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The Chick Foley TLC Prediction Special!
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Chick Foley and The Hot Take Kid preview this Sunday's TLC card and give their predictions. They also discuss the improvements on RAW, Mustafa Ali's title match on Smackdown, and Mattel Retros showing up at Five Below.
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Introduction and Host Setup
00:00:18
Speaker
12 days to Christmas. You would buy those Tito Santana figures while you can. It's a Chick Foley show. Phil Gentile, AKA the hot take kid here in the Jimmy's famous seafood studios. I have Sheena Phelps out in Honolulu, AKA the queen of pod style. How are you doing?
00:00:41
Speaker
I'm doing good, man. I'm doing good. I am excited to get into a much more exciting episode this week than we had last week for
WWE Raw Improvements Discussion
00:00:48
Speaker
sure. Yeah, it's amazing when they recognize how awful the product's been, how much it changes. Yeah, those super low ratings, lowest ratings of all time, they kind of move the needle a little bit.
00:00:59
Speaker
Yeah, so we're going to talk about Raw and SmackDown a little bit as we get into our TLC preview. We'll talk about some of the figures that Sheena or I purchased this week, and then get into some questions from you guys, and some giveaways, and all kinds of stuff. If you guys want to give us a shout, you can.
Contact Information for Hosts
00:01:16
Speaker
It's askchickfoli at gmail.com. We've got some good questions there. We have some tweets that you guys sent us with some questions that I sent out that I will answer here on the show. But you can follow.
00:01:27
Speaker
Sheena on Instagram is probably the best place. It's Chick Foley. And I am, I hate JJ Redick on Twitter and Instagram. Always down for some good wrestling chat. So hit us up. Pretty big week, Sheena. Let's start with Raw inside the squared circle here as we talk about what happened on Raw.
Vince McMahon's Alleged Influence
00:01:49
Speaker
Yeah. Um, if I gathered one thing from raw this week, it was that Vince McMahon must be tuning into the chick Foley show because it was definitely, it was definitely a step up from what we've been getting the last, the last few weeks. I thought I really enjoyed watching it and you know, they came out and Seth Rollins was like.
00:02:06
Speaker
the voice of the fans, and he was kind of just like giving it to Baron Corbin, like really acknowledging the fact that Raw has been kind of sucky, which I kind of appreciated them breaking down that fourth wall and really just taking what's actually happening and bringing it to the ring. So yeah, I was digging it. Yeah, like how they blamed it on a character on the show. That show has been so bad. You don't see that too much on TV shows where Game of Thrones is bad. Just blame it on Jamie Lannister or something. Yeah, exactly.
00:02:34
Speaker
But it was a cool promo by Seth. It called out a lot of stuff that fans, I'm sure, have been complaining about. And I guess it pulls back the curtain a little bit, but you kind of have to do it. It was the worst ratings of all time last week for Raw, and I'm sure they were hearing it.
00:02:50
Speaker
Yeah. And you know, in a time where we know everything that's going on, I mean, I guess not everything, but we know pretty much everything that's going on behind the curtain, um, you know, via, you know, social media and all of the journalists and all the, all of that, like they kind of have to acknowledge those kinds of things. You know, I mean, we can only suspend our disbelief so much, um, until they just need to like, you know, I think that's the way to handle it. Just, you know, head first.
00:03:13
Speaker
Yeah, and they did make some changes. We'll get into some of the highlights of Raw before we get over to SmackDown.
Roode and Gable's Tag Team Journey
00:03:19
Speaker
Your boys, Roode and Gable, who don't have a name, you were pretty happy to see them win the tag team titles. I have a differing view than you, which is good. But what do you think about this first match of the night? We have new tag team champs.
00:03:32
Speaker
Yeah, I was super excited. I was, I was really surprised that they won. I just wasn't expecting them to win. Um, and I really liked that, you know, Gable is wearing the matching gear. Now he's kind of retired the,
00:03:43
Speaker
the singlet for the trunks. And, you know, he's really, he's got the robe and matching Bobby Roode. I just kind of love it. I love how, I love when tag teams have like matching gear. That's just something that I love. I hate when they just look like they're just thrown together. So I was digging that. And then, however, I mean, it was a big win for them and I was super stoked and I'm excited to see how long they can keep it, but I would not be surprised to see them like lose it next week, unfortunately.
00:04:08
Speaker
I mean, if that's the case, why even give them the belts if there's nowhere this is going? Because AOP, the raw tag team division is just awful. I mean, you look at SmackDown, you have New Day and the Bar and the Usos. And I really thought they were gonna build up AOP to be this unstoppable force. And then when they do get beaten by somebody at WrestleMania or somewhere,
00:04:28
Speaker
big, then you build a second star. But unless they're going to continue with Gable and Rude, I think it's just basically a way to get them to feud together and then turn Gable into a bigger face. I don't really feel the need for this. I mean, AOP hasn't had the titles for very long.
00:04:47
Speaker
They didn't even get an intro on the show. They just kind of showed up in the ring, which is weird for the tag team champions. And then the week before, I thought they beat these guys, and it was to say that they never got another tag team title match again. So it was kind of, I know from one week to the next, they're not super coherent, but that was kind of confusing.
00:05:08
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I think I think definitely giving the mean that we you said it best. I mean, the tag team division on raw is not very good, especially compared to Smackdown. So I think maybe I think maybe they're just trying to shake it up a little bit and see what they got. I mean, maybe they're planning on. I mean, Seth Rollins acknowledged that the revival has kind of been misused since they've been there. So maybe they're, you know, going to to bring them into play. I really don't know. But the sad thing is, is like,
00:05:37
Speaker
tag team wrestling as of late, like it's really good. Like the actual like wrestling and the technical aspect of it is really good.
00:05:45
Speaker
But I don't really care about the titles. Do you know what I'm saying? I don't care who's got the titles. It really doesn't have a lot of meaning to me personally. I'm sure there's other people out there that have a different perspective. But even on SmackDown, I know the TLC match with all those guys is going to be amazing. But I don't really care who wins the titles. Do you know what I'm saying?
00:06:09
Speaker
Yeah, it's more about the action and the ring for those guys. And I think it's really started with NXT. They've elevated their game with a lot of the tag team matches. There's been some awesome feuds in the tag team division. They had the Dusty Rhodes Classic and that's kind of jump started stuff down in NXT and that's kind of filtered up to the main roster. So it's been cool to watch. Hopefully they do something with these guys. I don't know if they're going to make it into 2019 as a chance, but
00:06:34
Speaker
They're not wrestling on TLC for the titles, so maybe they do. We'll see. Hopefully it goes somewhere.
Baron Corbin's Role on Raw
00:06:40
Speaker
But I'm with you. I do like to see the matching gear for tag team wrestlers. This is happening just as we're about to get a Gable and Shelton Benjamin battle pack for figures. So I'm sure as soon as Rude and Gable get one, they'll probably split up. That's how it always happens.
00:06:58
Speaker
Yeah, that's typically. And that's what happened to Enzo and Cass, right? Like right before the Enzo and Cass figures dropped, it was like they were no more. So yeah, that's pretty much par for the course.
00:07:09
Speaker
I've given Baron Corbin some crap over the last couple of weeks, but he wasn't terrible on this episode of Raw. He was a huge part of it, and it's cool that they've given him such a huge role on the show. They must have some good faith in him as speaking and doing promos and stuff, but the match with Seth at the end of the night was pretty good, and I liked it.
00:07:29
Speaker
Yeah you know I'm the same. I've never been a huge Corbin guy even when he was like rocking the half bald like Venom look with the wolf shirt. Like I just never been a huge fan of his. But I do I think he is a good character. I think it is kind of weird that they have this authority figure that doesn't really have any like
00:07:49
Speaker
you know, authority if you will. Like he's not really like, I don't know, he's a wrestler who they're trying to make into this like authority figure and I think it's just, I don't know if it's getting over as much as it should. But I do like him. I do like his kind of like power trip thing that he's got going on where he's just like, you know, mad with power.
