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Predetermined: A Pro Wrestling Hangout-Episode 004- Necro Butcher Goes To Crafty: Movies Featuring Pro Wrestlers
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In this weeks episode Garrett and Derrick discuss attending a recent NXT house show. Has a pro wrestler ever been featured in an Oscar winner for Best Picture? Find out when the boys discuss wresters on the big screen.
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Introduction & Episode Overview
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey everybody, welcome to Predetermined, a Pro Wrestling Hangout. I am your host, Garrett Callender. And with me, your favorite good brother and mine, Derek Halpin. What's up, everyone? We're back for another great episode today. We're talking about some good stuff, so thank you for listening. Yeah, coming up on this show, I'm gonna talk about an NXT house show I attended over the weekend. And we're also gonna be talking about your favorite and my favorite movies that feature pro wrestlers.
00:00:25
Speaker
Oh, my God. Once again, it's going to be a good one. Can't wait. Ready to talk about this. Honestly, I don't think the card is going to change. I think between those two things, we can keep the card the way it is. Nope. No botches today. No strain from the match. We're going to do this here in a minute. Let's hit our music, man.
NXT House Show Experiences
00:00:43
Speaker
Hit our goddamn music.
Audience Engagement & Social Media
00:01:18
Speaker
And we're back. And we're back, man. God, I look forward to this now. Like, this is something that I spend the whole week like, man, I'm ready to talk about wrestling. I feel like I haven't gotten it out of my system.
00:01:30
Speaker
I typically look forward to the next one as soon as we finish the last one. So yeah, this is something I look forward to every week and been getting some positive feedback online. Yeah, the listenership is growing. I want to thank everybody who's listened or told somebody to listen, subscribed. If you could do us a favor and hit those five stars, that boosts us up a little bit, lets people find us a little easier.
AAW Chicago Plans
00:01:58
Speaker
We love the feedback and make sure to follow us on Twitter at wrestle hangout. That's again, wrestle hangout on Twitter and also wrestle hangout on Facebook. You can't miss that. And then as well on Instagram, if you want to follow, we're going to be going to some live shows coming up. So we're going to be posting a lot of pictures and video from that. We've got AAW in Chicago coming up, not this weekend, but next. Yeah. So check out a predetermined podcast on Instagram.
00:02:27
Speaker
We'd love to hear from you. And speaking of live shows, I think a great way to start this episode off is by talking about a live show that you went to recently this past week in Garrett. So hit me up with the details, man. What happened? So I went to the War Memorial Auditorium to catch an NXT house show. And what were your expectations going in? Honestly, pretty low. The last NXT house show I went to was just a little over a year ago in Louisville, Kentucky.
00:02:57
Speaker
Yeah, I had to drive about three, three and a half hours to that one. And it was just it was such a weird venue, the one in Kentucky. It was kind of a smaller arena, like just a one level raised. But they had so few seats on the floor that everybody was just so far removed from the crowd on the floor and the ring. We just felt
00:03:20
Speaker
So far away, the wrestlers just kind of felt like there was a moment where I feel like Shinsuke Nakamura and I both thought, why the fuck are we in Louisville, Kentucky right now?
00:03:35
Speaker
He probably legitimately was thinking that. And it was just that one was a weird show where I feel like there would be a star every once in a while fighting somebody who you knew was coming out to job. Like it didn't feel like there was any like big stakes in any of the matches you saw.
00:03:52
Speaker
Like, it was, yeah, it was a time when Bobby Rude, Shinsuke, and Joe, Samoa Joe were there, but there just wasn't a lot else happening. Like, you know, you would get somebody like Roddy to come out and fight, you know, somebody who's training and learning.
NXT Highlights & Wrestler Performances
00:04:07
Speaker
Was this a show where you saw Elias? Did Elias make an appearance at this one? Elias did make an appearance, uh, because that was the only thing Leah enjoyed, is Elias came out and played a song about how shitty Louisville was.
00:04:20
Speaker
And then you said, how long ago was this? And I have nothing against Louisville. I'm sorry, like if we have any listeners in Louisville, I love you. I want you to continue listening. Your city seems great. I just had to drive a long way to get there and Shinsuke didn't seem like he wanted to be there too bad. This is a pro wrestling podcast. You don't need to apologize to the people of Louisville. Just embrace the heel roll and piss them off and maybe they'll want to listen every week because they want to fucking hate you.
00:04:47
Speaker
I don't know if that's how this works. You try it. I surely hope you've already made your feelings known so you can't take it back. Yeah, I mean you're right. I at this point like if I have listeners or listeners if they're all sitting there like I fucking hate that guy. It works. It works. No listener is bad listener.
00:05:08
Speaker
But this was a year or two ago, you said, you went to the show in Louisville? Yeah, it was just over a year. And it is insane how much they've built up their roster since then. Like, even guys who would have gotten booed or just, you know, apathetic responses when they came out were getting just huge pops at this show. It was maybe the most stacked house show roster I've ever been, I've ever actually witnessed.
00:05:36
Speaker
WWE house show. WWE house show. Yeah. I mean, every match other than the opener was no way Jose versus, uh, have you been keeping up with the next T at all? Yeah. What is the guy's name? He was on breaking ground. Uh, he was like a Tino Sabotelli. That sounds about right. Whatever his partner's name is.
00:06:02
Speaker
I'm sorry, I'm sorry this guy. Some pro wrestling fan you are. Yeah, I know, I know. I can't keep track of all of them and also... You're watching a lot of pro wrestling. I'm watching a lot of pro wrestling. Yeah, just cut me some slack on this guy. Did you do a little dance when No Way Jose came out? I did a little dance with No Way Jose. Did you hop the guardrail? No, he, instead of going to the ring the way everyone else did, he kind of went through the crowd.
00:06:30
Speaker
and we were off to a side third row and he kind of danced and I wouldn't lie if he got me going a little bit. A great opening match? The opening match was fine. When I say the entire card was great, it's because I kind of forgot the best match was there.
00:06:49
Speaker
It was the, and it's not that it was a bad match at all, it was just every match after was so good. It just was, you know, everybody you wanted to see. And also, I got to see, I'd been wanting to see Bianca Belair. I had never seen her live. She was so much fun. Do you know her? She has the long ponytail and uses it as a whip. Way into that, that was awesome. And I didn't realize she was from Knoxville. That's a nice shtick.
00:07:18
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think we've ever seen that before, have we? I don't think so. Yeah, I mean, that feels brand new to me. For anybody who doesn't know Bianca Belair, yeah, she has a very long ponytail, goes kind of past her ass, and she uses it as a whip. And since it's part of her body, it does not count as a weapon as far as I can tell. How long has she been down there in NXT? I don't know. I feel like she, I first saw her in the Mae Young classic. I assume she had just been on the endies somewhere before that.
