What's really good, ladies and gentlemen? It's
the OG Boricua Dandara. Y 'all know what it is.
I got my man Muffins Martinez. Listen, I know
he wants to talk other shit. I can't wait to
actually talk MLW. But I know we got the bigger
fish to fry first. So my brother, how are you?
Let's talk your -ish. And then I want to talk
some MLW. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, man. Doing good.
How are you today? I'm chilling, man. You know
how it is. You feel like a villain like always
because you're a villain. So yeah, man, the big
news that came out last week, so we're a couple
of days late, but we always wait to get more
stuff to go one big show instead of just going
to like a five minute show. But the big biggest
news, the bombshell was WWE signing, I want to
say like a $1 .7 billion five or six year contract
with ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports. which
they've been down for the last like 40 -50 years
to move their content or PLEs, not their content.
So all the pay -per -views are going to be there
from now on starting in 2026 with the price of
$29 .99. But before people start jumping off
the walls and stuff like that, if you already
have ESPN through your cable company, streaming
service all you have to do is proof when you
update your info to the ESPN they ask you for
your email and stuff like that and once they
verify that you do have ESPN through those services
you will get to pay previews for free since you
really have ESPN but folks that don't have ESPN
will have to pay the $29 .99 a month which is
that for the PLEs. So before I jump into some
more, before I jump into a big conversation,
Jeff, I want to ask you first, how do you feel
about WD, all of a sudden going out and leaving
maybe Peacock next year, which has been free
now, what, two years now? For the last two years,
I think it's been free for the last two or three
years, where you and people, oh, not free. because
you got to pay for the pica channel $10 a month
or whatever or you do like me and wait till the
end of the year when they give you that $24 .99
for 12 months you get the commercials which is
basically you don't get to see the backstage
interviews and stuff like that happens on those
shows but you'll never miss the matches yeah
i do that so What do you think? What are you
feeling stores that are moving to ESPN and people
that don't have ESPN will have to pay $30 a month.
So is that all right? Let's keep it real. All
right. The only thing that I heard bad that I
heard about Peacock was I heard that they're
making Peacock remove a lot of the library now,
right? Like little by little, they're getting
rid of the WWU library. I get that. I'm not paying
for that, right? Like I'm not paying $30 for
First of all, okay, it's tough for me because
I grew up loving sports, right? But if you watch
sports like we did back in the days when you
heard that did it, did it, you knew the highlights
were coming. ESPN now is just a debate show.
It's podcasts about people debating sports. You
barely ever get any highlights. Well, you still
have the highlight shows. It's just specific
times now. Yeah, yeah. Where before, it was like
an hour show that would keep it going. Before,
it used to be like every 21, like half an hour.
Yeah. After the hour, they had the show. But
yeah, they changed those things now. So I'm not
a fan of all the debate shit, right? Like, it's
just not for me. And then you're going to put
WWE on it. So I got to spend $30 for... a debate
thing I don't wanna watch, to try to watch some
WWE shit? Nah, I'm good. And you know what? But
as a business, this makes sense, right? Because
at this point, you're not really caring about
viewership numbers, right? You're like, whatever,
because I'm building things. I made my billion
dollar deal. It's money. It's money. This is
what you do as a business. You keep evolving,
you keep getting paid. Right? They're getting
paid. Now the only thing is for people who aren't
going to the arenas. Oh well. Now it is worth
it for WrestleMania because it's been now two
days since COVID. Summer Slam just turned into
a two -day event. Royal Rumble is about to turn
into a two day event. I told you this when I
say we spoke about this like a year or two years
ago where I saw these things being pushed to
two days events. And then you can make a WrestleMania
weekend, SummerSlide weekend, Royal Rumble weekend,
and whatever other big show they have left. So
if you do pay for the $30, you get to watch both
nights for only $30. Now, my other point that
I wanted to say I'm 52 years old. Back then,
I was 13 going on 14 when WrestleMania came out.
And guess how much we paid for WrestleMania?
It was $50 to the cable company. I had to beg
my parents like, please, please, please let's
call. I'd make the call. Please give me the money
so I could pay for this. Then later on when you
were getting older, you had your friends come
over. and you made a big party. Everybody split
it up $10. You bought the food and you made a,
you know, football day turned into a wrestling
day. And that's what, so I grew up paying the
$50. I grew up when it went up to 40. I grew,
I was growing up when. I was paying $9 .95 a
week for TNA when they came out back for the
first time in 2001. And it was pay -per -views.