00:08:08
Speaker
I would like to see, I do like how you called yourself not a Corbin guy, not girl. That was funny. I didn't even realize. Becky Lynch has gotten me all to her up. She's the man. I'm the guy. I don't know what to say. I would like to see Corbin, and they hinted about it like a hundred times, but Corbin, McIntyre, and Lashley, that they're all boys or whatever. They're helping each other out.
00:08:32
Speaker
Put these guys together and make some sort of, not corporation type of faction, but make them as like the kind of the guys that are running the show and picking and bullying on everybody until Strowman comes back or something. You know what I mean? Because the three of them haven't been on screen together before, unless maybe they were in a Survivor Series match together. But they kind of hinted at it a lot, but they were never in the same place at the same time.
00:08:57
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's kind of just like dissolved a little bit. Um, again, it's just one of those things where like you can only have so many storylines, you know, but I do like, I mean, you know, back in the day when they had like all the storylines really meant something and they kind of intermingled. I mean, if they could get back to doing something like that, where all of the storylines didn't seem so segmented, you know, like kind of like off to their own little thing. Like if they all kind of intermingled, I think that would be, that'd be cool.
00:09:22
Speaker
for sure. That was a great TLC match. It was weird to see a TLC match while they're trying to get people to watch TLC, but you know. Yeah, I think it was just kind of a little teaser, just kind of get people hyped for it. It was the first, was it the first TLC match? I can't remember how many years on Raw. I thought that was pretty cool. They just pulled that out of the hat.
00:09:42
Speaker
Yeah, and I think it was like 2006 or 2009, but it was cool that Seth Rollins brought up the fact that Brock Lesnar hasn't wrestled on Raw since 2002. How was that? I didn't even realize that. I don't know why that wasn't even in the forefront of my mind at all. I knew he wasn't there a lot, but the fact that he hasn't wrestled an actual match since 2002, I was
00:10:06
Speaker
I couldn't believe that. That's pretty insane. And how many, what percentage of the last four years has he been the champion? I mean, you know, it's probably at least 80% of the time. I was going to say like, yeah, 80 to 85%.
Brock Lesnar's Wrestling Frequency
00:10:18
Speaker
I would say, yeah, he's, he's been the, he's been the champ. Um, yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty insane. You know, Brock, when Brock first won the title and everything, I mean, I was a huge Brock guy. Like I, I, girl, lady, I have a lady, whatever it is. I'm a woman. I am a woman.
00:10:35
Speaker
Yeah, I have to declare, I am a woman. Okay, so I'm a huge Brock fan, but I do, I mean, I get where everybody's tired of the title not being on the main show. I do think it causes a little bit of a riff. I mean, I think it's cool every once in a while to take it off TV, but as much as it's been off TV the last four years, I'm like, okay, ready for something new.
00:11:02
Speaker
Yeah, it does give it the big fight feel when you have it on pay-per-views. And I mean, it is crazy that I haven't recognized that Brock hasn't fought on Raw in that long. I mean, he's been there. It's mainly for Paul Heyman to talk and for him to beat up security guards and stuff. Yeah, he's been in scuffles and stuff on Raw. But I guess there just hasn't been an official match, which I guess that's why I didn't think about it like that. Because I'm like, he's definitely like,
00:11:31
Speaker
done some fighting on Raw, but yeah, never an actual sanctioned match. Yeah, so it was definitely a better episode of Raw than last week. The Rousey, Nia Jax Town, I don't know why they're doing these town hall meetings, or whatever they're calling them, moderated by Alexa Bliss, who didn't say a single word the whole time. Nia just comes down like before she says something, and then I guess they just want Bliss out there to keep her in front of people?
00:12:01
Speaker
Yeah, I think, I mean, I think they're definitely grooming Alexa. I don't know what's going to happen with Baron Corbin after Sunday, but I definitely think they're grooming Alexa to be in some sort of authority position, you know, where she might, I mean, I don't like, she's obviously running the women's division right now, but I don't know if they have bigger plans for her or whatever. But I hope it's something more than just this little, these little talking segments in the ring. But yeah, honestly,
00:12:25
Speaker
Rhonda's just buying her time until she gets back in the ring with Charlotte because, you know, this naive feud, I think it's lost a little bit of steam. People are just ready for it to be over. And it's just, like I said, it's just a stepping stone at this point.
00:12:39
Speaker
So, yeah, pretty good episode of Raw SmackDown.
Mustafa Ali vs. Daniel Bryan
00:12:43
Speaker
I saw the first half of it, and I'm glad I saw this Daniel Bryan Mustafa Ali match, because I've never seen Mustafa Ali wrestle before. I don't watch 205 Live, but just watching this match really makes me want to. He was great, man. It was great. And you go back to the kind of contrast of Raw, seeing the champion
00:13:03
Speaker
defend the belt. Bret Hart used to do this all the time back in the day against random folks on Raw all the time. And it's just nice to have a match. It's refreshing just to have a title match. There's no storyline. There's two good wrestlers wrestling and it was fun.
00:13:18
Speaker
Yeah. Um, again, this is another reason why I feel like maybe Vince is tuning into the chick Foley show because what we hire listener mail last week was just talking about these repetitive matches, how it's just the same old, same old, you know, like leading up to the paper views, um, without a lot of just like changeup. Um, and then all of a sudden we get this like,
00:13:38
Speaker
match up between Mustafa Ali and Daniel Bryan out of nowhere and it's pretty cool. I'm excited. I think we need a lot more of that 205 Live and NXT crossover.
00:13:49
Speaker
I got to think Vince loves this Daniel Bryan character, just total vegan, hipster, asshole, sweater-wearing guy hating on Mustafa Ali for driving an SUV. It's great. It built it up pretty well in that four or five minute promo before the match. It was nice.
00:14:12
Speaker
Oh my gosh, it's so great. I just can't get enough of the new Daniel Bryan when he said, what kind of car do you drive? You're such a little man to drive such a big car. And he's smaller than Mustafa Ali, which is what was so funny about that. Daniel Bryan is actually smaller. But yeah, I love this Daniel Bryan, the new Daniel Bryan. I just think he's great. I think he is just killing this new role. And I'm excited to see where it goes.
00:14:41
Speaker
You watch 205 Live and NXT more than me. Give me a couple of names that you think maybe not permanently should come up, but would benefit from a match like this, whether it's a tag team or a singles wrestler. Who's somebody that you think would get a nice rub from a nice SmackDown match once in a while? I mean, I think introducing dream to people would be pretty mage. Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:08
Speaker
Buddy Murphy, you know, I love, I love Buddy Murphy. I think he's great. I think, I mean, obviously he's the, he's the champ, but I think just introducing him to a lot broader audience would be great too.
00:15:21
Speaker
Yeah, they kind of messed up 205 Live by kind of forcing people to watch the matches and changing the ropes on Raw. I think it's a much better home on SmackDown. It can kind of make it more organic and it's a two hour show, so people are more likely to kind of tune into 205 Live on Tuesdays, so.
00:15:38
Speaker
Yeah, I definitely need to watch more 205 Live. But like we've said a million times before, it's just like you have to pick and choose your battles. And I know I'm going to watch Raw on SmackDown. But then it's like pick and choose NXT, 205 Live. And then there's the mixed match challenge and just so much. So much, yeah. If we didn't have full-time jobs, it would be much easier.
00:16:02
Speaker
Yeah, maybe one day we'll just be able to do this full time and just watch wrestling 24-7 and talk about it. That'd be pretty great. Yeah, I wouldn't hate that. I don't know if my wife would like that, but we'll see. You never know. Yeah, true. She might change her tune. Yeah, if I'm bringing it in the box. So we saw another rap battle on SmackDown after I think it was last year that Usos and the New Day got into one. And now we introduced the bar to the fray. What did you think of that?
