best matches with roman freaking reigns historically daniel brian does really well in matches where he's
00:19:25
Speaker
against a bigger opponent so i'm excited to see this match between him and mira i think it's gonna be i think it's gonna be excellent and i'm not i'm not gonna i will not sit here and let seth slander brian daniel yeah we can't do that not gonna i watch him defeat evolution in one night i mean live in person wrestlemania 30 triple h and then he took out the other two members at the end of the night to
00:19:47
Speaker
become champions. So yeah, I can't, the man, the man is a treasure. Okay. Breaking, breaking kayfabe. I think this one is going to be a low key spoiler for what's going to happen in the main event. Mira wins. I would damn near book it that Adam Page is winning that belt. If Daniel, if Brian Danielson wins, I would say Kenny Omega is winning because I just, I can't see them doing hangman and Brian Danielson just yet. Um, so.
00:20:12
Speaker
I guess they could do Kenny and Miro. If Daniel, Brian, sorry, it's still trying to break the habit. If Brian Danielson wins, I think it's damn near guaranteed that Kenny Omega wins this one. So we'll see. I'm kind of, for that reason, I'm rooting for Miro, a wildcard. I think we may see Lana show up finally. They've been mentioning Lana, you know, real name, CJ Perry.
00:20:34
Speaker
Miro's been talking about her basically since he broke away from the best man gimmick and started being God's favorite champion. He's mentioned his hot-ass wife and almost every single promo he's done. So it's only a matter of time. So maybe that's how he gets the edge over Bryan Danielson. And we see him take his first loss in AEW with CJ Perry making her debut. That's possible. Yeah. So final prediction, Sheena, who you got in this one? I'm going to go with...
00:21:05
Speaker
Brian Danielson, I think, I think he's going to win. I think, um, I think like you said, if it's going to be a spoiler, a big spoiler, uh, depending on who wins this, but, uh, man, it's, it's tough to choose, but I'm going to go with Brian Danielson. Marco. Yeah, I think, uh, yeah, it is, it is a type of scenarios. That's all we can really go with right now.
00:21:26
Speaker
You know, obviously like Kenny Omega, he, you know, you know, like he's been, he's been really like injured. Like he hasn't been really, if you notice, he hasn't been wrestling week to week, um, just making appearances and getting it a little like tussles here and there, not having full on matches. So, I mean, this could be his final match before he, you know, takes off into the sunset for a little bit to heal up and come back. But.
00:21:49
Speaker
I'll say, I'll say, you know, if, if Brian Danielson does lose this, I don't think it, I don't think he loses anything by losing this match because if he doesn't lose clean, I don't, I don't think it was going to beat him clean. I think Mero wins in some kind of cheap way, you know, whether it's a low blow or again, I really think, uh, because there's, there's not any other big surprise debuts. I can really see if I'm fantasy booking this pay per view. So maybe Lana showing up is the,
00:22:14
Speaker
the big one for this. So that's what I think. I think Miro gets some help from somebody and that's how Brian Danielson loses. But again, going back to the spoiler thing, I wish they would have saved this. I feel like this would be the perfect match to main event. The first dynamite after full gear. I'm never a fan of having these number one contendership matches on the same show as as the world title match, because again, it's just
00:22:35
Speaker
Yeah, especially something like this where it seems like you can really kind of draw the you can kind of go to where they're going next depending on who wins the wins this match. Yeah, you got to think too with with, you know, this whole dynamic change with moxley.
00:22:50
Speaker
you know, being removed from that tournament because it was supposed to be him versus Darby, right? Yeah, right. And one of the matches and then whoever won out of that was so... Well, no, it was supposed to be, I think originally, so if we're to believe that that sheet of paper that Tony Khan accidentally got photographed with on the sideline of the Jaguars game, it had Mox versus Bryan Danielson. So I think that was originally going to be
00:23:13
Speaker
Yes. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Because Mira Mox was in there and they just subbed him out or Mox was already in the semi-finals and they subbed him out for Mira. So yeah, it would have been Mox and, and Brian Danielson.
00:23:22
Speaker
Yeah, the way the way he was being booked it seemed like they were he's turning heel if you notice if you notice the last like his matches He's just like just brutally be very aggressive. Yeah, so like he's kind of turning hill So that would make sense if he it was him and Brian Daniels said he would obviously cheated to win Yeah, cheat to win and then face hangman would probably win at that point so he'd be the heel to
00:23:46
Speaker
I mean, that's the thing with Miro though, if Hangman does win this, I think you need a legit heel to win against him. Like you can't have a guy like Daniel Bryan going against him. That doesn't need to be his first debut. Daniel Bryan and Kenny would make sense because that would be another elevated challenger for Kenny, especially after they had that classic 30 minute draw.
00:24:12
Speaker
Yeah, Daniel Bryan and hang man, that's a match we need to see at the end of twenty twenty three. You know, maybe maybe double or maybe all out twenty twenty three. We see Brian Danson and hang man, not revolution or whatever the the February pay per view is called. So yeah, either way. Yeah, this very intriguing match at full gear last year. The finals of the the World Championship Eliminator Tournament went first. So this would be a banger of an opener match if they started it off with with Brian Danson.
00:24:41
Speaker
and Miro. Let's move on to the next matchup. Two of AEW's homegrown talent. MJF, Maxwell J. Friedman going up against Darby Allen. Sheena, what's your pick?
00:24:55
Speaker
I'm going to go with Darby on this one. Darby just, he's coming off a big main event, or not main event, but big loss against Punk. And I think that he needs this right now. So he's going to come out with a purpose, come out swinging. He's not going to get beat again on a big stage. So I'm going to go with Darby Allen on this one. Marco. Yeah, I was going with MJF on this one, but it seems like there's some kind of like dissension
00:25:25
Speaker
among the ranks in the pinnacle with Wardlow kind of questioning MJF's decisions and stuff like that. So I'm gonna go with Darby on this one as well. MJF comes out every week and he goes, you know, I never really lost while I'm still undefeated and all that stuff. And I think Darby's gonna be the one they give him his first like actual loss on NAEW. So I'm gonna go with Darby.
00:25:52
Speaker
I'm going to zig where you guys zag. I think MJF is winning this one because this feud's been so intense up to this point. I don't think this is the end of it. I think this is just the first chapter of this and we see MJF somehow cheat to win. And I think these guys blow it out in a, you know, some sort of street fighter cage match or something down the road before we see Darby finally go over. So I think MJF wins. I don't think this is the end of this feud though. I think we're going to see this one going for, uh, for quite a while. Okay.
00:26:20
Speaker
Alright up next is a match that is low-key started to eclipse. Hangman versus Kenny Omega is the most anticipated bout on the show. CDM Punk going up against Eddie Kingston. The mic work for this feud has been
00:26:36
Speaker
Tremendous. They've really built this into a blood feud in a very short amount of time. But I think everybody's hyped to see this one. Eddie Kingston's got a ton of momentum behind him. And I think Eddie Kingston might get cheered on Saturday night when they come out. What do you think? What are your thoughts on this match?