And if you bought it for the whole month, they
give you $5 off. So I was paying $40 a month
for that. So I lived through that. I lived through
NWA, making it $20 for the pay -per -views years
later. So we've been paying for wrestling all
our lives. So I don't understand and I really
don't see the point as to why people are complaining
that you have to pay for something. At least
it's $29 .95 and not $50. At least if you have
ESPN already through a streaming service or your
cable, you should prove that you have ESPN and
you're set. So the thing is, is it $29 a month?
It's $20 a month. So you want people to spend?
Well, every month there's a pay -per -view. It's
either Raw, it's either SmackDown, it's either
you get two with NXT and then whatever brand
is doing that night. And then once again, WrestleMania,
Royal Rumble, SummerSlam, two nights extravaganza,
40 -29, people are gonna pay for that. Yeah,
but you want people to spend $240 a month for
it. $240 a year for WWE. Dude, some people spend
that much money buying stuff that they don't
need. No, absolutely they do. Absolutely. But
the thing is $240 right now, where groceries
are still crazy. Yes. And people are, well $240
a month and you probably get a discount if you
buy it now like that, you know, buy it for the
whole year. I'm pretty sure you get a discount.
Yeah, if you want to say $200 or $40 a month,
I understand that. You pay more for car insurance
every six months. You pay rent. You pay your
cell phone bill. You pay $100 a month if you
got a bundle for people in the family. So I'm
pretty sure people will complain and see it the
way that you see it. But if you pay every month
and you can cancel any time, you say, okay, this
month is going to be a crappy one, I'm canceling
it. Next week NXT and a big show. I'm gonna put
it back cause then I get two shows for one. And
then of course WrestleMania comes. So I'm gonna
say, you put that bitch back on again because
you're getting two nights, six hours a night
of wrestling or five hours, whatever it is. This
is 2026? Starting in 2026. Good. I don't even
care because as long as I get to see John Cena's
farewell match, I don't care. Yeah. And then
the bombshell from the following day. happened
when everybody woke up to Dana White announcing
that UFC is going to go free starting in 2026
in Paramount Plus. Now, let's not forget TKO
owns both WWE and UFC. So if you are a fan of
UFC, they did a trade off. You have to pay for
wrestling in one channel, but they're giving
you USC pair reviews, which is a monthly thing
on ESPN for $44 .95 per pair review every month
for free in 2026 on Paramount Plus, which means
you're going to have to have a Paramount Plus
subscription. What else is on Paramount Plus?
I have no idea, but I don't have Paramount Plus,
so I don't know. I think it's a lot of cowboy
shit, I think. No, no, no, no, no, no. There's
a lot of everything on Paramount Plus. Well,
tell me because I don't know what's on Paramount
Plus. Bro, I watch mad shit, but you know I'm
a documentary guy. Okay, documentaries. Who cares?
No, but there's movies. There's movies. I've
watched all the Mission Impossible's. Okay, so
they do got movies. Yeah, they got movies, TV
shows. Okay. Like Toast the King and stupid shit
like that? No, no, no. Hold on. I don't think
it's Netflix because one of my favorite shows
right now is Mobland and I think I'm watching
that on Karma. Okay. It's in Tulsa King also
there we said business alone. If it is I'm not
watching that shit. Oh, what about the other
one? Um, oh shit forgot I forgot the guy's name,
but yeah, I don't know. I think it's there too,
but I don't remember Yeah, I I don't know what's
on Paramount plus cuz I don't watch Paramount.
There it goes. That's my show right there Mobland
on Paramount right there. Okay, so you pay and
you how much is it a month? It's with my my prime
shit the Amazon Prime Okay. Yes. Okay. Okay,
but you have to pay for something like that inside
though. Maybe my wife does that. It's probably
like six, seven bucks though. Yeah. My brother
has it too. I think it's something like that.
Yeah. Yes. It's like $6 .99 or $7 .99. Yeah.
They used to be $4 .99 and then when COVID hit,
it went up like everything else. Yep. Yep. Okay.