00:16:31
Speaker
Um, I definitely prefer the other, the, the first rap battle, um, I thought was better than this rap battle. Um, I always kind of cringe at these things, even though I thought, I mean, you know what to expect. I mean, it's going to be a little bit cringy. Um, but ice, ice, Jamie, I was just like, what is this?
00:16:49
Speaker
You know, then they I mean they just like they went all in, you know, like just shamelessly just doing the ice ice shaming But yeah, the mohawk through the like was it was it like one of those Kangol? Yeah. Oh my gosh. It was great. It was so bad. It was good. So that's yeah If you're gonna if you're gonna do that just go all in and make the heel like not know how bad he sucks at wrapping so I
00:17:13
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. It's got to be one of those things where you just legitimately are so bad that it's good. Because if you try to play it cool and be cool, it's really going to come off awkward. I'm surprised they didn't go with the chalk line. Shout out to our buddies at chalk line. I know they make like, don't they make the bar jackets? They should have worn those instead of those.
00:17:33
Speaker
I mean, they got the bar, but they had the fanimation jackets. Yeah, that would have been a pretty good, a pretty good look for, uh, for them for sure. I do like the, uh, the new day wearing the, uh, the tuxedos from, uh, dumb and dumb. Yeah. I thought that was great. Uh, those guys have, and they, I, I would think by now the new day would be, people would be getting sick of them and kind of, but still, I mean, we're going on what, four or five years now with them.
00:17:59
Speaker
Yeah. They've done a great job at keeping themselves fresh and not like doing the DX thing where they're just saying the same three things over and over again. So props to those guys. Well, yeah. I don't know if you remember when they first came in, it was just like the power of positivity. They were hardcore faces, but everybody just hated them, myself included. And then they just
00:18:20
Speaker
something happened and they just made a switch and you know I love them and I mean they do get a little bit repetitive and you know you know what to expect from them they're gonna throw pancakes they're gonna do all that and act crazy um but I just you know I never get tired of seeing them you know
00:18:36
Speaker
There's a guy in the crowd. I don't know if he saw it, but he had a sign made, but he had a hole cut out for his face to catch pancakes in. That's awesome. Yeah, well, the thing that makes them good is that as crazy and strange and whimsical as they are, they're all really good wrestlers, too. So I think that's another reason why they can get away with it, because they're all really great. Yeah, they have more than just the ability to gift a gab.
00:19:04
Speaker
What do you think about some rap battle action-packed figures, or whatever you want to call them, for the bar, or any of these guys? You think that would go over well, or by the time it comes out, it's going to be old news? Yeah, it'll be old news. But it would be cool, I think, with the jumpsuits and, like I said, the mohawk through the hat. I would definitely get that. I think it'd be cool. It's like you can do battle packs of rap. I should do rap battle packs. There you go. Yeah, super showdown under.
00:19:33
Speaker
Yes, yes. Almost got it right. Almost got it right. Rap battle packs would be so mage. Yeah, and then do the, like you said, the dumb and dumber. And I don't think the Usos didn't have anything different. They just were their same old Usos, I think. I don't think they had anything crazy on. Yeah. Any other notes from Raw or SmackDown? There was a moment where Apollo Crews, and this was all over Twitter. So I don't want to say, and I was the first one to notice this.
00:20:01
Speaker
Apollo Crews picked up Sasha Banks in a position where it was very, look as a female. I'm not a female, but it looked very uncomfortable. I don't know if you saw the photo of that. I did not see that. What was that? He had kind of, I mean, he grabbed her like a gorilla press, but he had kind of like a bowling ball grip on her undercarriage. Oh, no. Yeah, I don't know if he's just used to picking up 300-pound dudes or whatever, but it was not pretty.
00:20:30
Speaker
I will have to I will have to check that out. Yeah, I'm sure I'm sure no offense was made. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. But it's just one of those things like it's just the unfortunate snap photo that gets taken where, you know, it's like the is it the Triple H when he's got Rhonda up?
00:20:48
Speaker
Like, about the power bomb. I can't remember who it is, the photo. But yeah, it looks very sexual. And it's totally not. But it's just an unfortunate snap of a photo that will live in infamy. I mean, as a male, it has to be hard. You're constantly picking up big dudes. And you have to use all your energy. And then you're picking up 120-pound Sasha Banks. It's probably a big change. Oh, yeah, for sure.
00:21:13
Speaker
So TLC this weekend on Sunday, it's shaping up to be a pretty nice car. Let's run it down here. We'll go through match by
Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton Preview
00:21:21
Speaker
match. We can give our predictions. And we'll see who gets the most right at the end of the day here. Again, you can follow us on Instagram and, well, Twitter and Facebook at Chick Foley Show. And then you can follow Sheena on Instagram at Chick Foley. And she's usually live tweeting and live posting during the matches.
00:21:42
Speaker
First match on the card, it sounds like a match my three-year-old son would make. It's Rey Mysterio versus Randy Orton. This is a feud that's built up, I guess, over the last month or so with Randy Orton trying to take off the mask of Rey Mysterio. It's a chairs match. What do you think about this one? I mean, let's be real.
00:22:02
Speaker
both of these guys, I mean, Ray Mysterio, he's one of those oddities that like he still can go at like, you know, 40 plus. Um, but I mean, to me, Randy Orton's just kind of over his prime and I feel like I'm not interested, you know?
00:22:20
Speaker
Yeah, I'm surprised that this is a match. Usually, you would think one of these guys will be putting over a younger talent or something. This is not a match that you would think to see on a pay-per-view. And Randy Orton seems to speak forgotten guy right now. I mean, I think ultimately, he's going to win this match. But this match really has no
00:22:44
Speaker
Like I'll probably not be watching super closely this match. You know, if the baby faces up and around, I'll be, I'll be keeping one eye on the TV. But, um, this isn't something that I'm like super invested in. Um, even, even his feud with Jeff Hardy, I wasn't super invested in it, you know?
00:22:58
Speaker
Yeah, this is not lucha house party rules, whatever that is. This is the chairs match. I'm also going to go with Randy Orton here. I'm not too sure what to expect. But I'm sure this will probably be one of the first matches on the card. I guess they had to throw in the chairs stipulation. But this next match I'm really excited for, Buddy Murphy versus former champion Cedric Alexander in a singles match for the Cruiserweight Championship. Hopefully, this isn't on the pre-show. What do you think is
Cruiserweight Championship Hopes
00:23:25
Speaker
going to happen here? These guys are probably going to burn the roof down with this match.
00:23:29
Speaker
Yeah, you know, they had a great match at your favorite event of the year, the Super Showdown Under. And I think Buddy Murphy's been a great champ and I don't see them dethroning him anytime soon. I mean, I think it's going to be just like an epic match. But I think definitely Buddy Murphy is coming out on top of this one.
00:23:51
Speaker
I'm going to go set your guys in. I'm going to pick the upset here. I feel like they're going to set up a third match for them or something and keep this thing going. So I'm going to go different than you here. I could see that. I just don't see. I think he's, like I said, been such a good champion. I don't know what the point would be to dethrone him while he's on his up and come up.
00:24:14
Speaker
mixed match challenge finals. Ginger Mahal and Alicia Fox against our truth in Carmela. This match, the winner, which I, this is a cool stipulation. I like this. The, the winning team gets the number 30 spot in the Royal Rumble this year on both male and female Royal Rumbles. That's pretty cool.
00:24:32
Speaker
It is pretty cool. I'm almost 100% certain that whenever WWE crafted the mix match challenge, this match was nowhere even near the finals. I don't think they anticipated this being the final match at all, but just with all the injuries and all the things that have been happening. This is what we're left with, which I think it's cool. I'm glad these guys are getting their moment to shine. And I do like the stipulation with number 30.
