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I'm so terrified of it. I don't know if I should keep using it. I think it's plotting our murder, but they don't hear the voice. And if I remember, I'll record it off air so they can hear what it sounds like because it's just unsettling. Yeah, I think we get used to it. I know we say this at the start of every episode, but no. No, you don't. No, no, you don't.
Yeah. Anyway, with the obligatory being afraid of Craigbody out of the side, hello and welcome back to Smack It Down to the Australian Wrestling Podcast. I'm your host, Joe Silver, and today, as always, I'm joined by the wonderful and amazing long-haired beauty Corey Gold. I'm also terrified of the robot uprising, yes. Yes, yes, that's a given. Yeah, man. If I robot predicted anything, it's the robot revolution. Yeah. I guess it's been, robot revolution aside, though, it's been a big-ass week in wrestling and in footy.
Yeah, and adjust. Let's start with the footy ball. Yeah. Mate, it's an all-female in Grand Finals. Yeah, that's right. Battle of the Cats and Lions. Well, Lions are just a bigger person with a cat with a fancy haircut. Yeah, cats have just been more domesticated, I suppose. But nevertheless, my cats are trying to stop the back-to-back party and again become the greatest, I guess, team in the modern era. You know, you say this, but I'm all for the Lions to win this, not only because A, it'll annoy you, but B, Brisbane's awesome. Explain how.
Brisbane, the town itself, is just awesome. I'd rather go there than I would go to Melbourne or something. It's just so far out of the way. What do you like about Brisbane so much, the town? The fact that my family's there, but that's kind of a given. Yeah. I don't know. Pretty much. And lions are better than cats, you know? He's got a plant. That's a version here. Yeah, there we go. Also, pre-lions being there, there was some bears, and bears are also pretty cool. They're just like a bigger version of a cat. They were dropped bears, and they since relocated to Darwin. Yeah, and I thought it was an idols.
The Darwin Nigel drop bears. The Darwin Nigel drop bears. Yes. With the orange and what other colour were they? I don't remember. Maybe. Was it brown? Orange and brown maybe? I don't remember. Could have been green. What could CEOs wear? Yeah, remembering what we see. Welcome back to Smackdown Wrestling Podcast. We remember everything we've ever said. You know, if we were a professional, go back and have a look at the thumbnail for that episode. I'm pretty sure we had something on the thumbnail.
you know, that requires effort and finding out what we were talking about six months ago. Yeah, wrong answer. Wrong show. If you want that sort of stuff, you need to go to a different show. I mean, yeah, we also have the Brownlow on tonight, which is the AFL's MVP, basically, and it's going to be a year. Believe it or not, I don't really care. Yeah, but I do, so hence why we're going to try and keep this at around an hour so I can go and watch. Well, I'm also watching the game of footy, but when it comes to medals and stuff like that, I'm not interested in award ceremonies. I just rather just watch the footy, you know? Fair enough. Do you have any grand final plans?
That's next weekend, next Saturday, isn't it? It is. I'm not doing anything. Look at you. Just going to have a chill one. I'll probably just watch the game. What's it on? Stand for what's KO? It'll be on seven as well, yeah. One of those is free. Yep. I wonder if it's on the seven half. Probably, yes. Yes. Yeah, I'm actually going to be hosting a grand final party. It's also doubling up as a housewarming.
Okay, next question. Why wasn't I invited? I would have made the trip. Would you, actually? Probably not. You just don't need to feel shit about myself for a minute. I know, I was invited in spirit. That's fine. Yeah, this is your invite right now. We're doing it.
And then when I rock up, you're like, oh, crap, you did, Tom. Oh, shit. We're supposed to be seeing each other for the first time in seven years, like next year at the fucking AEW show. Nah, here I am just rocking up at your random fucking grand final party. Yeah, that's right. Hi. I know. Here I am. I've nowhere to stay. My wife and kids don't know I'm here, but, you know, here I am. I escaped from the Institute for a few days. Please, this is all I have. Let's get blind drunk. Yeah. Hit me with the hard solos. Oh, yeah. Mate, they're so good. They're so good. 1.6 standards per can.
Oh, no. It's almost as good as the fucking Strong Zeros are in Japan. They look fantastic. Mate, if you ever get the opportunity to go to Japan or, like, anywhere that's got them, just try them. You'll get wrecked pretty quickly. I wouldn't mind going to Japan. That might be my next overseas trip. What, Tokyo, Osaka? What are you thinking? Oh, yeah, all the main places, yeah. Yeah, that's the spirit. It would be fun, yeah.
I'd like to go there outside of a pandemic or just before a pandemic and see what the differences are. Yeah, that would be good. But all in all, it was a fun trip that I went. If you get the opportunity to definitely go see some sort of a show in Corrigan. Corrigan Hall? Yeah. All right. Whether it's New Japan or Noah or Sardom or just whoever, just make sure you make the trip to Corrigan for a show. Yeah. Because walking up that stairwell, dude, there's so many signatures in that stairwell. Right. It's incredible. Also, I got lost trying to find it, which I'd like to see your experience.
Yeah, I mean, getting lost in a foreign country where you don't speak the language, yeah. Hey, we don't know that Google Translate is not exactly reliable, but it sort of works. Yeah, I suppose you want to use SIM cards that way you can just, you know, because you don't have to be... No, no, no, Japan's living in the future, dude. So when you get off the plane in the airport, you can rent, like, essentially pocket Wi-Fi for, like, $30 a week, and it's unlimited. Jeez. So you just, like, have pocket Wi-Fi, you charge it, like, with a power bank at the hotel, and you just go out and you don't even spend your pocket all day. There you go.
That's how I get around. I didn't have to use any data. I just pocket Wi-Fi myself everywhere and use Google Maps and Google Translate for the most part. Okay. Because I'm ignorant and don't know the language. Yeah. Wait, did you see the last week's South Park episode got cancelled right before it went on air? Did it? No, I didn't know. Because that's why there was an episode of South Park last week. Why did they cancel it? I can imagine why, but I still, you know, why did they cancel it? I don't know, but with all the jabs they've had in a certain particular person in the States, I'm not surprised. Yeah, I feel like they're uncancellable.