00:07:48
Speaker
So she's still fairly new. Oh, yeah. So there's nothing she's getting the call up anytime soon. No, I don't think she'll. I mean, I don't know. She's really good. That's one of the things about NXT. I think they need to slow down the call ups a little bit. Like it does seem like it seems like they got a little happy in the last few months, especially when they called up all the girls to fill up SmackDown Raw's roster for Absolution and for the Riot squad.
00:08:12
Speaker
I mean it makes sense that they did that just because the Royal Rumble was coming up and they needed bodies in the room. Well right. But I also feel like like the women's divisions on both shows are clogged up a little bit now because they got I mean it seems like anytime they do a women's segment now they've got like eight women on screen at once for it so.
00:08:33
Speaker
But no, I was just asking because that's something unique like that. A lot of times they'll get excited about it and they'll call a person up if they've got something that's a little bit different. Yeah, actually, I could see her coming up. Though also, all these matches they're doing in the women's division are all these multi-woman matches. Why not just throw a couple tag belts in there at a certain point?
00:08:57
Speaker
I don't know, I think it's tough, especially with the time constraints that they have. I mean, Raw has three hours to fill, but SmackDown has a couple hours, and a lot of times it seems like they're pressed for time, so I don't know. I mean, I guess you keep going describing the rest of the show that you went to. Oh, no, let's see. Well, I was saying Bianca Belair got a huge pop. She was in a title match against Ember Moon, but I had no idea Bianca Belair was from Knoxville, Tennessee.
00:09:25
Speaker
So even though she was very heelish the whole match she was getting maybe more cheers than Ember Moon. She was the local girl. She was local. Everybody loved her. Who else did we have? We had Roderick Strong versus Cassius Ono, which this show just didn't feel like a house show. It felt like they were kind of putting everything into the matches they were doing.
00:09:49
Speaker
which felt a little bit like a little hidden pay-per-view. Yeah, it must have been, I think it was the first night of a little tour they were doing. I think they had just finished the NXT TV tapings, which they're now doing in Atlanta, or at least part of them in Atlanta now. And did you see the spoiler that came out of this? Spoiler alert, if anyone doesn't want to hear this, pause for like 15 seconds. Derek, tell the people.
Live Podcast Plans & Nido Meeting
00:10:16
Speaker
Johnny Gargano's getting called up.
00:10:19
Speaker
And? About Candice. Oh, not Candice. I was going to say Ricochet. He actually made a TV appearance. Oh, yeah. I mean, to me, that wasn't the big news, I guess. I guess to WWE, that's bigger news. But yeah, Johnny Gargano, I guess, was in a match against a draw. How do you what? I always say his first name wrong. Andrade Almas. Andrade. Right. I feel like I add a letter.
00:10:44
Speaker
Andrade Cian Almas. Andrade Cian Almas. He had a match with Johnny Gargano. If Gargano lost, he's out of NXT. I just I don't see him for real being gone yet. Yeah, that was the one thing that got me because it still feels like there's a lot left for him to do there. And especially with Champa. Yeah, I know. I know. So unless Champa chases him to the cruiserweight division or something.
00:11:14
Speaker
Yeah. I don't, I mean, it was perplexing to me, especially after like how good a match he had, you know, at takeover. Um, I mean, I, I guess you could make the argument though, that it may be difficult to top that match, but, uh, if there's, I mean, Gargano could probably do it. I don't know. It was a weird decision to call him up so soon after, after the pay-per-view, considering that you thought that him and Champa were going to have a rivalry down there in NXT, but I guess we'll see where he winds up. Yeah.
00:11:42
Speaker
I guess I don't know where to go from that one. Well I guess it's gonna depend. Oh yeah, well he headlined that house show.
Wrestlers in Movies
00:11:54
Speaker
Who did he headline with Garrett? Who did he headline with?
00:11:57
Speaker
This, like, I was marking so hard, and I'm using the word, there you go. I was marking all the way to the arena, because right before I went, I saw that Triple H tweeted out the main event, which was Selena Vega and Adranae Cianolmas versus Johnny Gargano and Candice LeRae.
00:12:18
Speaker
Oh, so that would have been her first official match since she signed. Somebody creamed in their pants for that. Oh, I was so excited. And they specified at the beginning of the match that even though there are men and women in the match, that they aren't allowed to hit the opposite sex either way.
00:12:38
Speaker
And what did that result in? Everybody's like, oh no, she's going to do it. So Candace did a hurricane run off the top rope to Almas. Crowd went crazy. Like the crowd was so behind Candace on that show. Oh, it was such a hot crowd. I was so surprised.
00:12:57
Speaker
I mean I haven't been to a ton of wrestling since I've or at least a ton of wrestling in Nashville but based off the crowd at Ring of Honor and at this NXT show I would hope more things like that come here just the crowd was way into it they knew who everybody was other than the people sitting behind me only understood anything if somebody had come from TNA
00:13:24
Speaker
A lot of TNA references behind me, the whole show. Really? But also, you were sitting behind the rest of TNA's audience? I guess so. Though, one of the guys that I watched The Rumble with did tell me he was from Florida and that it was free to go to those TNA shows, so he went to all of them. And he said it got to the point where it was like, you know, you could either pay to rent the pay-per-view or you could just go to it for free.
00:13:51
Speaker
right is what he's like sense when he was telling me you know that he really followed TNA I thought like you are the first person to tell me that ever with with conviction but you know if it were free it makes sense if it's free wrestling and you're there why why not
00:14:08
Speaker
And especially a lot of the wrestlers they had there, definitely people worth seeing. And I'm sure there's been a lot happen at TNA that I don't know about that is good. Somebody's probably laughing right now with that. Well, the question is, how long had he been going to shows? Because I don't know how long they've been doing that. I know there was a time period over 10 years ago, a little over 10 years ago, where I actually followed TNA a little bit. But not a long time. To me, one of the hardest parts was being able to find somewhere to watch it.
00:14:39
Speaker
Well, shit, it started off wasn't it on. Was it on TNN? I was on Spike. Well, it was on. Well, I mean, it went to Spike eventually. But before that, I think it was on like one of those sports networks that was like race cars and derby shit. That's a good channel. It's like, you know what? You can watch monster trucks, a tractor pole and TNA all in the same, you know, three hour block.
00:15:06
Speaker
think I think like the first time I saw anything TNA was actually like on FS FSN or something like one of the sports networks and then eventually I think it got moved over to TNN and then it became Spike TV and raw was on Spike TV for a long time and then they moved back to USA Network and then uh fuck isn't isn't TNA like on pop TV or something wherever the fuck it's called yeah whatever that might be
00:15:31
Speaker
Yeah, I don't have that. Yeah, no one does. See, the people who like to either listen to our podcast right now, if they're also from Louisville, they just fucking hate us. Oh, they're they're just tuning in to find out if we say our address. Right. They can. Oh, my God. Let me think. Oh, I was going to mention this. Have you ever noticed that wrestling shows the guy who is the loudest is always the least funny? Yeah, but he thinks he's funny.