00:25:02
Speaker
I heard somewhere something that could be funny because you know that number 30 spot like you're just waiting because that's gonna be like the guy like the most fresh person right and you know you want it to like come in and make a difference and I don't see our truth especially I mean Carmilla I could definitely do it for the women but I don't see our truth coming in and like I think it's just kind of like a flop it would be a kind of a crappy way to end the rumble you know
00:25:25
Speaker
Um, but I heard somewhere someone say that they can see our truth coming in. Like, you know how he always gets confused, like coming in number 30 in the women's match and then like get like getting thrown out. I was like, that is so good. I would love to see that. Like that would be something that I would, I would pop for and I would laugh at and then actually get a surprise entrance at number 30 in the men's match.
00:25:46
Speaker
That would be funny. And I think R Truth is also probably better at coming in midway through the men's match and being like a kind of a comedic break for the match or something. Dance break. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to go Jinder and Alicia Fox mainly because I just, I don't know, I just like those two a little bit better as far as legitimate winners for their Royal Rumbles. Well, I think I'm going with R Truth and Carmella on this one just because I can see
00:26:14
Speaker
Yeah, I can see them staying together. Like they already had that built-in chemistry and their built-in little dance break gimmick that they got going on. And I can see them carrying that through the rumble versus, you know, Jinder and Alicia, like they're just kind of, I don't feel like they have any true connection. Whereas I feel like there's already that built-in, you know, story with R-Truth and Carmella. Now the match, everyone's been waiting for. Tables match, Natty Night Heart and Ruby Riot. You're going to be telling your kids about this one.
00:26:45
Speaker
Yeah, I think that I think it's going to be great. I mean, obviously, we know Natty and Ruby can both go. And I mean, they've really, really went in on, you know, R.I.P. on the anvil. Yeah. Yeah. Which, you know, I feel like nothing's no pun intended. Nothing's off the table at this point. Like they just really like dug in on that on that angle and, you know,
00:27:09
Speaker
I just feel like Natty has to win this one. I mean, what, you know, I think there's no way they can't let Natty win after all the, the shit that Ruby has talked about, the anvil, like, come on, she has to defend her father's honor.
00:27:24
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to go Ruby Riot. I feel like they want to push her going forward. And Natty's a perfect setup for that. I think Ruby Riot's going to win. I have a feeling. I hear what you're saying. Usually that's how it sets up. But I don't know. I mean, she did make that Jim Nighthart fathead. I guess that was a custom thing that she made. I can't seem to think they would sell too many Jim Nighthart fatheads. But I'm going to go with Ruby Riot on this one.
00:27:51
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, we got some different differing opinions here. I know I'm digging it. I'm digging it Next match. What do you want to talk about next? I Think we should just jump right into Seth Rollins versus Dean Ambrose Yeah
00:28:08
Speaker
Yeah. Um, well, not for me, but maybe for you. Well, actually, okay. I lie. I always root for Seth to win always. Um, just because he's, he's the man. Um, but I don't think this doesn't seem to be the feud that we thought it was going to be. Like I mentioned last week, kind of like, I don't think it's going to be this long drawn out thing that, you know, has to come to some sort of resolution. I really feel like this is a stepping stone for Seth to get back into the main event picture.
00:28:35
Speaker
And I feel like this would be the perfect time for Dean to dethrone Seth and take the intercontinental title. So that way he can be a contender for the universal title at Mania.
00:28:53
Speaker
Yeah, I'm with you on this one. I think it's going to be some kind of schmaz. Maybe we didn't even talk about on Raw. I really like the Heath Slater angle that they're doing with him. It's kind of like the referee and he's kind of torn, doesn't know what to do. He's kind of being healed but doesn't want to be healed just to appease Baron Corbin. Yeah, I wonder if that's going to come into play. That's interesting. I totally forgot about that. But yeah, I wonder if that will come into play on Sunday.
00:29:18
Speaker
I was thinking in one of the matches, that's a good way to kind of have someone lose, but not really lose. So maybe it's this match. But yes, I can see bigger things for Seth going forward into WrestleMania season. So I think Dean takes the belt. And I don't know who he feuds with at that point. But maybe Elias, that wouldn't be bad.
00:29:39
Speaker
No, that wouldn't be bad at all. But yeah, like you said, I can see Seth, I can see he, you know, um, cause he almost got one over on Seth on, um, Monday, but I can see him actually getting, you know, getting it over on Seth this, you know, and then that way says still stays strong, but Dean, it takes the belt off of him. You know, it's not a clean, it's not a clean victory for Dean, but, um, they, they've done what they're meant to do and take, take the intercontinental title off of him.
00:30:02
Speaker
Good call. Smackdown tag team championship match. A match we've seen in some iterations several times, but it's always a good match. The bar, the champs take on the Usos in the new day. I don't know if we'll see anything super inventive here. I think it's going to be a great match, though. I think it's going to be fun. And I think of all the title matches, Sheena, I think this is the match we might see a new champion. And I don't know who it's going to be, but I think this is a perfect scenario to get the belts off of them and maybe put it back on the Usos.
00:30:32
Speaker
And I don't know if you agree, too. What do you think of this match? Like you said, and like we talked about at the top of the show, I think this is going to be a great match just to watch. It's going to be a lot of fun. There's going to be a lot going on. We know all of these guys can go. I'm going for the Usos. I would love to see the Usos get back to be the SmackDown Tag Champions.
00:31:03
Speaker
I mean, I like the bar. I don't want to like the bar, but I kind of like the bar. Like, the more I see them together, I'm just like, OK. OK, you're kind of winning me over just a little bit, you know? Yeah, it took me a while, too, because it was a weird pairing. And it kind of happened after they had, I think, a best of five set of matches. And then they were like, oh, it's just become tag team partners. But it's worked out well for both of them. I think if you're not going to make Cesaro a legitimate singles guy, I think it's a perfect spot for him. Yeah, well, you know, it's
00:31:25
Speaker
That's who I'm pulling for on this.
00:31:32
Speaker
It's crazy because, you know, we see them together as the bar now and they're such a good tag team that like you forget that both of these guys were like at the top of the card at one point, like, you know, champion main event, you know, singles competitors. Um, and to see them now, like they work really well together. And I think we've talked about this a million times. This is the perfect spot for them right now. Um, just being a, being a tag team.
00:31:55
Speaker
Um, but yeah, it's pretty crazy to think about, you know, like these, these two guys were like, you know, at the, at the top of their game, like on the main event.
00:32:04
Speaker
Yeah, it is crazy. Sheamus was the champion at TLC, I think, or Survivor Series. I think it was like, what, four or five years ago. So yeah, it's crazy. Yeah. Guitar on a pole match. That's exactly what I called it. It's so funny to say that. I'm glad we think the same way. A ladder match with a guitar, and I guess the first person to get it would beat the other one's senseless with it. Elias versus Bobby Lashley.
00:32:31
Speaker
I'm sure Leo Rush will get involved. At some point, I'm going to pull with Elias after he got beaten with the guitar on Raw. I would think that he's going to get his comeuppance on this one. But what do you think? Yeah, I'm going with Elias. I think Elias is going to get to the guitar and be able to just beat the heck out of Lashley with it. I mean, they're really adamant about pushing Lashley, even though I feel like the fan base has really lost interest.
00:33:00
Speaker
But yeah, there's never doubt Vince's ability to try to push someone to the moon, even when the fans are saying, no, no, no. Yeah, he just came back and it was automatically a main event guy. And he's never had a great gift to gab on the stick. But he can go in the ring. And he obviously has the look that Vince is looking for, for sure. So he looks like a main event guy. That's the biggest thing.