So Paramount Plus. So if you have your subscription
to Paramount Plus, $6 .99 or whatever for the
year, you'll get to watch UFC. If you are a UFC
person, it makes martial arts person. If you're
not, then who cares but I see the trade -off
where wrestling goes into ESPN through TKO and
then USC goes through Herriman Plus through TKO
for free and I mean it's amazing because you
have the boy um what's the guy's name the Irish
dude Connor Connor Carlos Silva uh the mummy
who just retired Uh, the guy... Connor's not
part of W, uh, Connor's not USC. Oh, yeah, that's
right. Because he's PKSC, yeah. My bad. Well,
the mummy guy. They call him the mummy. The zombie.
The zombie who just retired. I saw that because
I wanted to see him and I love that dude. Um,
but there's a lot of, you know, humongous fighters.
I can't remember their names because I'm not
like, like that into USC. My brother's a USC
guy. When I told him that yesterday, dude, that
guy, that dude lights that lit up because he
will get to see next year starting in 2026, all
every monthly UFC stuff for free. So he's happy
about that. So you get a trade off for wrestling
to UFC. Now, Peacock, which I'm going back now,
Peacock, like you say, is losing everything they're
gonna read. And also they're gonna lose the library,
but ESPN is not taking the library. So I don't
know where the library is gonna end up. you know
to those kind of shows that people watch the
old wrestling and they have the WCW stuff and
NWA stuff and they have they did they started
a YouTube channel now for that now with WWE doing
showing the old NWA WCW stuff so I don't know
where the library is gonna go but this opens
the window for someone like TNA MLW who was trying
to be on reels Could we go back to Rios again
and be shown on Peacock through the Rios channel
like they were doing last year or the year before
before they went to Peacock and then it had to
stop. So for one thing, one thing that is leaving,
you have the door opening for other companies
like TNA, NWA could jump there now because now
they're on Roku. So you never know. The only
one that Peacock should mess with is TNA because
they have a weekly. Yeah. Well, if, if LMA might
go back to a weekly show with, you know, our,
our boy there, uh, Houser in the helm. And now
he does do spreading himself around now, because
now I guess he's going to wrestle ring of honor
now for AEW. So I gotta say this, um, Are we
transitioning into MLW or we still got some shit?
Well, I think we're still while I was thinking
about the peacock stuff and you know what could
happen in 20s 26 and Who could jump into the
peacock thing channel? So alright, so I won't
transition right I won't because I'm excited
because there was a person that's you know, MLW
Well, if you if you want with the transition
if you say MLW thing well start with MLW. Yeah,
so what I want to say because you've been, you
have more patience than I do. I'm a very short
patience person, right? Like I need it now. Where
you understand and you're like, it's got to narrate,
right? Unfortunately. So I wasn't sure what to
expect from Paul Walter Hauser. We talked in
person about, I mean, we have mad content where
we talk about it, but When I seen who I seen
on MLW show, I was like, damn, he pulled some
kind of strings to get these two guys on for
these little segments on the last show. Paul
Walter Hauser has connects to Netflix and everything
else through side movies he's done being part
of Cobra Kai. And we've seen his respect that
he's getting in this industry. We've seen him
on big platforms talking MLW. Like you said,
he's gonna be on ROH. I'm pretty sure. that yes
if you're looking at it and if you're a peacock
you go well damn look at the roster uh tna has
it is very enticing right the thing is is who's
going to be that person to reach out to peacock
and what kind of relationship do they really
have with him with that person where a paul walter
hauser says look financially we're not the best
situation yes we have a great product we're tapped
in with the luchador scene We're tapped in with
the urban community because MLW fans, a lot of
them come from our neck of the woods. So we can
touch on all different things and maybe we do
a project, right? Because he's an actor, he gets
his foot in doors and does whatever he's got
to do. I think that he'd be the perfect representation.
Like, I have a fucking voice here. I'm doing
shit. So I think that if he could pitch it to
them right and... They actually fund MLW going,
you know, as whatever the payment would be for
them to be there. I think MLW can go back to
what it was, especially with Paul Walter Hauser,
because I haven't watched MLW programming in
a while that I felt every dot was connected.