Well, who are they with at the moment? Paramount? And they're contractually obligated to give them, like, X amount of episodes so they can't get cancelled. Like, it might get pulled for a week, but they'll have to put it up again. Yeah, hopefully. I'm really enjoying the season. It's been a good few years. We've had a season of South Park. Honestly, they've fucking torn him. They've worn Trump a new one, haven't they? Yeah, they are. Especially on that first episode. Yeah. Honestly, all of them. I like that he's taken the full Saddam Hussein arc. Yeah. Yeah.
Honestly, I find myself doing that little voice as well, just randomly to myself, like, hey, we next, we next. Take a little hour. I'll just say that to myself for no reason. Oh, man, it's so good. I was enjoying the TV specials we're getting, like, what, three, four times a year, but there's just something about Weekly South Park. Yeah, honestly. It's been a pretty good setup thus far after the season, I thought, as well. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Definitely. I'm keen to see what changed Power Christian principle, how he became Power Christian instead of PC principle.
Yeah. Yeah. I haven't seen his wife and kids this season either. Nah, well, because didn't you know, Wokey's dead. But strong lady, or strong woman, or whatever it was. Yeah, it's America in 2025. Being a strong lady's illegal now. Ah, okay. Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah. But you know, it's not illegal in America. Great flippin' wrestling, because we got a bunch of it all out. Great transition. Yeah, that was professional, and we'll cut this part out here so they don't hear us talk about how good it was. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah, so did you watch the free show, or? No, I didn't. What about yourself?
It took me two days to watch the main card because I was busy all weekend. Of course I didn't watch the free show. Yeah, no. All I know is Daniel Garcia, I think, has a really cool foot stomp finisher and he's now part of the Ops. Part of the Death Riders. Oh, sorry, the Death Riders. Did he stomp the Ops? I think that's what happened. He's killed Shibata. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it was a one-on-one match with him and Shibata. And Shibata kicked out with three part riders because of Shibata. That's what he'd be doing.
Man, you've got to, like, not take for granted just how amazing it is to see Shibata wrestling in 2025. I know it's been, what, two, three years since his, like, comeback, but there's still something special about seeing that man work. Even, like, we take, like, yeah, neck injuries, like, we just expect people to come back. Now we've, like, we've got Brian Danielson, we've got Edge, Shibata. Oh, Shibata was a brain aneurysm. Like, he was bleeding on his brain after that had back to Wakata. Okay, wow. Even worse. And can you come back, too, from diverticulitis? Yeah, but if anyone can do that, I don't believe in Mr. Omega. And somehow...
Yeah, I think, have you seen a show on Netflix called Alice in Borderlands? Yes. So he was at a press conference for that over in Japan or Korea or something. So I saw it on Twitter slash X slash wherever I was at the time. So I wonder if he's going to be in the new season that's coming out next week. There's a new season of it? Holy shit. Yeah, it's been like three or four years since the last season. I'm sitting here low-key waiting for the new season of We're All Dead Already or whatever it's called. Yeah, that as well. But I thought I wrapped up Alice in Borderlands because it just seemed like a weird ending, but like it worked.
No, it's a new season coming out like next week or the week after. It's very, very shortly. I'll jump on Netflix. I'll say one's coming out. It's like very soon. Yeah, okay. That's interesting. But yeah. But yeah, he was at a press conference or a signing for that. So maybe he's in the new season for an episode or two. Yeah, there you go. Maybe. But the show's based off of a manga. So maybe they just caught up to where the books were up to and now they're going to finish a story. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. I guess we'll have to wait and see that. I will see that.
I did, but was it interesting? I kind of looking back now, I kind of get it about how AEW moved the start time of the show, but then also moved. I thought Edge and Christian coming on first, I thought it was a bit bizarre. I thought that was going to be like, I honestly thought that could have been a main event. I thought we were going to get a hot Toronto crowd and they wouldn't come on last, but no. No. New season's coming out in, what's the day? 20 seconds, coming out in three days. There you go. 25th. I'm going to refresh myself on that show like I had to with Wednesday, which is also a very good show.
But, you know, did the crowd seem quiet to you, or was it my TV, or what was the go here? I did actually think they were a little bit quiet, yeah. Because, like, I've heard Metalinga sung a lot louder than Canada did, and these boys are from Canada. Yeah, I thought it was just, yeah, the crowd in general just did feel a little bit quiet. Maybe it was just the way it was broadcast, and maybe it was louder there. Maybe they didn't like the crowd up well enough. Maybe, maybe. Because I remember watching, like, Grand Slam Brisbane, and I remember that crowd being electric, and then I go back and I watch it back, and it's like I could barely hear them.
And you saw yourself, and that's the main reason you watched the show. Yes. Yes, absolutely. You're on your Darby Allin coat. Yeah, boy. Are you going to wear that to Grand Slam Australia again next year? I'm thinking about it. Hopefully, Darby Allin's on their card. You would think so. You would think so. He's back now. He did section on Moshland Fire, but, you know, it's wrestling. Yeah. It's wrestling. So, what was the second match on the card? I guess what we'll touch on, yeah, for starters. Basically, Edge and Christian won. We expected that.
Oh, Beth rocked up, which was interesting. No, I wonder if she's going to stick around. I don't know. She's dead now. I was like, it's throwing this out there. Considering Edge kicked out of that second rope top rope pole driver midway through the match after having other crap done to him, I should expect to see Cope and Beth walk this off within a day or two. Go on. Yeah, because like I said, Edge kicked out of the exact same moves that wrote these two off for the show during the match. Yeah. Yeah, what did you not pick up on that?