00:33:27
Speaker
Yeah, he definitely does. And then after his clash with Roman Reigns earlier in the year, I just feel like he's just kind of been lackluster. He's just not been the person that WWE needs him to be, to be in that main event picture. And I'm pretty sick of him bending over and spreading his butt cheeks on Raw. That's probably my least favorite part of Raw. Yeah, it's for pug.
00:33:53
Speaker
So there was a rumor. I forget what podcast I was listening to. But I don't know where they got this information from. But there was a rumor that Bobby Lashley was asked to do the Ace Ventura talking butt thing. Oh my gosh. And he cried to the writers or Vince or whatever that he didn't want to do it. And that's why I can totally see someone proposing that as a gimmick after a movie that's 20 years, 20, 25 years old.
00:34:24
Speaker
Yeah, that sounds about right. Let's make a 20. Let's make a, I think it's older than that. Jeez. I think it's like, don't even tell me. Yeah, I know. I know. We're going to make our, we're going to date ourselves, but yeah, definitely like, let's make a 20 year old reference here. Ben baller versus drew McIntyre is the next match. No stipulations, no title, but two of the most popular up and coming wrestlers on the roster on raw. I don't know who to pick here. Who do you got here?
00:34:53
Speaker
Well, both of these guys need, I would say Ballard probably needs it more, but both of these guys could benefit from a win here.
00:35:01
Speaker
Uh, yes, I agree with that. Um, I think MacIntyre's already got the machine behind him. I think he's getting that push from WWE. Um, Finn has just kind of ever since his unfortunate injury, um, after he won the universal title, he's just kind of been stuck in the midcard. Um, which is not, I mean, it's not a bad thing, but it's just kind of like, you know, he's not, he's getting a little long in the tooth. He's not getting any younger. So, um, I think I'm going with,
00:35:29
Speaker
McIntyre on this one. I think McIntyre is going to go over. I think they probably have bigger plans for McIntyre at Mania. Um, and unless Finn comes out as the demon and then, you know, then all bets are off because the demon can't be beat. Yeah. I think he's going to save that for something special, but, uh, that, yeah, if he's the demon, it's a hundred percent win. Uh, yeah, but I think they'll say, yeah, like you said, I think they'll say that for a bigger, I don't think they're going to bust the demon out on TLC. So you got Elias in the last match and baller in this match.
00:35:59
Speaker
Yep. I got Elias, um, getting the guitar and then I'm going with McIntyre. Okay. I'm going to Elias and McIntyre. We still have four matches to go over. This seems like, this feels like a WrestleMania card. This is a lot of matches. Yeah. When I was looking at the card, I was like, holy freaking smokes, man. It is loaded to the gills. And some of these, I mean, the thing is, is a lot of these matches are like,
00:36:23
Speaker
top notch matches. So I mean, I feel like they're going to be like 20 minute matches, which makes me believe like some of the, you know, other matches are going to be like squash. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Good call. You can't, you can't make some of these matches. You can't make the bar usos a new day, you know, short match or the women's title match a short match. Yeah. It's going to be, it's going to be a long night, but I think it'll be pretty fun. Uh, let's, yeah. Well, speaking of squash, I think Brian, let's go in to Braun Stroman and Baron Corbin.
00:36:46
Speaker
Um, it's a, it's a TLC match. Um, you know, if Bron wins, if this is, you know, all contingent upon Bron, even showing up, um, if Bron wins, he gets, he gets his chance at Brock. Um, if Baron wins, he becomes the permanent, uh, raw GM. So, um, Baron's thinking he's going to win by forfeit. I don't see that happening. I can't imagine, you know, them putting that on the show and then him just winning by forfeit. Um, so I think what's
00:37:15
Speaker
could possibly happen is Bron comes in and, you know, just squashes him. Like, you know, just a quick, just a quick squash, you know, and then that's all she wrote.
00:37:26
Speaker
Yeah, that's, I mean, especially if he's injured. I mean, at this point, I think he has to be there. They've talked about him every single week. They're still promoting it as a match. I would think they'd try to shy away from that. We haven't talked about any kind of schmazzy finishes or run-ins. Maybe we see a Kurt Angle running here, and maybe that says something with him and Baron Corbin. But I think you're right. I think it's more likely we just see a brawn win, a power bomb, two-minute match or something, and just re-establish him as a monster.
00:37:56
Speaker
Yeah, I can just see Baron Corbin like standing out in the middle of the ring and then like, you know, waiting for bra and then like, you know, it's just kind of like that weird pause, like where they're waiting and then he's just about to, you know, win by forfeit. And then all of a sudden you hear bra, you know, and then, uh, Baron Corbin kind of just shaken in his boots. I can, I can totally see that.
00:38:15
Speaker
Maybe Nicholas will come down with him too. You never know. No. That would be awesome. The return of Nicholas. I think we have a Nicholas reference on every single episode so far. So we're doing pretty good. Doing pretty good. One of my favorite wrestlers of all time. Ronda Rousey versus Nia Jax for the Raw Women's title. I'm sure you're going to go with Rousey here as well, Nia Jax.
00:38:38
Speaker
gave an awful promo on Monday night and continued to scream into the microphone and talked about how she didn't want to talk smack but then talk smack for three minutes.
00:38:50
Speaker
Uh, yeah, again, I think like I mentioned earlier, she just, um, Rhonda just buying time till she can, you know, get her, get her reconnection with Charlotte. Um, and Rhonda's, I don't think there's any doubt in anyone's mind that Rhonda is going over in this match. I mean, they're not going to take the title off of Rhonda, um, right before the rumble.
00:39:11
Speaker
Could you see it? I've heard rumors that Alexa Bliss is cleared to come back to competition. Can you see her getting involved in here? Because obviously, her and Naya are close. They're boys, as you would say. Yeah. I can see that.
00:39:30
Speaker
And then Naya having a feud with Alexa, you think? No, I would think maybe taking the belt off of Ronda or maybe just reintroducing Alexa and just having her pair back up with Naya. I don't know. Interesting. I don't know how that would work.
00:39:48
Speaker
Yeah, my opinion is that Naya is just going to kind of fade into the background and back into the mid card. And maybe something pops off with her and Tamina or maybe Tamina causes her, you know, causes her to lose the match this match on Sunday. And then, you know, her and Tamina break up and have a feud amongst themselves. But yeah, I think, I think they're pulling Naya down a notch after, after TLC.
00:40:10
Speaker
I want to see Tamina versus the girl from SmackDown. I forget her name. That's kind of like the fake MMA girl. What's her name? Oh, Deanna Parazzo. Yeah. Is that her name? Deanna Parazzo? No. The one that's, oh, god. Yeah. That's her name? Deanna Parazzo? That's an awful name.
00:40:34
Speaker
I thought she had a cool name. Yeah, those two are like, they have never seen either of them win a match. So maybe Tamina lost again on Raw against Ember Moon. It's disappointing. But yeah, I guess we both have Ronda in this one. Let's keep going. Let's go on to Daniel Bryan versus AJ Styles for the WWE title. This is as far as Daniel Bryan's been rolling right now. You've got to think he's going to keep it going. But AJ has a legitimate case for getting the title back.
00:41:05
Speaker
Yeah, I think AJ Styles has had his run. I think they're going to let him cool off a little bit. He's not gonna, I mean, obviously he's still amazing, but Daniel Bryan has all the momentum right now and there hasn't been a ton of buildup for this match. So I think the new Daniel Bryan is going over.
00:41:22
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going with you on that one. I think it's going to be some kind of schmaz. Maybe we see Heath Slater get involved here. Well, that wouldn't make sense because it's a SmackDown match. But yeah, I think Daniel Bryan's going to keep it well into Royal Rumble when something will happen there. The biggest match of the night, and I don't know if you think this is going to be the main event. I think it should. Becky Lynch versus Asuka versus Charlotte for the SmackDown women's title. And that should be pretty fun to watch. What do you see happening here?