00:15:58
Speaker
Yeah, when Adam Cole was in the ring, the guy was really trying to get a chant started of Cole Miner. What the fuck? That's not even funny. No. His last name, it's like Cole, you know. But when he couldn't get it going, he did seem a little disappointed. He should be fucking embarrassed is what he should be. And they're going to do a chant. If you're going to do a chant, it needs to be a good one.
00:16:26
Speaker
I don't know if I'm brave enough to start a chant. I don't think I've ever had a thought that was good enough to think the whole room should say it together simultaneously. Make that your goal before the end of the year. Get a chant started. Get a chant started at a wrestling event and make it better than coal miner. Oh, fuck. If I fuck that up and you get to report on that, like, oh, you should hear what shit this guy tried to say.
00:16:55
Speaker
The thing is, if I try doing it at this AAW show and I wear this New Japan tracksuit there, if the guy in the New Japan tracksuit tries to start the worst chant of the night, they might shoot fight you right there. I might not be welcome back. I want to make a good first impression there.
00:17:13
Speaker
I don't know, but from my perspective, if something horrible happens to you while I'm there, that'll be a great thing to talk about on the podcast. Oh yeah, absolutely. Oh, especially, especially. Yeah. We'll be doing a podcast live together when you're up here for AAW. How about you tell the people about that?
00:17:29
Speaker
Yeah. So that will be, I guess not next week's episode, but the week after, uh, when we go up there, we're going to be going to the pro wrestling tease store to do a meet and greet with Nido, hopefully film a little bit. I know I've been telling you, we've been doing these, or I've been filming some videos, still working on those. Going to get those up soon. Uh, we're going to film one of those there. And then afterwards go, uh, go hit up this AAW show where they actually have a new champ right now. Did you see that?
00:17:55
Speaker
I did. Pretty excited. I think this is because this is going to be like your first true indie show, right? No.
00:18:09
Speaker
I've been to freelance. Okay. Nice try though. With me at least. That'll be my first indie show with you. But I've only ever been to one show with you before, believe it or not. I know that's weird. But it looks like they don't have the card announced, but they do have a few wrestlers listed. It looked like Jeff Cobb is going to be there, who I think you're going to enjoy quite a bit, as well as Trevor Lee, the Carolina caveman.
00:18:34
Speaker
You know, I was disappointed. They had Hurricane Helms there a few weeks ago, and I wish he was coming back after his hot spot in the Royal Rumble. Yeah, I'm thinking that they may have spent a lot of money to get Nido there.
00:18:48
Speaker
Yeah, I would probably assume so. No, I'm looking forward to going. I'm actually looking forward to doing the podcast with you in person. And I'm actually also pretty excited to take you to Pro Wrestling Tees store for the first time. My favorite thing that you said about the Pro Wrestling Tees store was you go in there and trying to buy a Kevin Steen shirt. You said I don't remember the conversation. Do you have any Kevin Steen shirts? And they're like, ah,
00:19:14
Speaker
Not really we just have these and you're like it was a full table of Kevin Steen shirts. It was all they were hanging up and I think I like I don't know if it was just overstock from stuff they'd had from previous years there's some of them you can buy online now and I just kind of sheepishly asked like expecting them to be like no we don't have any Kevin Steen stuff he's been in WWE for like what three four years at this point like
00:19:37
Speaker
No way, but I walked away with the Kevin Steen shirt. I've got a couple shirts from there and I'm expecting if I'm taking you there, you're going to be spending money on a shirt, right? I actually get one with the meet and greet. Ooh, that's free. I get a Nido shirt like their logo, but I get it has the Chicago flag on it.
Critique of The Rock's Films
00:19:57
Speaker
Oh, are you going to be wearing that in Nashville?
00:20:00
Speaker
I mean maybe under something. Oh I can't bad mouth Chicago. There's too many people listening from Chicago. And I can I can prep them for your arrival here. Yeah I don't want to I don't want to catch a fist of the mouth immediately. But it sounds like you had a good time at the NXT show. You got you got like a dream main event there seeing that Gargano and Candace tag team together so.
00:20:27
Speaker
Got to run up to the gate after it was over, and I had on a shirt of bloodied candice. She said, nice shirt. And all I could get out of my mouth is, you're my favorite wrestler. I don't know, that's better than just thanks. Thanks.
00:20:45
Speaker
and just walk away. Like you don't even know who the fuck it is, even though you're wearing the shirt. Thanks! Thanks for the compliment. Before we move on from NXT, I do have to say, NXT, one thing they've gotten right with a lot of their house shows, or just any of their shows, when they're touring, they usually sell a card of every match that you got to see that night with the pictures of the wrestler. Kind of looks like an old school wrestling card.
00:21:10
Speaker
And usually it's like, you know, 20, 30 bucks. And then for 50 bucks extra, it'll come signed by everybody. And since now it's at this time where, you know, the matches were like Alistair Black versus Velveteen Dream, Candace and Johnny versus Zelina and Olmos, you know, just the Adam Cole's group. I kind of forget that name. What is it? Undisputed Era versus Sanity? There's just so many good people on this card that I'm like, oh, I'm buying one of those this time.
00:21:39
Speaker
This is worth it. This is the first show I've been to where they weren't selling them. Aww. Yeah, they were only selling real old ones from Takeover Wargames.
00:21:49
Speaker
Why don't, are they too big now? What the fuck? Yeah, I don't know. And then the shirts they were selling, they were selling old Kevin Owens shirts and old Shinsuke shirts. It's not like they ran out of merch. It's like they just found a box of shit that was left over. And that's what they were selling. And you didn't get me an old Kevin Owens shirt. I didn't think about it. I'm sorry. Well, I think it's time to move on to the main event, Derek.
00:22:18
Speaker
What's the main event today, sir? The main event is we are going to discuss movies, not starring pro wrestlers, but just in general, featuring professional wrestlers. It can't be a movie that stars a pro wrestler that we talk about. I mean, it could star them if they want. We're going to leave Dwayne out of this, though. Dwayne as much as we can. Yeah. Yeah. Dwayne could have his own show. Dwayne is probably going to end up getting in his own episode in the next few months.
00:22:45
Speaker
We get to have a whole episode just talking about Dwayne movies and rating
Favorite Wrestler Movies
00:22:48
Speaker
them. And saying the word Dwayne as many times as we can. Oh yeah, he's Dwayne now. He's Dwayne the Rock. He's the Rock. But I will say, spoiler alert with his movies, most of them not very good. But so? But here's the thing, he's making fucking bank. Oh, I mean, Jumanji's almost made a billion dollars worldwide right now. Didn't you say you enjoyed Jumanji?