00:26:52
Speaker
Yeah, if you've been listening to the show for any amount of time, I've been an Eddie Kingston girl from the jump since he debuted on AEW. So I've always liked Eddie Kingston. I feel him. When he's talking on the mic, he's just got what Seth says, what you can't buy, which is just authenticity. He is who he is, and he brings it in a way that makes you believe that he's not playing a character. This is just who he is. And I love everything about him. He's got the Nick Gage vibe about him.
00:27:21
Speaker
Yeah, I love everything about him except his ring gear. You guys know, I feel like the man needs some new ring gear, but once he gets that figured out. He needs to go Kevin Owens, man. Go the basketball shorts and cut off shirt, man. Yes. Yeah. The Angelo Dawkins look is just not for Eddie Kingston. But yeah, the crazy thing is how quickly they built this match into something meaningful. And I think that really says a lot about Eddie Kingston and what he brings to the table.
00:27:51
Speaker
his charisma and his authenticity. He picked this freaking fight with CM Punk and brought 15 years of animosity into this promo that he gave on Dynamite. You know what I mean? And this wasn't even a match that we were even thinking about. And he interrupted him. They had this little awkward backstage segment and then Punk asked for an apology and then something switched in Eddie and he just lost his mind. And I think,
00:28:18
Speaker
I think this is going to be awesome. I'm excited for it. I think, like you said, it's slowly building up to be more hype than the main event. Marco, who are you rooting for in this one? Man, this is tough because I do love both those guys.
00:28:37
Speaker
Like Sheena said a little bit earlier that he has that authenticity. And for Eddie Kingston, I grew up with dudes like him or no guys like him. And I think that's where the connection comes from. Say they would see him punk.
00:29:08
Speaker
I grew up with
00:29:15
Speaker
I don't know. I mean, dude, by the middle of Eddie's promo, you felt the crowd was kind of like, well, he's not wrong. You know what I mean? Like, he's not wrong. Because I know who Punk is. As a person, you know his history, if you watch him, or you know behind the scenes stuff. I mean, a lot of wrestling fans are like, yeah, Eddie's right in that sense. He's right to hate his guts.
00:29:40
Speaker
but yeah i mean yeah i'm pretty i'm really hyped for this after that promo on rampage that was uh that was enough for me right there that that shows like the the the genius of those two guys in their microphone skills like if you ever thought like eddie kinks it was great
00:29:56
Speaker
Yeah. And you didn't think he was, and you see that promo, he had to be over for you at that point. Same thing with CM Punk. But I will say, I think he definitely outdid CM Punk on that promo because CM Punk was going for like the cheap pops. He was like, do my friends in St. Louis want to see me fight Eddie Kingston?
00:30:14
Speaker
You know, and I just thought it was like so like lame, you know, it was like, oh yeah, of course you're going to get cheered. You know what I mean? Like say something with some passion. You know, of course he did, he did throw some low blows when he was like me and Joe and homicide and all y'all like, you know, we didn't, you didn't live up to our expectations cause you're a bum. I was kind of like that hurt.
00:30:30
Speaker
That hurt just a little, you know, um, but yeah, there was some really cool stuff that came out with Eddie Kingston. He did like this article in, um, I forget what it was, but it was an excellent article. Um, well, I'll, we'll post the link in the show notes, but, uh, yeah, you need to read it. Cause it's just, it talks all about his history and how he came up through wrestling and yeah, good, good stuff stoked for this match.
00:30:49
Speaker
Yeah, I hope Eddie Kingston kicks CM Shmuck's teeth in. I already started digging my grave with the Brian Danielson. Hey, I'll go and make it six feet deep. I think CM Punk's super overrated also. What's he really done since he came back? Like, yeah, it was a cool moment when his, when Cult of Personality hit on Rampage.
00:31:07
Speaker
Was anybody really excited to see him beat Darby Allen? You know what I mean? Was anybody excited to see him beat Will Hobbs? I got used to seeing him punk being gone. His rise was really kind of right before I got back into watching wrestling hardcore in 2014. And I wasn't a fan of all the potshots he took at the wrestling world while he was out. And I'm definitely not a fan of the way he did Colt Cabana by stiffing him on the legal fees after he was the one that got them embroiled in this huge legal fight with WWE.
00:31:36
Speaker
I'm rooting for Eddie Kingston all the way on this one. Who is going to win? Probably CM Punk. If I was putting money down, I'd say CM Punk, but my heart is going to be going hard for Eddie Kingston on Saturday night. Yeah, I'm going with Eddie. All right, let's get into the match that has the potential to steal the show. The tag team title match, FTR versus the Lucha Bros. Marco, give us your pick. Oh, man. I got it up.
00:32:03
Speaker
I'm going to go with the Lucha Bros on this. They're pretty much my favorite tag team at AEW. It's going to be a hell of a match though. FTR can pretty much do any style match, especially with the High Flyers. Those matches that they have are even better. I'm definitely going with the Lucha Bros.
00:32:26
Speaker
I mean, they're not losing those tag team titles anytime soon. I don't think anyway. I would hope not. FTR is going to be trying to become the first ever two-time tag champs in A-Dub. Blue Chibros had, I think, was pretty much unanimous the match of the night last show at Dublin. All out. Yeah, all out. I don't know why he wouldn't say double or nothing with that cage match with the Bucks. They'll feel the same, yeah. Yeah. What's your pick?
00:32:50
Speaker
I'm going to go with the lucha bros too. I feel like they're just getting started. You know, this is going to be a great match because stylistically these two tag teams are like total opposite ends of the spectrum. You know, like you got the lucha bros high flying, you know, flips and all the, all the, you know, pulling out all the stops and then you got, you know, the FTR classic. No flips, just this. No flips, just this. Yeah. Hard hitting tag team.
00:33:13
Speaker
Yeah, it's going to be, oh yeah, those guys are revival. Wonder what they're up to these days. But yeah, I'm going with the lucha bros. I think it's going to be, they're going to retain, but it's going to be an excellent match. Yeah. I'm probably leaning in lucha bros, but I think this one's 50-50. I could see, I could totally see FTR taking these belts back because AW is clearly very high on them. Scott Dawson had a hell of a match with Pac on Wednesday night in the main event of Dynamite.
00:33:42
Speaker
Alright, let's get into it. The main event. The big showdown. The rematch a year in the making. Hangman Adam Page going up for the AEW Championship against Kenny by God Omega. Sheena, what's your prediction?
00:33:59
Speaker
I'm going with my man hangman. I feel like this is the moment, they've built to this, like you talk about some slow and steady storytelling. This slow burn has just built to a full out like forest fire, you know what I mean? And I'm ready to just see it freaking, I'm just ready for it to burn it down, you know, and emerge like a Phoenix. Shout out to Seth Rollins.