00:41:51
Speaker
Oh man, this is this, this match I think has probably the most, um, like, like this is going to set the direction for the rest of, you know, like this year and into next year. Um, I think it has the most to, to offer us because they can go so many different ways with so many amazing outcomes. Um, and personally, I think Charlotte is going to win the smackdown title.
00:42:15
Speaker
Um, take it off of Becky, which is going to give Becky the opportunity to win the rumble. And okay. I was thinking about something last week after we got off the pod. Um, and it just kind of like blew my mind for a moment. I was like, I have to freaking mention this on the pod because if this happened, this is like total fantasy booking, but if this happens, like I will be like so freaking pumped.
00:42:37
Speaker
OK, so imagine this Charlotte wins the SmackDown title sometime between now and you know the rumble or whatever. So then Becky wins the rumble. And so you have Rhonda as SmackDown champion or Raw champion. Charlotte is a SmackDown champion. Becky gets to choose which title she wants to go after.
00:42:56
Speaker
Becky's like, no, no, no. I'm not going to choose. I want both you bitches. Oh, man. Yeah, so it is a triple threat for all the monies on the table, all the titles. Oh, man. How would you pull that? Whoever gets the first pin would get the both helps? Yeah, just a triple threat. First pinfall wins it all, and both the belts. So either one, Becky could just be the undisputed women's champion, even though she's the man. She could be the undisputed women's champion across both brands.
00:43:26
Speaker
Or, or they could use that as an opportunity to unify the women's title. OK, so have one women's title and then that would open up an opportunity to introduce women's tag titles. I like that. And then would you have the tag titles go across brands as well?
00:43:46
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, that'd be cool. If Becky Lynch is kind of the next stone cold, it seems like a very stone cold thing to do to just give her both belts. And she deserves it because she's been killing it. She totally deserves it. And can you imagine how amazing it would be to see Becky walking in with both titles over her shoulder, one around her waist and one over her shoulder? I just can't even imagine. It would be so awesome.
00:44:16
Speaker
Do you agree this should be the main event? Yes, definitely. Yeah, I think this is the match everybody wants to see. It's going to be pretty fun. So overall, it's a pretty stacked card, like you said. And it's going to be fun. So we have our predictions. So you're picking Charlotte. I'm going to say it's going to go to Asuka. But I'm not super confident in that. I just kind of want to be different than you. Well, what do you think that's going to happen going forward? If Asuka wins, what would you think would
00:44:44
Speaker
I mean, then I would say something similar. I think we'd allow Becky Lynch to go into the Rumble and challenge Ronda. And then we just still see Oscar versus Charlotte down the road for the title or something. I think the end game was just a free up Becky to go after maybe the next pay per view. She feuds with Charlotte. And then at the Royal Rumble, I don't know if she gets in and then wins it and gets a shot at Ronda. Gotcha. I think that's the end game, yeah.
00:45:12
Speaker
Okay. So, um, correction here really quickly. Um, it's not Deanna Parrazzo. That's a totally different chick. I was just got them mixed up. It is Sonya Deville. There it is. Okay. Yes. And I was thinking, I was like, Oh my God. I was like that way. Now when she said that, I was like, maybe it's not her. And then I knew who it was in my mind. I could see her face, but then I was like, I don't think that's her name. Yes. Sonya Deville. Who's Deanna Parrazzo, a NXT girl? It sounds familiar. Yeah. Yeah. She, yeah. She is another, she's another wrestler, but it's just, yeah, I'm not, it's just, she's not Sonya Deville.
00:45:40
Speaker
Sonya Deville, OK, cool. All right, I knew it wasn't going crazy. All right. Fun fact, Sonya Deville is dating Seth Rollins' ex-girlfriend. Really? Wow. Yeah, so fun fact of the day for you guys out there. That is a fun fact. Cool, I wonder how that happened.
00:45:56
Speaker
I don't know. So Sonya Deville and Seth Rollins are Eskimo brothers. I can't wait till we get like another Bruce Prichard podcast with someone who's been in the company from like 2010 till like now. Oh my gosh, yes. I don't know who it'll be. I don't know if it'll be like a Michael Cole in like 10 years or something or what. Road Dogg. Yeah, Road Dogg. I'm sure he's got some stories. Oh my gosh.
00:46:23
Speaker
Yeah, that's going to be so awesome. Right. So that's our TLC preview next week on the show. We're going to get heavy into Christmas, but of course, we'll recap that. And I guess talk about the Royal Rumble. That's the January preview, right?
00:46:39
Speaker
Yeah, and next week we're going to be doing the chickies. We're going to do our wrap up for the year where we pick our top matches. Chickies, I like that. Yeah, we're going to have some fun categories for you guys. So Phil and I will get together and we'll put together our top lists for the year of 2000. We'll recap 2018 and give away the Chicky Awards. Awesome. And now it's time for our Go Figure of the Week.
00:47:05
Speaker
Yes, one of our favorite segments of the show when we talk about all things police. All right. So what did you purchase this week, Sheena? Oh, man. So this could take a while.
00:47:20
Speaker
Uh, we had a big week over here at the, at the Chick Foley house. Um, first of all, I want to shout out to, uh, hashtag fig life mom assess mom, my mother-in-law, um, for picking up the survivor series and fan central elites from a Walmart in Tennessee. They were out shopping for nightstands. They went down to Tennessee to do that. And, um, you know, they, she was like, could you just tell me what figures that you are, you're looking forward. We're just gonna, I'm just gonna run in here at this Walmart. So fig life mom did a run in.
00:47:48
Speaker
scoop the whole, the whole series in one vale swoop. And yeah, it was pretty made. You can actually go and see her cart. Um, if you go to the Chick-Fully feed and scroll back a little bit, she took a picture of her cart loaded with figures. So, um, yeah, I hope, I hope to aspire to be that type of mom someday. Yeah. I thought that was, uh, Seth's sister. So, uh, good ups on, uh, on mom and you know, get some good genes there.
00:48:11
Speaker
Yeah, she does have some good genes. That was just for him. I want to hear his reaction to me saying that. Yeah, she had a bunch of good stuff, man. And I picked up that Carmella as well. This is so funny. A random follower on.
00:48:27
Speaker
to a
00:48:48
Speaker
And I don't even know this guy. The next morning, he was at the post office, sent it out. It got to me super quick. I just, obviously, PayPal'd him or Venmo'd him. And we got it done, man. So now we're friends already. It's people helping people. It's a wonderful thing. The FigLife community is a good one to be a part of. And you had some other pickups, too. I saw a big old order from a ringside, right?
00:49:16
Speaker
Yeah. So, uh, well, we also got the, uh, the WrestleMania 35 elites. So, you know, um, undertaker, we got razor Ramone, we got, uh, or sorry, Scott hall, um, triple H Sasha banks. We got the attitude era, um, triple H. And then we got a basic John Cena, the mom jeans, um, Cena from the audience when he was, you know, in the, in the audience.
00:49:39
Speaker
Um, and then, uh, we got battle pack 56 and we don't normally get battle packs, but anytime we got somebody, you know, in a, in a suit, we got out, we got to grab them. So, um, we got the Kurt angle in the, uh, in the GM gear. That's the my black son, uh, battle path. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's the one. Um, and then we got a, um, uh, king of the ring. So mad Reaper studios. I don't know if you guys follow him. If you don't.
00:50:03
Speaker
You need to it's at mad underscore Reaper underscore studios. I mean, he is a freaking custom figure magician. He made us a, uh, you know, king of the ring, 1998 mankind, you know, the white shirt and the tie, uh, and the Brown tights, because every time they've given us the, um, mankind in a white shirt, he's always wearing like sweat pants. Like we need the Brown tights. And so now, now we have it.