00:23:12
Speaker
Everybody enjoyed Jumanji because it's fucking good. Well, you just got done ripping his movies and now you're... Well, I'm ripping Hercules. Like, you know, when I go see a rock movie at this point, I want him to have shoes.
00:23:26
Speaker
I can't... You can't hit anything that reminds you of the Scorpion King. Yeah, the Scorpion King, Hercules, just cover him up, man. You gotta have a closed-toed shoe before I go see your movie. And he took that a step further with this skyscraper when I saw it from the Super Bowl trailer. He only has one leg in that movie. You know what's funny? Other than the early part of his movie career, I don't know if I've seen too many movies with The Rock. What, just like, be cool?
00:23:54
Speaker
Like Walking Tall and Gridiron Gang and The Rundown. I like that we're just like, here's one thing we're not gonna do. Only rule. No talking about Dwayne. Here are all the Dwayne movies and letters. Well then let's fucking stop and we'll save it. And let's talk about...
00:24:12
Speaker
pro wrestlers in movies and let me ask the question what's the first movie you watch that had a pro wrestler featured in it that you were aware of or not even necessarily aware of I guess you can make that two categories one what's the first movie you probably watched as a kid that had a pro wrestler in it and then a movie that you watched where you were aware going into it that a pro wrestler was in it
00:24:35
Speaker
I mean, 100% the first movie I would have seen that I was aware that pro wrestlers were and it would have been something with Hulk Hogan. I mean, I grew up watching the Thunder in Paradise movies, one and two. I see never saw Thunder in Paradise.
00:24:52
Speaker
Oh my God, just so you know, there are scenes in that movie where Hulk Hogan holds his breath for minutes, just very long time, and when asked, when his partner is asked how he can do that, I believe his response is, oh, he's part whale. But like dead serious? It is a movie mostly of Hulk Hogan fighting inside speedboats and on jet skis. As a child, I don't think there was anything better.
00:25:22
Speaker
Well here's the thing, I mean I think if we weren't gonna talk about The Rock in movies, wouldn't the next guy in that line of thinking be Hogan? Yeah, but I didn't set that.
00:25:35
Speaker
No, no, no, I wasn't saying you're right. I'm just saying that like as far as as far as pro wrestlers, like, you know, where they rank as far as being known for being able to kind of transcend into the movie industry. Hogan, I mean, he got the nickname Hollywood for a reason because he was making Mr. Nanny, Mr. Santa with muscles.
00:25:55
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Hogan, I feel like what happened with Hogan was a lot more like kind of where Cena was with his, I feel like Cena's movies are a little silly. In that same vein. Yeah, I get that. But Cena's moving on too. Did you see Trainwreck, the Amy Schumer movie? I didn't see Trainwreck, but I saw his bit in Trainwreck. Cena was hilarious in it.
00:26:19
Speaker
Yeah. Honestly, in movies right now, I could definitely see him getting to the level of The Rock. I think he's just very likable and he's doing a better job. Well, you know, he just released that that was a Disney movie, Ferdinand. Yeah. Didn't do very well at the box office for an animated movie. Well, it just did some research on that the other day, so.
00:26:42
Speaker
Don't know I don't know my girlfriend wanted to see it I think she wanted to take her daughter to go see it they didn't go see it and that would probably explain What a lot of people thought so I don't think that's gonna hurt John getting another movie role No, I don't think so either But what about you though? Well, what's the what's the first one you remember?
00:27:01
Speaker
Um, I think the first one I saw that had a wrestler I probably wasn't aware of was either like, I mean, I guess Rocky three, maybe when I was a kid and, but the, like, you know, the one we talked about a couple of weeks ago as a teenage mutant Ninja turtles to Kevin Nash played the super shredder. So, um, that's one of the first, but I think like the first like.
Wrestler Cameos in Films
00:27:23
Speaker
Pro wrestler movie that I intentionally went out of my way to go watch was, was actually probably the rundown.
00:27:29
Speaker
Okay, where Schwarzenegger passes the torch at the beginning. Essentially, yeah. Fuck, I forgot that he did that at the beginning of the movie. Yeah, it's like the first scene in that whole thing. Yeah, they pass each other in a club, yeah. So you're going to mention the Dwayne movies again.
00:27:46
Speaker
Well, that's the thing is that if we're talking about the first one, we go out of our way to be like, oh, that's a movie that's got a wrestler. I'm going to go see it. A rundown was it. You could have had the courtesy of fucking lying to me. I'm not going to fucking bullshit you, man. Not yet. I've got I've got a long list of stuff after this that I just I fucking enjoy as far as per wrestlers and movies. So is the boogeyman in any of them? I don't think so. Yeah, he is.
00:28:15
Speaker
Boogie Man's in the best one, man. Is it one I've seen? Oh, yeah, you've seen it. All right. You want to know where Boogie's hiding? Where's he hiding? Boogie's hiding right in plain sight in Transporter 2. Is he? Oh, fuck. I had to look up the scene. So just so you know, I looked up how many movies have a pro wrestler in them. OK. The list I found had 1,605 movies.
00:28:44
Speaker
That's a lot of movies. I clicked through the whole list. That's cheating. No, I looked it. I wanted to know. I wanted to know. Every single one. And you know what? A lot of it looks like dog shit. Well, how many of those are WWE productions? Oh, most of them are actually lower than that.
00:29:04
Speaker
Like after wrestling careers? Like you would never believe half these fucking movies that these wrestlers have done. Have you heard of the movie Albino Farm? No. Yeah, I had neither until I was looking into this. And who's in that one? Chris Jericho. Really? Made in 2009, takes place in the Ozarks. A real Hills Have Eyes situation, but Chris Jericho with a southern accent. I kind of want to watch it. I absolutely want to watch it.
00:29:34
Speaker
If anything, that sold me on it. So there's a movie that you and I saw together in theaters, and Chris Jericho's in that one too. Can you guess what one that is? It's McGrouper. It is McGrouper, and there's a fuck ton of wrestlers in that movie. Jericho's in it, Kane is in it, Mark Henry's in it, MVP, Big Show, The Great Khali. I think, boy, do they all fucking die in the same scene? They die immediately after they get assembled.
00:30:04
Speaker
And then isn't that when he goes back to that office and is asking the general what he wants him to fuck? Yeah, no. Just tell me what you want me to fuck. I actually think that movie's really funny, and I just think the scene of him running across that, what the fucking tarmac, wherever that van is that blows up, and just, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Call 911.
00:30:28
Speaker
Oh, fuck. No, that that one. I mean, that may hold a record for the most pro wrestlers in a movie that's not a movie about pro wrestling. Yeah, I can say that's true. As I was looking through, there are a lot of movies. There are more movies about pro wrestling than I thought there were. There's a Stallone one.