00:34:20
Speaker
Yeah, Hangman is gonna come out as the new champion and then we'll be in the house for the following dynamite and to get to see Hangman in his home state and as the new champion will be a really, really cool moment. So I'm pulling for him, but I'm excited for this match regardless. I thought that the go home angle was really cool with Don Callis coming back and Kenny signing the contract in blood was a really cool touch. So yeah, here for it all. I can't wait for this match.
00:34:52
Speaker
Marco? Yeah, it was a tough one. We spoke earlier about the scenarios that could happen, depending on who wins that qualifier. But the other thing, too, is just because they win that tournament, they're going to get a shot. But who knows when? It could be any time. So you can throw that out the window. What I'm thinking is,
00:35:13
Speaker
I'm gonna pick Kenny Omega right only because I think he wins The Saturday Sunday, I mean not Sunday Wednesday Hangman gets a rematch and that's the main event and he went yeah title in his home in his home They talked about that on the term buckle tavern and I hadn't really considered that about that having an immediate His immediate free match. Yeah, it's a good idea I think you know, it would be really cool for him to get the win in in front of his home
00:35:43
Speaker
home state. So yeah, I would be here for that too. Um, I think it would be, especially cause I'm going to be there, but as always, um, has gotten comparisons to WCW since they started. That would definitely be the most WCW thing that they could do. Get charged 50 bucks for a pay-per-view and then give the rematch away for free on cable TV to proper rating four nights later.
00:36:05
Speaker
and have the payoff happen then. So that would be so WCW, but same way, I might have tears, man, if I'm there in the house to see Hangman win the belt. He's definitely my second favorite AEW wrestler besides Mox, and it would be incredible. I don't think this was a lock, man. I'm leaning Hangman, but I have some serious doubts that they may keep Kenny just going, because I think the one thing that they know, Kenny is the only claim that they have that they have,
00:36:35
Speaker
He's the only claim that they could have for having the best wrestler in the world. He's the only guy that's comparable to Roman Reigns on their roster. And if you're comparing Roman and Hangman, as much as I love Hangman, it doesn't really compute. Roman's a different level. So I could see him keeping the belt on Kenny just out of the competition aspect with WWE. But it feels like it's Hangman's time.
00:37:00
Speaker
I feel like if Hangman lost, they would actually be risking doing the WWE thing where they don't pull the trigger on somebody when they're at their peak. We saw that with Braun Strowman. Late 2017, Braun Strowman was red hot. One of the biggest babyfaces in the company. They gave him the title shot against Brock Lesnar and he lost. By the time Braun finally got the belt, he had cooled down considerably and it just didn't really connect the way everybody wanted it to.
00:37:26
Speaker
for both shoot and kayfabe reasons, I'm really hoping that Hangman prevails, whether it's Saturday night or Wednesday night. I hope the next time we get together on this show, on the Chick-Bully show, we're talking about Hangman being the new champ. I agree. Let's hear from our friends, the two bad chads.
00:37:49
Speaker
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00:38:19
Speaker
Marco lip syncing along with the, uh, the two bad Chads on the, uh, the now iconic turnbuckle Tavern ad. All right. So we still got four more matches. We're going to get those through the, uh, the Royal Rommel segment. So Sheena is going to go first. She's picking the buy-in women's tag team match. Nyla Rose and Jamie Hader going up against Chicago, Sheena and thunder Rosa Sheena. Give us your pick.
00:38:43
Speaker
I mean, I got to go with, uh, Sheeda and Thunder Rosa. I just feel like, I mean, this is a buy-in match. It's where it should be. This, this, uh, you know, match really does nothing for me. You know, guys know I'm not the, I'm not the biggest Nyla Rose fan in the world. I'm just saying it straight up. You know what I mean? Her figure wasn't great and neither is her, uh, her character. So, uh, no, no, it wasn't. Um, and, uh, so yeah, Sheeda, Sheeda and Thunder Rosa for sure. I love both of those women.
00:39:12
Speaker
All right, yeah, Thunder Rosa and Britt Baker feels like the real money match. So yeah, I'm kind of surprised we did not end up getting this pay-per-view. All right, Marco, you're up next. You can't just have Thunder Rosa and Britt every single pay-per-view. It seems like that, you know.
00:39:28
Speaker
True, this is a this is three incredible talents plus Cody all all but together in a tag team match We got Malachi black and Andrade El Idolo going up against Cody Rhodes and Pac give us your pick I'm gonna go with uh, I'm gonna go with Malachi black and Andrade for the win. I don't I don't like the
00:39:56
Speaker
the makeshift tag team of Cody and Pac, I think it's kind of weird. Obviously, this is like a put-together match at the last minute, but it just seems like Andrade and Malakai seem more of a tag team and more together as a unit. So I think they're going to get a bit of that. Okay. Sheena, yes or no? Will Cody have the most pyro at the show?
00:40:21
Speaker
Oh, 100%. Yeah, that's a stone cold lead pipe block. All right. And Marco, another one. Yes or no. Will we get a figure based on Cody's attire from this show? Yes, definitely. Of course we will. All right, Sheena. This match seems like a little bit of an afterthought, which is kind of sad for as red hot as Britt Baker is right now. Give us your pick for the women's championship match between Britt Baker and Tay Conti.
00:40:49
Speaker
It's got to be Britt Baker. She's been dominating the women's division since May when she won at a double or nothing. And I just feel like...
00:40:57
Speaker
Ty Conti is not the one, you know, and that's been a big problem with, with Brit's run is that she hasn't had any credible challenger. So I fear that we're going to look back at this Brit Baker run in the future. Once the women's division gets more developed and we're going to be like, eh, you know, was it really that great? I mean, Brit is great, but were her matches really that great? And she, that she had a great match against Thunder Rosa, but beyond that, do you guys remember? She won the title. Yeah. Do you guys remember any just like hardcore bangers that, that Brit has put on since then?
00:41:28
Speaker
No. Like Seth said, this match is treated as kind of like an afterthought. And it's not because of Britt Baker, though. It's because she just said the opponents, the opponents that she has. They're not like, where's the Serena Deeb? Where's that match? Serena Deeb would be an awesome match with her. Thunder Rosa, get her back in the mix somehow. Just take their big name.
00:41:54
Speaker
Ladies and put them in the record pretty big, even if it's like a, it doesn't have to be a one-off match. It could be a feud. They go back and forth until someone takes a title. I just, I hate this for Brit because you know, she is, she is good. And I feel like with more opponents, like if there was the Charlotte flares and the, you know, the Ember moons and the, uh, you know, all of them down there, I feel like she would really, it would really elevate her because right now she's the, she's the big fish in a small pond.
00:42:18
Speaker
you know, and even though she's really good, she still could use work in the ring and she needs worthy opponents to help push her and you know, shape her and all that kind of stuff and I just feel like she doesn't have that right now. So it's unfortunate. Yeah.
00:42:33
Speaker
All right, Marco, we'll go a different route this time. I think this is the match that fans are kind of the least excited for. I've seen a lot of moans and groans online about this one. I want you to just sell us on this match. It's the Minneapolis Street Fight between the Inner Circle and America's top team with Dan Lambert. So give us 30 seconds on why we should be excited for this match.