00:50:29
Speaker
Need them. I love it. Nice. And you had some good pickups from WWE shop. A lot of people saw that the Bob Backlund Elite was on there. I didn't grab it in time, but you got some good stuff too. Yeah, we didn't grab it in time either. We, we got it on the way from eBay, but yeah, we got Elite 63 and Elite 64 LM. WWE shop was doing like, you know, $15 figs, which is a freaking amazing, especially considering like when you buy them from ringside, they're like, you know, 27 bucks a piece. So,
00:50:58
Speaker
Yeah, we scooped the whole series of 63 and 64 off of WWE Shop. Not sure how it took WWE Shop this long to have current figs on their website when they actually are the company that makes them, or that obviously houses the creations of them. Has a license. Yeah, has a license. But they need to get more into that, because that's pretty cool. And I'm excited to see you put up that Dusty fig. That's one of my favorite figs that's been out. Yeah.
00:51:27
Speaker
It's pretty awesome. The one thing I will say about that figure is it comes with some sunglasses and the sunglasses don't fit on his giant head like they pop off. So that's the one drawback of that figure. They need to make little sunglasses like holes in the figure so you could like actually pop the sunglasses on.
00:51:43
Speaker
Um, and a lot of people were really concerned that we picked up a Joe figure. Um, and I had to explain to some people on Instagram that Instagram championship wrestling needs some jobbers. Yeah. Yeah. You gotta have some people to lose, right? You need a Sony, Sony Deville type character. Exactly. Uh, but the Usos in the, in that series are freaking awesome. Like the, they have the red gear and the vest and, uh, you know, the, uh, like what do they call those? Like the Letterman jacket. Um, yeah, they are so awesome.
00:52:14
Speaker
Yeah, all those figures are cool. I love that Nakamura. Are those the true effects scans with the hands? Yeah, they're the true effects, and they come with the additional hands. And the Nakamura comes with his little entrance hands. I don't even know what you would call that, but the ring finger down.
00:52:32
Speaker
You guys know the Nakamura hand gesture, but yeah, it's pretty freaking awesome. The only thing I'll say is like the Usos, um, like I don't feel like the, the removable hand or the interchangeable hand should come with every figure. Like I don't feel like they should feel like they have to give those to us because like for the Usos, for instance, like, like one of them is just like a little bit bigger than the other. You know what I'm saying? Like it's not, um,
00:52:55
Speaker
I don't feel like it's really worth having extra hands. Give us something else. I know that Naya Ali that's coming out has the extra heads. Do any of the male figures, have they had that yet? No. The hands are kind of like, if they don't do anything with them, they're kind of useless. Yeah, they're going to make us wait till the ultimate series with the ultimate warrior and Ronda Rousey and all of that.
00:53:22
Speaker
So before they give us the male interchangeable heads. But yeah, that Naya with those additional heads and that figure is freaking beautiful. That Naya Jax figure.
00:53:32
Speaker
Yeah, I can't wait for that. I noticed that my local, I don't know if I noticed it or somebody from Instagram noticed it, that the WWE retro figures are at five below. I love me some five below for five bucks, obviously. So I picked up series four with Finn Balor, Kevin Owens, Ric Flair, and Sami Zayn, and I'm waiting and hoping and praying that they get the series five. That's the only one I need.
00:53:57
Speaker
I have series six already so yeah I need the new day and the macho man but I bought some extra Rick Flair so if anybody out there you sent me one already which I still have mint on card but I have I bought another one to pull out loose let him breathe and I have a couple extra ones in case anyone wants one you know I'll sell it to you so I'm really ready for that macho man though
00:54:21
Speaker
But okay, but you need to, we need to have an intervention here. We're, we're going to have, we're going to take you, take you to church real quick, have an intervention because listeners of Chick Foley, if you follow, I hate JJ Reddick, I'm all about a little, a little healthy peer pressure. Okay. He has, like he just mentioned all of these retros, like almost like a full set of retros and they are still in their plastic prisons.
00:54:47
Speaker
they are
00:55:03
Speaker
And it just breathes life into them. I'm just hoping that they're 20 years from now when my son's a young whippersnapper out there. They're worth something. I don't know if they'll be like the Hasbro's were.
00:55:19
Speaker
You never know, but you have all those loose Hasbros. How are you going to display these carded figures with these Lucy's? You're right. No, you're 100% right. That's why I'm grabbing doubles of these ones that are showing up at five below. And then maybe I'll go back and grab some of them. Yeah, I know you're speaking logic to me right now, but I don't know what I'm doing. I'm hashtag toys are meant to be played with. Yeah.
00:55:46
Speaker
Yeah. I'm actually, I've been trying to get my son to help me play with all the, the, the, the ones I've acquired them all my Hasbro's before I put them in the detail of Ziggler for Christmas. So hopefully we can do that soon. Yep. Yep. Yep. Did you see, um, that elite 65, the Eric young, I think out of that series, um, that, I mean, the Nile, like we just talked about is pretty awesome, but the elite 65, Eric young, we're starting to get all the sanity figures in the next few months and, uh,
00:56:14
Speaker
I'm pretty excited because that's a good start that Eric Young figure is freaking dope. It is. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. I'm not a big fan of the Ronda, the business casual Ronda with the contract signing where she's just wearing like an all black outfit. It's kind of boring. Dude, it's bull crap that they're making us wait till the ultimate series to get her in her ring gear. Like, why are they keep giving us her in her just like streetwear?
00:56:42
Speaker
I already like bitched about this once on the pod, but like her belly button, her shirt is eating her, like her belly button's eating her shirt. Like, you know, these are elite figures, like details matter. Yeah. And I don't know why we're getting an Aiden English elite, but, uh, that'll probably be warm in the pegs. I like the, the rusev day one is pretty cool looking. And so is, you know, the rains one obviously is, you know, it's a Roman rains.
00:57:07
Speaker
Yeah, and you got the you got the shot the shock of hands the extra shock of hands, which I'm super excited about. Yeah. Nice. I don't know if I picked up anything else. I got the Camarilla. I got the retros. No, I'm yeah. Oh, we got the we got a build a figure. We got a loose build a figure Teddy Long. I forgot to mention that to round out.
00:57:29
Speaker
Yeah, to round out the set. So yeah, like I said, it was early Christmas over here. I just felt like every day a new box of figs was showing up. And I was like, whoa. Yeah, I'm sure you probably know your UPS man by first name basis.
00:57:42
Speaker
Yeah, the mailman gets pretty familiar with our front porch, for sure. Nice. So that's what we picked up this week. We always want to hear what you picked up, show us pictures, send us stuff. We are always interested in that, so you can post them there. I just sent out the Elite.
00:58:00
Speaker
Finn Balor figure to Jose Sanchez, one of our winners from a couple of weeks ago. I was super slacking on that. And we have 39 iTunes reviews, Sheena. We need one more. I set the bar at 40. We need one more. Who's going to be the one? I know. I should have just had my wife go on and do it so I could say we had 40. But I wanted to read one from a good buddy of mine, Zach Egloff. He left a good review earlier. I don't know when it was, but it was probably pretty recent.
00:58:31
Speaker
Here's what he said, this show has become a welcome edition and a breath of fresh air to my regular podcast rotation. Every day I get to listen to this show lights up my life like the 4th of July. The hosts are both great and have a wonderful rapport with each other which really plays into this show's spirit. It's a nice new take on the wrestling podcast genre and I can't wait to listen to it for years to come. Listening to the Chick Foley show has changed my life. I got a raise, two brand new cars, a big mansion.
00:58:59
Speaker
And all because I started listening to the show and to add it to your list and make sure it's the first thing you do every time there's a new episode that comes out. So thank you, Zach. We appreciate that. That's what we do. He's the one that made us those. I've been posting them periodically, but the Chick Foley and the Hot Take Kid attitude era pictures where me and you were Goldust and Marlena. And I have a couple other ones I'll send out over the holidays. But thank you, Zach.