00:30:49
Speaker
Really? And the list of people in it are just crazy. There's so many people, like just so many wrestlers from that time period. And then also the movie, The Wrestler, the Mickey Rose point. I was going to ask about that because I know that there's a couple of guys in there. Are truths in there? Cesaro. Cesaro's in there. So is Austin Aries, I believe. And to me, the funniest one that's in it that has probably a more prominent role than any of them is Necro Butcher.
00:31:18
Speaker
Yeah, Necrobutchers in there, but hey, Ernest the Cat Miller's in that. We were just talking about him last week. I was looking through cats actually in quite a few shit movies.
00:31:28
Speaker
Really? But I do. Do you think that Necro Butcher on set like he would be the funniest stuntman because that is just a guy who is hurting himself on set. Like I'm picturing him going to crafty like reaching into the M&Ms bowl and just having bloody hands and be like, no, it's cool. I'm positive. I'm positive. I've heard recently that Jim Cornette hates a Necro Butcher as well. So we can continue the list of things that Jim Cornette doesn't like.
00:31:55
Speaker
Well, I don't know if I love Necrobutcher. I don't. That guy has a pot leaf tattooed on his fucking bicep. Well, Ellsworth had the Offspring logo on him. What's wrong with the pot leaf? I don't know. The pot leaf comes across as trashy, man. I mean, it fits his fucking character, I guess. Dude's getting cut up by barbed wire and shit. He needs something to ease the pain. Well, I didn't say he can't smoke pot. I just said I don't like the tattoo.
00:32:22
Speaker
Could you do a road trip with Necro Butcher? No, I couldn't. Do you think the first hour would just be silence? I couldn't do a trip to the fucking grocery store and back with Necro Butcher, let alone a fucking road trip. Hey, man, do you want to try and shank me with this? No, put it away. No. Come on, man. You hurt me. I'll hurt you too. Come on, man. You won't hurt my feelings. Hit me as hard as you can. I'm not going to stab you. I'll break you into the business, man.
00:32:50
Speaker
That's not who I want to have break me into the business fucking Necro butcher. So yeah, that was the only Necro butcher movie I saw. But, you know, hopefully we can't we can't talk about this subject and not bring up a movie that came out, I believe, in the late 90s in the middle of the attitude era called Ready to Rumble. God, I.
00:33:12
Speaker
just oh my god the it's on hbo go right now if you haven't seen it oh i look the other day i actually put it on him watched it and then after it was over i immediately called my father and apologized that was probably the right thing to do your father took you to see that movie opening night he had work the next day we had to drive an hour to get to the theater that was playing it
00:33:51
Speaker
I don't know
00:33:53
Speaker
the plot fucking sucks if you can get past that the plot doesn't make any sense because they talk about wrestling like it's half real but also choreographed in a way that doesn't make any sense where some of the stuff like some of the backstage stuff is like legit and actually that movie depicts wrestling more the way it is right now than any other movie
00:34:17
Speaker
do you think i don't know i watch i watch some of it the other day man like not good stuff no i'm just saying like where it's like well yeah we know it's it's a work but is it like i feel like that's what talking smack does or did yeah but the answer is always yeah it's a fucking work yeah yeah it's a work
00:34:39
Speaker
I don't know, man. I remember being really excited because this came out like the same time. There was a there was a burst there for a little while where they had ready to rumble. And then there was also beyond the mat, which was more of a documentary. Oh, my God. We get to watch Harry Funk and mankind be just sad.
00:34:58
Speaker
And Jake the Snake Roberts? Oh my god. In the midst of having all of his drug issues? Yeah, that movie, it is not a feel-good one. It is not. It is not the redemption story that Jake the Snake Roberts' documentary that came out a couple, I don't know if I said the word right, documentary. Documentary? Documentary came out a couple years ago. I know how to say it, I think I fucked it up. I mean his commercial for DDP Yoga.
00:35:25
Speaker
essentially you went to the premiere of that though didn't you yeah I went to the LA premiere of that and actually speaking of ready to rumble David our cat was in attendance holding his WCW heavyweight championship title
00:35:37
Speaker
The gall. The gall.
Wrestler Film Anecdotes
00:35:40
Speaker
Like when you see him walking through the door, he's actually the only one I didn't approach. And it wasn't because I was mad about that. But Edge sat behind us and cried during the movie. Time in Dallas Page was there. And as we were standing at the front door, he happened to just walk in. And I just lost my shit. Because growing up, he was one of my top guys.
00:36:01
Speaker
And you had met him before, too, at like a signing in St. Louis, didn't you? Oh, yeah. We had a friend whose parents took us to a car show just to meet DDP. And then you fucking left? Oh, yeah. But like we got there early, so we were the first people in line. So we're standing there at the table and then just out of nowhere just hear, bang, and all jump. He's standing on the table behind us now. And when he goes to sign the thing, he asks what my name is, asks how to spell it, I told him wrong.
00:36:30
Speaker
Really, you told DDB how to spell your name incorrectly? I was too nervous.
00:36:38
Speaker
You know what you should do? You don't make for a good story, I'm surprised. If you get a chance to meet him again, take the same autograph and have him fix it. And say, here's the story. Well, at that thing, when I saw him, I was like, hey man, I just want to let you know, when I was like 11 or 12 years old, I met you. And I was so excited and nervous that I told you how to spell my name wrong. I just want you to know, I know how to do it now.
00:37:06
Speaker
I'm not as nervous because you're not as big of a deal now. Sorry, Diamond. And he said, hey, good job, man. That's awesome. Have you bought my yoga? No, but my dad does it. And then I asked if I could get a picture. And then he stuck his hand out and then goes, finish off the cutter, brother.
00:37:22
Speaker
Wow. And that was another moment where I was just a goddamn little kid. You marked out. Oh, yeah. I don't know. There's some of those guys that it's just I feel shame later when I realize how excited I am. You shouldn't be ashamed, man. I mean, if you talk about pro wrestling this much, if you think about it, if you watch as much as you do, it makes sense why you'd be super excited to meet fucking DDP. Plus, it's fucking DDP.
00:37:51
Speaker
Yeah, and then right after him, RVD walked in behind us, and my buddy and I were like, oh my god, RVD! And he was really high.
00:38:01
Speaker
And it caught him off guard, so we scared the shit out of him. Nobody's surprised at that news for a guy who has a move called the 420. He walked in the door to that movie theater, and when he walked in, I don't think he realized the entire audience was gonna be looking directly at him, and they all popped for him, so he didn't know what to do, so he just did the RVD, pointed himself with his thumbs.
00:38:25
Speaker
Did he look scared or at least put on a smile? Oh, he smiled, but it was more out of fear, I think. I don't know if you've ever been that high walking into a room of strangers all yelling at you. No, but there's an opportunity here in a couple weeks. This could be a fun time meeting Nido.