00:42:59
Speaker
Let me see. You know what? Your silence is deafening. Yeah, there's another one of those matches where it seems like it's eh. But I think the only selling point would be if Paige Van Zant somehow interfered in the match or was in that match. I think that's the only way that it would actually put it over because she just kind of like melted off to Jericho.
00:43:27
Speaker
So if she shows up I think that'll be the selling point of that match, but if she doesn't then Yeah, it's a no-go. It's a no-go. It's a no for V dog Yeah, my this pillow feud hasn't connected like I don't get the weird mix of like pro wrestlers plus MMA guys like Dan Lambert is a good heel I he's pretty funny some of the stuff he has to say but
00:43:48
Speaker
It's just obnoxious. I could deal with this much more on like a hyped up version of Dynamite instead of a pay-per-view. My only hope is that it's quick, man. Like I don't want this to go longer than like 12 minutes or so. But I got a bad feeling because it involves Jericho and AEW is so indebted to Jericho for just helping establish their credibility that this ends up being like 35 minutes out of the show. Oh my gosh. Don't even pay that. The funny thing is I enjoy like
00:44:15
Speaker
Dan Lambert's like promos and stuff too. Like I like when he comes out and he has those like promos with like Jericho and he's you know Yeah, I like that. He called his name the Boston crab. You know, he's like it's Boston crab Yeah, everyone else is just you know, the actual MMA guys that are there, you know, does it do that's why there's a difference between pro interchangeable They're like yeah to quote MJF. They're just mid. You know what I mean? Yeah mid
00:44:43
Speaker
Yeah. All right.
WWE Smackdown Anticipation
00:44:44
Speaker
Uh, Sheena last round of the Royal Rumble tomorrow night, we are going to the legendary Norfolk scope to watch WWE smackdown. We're also taking our son, Brett, the baby face to his first ever live wrestling show. Uh, he's already excited about it. He was talking about it tonight as he went to bed. What wrestler is he going to mark out for the hardest?
00:45:04
Speaker
Oh, 100%. He is going to acknowledge his tribal chief once he arrives in the arena. Uh, I'm pretty sure besides, uh, mama and daddy and puppy, Brett's like one of his first words was Roman reigns. He used to like, he would point and say, Rome, man, rain. And like he, he knew Roman before anybody else. So he is going to be so stoked to see Roman in person. Um, I cannot wait for it.
00:45:29
Speaker
He's scared that the Fiend is going to be there, but I tried to explain to him that that's not going to happen. Yesterday he was a little bit scared. I can't remember what he said, but he mentioned the Fiend. He was kind of lukewarm on going to wrestling live.
00:45:45
Speaker
And I was trying to figure out what it was, and he finally started saying, I don't want to see the Fiend. I don't want to see Fiend. So then we had to assure him that the Fiend wouldn't be there. So God forbid this is the time where Bray Wyatt makes his surprise return to WWE, because our son's probably going to flip out. So yeah, he does not want to see the Fiend. But yeah, we're looking forward to it. And it's funny, because he loved the Fiend when he's seeing him on TV and stuff. But yeah, he don't want to see that in person.
00:46:08
Speaker
Yeah, next week should be very interesting because between now and the next time we record me and Sheena are going to smack down and a w dynamite here in the same market so we can really give you guys kind of like a live market comparison over what
00:46:23
Speaker
crowds hotter, what the vibe is like between WWE and AEW. I don't know when the last time they were both in the same market this closely to each other. So it should be pretty cool. And we'll definitely give a big breakdown on that next week in addition to Survivor Series preview and full gear review. Go ahead, Marco. Have you guys been to an AEW show yet? Mm-mm. This is our first one. Oh, man. Yeah, we're popping our AEW cherry. Yep. Oh, man. Actually, me and Tom spoke about this on the
00:46:52
Speaker
of the sessions. It's a different crowd. Not in a bad way, but it's a wrestling crowd. It's cool, and we'll be with that. We're getting a babysitter for both kids that night. Brett wants to... We're going to take him to see WWE because he's never seen a wrestling show, but we're going to AEW, just the parents, just mom and dad out for a wrestling night. It's going to be a lot of fun. Hell yeah. All right. Let's drink to that.
00:47:26
Speaker
All right, Sheena, start us
Drinks and Collectibles
00:47:27
Speaker
off. What are you sipping on tonight? So last week I told you guys about the Drunken Stay Puft, which was a Seth Phelps holiday creation, which was the dough ball whiskey with a little bit of cream soda and topped with a toasted marshmallow. Well, I'm throwing it back to a Phelps family holiday classic. I always get on to Seth about his ice jingling in the microphone. So I'm drinking a hard cocktail tonight. So I'm trying not to jingle my ice too much for you guys. You see, I got my turnbuckle tavern sticker there. I'm drinking
00:47:55
Speaker
the Drunken Gingerbread Man. This is an OG, okay? It's a little bit tweaked because we didn't have Maker's Mark, but traditionally you would do a shot of Maker's Mark, you do a shot of gingerbread syrup like you would like the Tarani or whatever, like the coffee syrup, you know?
00:48:12
Speaker
do the gingerbread syrup and then you top it with coke and it is just like spicy like holiday in a cup it is so wonderful you know the coke already has like kind of those warm notes like uh i don't know if it's got like cinnamon or what what kind of you know flavor profile it's got in there but yeah it mixes perfectly with uh with the gingerbread man so
00:48:32
Speaker
Cheers to that. Oh, but I'm using chicken cock whiskey, which I've never, I think Seth dad brought this to him. I was like, so I got a drunken gingerbread cock here. Like, what are we going to call this? You know, cause it's usually made with makers. How does it compare to the, uh, the, the original recipe with the maker's Mark Sheen? Would you rather add.
00:48:50
Speaker
Maker's makes it a little bit sweeter, not a heavier mouth feel, but it's definitely more of a smooth... Yeah, Maker's definitely a little bit more syrupy, whereas the Chicken Cock's more of a straight bourbon. Maker's is one of the sweetest bourbons there is. That's why it's so popular. Yeah, so Maker's is a little bit sweeter. If you want it to have a little bit more bite to it, yeah, it's pick a different type of bourbon. But yeah, this is really good with the Chicken Cock whiskey. I don't think I've ever had that brand of whiskey before, but it was up in our cabinet and that's what I'm using.
00:49:20
Speaker
Yeah, so I started off with whiskey also. So I picked these up at Total Wine today. So these are by Bold Rock, which is a cider brand. But they also make some of the canned cocktails that have gotten so popular over the last couple of years. This one's a bold fashioned. And it's basically their house blend whiskey made into a canned old fashioned. So put this on ice with a couple of cherries also. And it was excellent. And I'm chasing that down. Got some Don Draper action going on up there.