00:59:26
Speaker
Yeah. Changing lives over here. Tune into the Chick-fil-A podcast. It could totally transform your life. Yeah. The most expensive free podcast out there. Yeah. Yes. That's what they say. You have a good random merch of the week. Yeah. So, you know, I like to troll eBay and see what kind of treasures are out there. This week I found a Titan Sports WWF Action Superstars Autograph pin from 1991. It is a pin and it's got
00:59:56
Speaker
Hulk Hogan, like actually like half torso Hulk Hogan on the top. It's articulated arms. Um, and I'm assuming you're supposed to use this, you know, add to go to all of your, you know, superstar signings and get and get autographs. Um, but you can get this, this ink pan. It is on card. Okay. It is on card. Um, for the small price of $100.
01:00:17
Speaker
even, and $9.45 shipping. You can get it before Christmas, folks. Oh, no. It's down to $7.70 shipping now. So that's a deal. Oh. Yeah, I just pulled it out. That is a freaking steal. Yeah. Yeah. They're giving you a bargain there. It does make sure you do read the description, because it says, it is not in mint condition. So even for 100 bucks, I can't even imagine what this thing will be worth if it was in mint condition. It says, our toys have not always led a perfect life.
01:00:43
Speaker
nor have they been treated as well as they should have been, but that's why we love them. So we try so hard to locate these items and find a good home for them. So if you're a good home for this autograph pin, you know, check it out on eBay. I would disclaimer, if you're going to an autograph signing, I probably would not use.
01:01:00
Speaker
This pin, you may be a little disappointed with the way that your autograph comes out. It's probably filled in dust. Yeah. I definitely recommend Sharpies and or paint pins for all your autograph needs. I do love the balls to have a two ounce pen be a 770 shipping. That's a good eBay right there.
01:01:22
Speaker
Yeah, they're like, well, they're not going to take any eBay fees on this shipping. So you know, I'm going to go ahead. Maybe it's same day shipping. I don't know. But it is in Virginia. So pretty soon you'll be able to just drive there and pick it up yourself, Gina. Yeah, unless Hulk Hogan delivers this to my door, I'm not paying $100 for it. Here you go, brother. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, if it is in Virginia, let's see what part of Virginia is it in, does it say? Midlothian. I don't know where that is. Oh, yeah, yeah. Not super close to Virginia Beach, but you know.
01:01:53
Speaker
Cool. Let's do our retro match of the, wait a minute, I didn't have to pull it up. Yeah, retro wrestling recommendation of the week.
01:02:03
Speaker
That's a, that's a lot of rules. So, uh, but yeah, the TLC, uh, in the spirit of TLC this, uh, month, we have a TLC match from 2014. It's Luke Harper. Um, you know, you were bragging on Luke Harper, so I wanted to give you a little bit of Luke Harper, Luke Harper action, uh, Phil. So this is when Luke Harper defends his IC title against Dolph Ziggler in a ladder match. Um, Seth is on commentary. Seth Rollins for all of you people and surely you know.
01:02:29
Speaker
So Seth is on commentary and it turns out like they started the match and then it was announced that it was and it's going to be an icy title match. So definitely check it out. It is. It is a good one. Yeah, I'm going to go with the I think it was 2000.
01:02:47
Speaker
2013, it was a Hell No Ryback Shield TLC match that I would recommend checking out. I don't know if it was a TLC match, but it was on the TLC pay-per-view. Hell No Ryback and the Shield in a pretty good match that had no real business being good. It was right as the Shield was kind of, I think it was one of their first pay-per-views. So definitely go back and check that out. Nice. Yeah.
01:03:10
Speaker
Yeah, that's a random team hell no in the Ryback. Yeah, Mr. Ryback. So let's wrap it up here. Do we have a giveaway? Do we have something to give away this week? Well, actually, we have a winner of our last week's giveaway, which was the Gustador custom belt. And we will be announcing a new giveaway on the Instagram this week. So make sure you tune in for that. But we have the winner for the Gustador belt is at D underscore Andy underscore S.
01:03:39
Speaker
He won. So thank you so, so much for entering our giveaways. We love to support our fans, the people who support us. So always be on the lookout for our giveaways and participate. And we love to give you some good swag.
01:03:52
Speaker
Yeah, and post a picture if we send you something. Please post it on Instagram or Twitter, because we like to see that stuff. Yeah, tag it. We'll repost you. And if we get one more review, I'm going to pick one random person on next week's show to give the Connor and Victor elites mint on card. You can let them breathe if you want to. But you don't have to. Sheena's not the boss of you people out there.
01:04:14
Speaker
I'm the man, I'm the man. Yeah, you can make them do, you can make them job out. They're actually pretty badass figures, just FYI. Yeah, they are. So we need one more review, but if you haven't given us a five-star review on iTunes, please do. It literally takes five seconds. I posted it and booked all my friends and family on Facebook, and maybe one or two of them did it, but I like you guys better than I like those people.
01:04:36
Speaker
Give us some love there. We'll be back here next week, Sheena, to recap TLC, talk about some Raw and SmackDown notes, and get into the Christmas spirit. Talk about some of our favorite wrestling Christmas memories, our favorite Christmas movies. We'll get into all of it. Yeah, for sure. And make sure you send any and all listener mail to AskChickFullyAtGmail.com, or you can hit us up in the DMs at Chick-Fully. Just make sure that if you DM us, you use the hashtag,
01:05:04
Speaker
Ask Chick Foley, sorry. Ask Chick Foley so that we know that that is listener mail and you're not just, we can read it on the show. I mean, you're not just sending us a message via DM. So DMs or Gmail account.
01:05:15
Speaker
So I know we've got to wrap it up here. We're running short on time, but we have a couple good questions. This is one from our buddy Scott Caldwell. He is HasbroWWE on Twitter. He said, if you could have a figure made in your likeness, which company would you choose? Hasbro, LJN, Galub, Mattel, et cetera. So I'll start with you first, Sheena, then I'll go. Oh, this is a really good question. Right, yeah.
01:05:44
Speaker
Mm. I can go first if you want me to. Go for it. I mean, I'm a Hasbro, Mark. So I'm going to go with Hasbro just because I love the old school feel. It reminds me of my childhood. The pros to having a new Mattel, because you're going to have the articulation. You're going to have some accessories with it. You're going to be able to move it around and use it and play with it a lot more. But I feel like that Hasbro is just going to make me feel like I'm wrestling Hulk Hogan every time I see it. So that's why I'm going to go. I'm going to go Hasbro.
01:06:14
Speaker
Yeah, I was thinking Hasbro, but you know what? On second thought, you got me. I think I would go with Mattel Elite because I need some accessories. I need the articulation. Yeah, I'm going to go with Mattel Elite. That's what I would go with. You'd have the baby face with you.
01:06:33
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Yeah,
Heel Husband Character Introduction
01:06:34
Speaker
totally. They could put the hounds of justice in there, and they could eventually make a heel husband figure. We could have our own series. Nice. I love it. We should do
Listener Interaction and Teasers
01:06:43
Speaker
that. If you have a listener question for us, send it to us, askchickfoli at gmail.com. Anything else, Sheena, before we get out of here? Nope. Just listen up next week. Like he said, we're going to have an awesome show next week. We're going to do the chickies, as well as getting the Christmas spirit and talk about what happens at TLC.
01:07:02
Speaker
So we'll talk, chickies will be wrestling related, wrestling figure related. We'll talk about some wrestling video games, all that kind of stuff. So be sure to listen, folks.
Farewell and Future Shows
01:07:10
Speaker
And for myself and Sheena Phelps, stay classy, Marx. We'll talk to you next week. Take it easy.