Now we know Paul Walter Hauser was officially,
I think the name of my president of MLW. Yeah,
like something big in the company. Yeah. behind
Corbauer so yeah and that was officially done
at this set of tapings even though the first
set of it because they they chopped it up into
halves yes the first set of it was like last
month or something like that yeah because it
was live and this was taped and exactly this
this was the other content so we were like ah
this was pretty good right when i seen this one
i'm like yo the in -ring was really good the
promo work was really good yep The, if they want
to call them vignettes or backstage video scenes,
they were longer with more detail and more substance
behind it. Like what we've seen, Della Renta
walks in and she puts the box down. She's like,
yo, no return address, no this, no that. Before
we got, here's a box, I open it, we out. No,
this one, he's opening the box. He's like, oh
snap. gets a little letter in it. She's like,
yo, who's that? And he's going through his little
stuff to the point where he goes to walk away.
She goes to grab the key. She's like, where am
I going to put my nudge? TSA, right? Like, he's
like, man, we'll take care of that. And then
he's like, oh, give me that. She's like, I was
bringing it, right? You could see the level of
detail between conversation and it. And I was
like, it's not Rush no more. They're actually
taking time. to give us a scene. So I'm liking
what I see so far. I'm not trying to transition
into the show, but Paul Walter. We transition
into the show, and I'll be honest, and I'll be
the first one, you know this for a fact, I was
not a Paul Walter Howser fan. When he came in,
I'm like, oh God, what is this guy doing? Oh,
I agree. I know him as Stingray from Coral Tide.
Yes, I'm like, this dude's coming in, another
actor wants to play wrestling. He's going to
be here for a couple of weeks or whatever. He's
probably going to win a match, a name. He's going
to go on. This is bullshit. I hate it. This dude
has been here since day one. He's been out there
bleeding his ass off, working his ass off, and
he's been jumping, not just for MLW. He's wrestling
in the independents. He's wrestling, you know,
doing stuff with AEW because he has a thing going
on with Carlos's name. More of those guys there
are lower glides. But he has something going
on there with AEW that he's gonna be wrestling
in AEW with Marcial, QT Marcial. So he has something
going on there. So he's actually bringing eyes
to the wrestling and hopefully doing this with
AEW. He could bring some MLW stuff into that
also. And then, like you mentioned, he has a
lot of connections. This dude is in a lot of
their movies that are coming out. It's like,
every time you turn onto something, this dude
has a part in the movie. He's in a movie that
came out, I can't remember what it was, but then
he's also on Fantastic Four. I mean, this dude,
every time you see a preview, A24 preview or
something, he has a part. And I'm like, dude,
how many freaking movies did this dude do? His
parts keep growing and growing and growing. It's
not just small stuff. So yes, having that relationship
with Hollywood people will definitely help a
lot coming in into the 2026. And then like you
mentioned, they had their show this past Saturday.
I didn't see it Saturday because I was watching
the football game preseason, but I got to watch
it on Sunday. And like you said, this show was
amazing from the beginning to the end. Before
we even go into matches, the thing that got me
the most excited, and you were talking about
it earlier, like you don't drink, but you want
to get the dongato, right? I don't drink anymore
because of the health issues. But I want to get
the bottle just because I thought it was fake.
I thought that whole thing was fake. They were
making that shit up. So I actually went up and
looked it up as a real company. And he's selling
real stuff. I'm like, wow. And one of the bottles
really struck me because the tequila was yellowish.
I said, that looks real nice. And I like the
bottle. I said, yeah, I'm going to have to get
that. Just to have it. I know they've teased
it. They've had it on El Jefe's room, right?
It's always of the last few tapings he's had
a Don Gato, right? Don Gato stuff. So I'm like,
all right, cool, whatever. But this time, they
kind of shot a commercial in MLW with it, with
Danny McBride, who's one of my favorite actors.
Danny McBride, if people don't know him, I know
specifically from Eastbound and Down, he's done
a bunch of things. But Kenny Powers from Eastbound
and Down, they had his homie there, Steve, which
is Stevie. And I'm like, yo, this is an MLW show.
This isn't a YouTube commercial break showing
Don Gatto. No, this is MLW showing it. Then you
see the Don Gatto guy with his cat on the second
floor. And I'm like, is this guy a wrestler?