No, I was very hazy watching it. I had a half a bottle of wine the night before. Ah, don't look. Yep. What time did the show start during the day? I think for us, in Canada, it would have started at 3pm. For us, it would have started at like 5pm.
p.m. or something. 5 a.m. No, no, it was a morning show. I just wasn't sure what time was starting. Yeah, honestly, it was like 5 a.m., I'm pretty sure. Because, like, full transparency, I was doing a course all weekend. I've told you this. Yeah. I didn't get home until well and truly after the show. So I had to, like, avoid all spoilers. I saw there was a title change, like, briefly with the women's match, but I didn't see who it was probably. So I knew that was coming. But, yeah, I was curious what time the show was. What time did you start it? Because you were still watching it when I started. I started at 12. Right.
Right. So I would have started about 12, 13 hours after it started. There you go. Yeah. But we keep it in Star Trek. So yeah, Beth and Christian are now being written off TV. Yeah. Probably, maybe. Unless they haven't, because now this movie's redundant. I don't think so. I think they'll probably, like, we'll probably get, like, a bit of talking segment addressing it, and they'll be back in, like, two to three weeks. Because now, like, we get, well, for starters, things tie into a spoiler for later on the show, is we get the return of Jack Perry.
Yeah, that was different. Yeah, and then we also, Lucha Express, is that their name? I can't remember back together because we got... Jurassic Express. Jurassic Express. Every time, every time. It's been, what, the company's six years old now? It's been six years and you're still doing this. It's been a number of years since they teamed together. Well, to be fair, yes, but also to be fair, these guys are day ones. Yes, that is correct.
And I don't know, do they go after, I'm assuming they're going to feud with the Bucks, do they feud with Christian, feud with the Patriarchy? Well, hasn't Luchasaurus already done that with the Matriarch? He's feud with Christian, but he hasn't feud with the Patriarch. Yeah, so that's what I'm assuming they'll be doing, like Bucks and that. A little three-way feud. Yeah, once the boy's back. And we've also got, yeah, is it Matt? No, Nick with his money, just one of them. Nick. Nick, yeah, just constantly throwing money around. Yep.
The Bucks are back. Bucks are back, baby. I thought they'd win the tag titles in this. I honestly would have put money on the Bucks and winning the tag titles. I didn't think that the Franken team of Bandido and Brody Kings would get pulled onto the belts. I thought there were a chance, but honestly, I did think they're going to give Brody and Bandido a bit longer of a reign. I think, like you said, Edge and Christian at the end of the year, we thought it was going to be the Hurt Syndicate, but I reckon it could be Brodino. Yeah, I can see that. I thought that when the three-way or the four-way, whatever was happening, the crown...
Brodito, that's the match that FDR were going to win to do that for the title change here in Aladdin, Canada. But I was wrong. Yeah. And this is why I'm not Tony Khan. Yeah, exactly. It also has to do with the fact that I don't take a lot of nose candy, allegedly. I like how you say you're allegedly not against drugs and you're allegedly not against nose candy. Allegedly. Allegedly. Funny. But yeah, we got that. What else? What other returns? Were there any?
I will say, for me, the match of the night was the women's four-way match, though. What did you think? It was good. It ended just out of nowhere. I thought we were halfway through when it ended. I guess that's the beauty of the seatbelt cover. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, when that happens. Honestly, I was genuinely shocked by that.
There's a couple of really good ones, like, a few years back. I probably still work inside of them. I haven't watched it for a while. But there was the Zumi Sushi and the Hazuki Stroll. And, like, they just came out of nowhere. It could have been, like, 30 seconds into the match or, say, 10, 15 minutes in. And, like, 90% of the time, when they, like, happened, the match was over. But your platforms are awesome. Yeah, I will say also.
I guess what, Chris Statlin are now the first person, a woman to hold both the TBS and Women's Championship. It's okay, because this week on Dynamite, Tony's going to announce a women's tag belt. That's going to be his big announcement. Then she'll have to go after another belt. The belt collector. Then Burnham will get the reuniting of Willowen and Stat. Or she'll turn on Willowen and join up in Marina Street. I really think Julia Hart and Sky Blue should be the first tag champs. I'll give it to whatever that team's called, the tackler. Triangle of Madness or something. That's the one, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, the Austrians. Is House of Blackover? I know the Malachi slash Alice has been gone for a while, but they were still doing stuff as a group. But ever since Buddy's been injured, are they just done? They were called Hounds of Hell, and it does look like they've since then just doing their own things now. Because you're assuming that Buddy's not too far from coming back. I wonder, does he just join up with Brodino or whatever? I don't know. Do you throw him in with the Deathriders and have him and Pac make an awesomely bulky tattoo?
Speaking of Pac, I thought that was Wade Barrett when he showed up, but we'll talk about that later. I literally thought the same thing. I was like, oh, he's going through the bull hammer. Let's go. And then, like, just Pac like that, Pac? Oh, he looks... I don't know how to say it. I'm glad he just made the thought it was like, yeah, the thought it was Barrett. He's lucky he's absolutely ripped, because I, aesthetically, know. Yeah, no, he looks terrible.
He cut off all of his hair. When he's in the ring, I'm like, I thought that Barrett was with a commentator at the moment. I thought he was a commentator at WWE. I was like, can they pull this one off and no one saw anything about it? And then Brian Ruskell was like, it's Pac, Mike. It's Pac? Yeah. It's like, I get it. Yep, yep. That's Pac, yeah. That is Pac. When I said, I'm looking at his ears, like, oh, yeah, right, that is Pac. The ears, the cauliflower ears, the big bulky nose that I'm assuming has been broken a few times.
Yeah, he should say that again. It's Pac. What a bump he did with that raised edge to Darby, though. Oh, my God. Just sent him through the fucking coffin. Oh, didn't he just? Darby took some gross bumps. Yeah, he always does, but...