00:38:48
Speaker
So quick quick tangent on this and we'll get back to like the more cinema based wrestler movies. Did you ever watch the documentary wrestling with shadows hit man heart. Absolutely. I was going to ask because I don't think you and I have ever talked about it. It's basically follows Bret Hart's career for a year leading up to the Montreal screw job and which isn't it convenient that the cameras were rolling for that.
00:39:15
Speaker
Yes, yes, I guess. I mean, it was convenient for sure. But I if what you're getting at is that you think that that's part of the fucking work. I'm not getting at anything. I'm just saying if it was a work and they had the they had the foresight to film a documentary with him like a year in advance.
00:39:36
Speaker
Good on them. They got a good finale out of it. But there's a scene that I feel like I remember. Is there one where you just hear a guy getting trained in the basement and you just hear screaming? Yes, absolutely. One of my favorite scenes in that movie. His fucking dad, Stu Hart, is working over a couple of guys down in the basement and smacking him and he's just screaming at the top of his lungs. Would you do that? Do you think you could handle Stu Hart for an hour?
00:40:06
Speaker
He's not around anymore, so I might as well say yes. That's okay. Okay. I think what you need to learn about me is that if you give me an opportunity to brag with zero repercussions for bragging, I'm going to do it. Like if you give me the opportunity to look tough in front of a corpse. Yeah. I am going to look like goddamn Scott Steiner.
00:40:29
Speaker
Or we talked about this before, like I sincerely doubt I'm ever gonna be in a situation where I'm face-to-face with Brock Lesnar, so of course I'm gonna tell you, I can take 16 suplexes, no problem. The thing is, I almost intro'd you on this show as the only man who knows he can take more German suplexes from Brock Lesnar than John Cena. It's not a question, I know. You mean Brock Lesnar, who is in the Jason Statham film Death Race?
00:41:00
Speaker
Wow. I saw online he was credited as prisoner. That was a smooth transition back to back to the cinema based wrestler movies. I didn't know he was in that. Let me ask you this question. Did you know that Christian is in shoot him up?
00:41:16
Speaker
No. Yeah. The Clive Owens action film shoot him up. Christian plays like a bodyguard. I think for Paul Giamatti on the plane scene. Jesus. I saw the test is in planet terror. He plays like a Nazi boxer. How about we just run down a few. OK. I have to. This is one that like I'll let you go. But I have to I have to name this. OK. OK. Do you know the movie Rudy?
00:41:47
Speaker
Yes. The football movie with one of the Hobbits? Yeah. Yeah. People are going to be mad that I worded it that way. People love Rudy. Are they going to be mad? I don't think our audience is going to be that upset. Sean Astin is in that. I know that's his name. And also people are going to be like, you fucking kidding me? That movie is where Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau became friends. What?
00:42:11
Speaker
You know who play two football players on the Notre Dame football team? Who's that? Dan Severn and Al Snow. Fucking Al Snow. Does that change the way you want to watch that movie? What does everybody want? Rudy!
00:42:39
Speaker
Rudy would have been the worst wrestler, but he would have been a really good babyface. Well, how about a big how about a big budget one? OK, like. Bonesaw is ready. Oh, that's a that's a huge one. Saw that on your birthday. Yeah, we did see that on my birthday. That's fucking macho man, Randy Savage playing bonesaw in Spider-Man. Yeah, like we there are some big ones. I mean, like right now Batista is getting huge. He's great, though. I love watching him and shit.
00:43:09
Speaker
Yeah, isn't he also trying to do some more dramatic stuff rather than just the action stuff? Oh, yeah, he was just in like he was in the new Blade Runner. This is okay. Some of these I don't believe and I tried to look it up to find specific scenes. I found something that said that Sting was in Liar Liar. I feel like the Internet is like Steve Borden. No, it said he played wrestler, but I don't remember a wrestler in that. I also saw that Rey Mysterio was in Freddy versus Jason.
00:43:38
Speaker
Really? Goddamn Terry Funk's in the Friday Night Lights movie.
00:43:43
Speaker
Bam, bam, bagel, a lot of these guys have been in just so much shit. Like there's a lot of dudes that have just been in like very soft core porn, you know, late night on USA when we're children type movies. B-movie. Oh, Buff Bagwell's been in a few of those that just like that the cover of it is just a lady with a gun, a lot of boobs in the Amazon.
00:44:10
Speaker
What was the name of that movie that Goldberg was in where he played Santa Claus? Was it called Santa Claus with CLAWS or something? I think it was actually called Santa's sleigh. That's right. That's right. That movie is a lot of fun if you haven't seen it. It's a B horror movie. In the opening scene, you've got Chris Catan. Who else is in that? Fran Drescher, James Cahn.
00:44:36
Speaker
I can't believe I'm like, you gotta check out Santa's sleigh, man. This is, that movie is the spot. What about the Adam Sandler remake of The Longest Yard? Fuck, that movie was just, that was the Monday Night Wars brought to life. Goldberg, Kevin Nash, and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Yeah, is that it? I thought, well, also you got Great Khali.
00:44:57
Speaker
Yeah, he's in that too, fuck, I forgot about that. You have shit, there's another guy, because there's several guys that I didn't realize were wrestlers. And then you've got a guy, if you count Tommy Tiny Lister, who played Deebo in the Friday movies, he was Zeus. And No Holds Bard with Hulk Hogan, but he actually ended up wrestling for the WWF for six or seven years after that.
00:45:23
Speaker
Actually, the worst movie I've ever seen, it's a tie, but one of them has three wrestlers in it, and that is the remake of Roller Bowl. Fuck, I forgot about it. Isn't Shane McMahon in that? Shane McMahon, Scottie 2 Hotty, and Paul Heyman. And Slipknot, which if anyone at home is counting, that's the second time Slipknot has been referenced in the history of this podcast.
00:45:50
Speaker
I was just browsing their IMDB page the other day, honestly. Slipknots. No, fuck, fuck, no. Scotty Two Hotties. Yeah, IMDB. I was on the one for Rollerball because I forgot that came out like right, like around the time where WWF was on top of the fucking world and they worked in as many cameos and they were promoting that on TV, too.
Wrestling Film Trivia
00:46:14
Speaker
God, that movie's...
00:46:16
Speaker
if anyone actually saw that movie the thing that i remember most about it is well one i didn't the rules didn't make sense uh yeah that's why i went to that movie was to follow a real sporting event uh because clearly that's very important to me but there's a scene in it where the whole gang is in the back of a truck
00:46:40
Speaker
and it's a night vision and the scene felt like it lasted 15 minutes shot on a night vision camera and then LL Cool J just like explodes on a motorcycle.
00:46:53
Speaker
I had a question while I started looking this up. I started wondering, has there been a movie with a wrestler in it that's won an Oscar? Not the wrestler, but has there been a movie where a wrestler has been featured in it that went on to win Oscars?
