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Hello there my very good friends on today's wrestling news. A top AEW act is attracting WWE interest
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A surprising name could be set for a WWE main roster call-up. Got the latest on Enzo Amore and Big Cash returning
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And Dan Housen's curse is 100% effective. I'm Adam Wilborn. I'm Andy H. Murray. The H stands for what? It's very warm in the UK. It's great. I love it
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Well, not too hot if anything. And this is the news. You've got ginger hair. You burn like a crisp, don't you
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Look at that. Look at that. Barely surviving over here. He's come in looking like a sunburned man
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Anyway, let's kick this one off by talking about FTR. Interesting contract situation reported overnight
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regarding these gentlemen, Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler, with WWE interest seemingly a thing as well
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So this is a report from Bodyslam.net. These guys signed a four-year deal
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FTR did. It's not Bodyslam.net. They're not under a contract, I don't think
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but no FTR signed a four year deal with AEW in 2023 that was an extension and apparently they are
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now approaching the option year of that agreement what that means is that there is a thingy on the
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end like a little extra year depends if it's on the players the players the wrestler side of the
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company side typically on the company side where they can flip a switch and it's it's added a year
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is added basically so that is coming right up and that has placed their future under the spotlight
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a little bit. So, sources believe that the FTR understand their value
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and their consistency in AEW over the past few years, and they think that that should place
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them within the company's top-tier acts financially. There is also reported interest
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at least on a preliminary stage, from WWE. This has been communicated through mutual
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contacts, apparently. I'm going to sneeze in about a second, so I apologize for that. As the situation is drawing attention
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internally. There's no indication that a departure is imminent at this stage
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but their future beyond the current option year is a little bit
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unclear. So my goodness when did they debut in AEW? It was like
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2020? Hand out times wasn't it? They turned up on the truck. They did and they feuded with
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Butcher and the Blade, my guys, straight away. Get back on telly Tony! Butcher and the Blade stole
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their truck if I recall. It was awesome. They've been in AEW for
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ages. They've won it all. They've won it all. They've been all around the world as part of this
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agreement as well with the promotional agreements with various other organisations New Japan in particular
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they literally just lost the tag team titles again to quote Anne Cage
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at Double or Nothing so the narrative I'm going with is that they are furious
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that Beth Phoenix cost them the tag team titles and now they are leaving, that's what I'm going with
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Yeah, I mean the only reason I can see them leaving is
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financial really, like you say if they think of themselves as valued at a certain
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number and AW don't necessarily match that but WWE does, that's the only justification
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I can see for them leaving AW they've been phenomenal obviously in the last few years
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I will say it's a different WWE to the one that they left
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as much as I sit here and say I don't see any reason why they would leave AW maybe they want to try their hand in Triple H's Fed
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that being said at least you know you're going to get paid for the length of your contract
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with AW Yeah and you're not going to get asked to take a 50% pick on We'll match that number
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for now at least. Yeah, for at least six months. My thing
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so obviously, people make personal decisions based on myriad factors that we don't see
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Yes. Right? So, like, we're total outsiders here and they will do what they feel is best
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for their careers as is their right. More power to them, obviously
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There's a thousand things that go into stuff. I don't like it when people have a go at wrestlers because they want to
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achieve a certain thing, whether that be wrestling in the Tokyo Dome or appearing at WrestleMania
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Like, yes, you might call them mocks, but if you're a kid and when you're a kid
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it was all you've ever dreamed of. If that's your goal. Go for it. If that's your goal, follow your goal, man
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Like when Mariah May signed for WWE, that was a big one
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Like, why are you laughing? There's someone at the door. Oh, good stuff. Someone else could deal with that
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My new doorbell's been fitted. And I know exactly why you're laughing