It's just, this doesn't sound really bad when I say this, but I'm sort of desensitized to Darby doing dumb things. Yeah, a little bit. Like, if it just comes all the time, you're like, yeah, okay. It's like, what's Darby going to have done to him this week? What's Darby going to do today? We know, like, in a week or two, he's going to walk it off and be fine, or, in this case, an hour later and then set Moxley on fire. Yeah. Like, does this Moxley feud keep on going, then? We haven't had blood and guts this year. I know. We had a 10-man steel cage match, but, yeah, no blood and guts.
WrestleDream doesn't like the place that happens either, so it's going to be a TV show. How many people have we got on the Deathriders now? We've got, like, what? Mox, Claudio, Danny, Gouda, Pac. That's five. Yeah, Marine doesn't count. They were looking for the dude. That's five. So what you'll do, hypothetically here, Darby, Brian, maybe. We'll put a really big emphasis on the maybe with Brian, because it has been reported he will work a couple matches a year. Yeah. And then who else will we throw into there? That right now is... I feel like the whole Deathriders holding AW captive thing is if it's been done.
Like, it's been done to death. Like, we had Swerve and Ospreay get in there. Who else did we have? Exactly. We had Orange Cassidy. I think he's supposed to return on Dynamite. Yeah, we were going to touch on that soon. But yeah, that's the full science pointing to. Watch this all be disappointed when Adam Cole shows up. No, it might be Adam Cole. It's all about the birds. Yeah. I don't know. Like, they don't really have any, like, new feuds coming through. Like, it's going to have to be, like, a little while now. Because I feel like that story's reached its progression.
Yeah, yeah, but... They kind of have to reset. How do we end this Mox and Derby feud? Because this ain't over. You're assuming it's going to end at WrestleMania. Yeah. I don't know what or how they do it, but yeah, it's something that's got to give. And you're going to wish him the Derby's going to win. You'd think so. That's how it's going to end. But then they've got to set up another feud after that, and then, yeah. Because then we'll have full gear, then Worlds end.
They are a powerful year, don't they? I miss a guy like four or five AWK for years a year. Yeah, but there was too much dead time on their weekly TV program. It was the only thing. Yeah, but it was so much cheaper. It was. It was, yes. You and I had to pay money for the show. Thankfully, we don't have to pay for the next one, but... Yes. Technically, you paid for the next one. Technically, we paid for the next one, but the one after that, we don't have to pay for. Honestly, so rude.
I know. How dare they? Why don't we just like... Why can't they just throw it up on HBO in Australia like they do in the States? Let's just pirate it. Why can't Disney Plus do it like they do here in Australia? Wait, is there with any SPN? Is that something going to be on there or not?
Dynamite is, but not their pay-per-views. Yeah, but ESPN's also on Disney+, and if that's the other company, does that mean that Dynamite's going to be taken off there internationally? No, I mean, I can still watch it on there, so... Don't know why you would. But then again, to be fair, Trill has kind of sucked lately. Yeah. We both had a lot of issues with that yesterday. You got logged out, and I was just suffering with a lot of lag and stuttering the African stream. Yeah, exactly. That's been all out of order, because while we talk about the matches in chronological order, that makes no sense.
I'm trying to remember what actually happened on the show. I watched it like three, four hours ago. I'm struggling. There was some great wrestling and great storytelling, but it's not all that memorable when you think. I don't think there was any title changes other than the women's title. Isn't it funny? I think it was the last time I recorded it all the time. I was like, where's Riho? And we spent five minutes trying to figure it out. Yeah, and then like, oh, there she is. Then you walk back on TV, it's like, all right, there's Riho. Yeah, Riho's back from injury, but she was never winning the TBS title. She never uttered a word on television. No, no. She's just there to make up numbers, which is sad, but you know.
If Shayna wasn't locked out of the country, she'd be a good shout-out to Mercedes. Why is she locked out of the country? These are issues. Oh, okay. Well, I haven't seen her for about a year and a half. I was about to say, yeah, that feels bizarre. Like, she just, like, randomly, like, disappears for a year and then comes back and then, you know, disappears again. She's still the current longest reigning women's champion. Like, I thought they were getting that to Tony, but no, it's still Shayna. That's, yeah, that is bizarre because her reign was, what, just after? It was during COVID, wasn't it? Yeah. She made, um...
Nyla Rose on the, yeah, one of the early pandemic shows. What did that happen to Nyla? I don't know. I haven't seen her in a while. Yeah, I got to put that name out in there. I'm surprised I remember it properly. Yeah. I wonder if she's just, like, no longer at the company. I thought Google's forward. I'm not doing that right now. Like, they're pretty good at just making a quietly, you know, fading people into the background that way you just forget about them altogether, don't you?
That's what I thought happened to Riho before we found out she was injured. Yeah, they do actually have a pretty loaded women's roster. They're starting to add some depth to it now. What happened to Yuka Sakazaki? She finished her time in Tokyo Joe. She probably rocked up for Dynamite for a couple episodes and she had a match with Mercedes and disappeared. That's another one for her.
And we've got Mina Shirakawa. Her and Tony Storm as the first Whitman's tag champs would be fantastic. It would be, but Mina was on the pre-show on this with teaming up against Penelope Ford, the Amazon lady whose name escapes me right now. The other two members of the Triangle of Madness and her team was, let's pull this out of my arse, Mina Shirakawa, Queen Aminata, the Aussie chick that we both like whose name escapes me with the puppets. Harley Cameron. And who was the last one? Oh, Willow. Yeah.
Yeah, so she's still doing stuff. Okay. You know, I just remembered too, Wardlow returned it all in and he was on like an episode of Dynamite standing with Don Callis and we haven't seen him since. Ah, so here's the funny thing about that. Wardlow brought Tory's bicep or something in that return angle. Really? Yeah. And now he's out again. Yep. It's funny, but it's not like funny. Yeah. They just can't get any luck with Wardlow. No. Are you going to watch him on American Gladiators One Side Communal?