00:47:12
Speaker
Well, you said not the wrestler, but did Spider-Man win anything for any special effects or anything? I can tell you, there is a movie that won Best Picture that had a professional wrestler in it. His name was Lenny Montana, and he played Luca Brasi in The Godfather. Really? And if you want to hear some crazy shit,
00:47:40
Speaker
So this guy was a wrestler in the 50s and he fought in NWA and AWA. He held titles in both of them. He was the heavyweight champ in the NWA. He was the tag champs in AWA. And then it looked like he broke his leg in a match with Vern Ganya.
00:48:03
Speaker
and bowed out for a while, came back, and then he ended up in between being a enforcer for a famous mob family. And as I'm reading about this guy, I'm like, why the fuck?
00:48:20
Speaker
He was not always hasn't come up before yeah how the fuck have we missed out on lenny montana this whole time so when it said his job was the enforcer not only was he an enforcer he was also their arsonist. Jesus. And do you want to know how he would burn buildings down.
00:48:40
Speaker
This seems like this could be its own podcast episode. I know it was this family called the Colombo family, which said was a very big crime family in the late 60s. And in order, I just, you know, I'm I found this on Wikipedia as I started researching the guy because I just brought up like, oh, he was a wrestler. What did he do? And as I started scrolling down, it says,
00:49:04
Speaker
Tall and very heavily built, his talents were mostly as an enforcer and an arsonist. He would tie a tampon to the tail of a mouse, dip it in kerosene, light it, and let the mouse run through a building. Or he would put a candle in front of a cuckoo clock so that when the clock's bird popped out it would catch on fire.
00:49:30
Speaker
This is like the craziest fucking shit I've ever heard. And then upon, uh, let's see, he ended up, uh, doing a little time in Rikers Island. And then upon being released, he started fucking acting. And wound up in the Godfather. Which won a goddamn Oscar for best picture in like 1973.
00:49:55
Speaker
You realize there's actually an art to arson right? Yeah, like that's the mouse things genius. I'm gonna burn Take that with your kids the cuckoo clock one isn't bad either It's actually kind of cute it is a little bit cute like he had to think of that
00:50:13
Speaker
Like I bet he giggled a little bit when he's like, I bet this works. That's a good fucking story. He also, he went on to be in several movies, another one of my, actually one of my favorite comedies, he was in The Jerk. I think what's crazy when we sit here and go down this list and we talk about all those different things is it's like no matter how many times you bring something up, like another movie comes to mind. There was a wrestler in the early 2000s called, I think it was Nathan Jones.
00:50:42
Speaker
Oh yeah, as looking through, he's been in a ton of shit. He was in Troy. Yeah, I think he was in some other stuff with Stone Cold too. Well, I was going to ask, did Troy win anything? Did Troy win any Oscars or? It won an award for me seeing it in a theater with Evan Roderick. I saw it with you then. Oh, hell yeah. I think I bought a Marilyn Manson CD that day. If anybody listening to this is like Garrett likes, he likes that new metal.
00:51:12
Speaker
Slipknot, man. No. This is just from a different time period. And they're gonna be like, hey, it's okay. Papa Roach is now the official band, the theme song of Raw. Hey, I feel like I should start putting music recommendations at the end of this. For the second time, just so you know. What was the other one? I just want to be loved, I think. Was the Raw theme song like 10 years ago? Sing the first two minutes.
00:51:38
Speaker
No. Okay, so wait, hold on, hold on. This one has to be said because it was one that for a long time I didn't know, and I probably should have, but jingle all the way.
00:51:58
Speaker
Big Show. Big Show. Fucking Big Show plays the giant. I think it was this mid 90s so he still technically would have been in WCW. Oh he would have been Big Show. No wait. He would have been the giant. Oh he was the giant then. Yeah. Big Show was also in like Waterboy. He was Captain Insano. Right.
00:52:19
Speaker
and it's weird like when you look up some of these guys you're like I wouldn't have thought he was in any movies but then I start realizing like oh my god Terry Funk was in Roadhouse and just going through this list and bam bam Bigelow was in a whole bunch of movies that just look like dog shit and also Kevin Nash man Nash Nash Grandma's boy the Punisher John Wick
Wrestling Documentaries
00:52:43
Speaker
Magic mics, one and two. Kevin Nash, he's not doing too bad for himself right now. No, I think he still does indie shows too, doesn't he? He at least goes and signs autographs.
00:52:56
Speaker
I know that every year around WrestleMania, he hosts like a watch party, like he'll rent out like a bar or a club and does like a watch party and invites a few of his wrestling friends over. This is a weird thing we're talking about movies, but I was surprised like you start thinking about it and you realize that Nash has been in a lot of shit. He's in shit I actually do enjoy. Yeah.
00:53:18
Speaker
One last one that I need to bring up before this is all over. I came across a guy named Mike Mizurki.
00:53:29
Speaker
And what caught my eye is that I saw that he was in, it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world. I mean, a lot of you might not know that one. That one's from, what year would that be, like 60? Okay, 1963. Huge cast, it's a bunch of people looking for buried treasure kind of movie, going all over California, looking for that. A couple movies have been based off of it since then too, like Rat Race. Yeah, it's been remade a couple times.
00:53:59
Speaker
But, so I was looking at this Mike Mazurki. Do you remember the scene when the guy, uh, he pulls over to pick up a hitchhiker and the guy's like, my wife's sick, I need to take her to this medicine.
00:54:09
Speaker
Right. And then he ends up fucking his car up. Well, that guy has been in a hundred movies and he's been in some big movies like some like it hot. You know, what else we got? Dick Tracy. I'm just looking through here. Some like it hot and it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world or big ones to me. But what I started looking up trying to figure out what all he did in wrestling. But I came across something a little more interesting because, you know, there's not a lot of, you know, pro wrestling awards.
00:54:39
Speaker
And one of the bigger ones is the Cauliflower Alley Club. You know, they have awards every year for professional wrestlers and don't they have like some other fighters in there as well? Sure. Well, it turns out this Mike Misurki co-founded and was the president of the Cauliflower Alley Club. Wow. The Cauliflower Alley Club logo of that, the Cauliflower ear is Mike Misurki's ear. Wow. So he, you know, he was the mas before there was a mis.
00:55:09
Speaker
The more you know. The A-Lister. I don't know. I just thought that was kind of cool. You got excited about the name is probably what it was. I got excited. Well, he was also in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. But yeah, when I saw Maz, I was like, Maz, Miz, same. You know what? I wish that some of these guys from the like 40s and 50s could take on some of the wrestlers now because it'd be fucked up. Did you ever see my breakfast with Blassie? No.
00:55:41
Speaker
Oh, wait, I think I heard about that recently on a podcast. I've been meaning to watch it for, like, obviously, like, almost 20 years. And you were just saying, actually, well, Man on the Moon, Jerry Lawler, they're tying it into another wrestler in another movie. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, you were saying, like, that last week when we were talking about intergender wrestling, we left out the king of intergender wrestling.