Like, obviously, you know, he's a gimmick for
the liquor, right? It'd be kind of awesome if
he does become a wrestler in the future, because
I was going to say, they show that they're going
to... Oh shit, where is it? Somewhere in November,
and I forgot where they're going to go. And they
already have them showing up on that show. So
McBride and a lot of little guys from that group
will be heavy on that November show, which is
somewhere in... I'm not going to get up, but
it's the first time they're going to that city
and state. So what struck me when I seen them
is the first thing I thought it was suicide from
TNA. Remember, he was giving it for like a video
game and then it became real. And it became real.
And I'm like, it would be so easy with the connects
that MLW uses the luchador scene to get some
random mask maker to make a basic mask. And go
put any luchador behind it, a legit luchador.
A real guy that could wrestle. Not just some
random guy wearing an outfit. No, to actually
be Don Gato the wrestler and take this off. So
if they're using this liquor or spirit, let me
say spirit and say it right. I'm sorry, Charleston,
South Carolina on November 20th. That's gonna
be... Where's Danny Carolina? Well, maybe no
Carolina. This is Charleston, South Carolina.
South Carolina, okay. Because they were in for...
The Greensboro. The Greensboro. There you go,
there you go. Back years ago. But yeah, this
is gonna be number 20, Charleston, South Carolina.
And Danny McBride and the whole Dungato tequila
brand will be at that show. So it's gonna be
featured heavily. So... I'm telling you, they've
got to be a sponsor with the way they've been
promoting them so heavily. Oh, I'm pretty sure
they are becoming one now. Yeah. So I want to
see the guy. I got to see Don Gatto come in.
Yeah, man. That'd be awesome. Kenny Powers. Yo,
bro, I'm telling you, MLW needs to get an ML
Jersey, MLW Jersey. It says 55. It says Powers
on the back. Because did you watch Eastbound
and Down? I don't know what that is. Oh my God,
bro, it's baseball. He's like this. Danny McBride
is the pitcher where he's got drug issues, alcohol
issues. What's the movie called? Eastbound and
Down. It's a show, but it's got like six, probably
five, six seasons. Damn. Yo, bro, it's fucking
hilarious. Eastbound and Down. Okay, I see it
right here. Oh, this guy, yes. Bro, I'm watching
it. That shit is hilarious. And Kenny Powers
goes to Mexico. You can go on eBay or whatever
and get his Mexico jersey, right? Like, you put
up a Luchador Kenny Powers jersey? Oh my God.
That shit will sell, bro. We need a Kenny Powers
MLW jersey. Number 55. Danny McBride. That's
why I was so excited. When I seen him on I was
like, oh shit, Danny McBride. Yeah, because he
didn't look like him. That's why I was wondering
who the hell's this guy. Bro, it's Kenny Powers.
Yeah, boy. It doesn't look like him. Oh, he's
older, bro. He's older. That's a fat dude. You
know, heavy set. Not fat, but a heavy set dude.
This guy look different. Oh, they're a lot older,
too. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. They all are. I mean,
I'm still fucking cracked up here. Yeah, so they
had the show on Saturday that we were about to
talk right now about. Now, you liked it more
than I did, so what was the culture about it?
All right. Obviously, I said I like all the backstage
stuff. I like all the detailing. Blood and thunder.
Blood and thunder. We had talked about this because
we've been high on the homie Kwon for a hot minute,
right? We've been high on Kwon for that long.
He's had burner matches that they never allowed
to beat more time. And we're like, man, if you
give this guy the ball, he's dope. Going against
somebody like Mystico, this was the test. That
to me, that was the test of is Kwon somebody
that we could put the fuck in, you know? the
jetpack on his back and let him go. I thought
that this was a strong showing from Kwon. Now
you want to start from the beginning? Huh? You
want to start from the beginning of the matches?
I mean, you can. I don't know the exact breakdown.