00:49:45
Speaker
Hell yeah. I'm chasing that down with a sequence ale, which is, um, which is one of our, you know, what's up to me and Sheena keeping regular rotation around here. And then I'm going to finish it up with basically the, the official craft beer of the, uh, the chick Foley show, the broken skull IPA. So that's what I'm going to close out the show with tonight. So I should be feeling nice and good by the time we get to the, on to this podcast, we are open for a sponsor for our beverage break. So, uh, you know, let us know, Steve Austin, what are you drinking, man?
00:50:15
Speaker
Great segue, because that's what I have here. I have the classic. We're definitely going to call this the official IPA of the Chick Foley show. I can't go wrong with it. Know what chance, please. I have five cases of it. Like I said, every time I go to a liquor store and I see, I always go back. You have to stock up just in case, because the stuff sells out really fast. Since it's being distributed a little bit better, I think it might
00:50:42
Speaker
You'll be around for a little bit longer. You never know. All of the broken skull for the East Coast may be sitting out on a big ship somewhere in the middle of the ocean. That is awesome. Remember, it's brewed right here in Virginia Beach. Oh, that's right. That's right. My fear is that, because I still have not, I've searched every couple months, I'll take a little deep dive and try to figure it out.
00:51:07
Speaker
I've never seen anything publicly where they've acknowledged like a partnership between El Segundo Brewing and New Realm. So my fear is maybe like they agreed to do it for a year or something and it falls apart because that's really when it started showing up everywhere on the East Coast when New Realm started brewing it right here out of Virginia. So hopefully, you know, I'm sure the partnership's been fruitful because
00:51:28
Speaker
Anytime I go to Total Wine, it's either gone or there's only like one or two four packs on the shelf. So the stuff's definitely been selling. So hopefully they keep it going because it's definitely helped out finding the stuff here on the East Coast. You guys ready to talk about some figures? Let's go. Let's do it.
00:51:56
Speaker
All right, it's time for the weekly figure four. Shout out to Migos and Offset for the intro. No Travis Scott over here on the Chick Foley show. We don't ride with that anymore. Let's get into the figure talk. So first up, tomorrow, our good friend Jeremy Padour has promised some AW figure reveals.
00:52:17
Speaker
We'll get into the details of those on next week's episode. But let's start off by asking you guys, Sheena, you can go first. Out of everybody on the show for full gear, who would you most want to see get their first time in the line, AEW figure? Sorry, I had to cough and then we'll do it in the mic. I thought you were dabbing on us.
00:52:37
Speaker
If you're watching on YouTube, I'm looking for a Brian Danielson. Sorry, my throat's all messed up. Brian Danielson. Wow. Figure. So yeah, I'll let Marco talk while I get myself taken care of. I'll be back in a moment. Yeah, so they already announced Eddie Kingston. He'll be getting his first of mine at some point. So maybe, like she said, maybe Brian Danielson, they already announced CM Punk. I'm hoping they do a new Mero.
00:53:07
Speaker
figure. Maybe that's hopefully, he'll be there now. So it complete with chest hair. Um, so we get the new version of mirror as opposed to the, uh, the best man version. So that'd be, I think that was the worst AWW figure they've done so far. Worse than the, uh, I don't know worse than the FDR figures.
00:53:22
Speaker
So I got the FTR over my shoulder right here. I switched them out with the WWE heads. And those are cool figures, you know, because I like the jackets and I like the white gear. It's just those head sculpts were bad for me. I want to see Malachi Black. I'd like to see him with all the entrance gear and then in like the UFC style shorts that he's dressed in a few times. I think that'd be pretty cool. And we'll set it apart from the really amazing job that WWE did with his figures. Yeah, I think it'd be pretty cool.
00:53:51
Speaker
There are Marco, tell us about the newest FOCO bobbleheads. Yeah, so we haven't spoken about this in a while. I think like there was a time like for the past, like, like every week, there was a new FOCO bobblehead coming out, but they actually release the brothers of destruction.
00:54:08
Speaker
That's coming out, so it's Kain and Undertaker and Ring. What's pretty cool, did you guys get to see the... Yeah, I love the little Ring display stand and stuff. These things are awesome. I want to know who's getting these. Clearly, they're doing well because they've released so many of them. I haven't seen anybody in the Foley fam group get them.
00:54:26
Speaker
No, and there's literally, I pulled it up on Focobobbles at Focobobbles on Instagram, and one of the first comments is, it's ridiculous. How am I supposed to ask for stuff for Christmas when literally every darn bobblehead is sold out? So somebody's buying these things. Yeah, they're limited pieces too, so once they appear online, they pretty much sell out. You put them back in the vault. If you guys definitely take a look at it, it's pretty awesome. It's Undertaker and his signature.
00:54:51
Speaker
Pose and with a little earn on the on the ground so like I like to call that like a little shout out to our Paul Bearer You know can't stand in there at his pose and then undertake around his knee With his hand raised over the air. It is a pretty cool thing I don't personally collect these but if I did I would definitely that probably my first purchase to go with that one because that one definitely looks awesome You know can't undertake it quite the run so far with uh with their you know Ultimate Edition series that they had recently and
00:55:21
Speaker
Those are probably the two of the best Ultimate Edition figures that are out right now. Yeah, they're awesome. Yeah, it's a big year for them, man. If I had a desk, I would definitely have a focal. I don't know which one I would have because there's so many awesome ones that they've come out with, but maybe just be like a rotating display. Seasonally, you would just choose a new focal for your desk.
00:55:41
Speaker
Yeah, they're cool, but a little too pricey for me. And like I said, I already, as you can see, we're already all the way up to our gills with figures. So just not a lot of room to add another line to the collection, but it would be neat to go back and piece together all of these because they are really, really neat. AEW buddies are in stock at ringside collectibles. Again, use Code Chick Foley to save 10%. If you're buying those, Marco, are you adding any of these to the collection for yourself or for the kids? I know you gotta get that Cody. I know he's getting Cody.
00:56:10
Speaker
Oh yeah, you definitely need Cody in there. That's a definite purchase. I mean, the Luchasaurus looks pretty cool as well. I think you have to buy all four because they're all pretty awesome. You have the Darby Allen one that looks pretty cool too. Kenny Omega.
00:56:27
Speaker
I mean, like I said, Cody's a definite purchase, obviously, but I probably- Marco's gonna be spooning that thing every night. Oh, of course. Yeah, I mean, sorry. Sorry, Kim, but Cody. Yeah, they're cool. I love the idea of buddies coming back. When Jax did their buddies, we got all the ones that came out from that line, and these are just a little bit small, you know? Yeah, the scale's just off. Yeah, the scale's a little bit off.
00:56:55
Speaker
Yeah, it's for me, it's just a little bit, it's a bummer. It'll be cool if you're only gonna collect AEW buddies, like if you don't have another collection of the regular Tonka buddies or any of the Jax buddies or the Toy Snobs buddies that are in great scale. But yeah, these are cool, but I...