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But also, so from an outsider's perspective, they should do what they want, obviously
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But from an outsider's perspective, I don't know what you would look at in the current WWE product
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and go, yes, I want to go back to that. Yeah. Right? Because number one, The tag division is ass
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They just got rid of the New Day, the Motor City Machine Guns, the Wyatt Six, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Get well seen to Logan Paul as well
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Sorry about that injury He injured He going to be out for a few months is what they said He sorely missed Yes I sure he is The healing powers of Prime will see him through Oh thank goodness But yeah they book tag teams like us generally
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unless you're the Usos. They might release you before your terms are up
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They might ask you to take a 50% pay cut. It just doesn't seem like
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the most attractive place in the world. Uzi hot. Maybe they feel like they have a point to prove
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and they want to go back and go, we can do it. We can do it. But at this stage
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I'm not actually convinced that Triple H's booking of tag teams is any better than Vince's was
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So, hey, who knows? And also, generally, on a powerhead basis, it's widely reported that AEW offers
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a bit more cash-wise anyway. So, hey, look, they'll make the decision
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based on their own factors, but as an outsider, I do not see
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what the appeal would be. No. Like you say, yes, they've done everything in AEW
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but just do it again. There's loads of fun teams that could work with a new day in AEW very soon
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Motor City Machine Guns, as you mentioned. They're probably heading towards Escalera de la Muerta
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with Young Bucks and Cope and Cage at Wembley, if all goes well, hopefully
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I had loads of fun with that. I quit street. That was really good. Really good
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They're one of the best tag teams of all time, FTR, I think. And maybe they should do it
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They can't do TLC, obviously. The callback is that they're doing a wacky freeway gimmick match, right
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with the Young Bucks and FTR and Cajun Cope. Can't do TLC. What about TLS
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tables, ladders and Spike oh how do you feel about that? I was going towards stairs there
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you get that. Double you. And speaking of which, Nakia Lyons could be heading to the main roster
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a favourite of this office, I think it's fair to say, from the NXT roster. Our main office favourite
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She is so extra and it's in the best way possible. Now, this was reported by Rope Break
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If you're thinking, Rope Break? What's that? That is the rebranded Patreon that was previously associated with Body Slam
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Yeah, Lions has been discussed internally as a possible call-up candidate. Nothing confirmed yet
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Loads of speculation about where Nikita could land, though. Most generally pointing towards Monday Night Raw
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No timeline, finalized plans, anything like that. It's all a bit of a rumour, say rope break right now, but it's believable
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I think there's a spate of, and take this in the nicest possible way
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characters on WWE right now that are doing great things. And Nikita's next in line for that
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Like, I'm not going to sit here and claim that she's Kendall Gray or the next great female wrestler
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but my God, she knows how to get a reaction. She's entertaining. Yeah, very entertaining
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Like, pound for pound, one of the more entertaining people on NXT, I would say
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Pound for pound? Entertainment is not based on pounds. It's based on pops
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Pop for pop. There you go. So, she reminds me of, like
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early Dana Brooke where Dana Brooke when she was in NXT and I used to love this as well
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would make a ring entrance and she'd do like 20 different taunts she'd do a flex
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and like a cartwheel and like a bunch of different stuff and I was like this rules
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you're just pressing every button to try and get that special meter up Nikita's kind of similar
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but she takes it to the next level by just singing promos and like she's got
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like 20 nicknames yeah I was going to say it's great there was like an Evolver
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or an LFG skit the other day where she was like in the gym and there was someone
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working out in the gym and she was like get out of here I have to shoot a music video what
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Nikita Multimedia is that her name Nikita Multimedia the big cat there you go
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she fun man get her on TV I would love to see her on Monday Night Raw especially considering how great it gone for people Look what a fatal influence is on SmackDown They killing it
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Yeah, get her up, man. Get her up. She's been in the Fed for ages. Fresh things up, new faces
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I'd love to see her. She overcomes some pretty bad injuries in her time as well. I think she's fun, man