Nah, maybe on, like, YouTube. A highlight, maybe, but... And the host of The Miz? Mmm. So that... Mmm. I'm like, is that... And this here is... What's your name, kid? What do you do for a living? I work for a... And we're moving on to the next contestant. Yeah. Yeah, who knows? No flippant. Yeah, I'm probably not. What about yourself? Probably not. I saw on 10 Play the other day there's an Australian guy who had a show. Yeah, I'm sure there is. I mean, there's an Australian survivor in the Amazing Race Australia, which has got, um, skin...
I'm scared for Volo in it this season. Yeah. Goddamn, honestly, though, like, who... Maybe it's just me, but who still watches free-to-air TV? I mean, I watch Australian Survivor and the Amazing Race. I find them both fun. Other than that, no, not really. Yeah, I only watch it for the footy, mostly. Yeah, so who watches free-to-air TV? You probably watch more free-to-air TV every week than me. Because we're more footy games. Yeah, maybe I'll watch, like, whatever's available on Channel 7, sure. You watch the Big Bash, too?
I did when I was working away from home because the TV that I had at the caravan park wasn't a smart TV, so we just watched the Big Bash every night. Big Bash ain't terrible. It's not too bad. It's not too bad. Back on track, back on track. Yeah, so what happened? Tory's bicep. That's funny as. It was a bicep or a shoulder or a elbow or something. It was something on his arm. I will say, how do you see the Okada Takeshika feud going? Are we going to get a world match? Maybe not a dream, but full year at World's End.
Honestly, I think we'll get it at WrestleDream. We'll have another match. Here's a more interesting question. Hang on. Here's a more interesting question for you, okay? Does Takeshi beat Zack for the New Japan title next week? Since he won the J1. He's going to challenge him. They're doing another King of Pro, which is next week. I think it's next week. Because that's part of these things. You've got to challenge him and not wait until WrestleDream. That's what they're doing. They're doing another King of Pro. No, it's not next week. It's like midway through October. Because next week, Zack defending the Balkans running the radar.
I wonder, they'll probably just do a few more red herrings with them now, but yeah, like maybe full gear is where we get the match between them. I'm playing it out in my head. I'm playing it out in my head by speaking words. My question was just to Kesha beat Zach. I know, I'm trying to think how that... No, I don't think he does. I don't think he does either. It's a short answer, yeah. But I'm just wondering how they'll go about it. As am I.
Because I thought, yeah, that would actually be a really great match, though. You know, Takeshika versus Zack. Yeah, well, I'm sure it'd be a decent start quality if we were looking at it from a Meltzer perspective. But if you want to watch it, I'll let you know what's on. You've always got access to NukaPan that I haven't paid for for two months. Oh, man. Yeah. Tempting just for that match. But yeah, it'd just be a really great strike match, wouldn't it? Yeah. Yeah, and some technical grabs. And towards the end of it, we'll get a lot of hope spots for Takeshika versus Zack. Here's my pick. I think Takeshika could win the C2 this year, though.
Why don't challenge Okada after that? Oh, I think Okada will be in it. He'll beat him in the finals or something like that, or even in a semi. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. I've been thinking about the C2 actually, because I don't know if they're going to do it for sure or not. It's just a compliment to all the results going on. I think they'll continue to do it, but it'll just be for the unified title now. What if they do a ladies' C2 for the tag titles? They should. Oh, there you go. Okay, I was being a smart ass, but fair enough. Oh, they probably won't, because they're introducing the tag titles early, but... I mean, they should do a women's C2. It makes sense.
Which belt is TNT in the world, or are you expecting four of them? You're not going to like this, but another women's belt. I mean, I'm all for belts. I don't care. Belts are belts. Yeah, I think they introduce a third women's singles belt, and they have women's tag belts. I think three of them have any importance anyway, so why not have more? Yeah, and it gives the women more stuff to do. Yeah, again, yeah, I think that makes sense, because then, you know, yeah, I have women's tag belts. I don't need trios, because there's not enough depth. But if they have a men's and women's own hearts, why not have a men's and women's C2?
I was trying to think of the old shit. I remember it was Mercedes and Hangman. I also, I guess Eddie Kingston is back also, and now he's teaming with Hook, so that'll be something. That's exactly what I wanted out of Eddie Kingston on his return angle. He did have a pretty decent botch, whether it was, I don't know if it was Big Bill or Eddie, ducking early for the backhand. Did you see that? You hear Brian cover it so he got him on the chin. You know he ducked too early. Yeah. Yeah. But that's exactly what I wanted. Like I said, Hook and Eddie Kingston teaming together as part of Eddie Kingston's return. Yeah, that's pretty good.
I was being sarcastic. You don't want it? No. You don't want Hook and Eddie Kingston together? No, not as a tag team. No, why not? Because I just want to say Eddie Kingston do Eddie Kingston things, like by himself. As for Hook, he's gone through that many different mentors at the moment. Like, he's had, what, Joe, he's had his father, he's had... Like, kind of had Jericho. Kind of had Jericho. He was doing stuff for a bit there with Ricky Starks in Team Taz, like there's been.
A few different cases of Hook teeming with people, and none of them are really... Oh, Dan Housen, that could have kept going, but... Yeah, they should have kept... Whatever happened there? I don't know. Tony and him don't like each other or something. Oh. Man. But yeah, Hook Housen was great. I just don't... Yeah, I guess Hook's just not really kicking in. No, not really. Not really. It took something off him when... He just has no career. Ever since he got injured and they took him out of the ops, there's just something missing from him.
I think it's literally, yeah, the Ops is what's missing from him. But then again, Ops wouldn't be that... I don't think Ops would be as impressive with Hook in it. They wouldn't be as... The presence and the aura that Powerhouse Hobbs brings to that group. I suppose so. I suppose so. Yeah. And in the main event, you had Kyle Fletcher and Hangman Page, and it was a pretty good match. I wasn't expecting much from it. I know that it was good, but I had a lot more me buying Near Falls than I thought I was going to, especially after the surprise title change of the stat. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, those fucking... Kyle Fletcher's kicks, like, holy shit. Yeah. They look fucking deadly. Yeah. Who would have thought, what, six, seven years ago, I'm watching this young boy over in progress and a tag partner with Mark Davis who would be in this situation? Honestly, yeah, he looks like a completely different person, doesn't he? He does. Yeah. Even though my favourite tag match of that year was him and Davis versus Salt of Essex. Yeah, it's amazing. It went from Mark Davis, young boy, to Will Ospreay, young boy, to now he's number two or three in the Don Callis family. Is Davis injured again? Yeah.