00:57:14
Speaker
I definitely hesitate to call them buddies because they're more like the bleacher creatures. Isn't that what they were called? The bleacher creatures, like the little smaller they made. Yeah. Um, they're kind of, they're, they're a little bit bigger than that, I think, but yeah, they're still a little small. I was kind of letting out about that. They were like wrestling acquaintances, then buddies. Yeah.
00:57:34
Speaker
Yeah, I'll probably go and get the luchasaurus just to have one in hand and see what it's like and then I'll make a call on the rest of them. Let's get into Wiggly purchases. I'll go first.
00:57:47
Speaker
It was a bit of a light week, light week for us. The only figure that we got was first time in the line basic swerve Scott. So got him in the green gear. There was the chase in the red gear. It looked really cool. Actually kind of like that figure a little bit better, but I'm only going to get one swerve and there's not that many figures in green gear. There's I got a lot of them like red and black and stuff. So I thought the green kind of set it off. I'm not sure when we're going to get our first elite swerve Scott. So this will have to do for now. And that was it for us this week, Marco. How about you?
00:58:19
Speaker
Yeah, same here, pretty light. This is something that I think it took like a year to get here. I think I ordered it last year, last summer. And it was the ultimate April O'Neil. Nice. Oh, cool. For the NECA. Yeah, that's awesome. There she is there. So I don't, yeah, that came, so I got the, I got the signature one too. So it comes with the, comes with the channel news like pass with the,
00:58:47
Speaker
with their signature on it. I'll pull that out right here so you can see. Oh, that's cool. They're way too bright. But let me see, Phil. You can kind of see the signature there. Yeah, you get the little press pass. That's awesome. It actually has Judith Hoag, her signature on it. So I guess I totally just showed up. I totally forgot that I ordered it because it was so literally I think it was a year ago. I'm pretty sure it was like last summer they announced it and the pre-orders happened.
00:59:17
Speaker
You know, it obviously showed up, but yeah, it definitely is an awesome figure. And I also have the Danny figure from the Loot Crate that came out too as well, so. Oh, wow. You know, so April and Danny are just chilling, hanging out right now.
00:59:32
Speaker
Yeah, I've almost liquidated my entire NECA turtles collection. I got like eight pieces left to sell. So it's kind of a bummer, man. I definitely missed that line. That was such a cool set, but you know, there's only so much room and I'd rather go. I was kind of just wanting to go balls deep on wrestling instead of even having the distraction of the NECA turtles because they were doing such a good job that it was really starting to take up like
00:59:55
Speaker
a bigger chunk of my collecting budget and focus and storage space and stuff. I just cut it, man. Going all wrestling all the time. Let's hear from our buddy Nick at the Extra Cooler show.
Retro Wrestling Recommendations
01:00:09
Speaker
Hey, everyone. It's Nick, better known as Extra Cooler. Is there anything better than diving back into the wrestling archives and watching classic matches from the past?
01:00:17
Speaker
Yes, there is. It's doing that with your buddies while cracking jokes and enjoying some ice cold beverages. If that sounds like fun to you, then be sure to check out my new podcast, The Extra Cooler Show, where each episode, my Survivor Series team and I review an old school match chosen by you, the listeners. The Extra Cooler Show is available wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to subscribe and follow us for new episodes every other Thursday morning.
01:00:53
Speaker
Retro Wrestling Recommendation of the Week is where myself, the heel husband, Chick Foley, and Marco the MVP give you guys a recommendation from a match or event from years gone by to get you through the weekend. This segment is brought to you by our good friends at Chalk Line. Chalk Line specializes in bringing you the absolute best in retro inspired fan wear. They can be found on Instagram at Chalk Line Official or at Chalk-Line.com.
01:01:21
Speaker
All right, it's time. So nice we had to play it twice. It's time for the retro wrestling pick. I'll kick it off. I wanted to get the Survivor Series mojo going, and I'm going with Survivor Series 90 traditional Survivor Series elimination match this was team that they rose.
01:01:41
Speaker
versus the Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase. This match was famous for the debut of The Undertaker. It also featured, again, Million Dollar Man and Rhythm and Blues, Honky Tonk Man and Greg the Hammer Valentine going up against Dusty Rhodes, Coco B. Ware, and the Hart Foundation.
01:01:57
Speaker
This match is famous for The Undertaker's debut. Obviously, he was a phenom from the start. It looked awesome. Really pay attention to the tombstone he hits on Coco Beware. It was his first tombstone on WWE television and it is stiff. I mean, he plants Coco's head down in that freaking, the mat. So check that one out. But then also stick around because Ted DiBiase and Bret Hart have an awesome final showdown between the two of them. It goes for about 10 minutes and it was really one of the first tastes we had. Bret Hart is a solo star in WWE.
01:02:27
Speaker
So check that one out. Just a fun all around match. It's a great event. Um, if you want to watch the whole survivor series 90, that's a fun one. But if you only got time for one match, watch, uh, watch team Ted versus team dusty. I think she is going to stick with the survivor series Mojo.
01:02:41
Speaker
Yes, so I'm going to do Survivor Series 1992, Brett versus Shawn. There's a reason why I'm going with this match in particular, but it was Brett's first pay-per-view world title defense. But the reason why I picked it is because it was so random that all of a sudden
01:02:58
Speaker
you know, Brett celebrating and Santa Claus comes out to celebrate with Brett. So you see we're in the Christmas spirit over here. So Santa Claus comes out to celebrate with Brett and then snow starts falling from the arena. So it was definitely a great... Brett had a Santa Claus hat. It was just like an all-time babyface moment. Yeah. So yeah, when you get to celebrate with Santa Claus, exactly. Yeah, the all-time babyface moment. So I picked that to get everybody in the holiday spirit. It'll definitely help you get all the warm Christmas feels.
01:03:26
Speaker
Yes, me and Sheena got some mainstream stuff. Marco's got something a bit more hardcore. Yeah, so mine is not a Survivor Series pick. I'm going straight New Japan Pro Wrestling. I'm taking you guys way back to 2018. Not really retro, but retro enough. If you guys want to see a little early preview of what you're going to see on Saturday, this is a match with Kenny Omega.
01:03:54
Speaker
Versus hangman Adam page and hangman's more of the he's more of his heel persona this time around So he's uh, he's pretty ruthless. He he's he busts Kenny wide open his heads bleeding everywhere Throughout the batch and all itself. It's uh, it's from the NJPW Don't talk don't talk who I can't pronounce its d-o-n-t-a-k-u. It's basically a Japanese word for a holiday. That's what they
01:04:22
Speaker
Call it but uh, it's a two usually a two-night event. I think the main event had Okada and I want to hold on I had it pulled up here real quick. So if you want to stick around I think it was uh, actually Yeah, I'll cut it back bad luck folly if you know that as he's a part of the bullet club He's there. He's a big man. Yeah the hired hand. So yeah, definitely Yeah, check that out if you want to see early hangman and Kenny go at it. It's a really good match It's both
01:04:52
Speaker
20 minutes long it says 32, but it's 20 minutes. It is like 10 minutes of promos and Kenny doesn't like interviews and stuff like that. So yeah Definitely watch that. It's a really good one Hell yeah You can make a whole trilogy you watch that one then watch the match from full gear last year and you'll be all keyed up for Yeah, the main event Saturday night. All right, she do we got listener
Nostalgic Pay-Per-View Experiences
01:05:14
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mail this week. We get a full mail bag this week Oh, yeah
01:05:27
Speaker
All right, our first question comes all the way from Germany. Our international fan, Daniel Rau. I know he's told me how to say his last name and I don't know how to spell it. That was Rau. Rau, Rau. Okay, yes, you're right. Yes, he sent me, actually, I think he sent me a voice memo to tell me how he said it. But yeah, Daniel, I know you'll listen to this, so correct me again if I'm wrong. But he says, question for the show.