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What I want to do when I watch TV is have a laugh. Most of the time, she makes me laugh
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She goes, W. Who is it she interrupted the other week going, excuse me
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oh the new rock chick Lizzy Ray good stuff let's go why not
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why not why not get Nikita Lyons mixing it up on raw yeah legend
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I'd love to see Liv Morgan's reaction when she shows up what the hell's this
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and then Nikita Lyons sings at her yeah it's the baby face
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does like a forward roll to leave to leave the scene best wrestler
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I would say. Top 5 most entertaining people. We love her at the moment. Big favourite
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Big favourite. Alright, let's talk about, speaking of entertaining, let's talk about Enzo and Big Cass
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Yes! So, I mean, there's been a million different reports on Enzo and Big Cass, potentially
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going back to WWE, Enzo being at the Performance Centre, Big Cass
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Big Bill, his AEW deal coming up, and WWE being interested in putting them back together
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So we got an update from Fightful Select noting that Enzo, according to
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some sources close to Enzo. Promoters have been told, some promoters, that he is not taking bookings
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for the future that he would regularly do. So, if you're a promotion
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that books him regularly and you go, hello Enzo, are you coming in next month? He's going, no
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Apparently. Those promoters are now operating on the assumption that he's going
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back to the Fed, back to WWE. Fife Hall recently reported that Big Bill's contract with AEW
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is up either at the end of this month or early June. So, in the next couple of weeks, basically
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They've not been given an indication that that has changed, but he has been off TV for about a month for Ring of Honor
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where him and Brian Keefe were mostly active. Conspicuous by his absence. So at this stage, I'll be shocked if this doesn't happen
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Yeah, I'm excited to see. How do they do it? That's the question. Do you have Enzo in the crowd with a disguise on, maybe
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that everyone can see on the hard cam? And then he gets dragged away by security, and then Morrissey shows up
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Would go well tonight. Gigs the right off. I don't want that
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no not that one sorry his other name Big Ass his other name
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Big Ass I love I love Big Bill I think he's going to
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kill it on this I'm a billionaire I love Big Bill he's
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what a guy we've said it before but they're just they're going to be
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perfect for this era of WWE this is the catchphrase era it's the crowd
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participation era this is the yeet era they have five ready made
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yeets already they've got Soaf, they've got a seven foot tall and you can't teach that, the whole ring entrance
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all that stuff, you've got Enzo doing this stupid little thing he does with his
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feet, I can't do that They're just going to be the most over thing
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in the entire company, it's going to be them and Danhousen the top two merch sellers is going to be
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Enzo and Big Cass and Danhousen and maybe Cody Rhodes or Roman Reigns you know the big stuff
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so say what you will about in-ring I mean I think Big Bill's very good in-ring
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but Enzo, Simon Gosh it's a very effective thing that they have though isn't it yeah
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it's classic wrestling little guy takes the takes a batter in basically
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and then oh god here comes Big Bill he literally can't teach it
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but I think in ring he's great yeah too it's not just his size he uses it really well
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he's really good he's got great batter a very funny guy as well on top of Enzo
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who's obviously like road dog comparisons I think are pretty apt for him
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Yeah, yeah. Because very similar dudes in terms of their delivery and their catchphrases and the way they get stuff over
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I don't know if Enzo's ever pissed in an air conditioner. Yeah, no, I don't know if he has
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But you can learn all about that at the end of this video. They're going to be so over, guys
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You're not going to get freaking a 30-minute Midnight Express match out of them, right
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No. But who cares? They're going to be over. It's WWE. It's catchphrases and crowd participation
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this is certainly not one of those ones you need to hold off until rumble for is it no just do it now
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are you going to do it in the summer slam maybe I would do it as soon as you can why not
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it would just make TV more fun I think if they teased an Enzo and Cass return at summer slam
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I like to be there for the reaction to that yeah whole arena full of people yelling sore my phone is soft apparently I would just do it on Raw as soon as you can Just do a surprise gimmick