00:56:01
Speaker
Yeah, it blew my mind. I was getting ready to do this episode with you and we were going over actors and movies with wrestlers and I was like, well, holy shit, how did we not talk about Andy Kaufman for either comedy and wrestling or for intergender wrestling? And Andy Kaufman was the self-proclaimed intergender wrestling champion of the world. God damn it, he was good at it. He was the best. I don't know if anyone's ever gotten as much heat as him.
00:56:29
Speaker
I was kind of hoping James Ellsworth would take that approach and maybe do that on the Indies a little bit and take the Kaufman shtick. I mean, that would be fine. What else does he have to do right now? Nothing. That's sad. I'm sure he's doing fine. I actually saw that he's booked on Joey Ryan's Indie show that he does in LA now, bar wrestling.
00:56:53
Speaker
Yeah, I think he's getting booked for a lot of indie shows.
Current Wrestling Events & Rumors
00:56:55
Speaker
But no, I actually I don't know for certain. I heard he was kind of depressed after WWE let him go. Like, I don't know if he thought he was going to have a long career there or whatnot. That guy has nothing to be depressed about. He not at all. You know, there's a lot of people.
00:57:12
Speaker
with a lot more talent that are a lot, you know, more apt to be in the WWE than him. He got there. He did it. And he had a run. Yeah. I mean, he played a big part in the first ever Women's Money in the Bank match. And actually, no, that run he had with AJ Styles was pretty fun TV for a few weeks.
00:57:32
Speaker
The Dean Ambrose stuff, yeah. And then he found some stuff to do with Carmella. It was funny, we posted the poll up on our social media, on our Twitter, on our Facebook, asking people if they were pro intergender wrestling or if they were against it. And over 60% of our voters said that they were for it. So thanks for the feedback, everyone. I'm with you. I think there should be more intergender wrestling.
00:58:00
Speaker
At the end of that poll, I was like, what are we gonna do? Do we have to make two people fight each other? I don't know what we're supposed to give you guys with that.
00:58:09
Speaker
We give them nothing and they'll like it and just wait for the next poll. Do me a favor though. We spent a lot of time talking about, you know, just different, uh, different movies that have wrestlers in them. What are some of your favorites? Let us know on, on Twitter at wrestle hangout. Cause I'm sure, I mean, I went through a list of 1600 of them. I know we left, we left out like they live one of the best ones. Uh, proddy was in a lot. Roddy Roddy Piper did a lot of movies that I did not see.
00:58:38
Speaker
It's true. I would see stuff on TV even years later where I would see Roddy Piper on it. So well, I know where. Yeah, there's there's a lot. There's a lot of fucking wrestling movies out there. And I'm sure that we're going to get hit with some people suggesting some stuff to us that we just completely left out.
WrestleMania Anticipation & Injury Impact
00:58:56
Speaker
Oh, before we go as well.
00:59:04
Speaker
I actually didn't get a chance to watch it. Did anything notable happen tonight on Smackdown?
00:59:09
Speaker
Well, they were supposed to have a match where it was Zayn and Owens to determine who was going to face AJ Styles at Fastlane. And Zayn kind of got in Styles face at ringside and Styles attacked both him and Owens. And so now it's a triple threat match. The mixed match challenge after SmackDown, I guess Naomi and the Uso won. I don't know who they're facing. Naomi, who didn't her name used to be Trinity? Yeah. Okay. And Trinity is in Stuart little two.
00:59:40
Speaker
Nice. Keep it going. I could just do this for another hour. Stuart Little One, written by M. Night Shyamalan. Nothing to do with wrestling, just a weird fact. Rusev and Bobby Roode had a good match. I would recommend going back and watching that. Did I see that Bobby Roode received an RKO? He did. RKO the fuck out of nowhere. So I thought it was a pretty good episode of SmackDown. Raw was pretty good too.
01:00:08
Speaker
Yeah, they're getting ready. It's WrestleMania season man. We're getting into it. We're in that weird spot though where we have to get through elimination chamber and hope that no one gets hurt first.
01:00:19
Speaker
It's true. But also, I feel like they can they can build for months and then an injury can completely fuck up their whole WrestleMania plan. So I mean, didn't Jason Jordan have neck surgery yesterday? Yeah, they didn't prep us for that since he was just on Raw. I think that was today, wasn't it? Yeah, I think I read that this afternoon. And then some of the news that I've been reading is I don't know, I kind of I think this is pretty funny. Have you been reading any of this stuff about Corey Graves and Booker?
01:00:45
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know what to make of that. I don't know if it's real or if it's a work or what the fuck it is, so. That was always confusing to me. I always felt bad for Booker out there because he clearly, he's not that great at that specific job. Booker's good at a lot of things in wrestling.
01:01:02
Speaker
wrestling commentary not being one of them. Yeah, especially because it just didn't seem like he knew that much about the current product. So another reason to watch SmackDown, I forgot to mention this, you'll get a kick out of this. So New Day, they're doing like a question, like a Twitter question spree during the episode, like the whole episode, you can ask New Day questions. The entire episode, New Day just keeps dropping references to Corey Graves and Booker T having a fight. Oh my God.
01:01:32
Speaker
So check check that shit out if if you hadn't heard about this yet Booker T is no longer on the commentary team on raw He'll be doing the pre shows and you know some of that stuff But he's gone and what's what Booker T says is that Corey Graves got him fired and he also is saying that he would beat the shit out of Corey Graves if he runs into him on the street and
01:01:58
Speaker
I don't know how that works because I don't know how much pull Corey Graves has to just go to like Vince and be like, get rid of this fucking asshole. Well, anytime I hear somebody shit talking somebody on the air, I assume it's Vince in their ear saying, say this to them. Sure. I don't know. I always felt bad for Booker because he was just out of place. But Corey, it was starting to get awkward with every time he said something, Corey coming back at him. The thing is, I really like Corey Graves.
01:02:25
Speaker
Yeah, I like Cory Graves too. I don't know what happened. I guess maybe more will play out or maybe this will just go away. Either way, man, that's pretty much it for this episode, don't you think? Yeah, we'll do it again and talk about Dwayne and maybe go into more detail on some of these. I feel like I just got too excited and I didn't even tell you all the movies that Boogeyman's in.
01:02:47
Speaker
Oh, fuck. There's more. Yeah, I won't name them now. We can go because I think the give us the bell, man. Ding, ding. There it is. All right. Thanks again for listening, everybody. Thanks, you know, to everybody who's tuned in these past few episodes and telling your friends about it. Follow us on Twitter at Russell. Hang out on Instagram at predetermined podcast. Have a good week and everyone be safe out there. Hit our goddamn music.