Yeah, there's another one for you. Throw him in the Wardlow on the tag team and wrap him both in bubble wrap. Brian Cage, I think, as well, but I think his contract's also expiring soon, and they're just going to let him go. Wasn't he in the tag team, like, PAG's thing was in, like, GLM, actually? Maybe. The Gates of Agony? Yeah, and then they must have split or something, yeah. What's the Ricochet and their group called now? Because I'm calling them something. They called the Demand. That's the one. And yeah, they needed to win. If it's Ricochet to a T, it's so lame. Yeah. It's so, yeah.
Like, lame guy that thinks he's cool. Like, he just plays that guy so well. I just love the idea of how he's got the scissors stashed on him too, so he can stab you in the face. It was a good little, yeah, we need to see that, like, violent ricochet more, though. Like, that quiet, you know, like, when we first saw him against Swerve. Swerve, I think it was Briscoe for some reason. Oh, they did a match after. The taxon tables or whatever. No, they just did the skewed because, like, the ricochet was bold and Mark was shaving his head. I wouldn't talk about taxon tables. That's all right. I'm taxon tables.
The old white collar versus blue collar. Oh, what? Because MJF just gets out of the ring and I'm like, while I was out there, Davis, sorry, not Davis, Briscoe, just pours all the facts out everywhere. Yeah. We're going straight into this. Literally, yeah. Such a different kind of match, I guess we did. I don't really know what I was expecting from this match. I mean, I guess I just had it in my head that it was going to be an Inferno match. I had it in my head it was going to be like a...
man, a few tax here, a few tables there, not like tax. Literally, the ring is taxed. And then there's more tax on top of the tax with tax with a sign of tax. There was a lot of tax, weren't there? Yes, there was. Also, how does Tony Khan book himself to be a big boy when he had that little blog with MJF? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe he could say probably he knows that Max is a coward. Maybe.
Oh, I know you haven't seen this, but if you get the opportunity to see this, watch the match from the night before this with Mystico and MJF for the belt that he had. Did he lose it to him? He did lose to Mystico, but it was title versus mask, and it was more bloody than the taxon tables match. Yeah, wow. I also did see MJF came out as Homelander. He did. That was great. We also got a new season at Gen V, which we needed to touch on. Yeah, I'm up to date. I was going to say, I want to quickly touch on Wrestlepalooza, or do you not care?
We'll touch on it if we feel like it after Gen V. Okay. You introduce Gen V. You can walk me through Gen V. Yeah, I guess they're obviously parroting what's going on in America right now pretty well to a T, you would think. Much like Sapphock. Yes. Amazing. I mean, like, they do a pretty good job at just invoking, like, just really minor, relatable fear. Like, I guess the one thing that sticks out to me is that girl, the coffee stand. Yeah. We'll start with that. Where, yeah. And I kept on thinking, like, just who's fucking with her? Like, there's going to be something big. But then, yeah, it was just those two random chicks just trying to, you know.
I guess we'll just spark up a revolution by terrorising a barista. Like, yeah, great work. Yeah, well, she's going to be on campus. So, of course, they've got to target her for it because, like, only human man. Yeah, well, what else was I going to say? I was interested to see how they would portray, you know, Kate's, you know, blown-off arm or whatever. They really didn't. They just sort of made her a new arm. Yeah, well, no, because you see when she's in the hospital, there's, like, a little rod there. So she must just, like, screw her up. Yeah, because even when she came back...
You'd see that B campus lady chick, whatever she is. Just like, oh, wow, this whole army all feels like rubber. How do you deal with it? Yeah, I completely got you lost in army, honestly. Yeah. Because I think, is there like some soup there that has a, you know, regenerative power and just grew it back for her? Like, how does this work? We did something for her, but yeah, no, you're right. Yeah, I think they just made her a prosthetic, so that seems to be what's happened. After, yeah, that. Also, yeah, she's bloody lost her power because she's fractured her skull.
Yeah. Give it episode seven shot at that. Yeah, probably. Episode eight. And yeah, she's half bald as well now, so. Wearing hats, babies are in fashion. Mm-hmm. She's kind of like, you know, the new Ashley, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ashley's such a funny character. I think, is she the same person from Workaholics? Maybe. I think that's where I know her from. Maybe. Now that you said that, maybe. Yeah.
Yeah, that. I guess... I was thinking people from other shows that like... You know when you see an actor and just remember him specifically for one role and they'll pop up every cell phone sporadically? So the Bounty Hunter dude from the first episode of the season, as soon as I said, I'm like, that's Charles Vane from Black Sails. I remember him being Ice King on The 100. But yeah, I've seen him on a couple of things. Yeah, for me it's Charles Vane from Black Sails, which is an underrated job. No one's seen it. Yeah. Yeah, he's a talented actor. I will also say, I guess the real-life death of... What's his name?
Jordan? Yeah, you know, yeah. I was interested to see how they would, you know, deal with that on the show. Surprisingly respectfully. Yeah. Maybe not surprisingly, but for the boys, surprisingly respectfully. Yeah, because we're all, like, interested. Yeah, because we thought, like, I really thought they were going to be, like, in that little detention camp wherever they were for a while. But they just completely lost straight over that. You've got to assume that they had a breakout plan for, like, episode one of the season, but given the real life death of the actor, they might have had to cancel it now, which is going off word of mouth. I think so, because you see, like...