01:05:52
Speaker
If you could go back and experience any pay-per-view again for the first time, what would it be? I would choose the Royal Rumble 2000. MSG, great crowd, awesome card, top to bottom. Cheers. So Seth, do you have a pay-per-view that you would want to go experience for the first time? So are we talking we could be there in person?
01:06:12
Speaker
Um, sure. You know, there are no rules. So I'm in person in Montreal, November, 1997. And I would be, make sure I had front row seats, just yell at Brett. Avoid the sharpshooter. Avoid the sharpshooter. Oh, Marco. Oh man.
01:06:31
Speaker
I was going to go back and do the Yokozuna-Brett match so I can say, Brett, don't let Hogan get in. Just say no. Don't let him come to the room. Just say no. Just say no. That's a good one. That's a good one. But now I'm going to go with WrestleMania 6, Toronto Skydome, Hogan Warrior in attendance. I think that'd be crazy just seeing that in person. In the front row, just like, oh my God.
01:06:59
Speaker
The power of the hope the warriors is colliding would be great. The atmosphere in that was just crackling because both guys were so over, you know what I mean? Like both guys were beloved by the audience and you just, and it was so crazy seeing a face versus face match. You just did not do that. They were so ahead of their time with that match. Not really.
01:07:21
Speaker
Hogan was a hill, so it was we knew he worked as a heel, but he was still presented as a face. Yeah, we've definitely established that Hogan worked as his in ring style. Didn't really change that much when he switched to Hollywood. I know, right?
01:07:35
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to go with WrestleMania 31, much more recent than what you guys are talking about. But I mean, being in the house for the first time, I just want to go back and experience that again, because I feel like I didn't fully take it all in. It was my first WrestleMania. It was just like, it was...
01:07:54
Speaker
So amazing and Seth Rollins coming into a match that he wasn't even in but with the money in the bank and doing the heist of the century. If I could just go back and relive it and feel the energy again, I would do that 100 times because it was just such an awesome night. And we were with our good friends Jordan and Ari, so it was an awesome weekend. So if I could go back and experience WrestleMania 31 night again, I totally would.
01:08:21
Speaker
Alright.
Thanksgiving Desserts Debate
01:08:23
Speaker
Zach Hertzler, real quick, just honorable mention. He did ask what's on the menu for full gear this Saturday. We discussed that at the top of the show. But more food talk. Randy Smith says, eliminate one classic Thanksgiving dessert and add on one non-traditional Thanksgiving dessert.
01:08:38
Speaker
So since I love to talk about food and specifically carbs, I will say I'm going to get rid of pumpkin pie, even though I enjoy pumpkin pie. I like it. I agree. Fuck pumpkin pie. No, I'm not going to say F pumpkin pie because I like pumpkin pie. Whoa, whoa, whoa. But I would just say out of all of the Thanksgiving desserts, it is the least exciting of all of them. You know, you got pecan pie, you have all these amazing like other
01:09:04
Speaker
desserts that are just so much more enticing. Sweet potato pie, chest pie, pumpkin just kind of falls to the... Oh yeah. I was about to say, what about the rocks favorite pie? Yeah. I don't know that we all, well, y'all are serving on your table, but we don't want to poon tank pie on our table at Thanksgiving. But I'm going to say get rid of pumpkin pie.
01:09:26
Speaker
And then we're going to put in banana pudding, like old style, like homemade banana pudding. It's not really, I don't think that's really a Thanksgiving dessert, you know, but I'm going to, I'm going to add that in onto Thanksgiving table because it's just so freaking good. It's one of my favorite, my favorite things. My mom makes a stellar banana pudding. Any dessert thoughts from you, from you to freaking pervs?
01:09:50
Speaker
Yeah, I agree pumpkin pie like yeah with that could get wiped off the face of the earth for a non-traditional dessert I Don't know. Let's go Hawaiian shaved ice dude. I always have a good snow cone I'll go. I'll go Hawaiian shave ice at Thanksgiving. You can make it cranberry stick with the Thanksgiving theme Yeah, Marco, what would you what would you replace? I'm a fan of the this is a very odd Thanksgiving dessert, but I
01:10:19
Speaker
I'm a fan of the banana split. Let's bring the banana split into the Thanksgiving. I'm here for it. Into the Thanksgiving food. It'll fill you up, though. That's what she said. I don't give enough room for it. That's what she said. That's exactly, yes. Oh, my god. OK. Thank you, Randy, for your question. Sorry. It took us to a Patreon exclusive episode. They forgot where they were for a minute.
01:10:46
Speaker
So this is from Johnny J.B., more Thanksgiving talk. It says canned cranberry sauce or homemade cranberry sauce? Neither. Do you even have to ask?
01:10:58
Speaker
It's got to be the can. It's canned, of course. The can is the champion. I like some bougie cranberry sauce, but even if I was eating that, even if somebody brought some really good homemade cranberry sauce, I still want the can. I want it with the ribs on the side. You just plop it out and it's still in its form and its canned form.
01:11:22
Speaker
Yeah can't all the way it's just it's amazing it's just so good like yeah my mother used to make she's she's a big homemade cranberry sauce but then she'd also get canned because just said just in case people didn't want the homemade and I'd be like
01:11:39
Speaker
I think even though I'm definitely not a cranberry sauce connoisseur, I think the the best way to have it is a big serving of the canned and then just like a little a little ombush of homemade cranberry sauce like on top of it or off to the side next to it, you know, a little bit of the authentic stuff on top of the canned. I think that's the way to go.
01:12:00
Speaker
Yeah, the Candace King. I would be curious to know what other people think about this because I feel like it would be 50-50 split. I don't know.
Dream Wrestling Matches
01:12:10
Speaker
Brian Vermeer says, if WWE and AEW has a super show for charity and there are no winners, just 15 to 30 minute exhibition matches over three nights,
01:12:21
Speaker
Uh, what is, what are the main events for each night? And, uh, you know, what, what city should these be in? So we need to pick, each of us pick a, um, an AEW, if we could pick an AEW talent versus a, um, WWE talent, who would it be? I'll go first. Let's throw, let's throw out the exhibition stipulation. Cause you gotta have a winner. It's about wins and losses. Let's do that. And then, uh, let's wipe that off and we'll go from there.