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Have them beat up, I don't know, name some people, Los Garza
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those poor guys. Those poor guys taking a batter in recently. Do an open challenge
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in their answers. Can't get anyone left with a vision for them to take the tag titles off, by the way. Yeah, Austin Peay
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running wild on Raw last night. Snapped. Yeah, running. Poor Joe Hendry
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poor Joe anyway we'll have more on Austin Beery in the Raw review later indeed
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you will I don't want to say we I'm not reviewing Raw but let's
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switch gears somewhat now to Dan Housen and the Curse now we already know
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how effective it is in WWE certainly the Miz and Kit Wilson
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can sort of testify to that sort of thing yeah but it's shoot a real thing
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in basketball now it seems so if you're unaware oh boy the story here
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is Dan Housen, way back in April, appeared on ESPN to curse Stephen A. Smith
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and therefore a curse on the New York Knicks. However, a fan subsequent to that purchased a cameo
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and asked him to lift the curse on the Knicks and put it on the Hawks
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He did. The Knicks then beat the Philadelphia 76ers and then Dan Housen placed one on the Cleveland Cavaliers, right
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Okay. He was also at game one of that where the Cavaliers blew a 22-point lead
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And we're talking about this today because the Knicks have just gone 4-0 against the Cavaliers
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to win the Eastern Conference. Yes, that's right. And go through to the NBA Finals
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So if you're... Is it Webinyama? Webby, that's the man. Yeah. Because I think Spurs and the Oklahoma..
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They're 2-2. Thunder, yeah, playing the other side of things to face the Knicks. I'd be scared about getting that curse
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like it works so he cursed the Knicks he uncursed the Knicks
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he cursed the Cavs now he's at MSG holding a t-shirt or a jersey with his name
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WWE is literally selling a New York Knicks uncursed t-shirt on WWE's shop at the moment
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the curse is real the curse is clearly real the Knicks have only ever
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the first time they've made the NBA final since 1999 yeah so from what I understand
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they've been the picture of like I don't really know ball but I like basketball
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but I feel like I believe they've been like the picture of like a poorly run
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franchise for about 20 years because as an outsider you'd assume a team from New York
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would be one of the best and they used to be certainly but I think
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as has been explained to me they've been crap for ages so this core of
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like Jalen Brunson and Carl Anthony Towns and OG Ananobi Brunson was two
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when they made the finals there you go he's a wrestling guy
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as well which is pretty interesting they've crushed the East basically their offense is ridiculous
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it's so much fun to watch you give them half a chance and the ball just goes it's in
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you watch Carl Anthony Towns he's like a 7 foot playmaker it's so fun
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it's so weird you expect the big guy to just be up there bashing guys
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around and blocking and rebound he's an animal I want the Spurs
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to go through because I like that I like Wemby freaky 7 foot
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tall guy you could tell me he's 7 foot 11 I believe you he's an absolute
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he scored from the half court the other day I saw that yeah
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buzzer beater I'll just shoot from here no problem Oklahoma won it last year
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didn't they they did you've had your time give the Olons a go so again
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as a casual basketball fan I find the Oklahoma City Thunder deeply annoying
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and boring the style of play I don't enjoy watching them as much as I do
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the Knicks and the not the Suns his one man player's a bit floppy
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I've heard yeah SGA he's a little floppy which I don't mind like cheat to win man
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he gets good treatment out there blue chew's good for that sort of thing we should really
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get a sponsor for that I don't know why we haven't had one probably because there's not much
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sex appeal in this studio right now apart from on this side obviously
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Andy Eel obviously he is quite long to be fair why did Road Dog
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piss in an air conditioner Andy if you'd like to find out why because he didn't
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I was Blue Chew obviously why did Road Dog piss in an air conditioner
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check out the video that's on your screen right now New York
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versus San Antonio final would be more interesting to me get the thunder out of here
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stay hydrated thunder only happens when it rains don't have nightmares E17 bye