Marie broke out herself. They have actually gone over and explained it as, yeah, she left everyone else behind and Dre, whatever his name was, tried to break everyone out and obviously used too much of his powers and gave himself an aneurysm. Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah, and then the other two were pardoned or whatever and, like, just, yeah, brushed it off. Like, obviously, never a few months and, yeah. What's the deal with the new Dean? Yeah, I like it. It's like, we don't know what's actually going on, but he just seems so, yeah, methodical and, yeah, psychopathic. Well, he's been around for a while. He's the one that gave Mary a power.
Yeah, like, is he just ageless? Just indestructible? Like, yeah, what is his powers? Maybe he's the one that can regenerate. Maybe. He's the creator. Maybe. Oh, I was trying to convince my brother earlier today to watch The Boys, and the only thing I can come up with in my head to explain it to him was...
evil justice league and then went through like a whole bunch of things and all of these things end up being like the sexual things i'm like wow this show is more fucked up than i realized there's always at least one perverted sexual thing per episode i was like telling about like the like one of the first like the can't talk like i should check out the show there's a whole episode called hero guys i'm like wait a minute that's probably not a good place to start you should check out the show there's a part where this dude goes and another guy's no that's probably not a good place to start yeah and then we have that scene in like the second or first episode of this season with the head popping out that dude's yeah which that's what i was gonna get to it's like you're just seeing like Something's going on here. He just pops out and goes back in. Literally. Has your missus seen the boys? I don't know. I'll have to ask. I don't think so, though. Is it a her top of the team or not? Probably not. Although she's a nurse, so there's every chance she doesn't care about it or just look at it from a nurse standpoint. Interesting, interesting. Because my missus loves the boys in Gen V. So I was just curious if your missus messed up is mine. I don't think so. Not quite.
Yep. No. I'd love to get some older person and, I don't know, maybe our parents to watch a few episodes of The Boys and to see what they think. Yeah. They'd be so shocked. This is what you guys do for entertainment? Absolutely. Yeah, it's pretty fucking vile, but yeah. Have you heard of a Reddit called 5050? No. I might have watched this before if I have, I apologise. So it's like Reddit slash 5050 and it's like, there's a link and it's like...
A cute puppy sitting in a birthday cake or man decapitated by railway spy. And you'll click on it, it'll take you to one of those two things. Yep. That's a fun place to go exploring. If you're ever missing the boys. Is it like AI-generated images? Like, how does that work? Oh, no. No, they're not. No, I've known about this thing since I was in, like, year eight or nine at high school. Yeah, this is how early I started finding this crap. Yeah, right. Yeah, it's been around for a long time. No, no, it's legit pictures or videos of these things happening. Oh, wow.
Yeah, so if you ever miss on The Boys or just want to see some stuff, Reddit slash 5050. Yeah, that's right. If you want to send you a link to it later. Yeah, Reddit, where society's finest tank out. Well, what can I say? I'm part of those people. Oh, man. Anyway, Gen B's good. Happy to have some boys back. I'm still waiting on the Fort Rising spinoff. Yeah. I'm guessing they'll be coming out after the next season of The Boys. Maybe.
But I told Ronnie May today, the Gen V's back, and they're going to watch the first season. They're probably not going to. I'm like, if you like the boys, go watch Gen V. It's like it's part of the same universe. I don't want to do that. I want to do that. It's going to school. It's going to college. It sounds dumb. It's like, no, it is dumb, but it's also like a lot of fun. The boys is dumb. Like the whole thing is, yeah. Yeah, mate. Can't wait to see the Vietnam War through the eyes of the boys. But speaking of the boys, dude, I was in on QBD Books the other day, and they've got the first few volumes of the comics in there. And I'm very tempted to go back in there later on in the week when I get paid to pick a few of them up and just have them flip their own and see what's different.
Yeah, a bit of a sense to say, wouldn't it, I suppose, is how violent it is. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of comic books, I know you're not a huge, like, into this sort of stuff. Like, you are, but you aren't. They've started putting out these things called compact comics, and they come in, like, a normal book format instead of, like, a comic book, like, magazine sort of thing. Yeah. So, say, for example, here, you could pick up, I don't know, like, let's go with Batman The Court of Hours. If you're going to get that in the magazine format, it'll cost you, like, 45 bucks for the whole story. But if you get it in this compact book form, it's, like, 18.
Oh, there you go. So I've been reading a lot of good DC stories lately, including a very good zombie one called DC, it's like D-C-E-A-S-E-D. Okay. Which pretty much, Cyborg comes back to Earth after being captured by Darkseid with like a virus in, and it spreads through social media, turning everyone into zombies, or essentially they're zombies, and then just chaos ensues, and Batman's the first one with Justice League to die. So obviously without Batman, you're going to be very hard-pressed for the cure.
But the catch is with this whole virus thing, if any of the Supes get infected, they don't lose their powers. And towards the end of it, Superman gets infected after killing Flash, who was infected, and then pretty much the apocalypse starts. Yeah, wow. Great little story. It's got like an hour to read it. If you could find it, if they made it an animated movie, I'll check it out. Yeah, absolutely. It sounds pretty cool. Yeah, and Green Arrow in the comic book stories is very swear-heavy. He's fine. Yeah. He's not just brooding. He's swear-heavy. We like that. Yeah. He's also very pissed off at Batman for not having a contingency plan to take him down.
Unlike every other superhero, because he's just Batman with an arrow. Well, it's pretty much that, dude. Think about it. What's an older coin in Bruce Wayne? Yeah, like just basically millionaire, billionaire kids with dead parents. And one has an arrow. Yeah. Yeah. The DC Compact Comics, dude, if you're interested in checking some of them out, there's some interesting ones, and they're pretty cheap and affordable. Yeah. You're probably not interested, though. I'm just throwing it out there. Well, I appreciate you doing yourself into thinking I am. Have you seen the new Superman yet?