01:12:47
Speaker
I would really, there's so many that I would like to, like, there's so many coming to mind right off the top of my head, but like, for whatever reason, this one's really sticking out to me. I would love to see the Usos versus the Young Bucks. Yeah, that's a match that needs to happen while all four guys are still in their physical peak for sure. Great choice. Marco, you can go next. I'll go last. Oh, let's see.
01:13:09
Speaker
See, uh, you know what, I'm going to go, everyone's going to pick, uh, I was going to pick Roman Reigns, but I think, I think you have to go Kenny Omega and Seth Rollins as one of the main events to just, yeah, I think it would just be a banger of a match. Obviously, you know, you know, the talk is Roman Reigns, Kenny Omega, but I think for a better matchup, I think Seth Rollins is just.
01:13:39
Speaker
I think it's just a better matchup to be personally anyway.
01:13:42
Speaker
And I'll I'll play off yours yet. You know what, Marco, I'm glad you did that because I think I got a match that would perfectly complement that. Right. So Seth and Kenny, you know, we're going to have the we're putting together a hell of a show right here. Right. So the the Bucks and the Usos potential to be the greatest tag match ever. Seth and Kenny is going to be one of the most awesome technical displays. We very near their style is going to complement each other so well. I got the blood feud match, the brawl. They used to be brothers. Roman versus Mox.
01:14:12
Speaker
Think about since they left, Roman has become even more entrenched as the epitome of a WWE guy, the company man, and Mox has become more unhinged, more violent. So just seeing these two guys who used to be, like I said, they used to be brothers.
01:14:29
Speaker
going one-on-one in a brawl. Dude, I mean, I don't know what price you could put on it if those were the three shows that were going to be the marquee that I wouldn't pay. I'd go 100 bucks like a freaking Floyd Mayweather fight to see that event. Good question, Brian. And let's give ourselves the old Barry Horwitz pat on the back, because I think we put together a hell of a show. Yeah, I want these to all be in Norfolk so that I can go see all three. Definitely.
01:14:57
Speaker
Hats off to Marco for doing the swear. We're not picking Roman and Kenny cause like I said, I think Roman mocks would be more compelling as an actual in ring match. Yeah, the history there would make it super compelling. So, um, Kevin Harrison says watching old survivor series and I've come to the conclusion that Cesaro is the current day Tito Santana.
01:15:16
Speaker
Do you have any comparisons like this? Seth is our resident encyclopedia. Do you have any comparisons? Cesaro is the current day Tito Santana. Who is the modern day historical equivalent?
01:15:34
Speaker
So I think Seth is the modern day macho man Randy Savage right if Roman is the modern day Hulk, I think Seth is the modern man, the modern day Randy Savage whereas you know macho man was always a little bit more over with the fans who really knew wrestling, he always put on better matches, and was just a little bit more of a compelling character where there's a heel or face.
01:15:56
Speaker
even though hulk was always presented as the top guy no matter what with the company so yeah i would say seth is the modern man i don't know why i keep saying that the modern day. Okay i think that's a good comparison tony barker says.
Favorite 'Bad' Pay-Per-Views
01:16:16
Speaker
I'm watching AWA Super Clash 3, which is one of my favorite quote, bad shows of all time. This begs the question, what is your favorite bad pay-per-view show of all time?
01:16:28
Speaker
I mean, I'm going to say something recently. Halloween Havoc has got a lot of, like we said, a lot of effery and there's a lot of really quirky, bad matches that took place at Halloween Havoc. But how do you not love Halloween Havoc? You know what I mean? Like everything about it. It's a guilty pleasure. Yeah, it is a guilty pleasure to the umpteenth degree. Like it is just the look of it, the feel of it, all of it is just amazing. So I'm going to go with Halloween Havoc as being a
01:16:57
Speaker
My favorite, you know, quote unquote bad pay-per-view. Hmm. I see WrestleMania nine for me. WrestleMania nine is. Yeah, it's a good one. It's critically panned, but the set design I think is really just sublime. Like I've always loved the the Roman Coliseum vibe and a daytime WrestleMania always looks cool. Oh, yeah. The crowd was kind of the pits on that, too, because it wasn't even wrestling fans. It wasn't wrestling fans. It was just comps. Casino guests. Casino guests. Yeah.
01:17:27
Speaker
Yeah, so I say WrestleMania 9 is probably my favorite bad show. Marco, you got any ideas?
Listener Mailbag and Social Media
01:17:33
Speaker
I mean, it's something that we watched recently. I was actually thinking of something that's bad. It has to be Halloween Havoc. What was it, 97? Was it 97 with Warrior and Hogan? That was 98. 98. Yeah, sorry. So 98, yeah. That's definitely a bad show.
01:17:53
Speaker
Yeah. Even the end when it got cut off and no one got to see the end of the. Yeah. It got cut off. We had the Brett, Brett Hart versus Sting is on that show, which is a freaking dream match, but they overbooked it to hell. It was a horrible, horrible match. Not what you would want to see for Brett Hart and Sting. So yeah, but you still got to watch it. So yeah, I think that's a good pick. Yeah. Yep. And that wraps up our listener mailbag for this week.
01:18:20
Speaker
Alright, so Sheena, remind the listeners where they can find you guys on social media.
01:18:25
Speaker
You can find me on Instagram at chick Foley. You can find Marco running the Twitter machine over at chick Foley show. Most importantly, come be a part of our family over at the chick Foley fam chick Foley show.com. All right. Reminder to use code chick Foley to save 10% on all your purchases at ringside collectibles. And remember to enter our giveaway for fan takeover, Randy Orton. And now it's my turn in the hot seat. I'm going to try to get, get one right. And then next week I'm starting to streak. Sheena, give me the trivia question of the week.
01:18:56
Speaker
All right. Oh man, I kind of want to change it. Okay. All right. At the 1994 Royal Rumble, Yoko Zuna's opponent was. Oh, the Undertaker. Oh, well, yeah, you got that one easy. That's so weird. That was like a softball, jeez. Okay, well, this was, I'm going to get.
01:19:21
Speaker
Yeah, I'm gonna give you another question. Save it for next week. Save it for next week. Yeah, we'll do it. We'll see if you can keep the streak going. Yeah, you'll have to. Yeah. Thanks, Shane. That was a little... Every once in a while, every once in a while, I got a lot of softball, you know? Yeah, that was the one where every heel in WWE came down and attacked Undertaker and he ascended to the heavens at the end of the match. Talk about Efri.
01:19:48
Speaker
Give us some closing thoughts as we head into full gear weekend. Oh Man, everybody enjoy yourself. It's gonna be a great pay-per-view weekend. Look for Seth and I a dynamite on Wednesday and on Smackdown on Friday set or tomorrow night. So look for us on TV I don't know if I have any signs but I'll definitely you know be making a lot of noise and doing a lot of Cheering so cheers. Have a great week and thanks for listening
01:20:18
Speaker
you