No. Are you going to? It's actually a very good movie. I mean, if it comes out of the streaming service, I would, but I don't think I'm going to go out of my way to see it. It's done by James Gunn, and it reminds me a lot of the first Guardians movie. Okay, that's fun. I will say, in terms of movies that are all like, I've been checking, I have four now. It's Anderson Rabbit Hole. What have I been watching? What have I been watching? What was Anderson? I guess we'll say it started with the Grand Budapest Hotel.
Good movie. That was, yeah. And I think when I do The Life of Aquatic after that, The French Dispatch, and then a bunch of... I think I'd already seen Fantastic Mr. Fox. I think there was Isle of Dogs as well. Yeah. What else did I say? I think I was watching... There's one on Netflix that I was watching, like, The Fantastic Life of Henry Sugar or something. I don't think I've seen that one. So, yeah, that's where I've been at. Especially while I was sick. I was like, yeah, this is... Yeah. Wait, you were sick? When did that happen? A week or two ago. I have no idea. Then tell me. Yeah. I was dead, so...
Probably explains why you didn't tell me. Yeah. You're getting told now? Sure. For the last, what, month or so, I was lucky enough to get into the beta test for the new skate game coming out. Okay. And I've been playing that on and off for like two months in between other stuff, so to be fair, if you did tell me, I may not have been paying attention. Yeah. No, that's all right. I mean, I only told like a couple of people, obviously my boss, and then, yeah, because I had to because I had a day off of work, and then, yeah, I missed this, and yeah, that was pretty much it. Fair enough.
Fair enough. I feel like everyone at my house has been sick lately anyway. Yeah. Me daughter recently had RSV and had other crap dogs from the house. Seems to be almost all out, so that's good. Yeah. So, Russell Palooza very quickly. Brick Lobster squashed pacemaker. Yeah. Stephanie, the core person, beat AO Sky for the women's title. Yeah. What else is on this card? Guys. Cody.
I was going to say, Kobe McIntyre, Punkin, AJ Lee, yeah, we didn't talk about that at all. Did you watch that return promo? Because that was great. No, what did she say? No, no, sorry, not the promo, like, the return, just in general. No. You didn't watch her return on Chicago a few weeks back? I reckon I saw, like, a clip or two, but, like, not the proper one, no. No, so, oh, man, it was just an episode well, because, like, they had Becky beating up, like, trying to, like, get in Punk's face and, like, hitting him and crap, and he didn't, like, oh, never let me handle a woman, blah, blah, blah, blah, but luckily for me, I know someone who will when AJ pops up. Yeah, I think I remember that line, yeah.
Yeah, and then, like, the crowd just explodes, and that song of hers is still a certified banger. Oh, isn't it? Yeah. I think I did send you a good reel about it, didn't I? You did? It was on Spotify. What about my, like, playlist for, like, my bangers and mosh playlist? It was not on Spotify. Yeah. Like, there's a WrestleMania version for, like, WrestleMania 29 or 30 or something, but it's not the same. Nah. You know Wyatt's fiend theme isn't on there either? Why is that? I don't know. And I don't think his original, like, Wyatt, like, creepy womp gas theme is on there either.
You know, I got the Shatter song, which is a good song, but sometimes I want to go back and play the others, you know? Yeah. Because I think they're both good songs. They're both good songs. Is that it for us at Palooza? I think it is. Yeah. I think it's been a decent episode. Are you going to the show in Perth? Nah. I went the other year, so that was enough. I was just curious if you don't want to see his last things as well. Yeah. Unfortunately not. Unfortunately not. Was he at the show that we went to?
Maybe. Yes, he was, maybe, because he had that sixth move of Doom. Was that the other show? Yeah, that was, you know, was it Crown Jewel of Melbourne or whatever it was? I don't remember that happened, I don't know. Yeah, I only just did then. The only thing I remember from that show was how bad the main event was and the right arousal in the Cruiserweight titles. No, because it was Elias and Kevin Owens versus John Cena and someone. Are you sure? This does not bring any memories to me at all. You'll have to look it up, but I'm fairly safe. I'm going to look it up. Amuse the people for two seconds. Yeah. Oh, okay, sorry. Amuse the people, he says.
What else did we see on that show? Were the Iconics from that show today? Super Showdown. Event. Results. New Day. Charlotte. Oh, it was Cena and Lashley against Roddo. I have no recollection of that at all. Yeah, that's a random tag team. We did. You were right. It was Cena and someone against Kevin and Lashley, and I have no recollection of any of that. Yeah, we were pretty drunk that night. Yeah, I'll gladly go get you another beer if you're going to buy me something. Yeah.
It's actually you watching your kid. Yeah. Yeah, boy. All right. Anything else to touch on, or are we good to go? I think we're good to go. Well, before I forget, because I did forget, and I don't want to forget because this would be a terrible thing to forget, Smack It Down is part of the Modern Noise Media Network, along with other fantastic shows such as... Now I've had a brain fart. Oh, you're cutting me for a second. I don't know. No, I've had a brain fart. Yeah. SCL Live. The Federation, which I'm not sure if it's still around or not. I think Tyler said last week it's over, but I'm chatting it out anyway because it's a great show, and we had them on one of the earlier episodes of our show. Yep.
The Nerd Nebula, which should be back in a day or two. I'm lazy and haven't edited it. And Shenanigans and Sorcery. So check all those shows out wherever fine podcasts are found. Gen V is good. I said Gen V is good, and I think that's us done. Yep. All right. Well, Corey, it's been a pleasure, as always. I'll see you in anywhere from a week to six. Before you go, we need to figure out a thumbnail and a name for the episode. Oh, yeah, right. We didn't do that. Well, I'll leave that to you off air. That's your job. That's your responsibility. I'm here to edit things.
Fair enough. All right, I'll think of something. Like I said, I'll see you in a week to six when we record our next episode. Yeah, sounds like a plan. It could be anywhere in that time frame, or who knows, we'll go on hiatus for another two years. Who knows, man. Until then. Until then, peace out, and until next time.