Well, I got it right here. So that's all I wanted
to ask you. Yeah, go. You know what? Just leave
this one out. We'll talk this one and then we'll
go on. Yeah, so they had the six, six, six -way
shramble match. Matthew Justice, Okumura, the
snitch. Mr. Thomas, Ariel Dominguez, C .W. Anderson,
and your boy, our home and crew. With crew winning
the match towards the end. And of course, I loved
it because it's a car accident. Yup. Bodies are
everywhere. People are just dying. People are
getting killed. You know, so I love this type
of matches. Okay, let me ask you, though. So,
we're all so high on justice, too, right? We
feel justice has taken a shit. In this match,
would you say that you sat back at the end, even
though with Mads Kruger winning it, would you
say, damn, I've really seen another level at
a match like this? Yes. That for sure. But the
right person won. I mean, you can't have two
getting losses right now. The one thing that
I liked was after the match when they showed
footage of Justice talking to Hammerstone. And
he had talked about how Hammerstone had left
and Justice was there, you know, kind of carrying
Elmo W or whatever. So it looks like maybe at
the next live pair, maybe we're going to have
a Justice versus Hammerstone match. Yeah. Which
it'll be interesting because I would love to
see Justice wrestle more and less of that hardcore
shit. Oh, yeah. We're over that shit because
the more The more you do, see this is what I
keep trying to tell people like, if you have
to bleed like a John Mosley to tell a story,
or you got to do 6 million spots, you're just
not good enough, right? Like, you're in range
to be able to tell a story already. And a lot
of guys, they feel they got to do the most wildest
shit, shorten their careers, instead of just
being able to just be great wrestlers. You know
what I'm saying? You don't need to do the stupid
spots or jump off the third balcony. You know
what I'm saying? Like, come on, bro. Matthew
Justice is too good of a wrestler to focus on
just that. Well, I don't mind him doing that
once in a blue moon, but not in his own show.
It's like big shows like Kings of Coliseum or
War Chamber. Yeah, but I think it has a name
for that pay -per -view. It's like... I thought
it was called War Chamber. Is it? Cause I know
I had the freaking grenade on it. No, it's called
war chamber. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So the second
match was neon from Mexico against Paul London
in a lightning match. So basically it was a 10
minute, 10 minute time limit match. Now I seen
these guys already have the same type of match
in Mexico and same thing happened, which happened
here at 10 minute time, 10 minute time limit
draw. But I like when matches like this go fast
because the action goes fast Yeah, so you're
not bored. There's no head locks. There's no
nothing like that. It's a lot of fast -paced
What I found interesting was at the end of the
match when London Instead of shaking his hand
kicked him. Yeah, and then He kind of just real
paths or kind of bump into Paul Walter Hauser.
So, they seem like there's going to be something
happening there in the future between them two.
Because they've been allies for a while. Yeah,
they had the whole, they were going against...
The rogue horsemen. The rogue horsemen, they
were siding with Bu -Mae. Like, they kind of
always been attached to something and... Now
that we know Boumaier is no longer Boumaier and
we know that the Rogue Horsemen are no longer
the Rogue Horsemen. So I'm curious about MLW.
Yeah. They put a group together and you get excited
about that group and not even four months. Like
the Rogue Horsemen, four months, maybe three
matches all together. Yep. And they split them
up or whatever because then your boy BRG left,
which I don't know why he wasn't re -signed to
a long -term deal. Which yeah, some parts of
MLW with Kurt Bauer baffled me, some of the moves
just baffled me as to why BRG was not signed.
Because BRG was like the best guy of the string
horseman. He was the leader, he was the flair
of the horseman. And not for nothing, When people
talk nostalgia, I'm not a big nostalgia guy.
I don't want to see Ric Flair anymore. I don't
want to see... Oh God, I do not want to see Ric
Flair no more. I don't want to see those guys
anymore. You know, if I watched you when I was
a little kid and I'm 46 now, I don't want to
see you nowhere near ring, brother, like at all.
But if you could give me a new version of what...
All right. So, and I say this all the time. You
are a worldly wrestling fan. I grew up with WWF.
It's a WWF, you know, because they were always
at Manchester Square Garden. So I didn't watch
NWA when I was a teenager because of Hogan and
them. I was into WCW. I didn't get to see until
like YouTube or old videos of the Four Horsemen,
right? You knew about them because in WCW they
kind of still did it. But it's not. It's from
the beginning. It's the WCW Four Horsemen and
no shot to the Four Horsemen. It's not the same
caliber as NWA Four Horsemen. No, no. Those guys
were the primes in the NWA days. Oh yeah. So
you had a young Barry Windham, a young Sid Vicious,
a young, well, a young R. Anderson. Flair was
always the oldest because I think he was like
oldest by five to ten years. At that point though,
there's only one guy that I think on a microphone.
And you know, I'm not a horseman guy. I love
the horsemen, but it's not my crew. There's no
one in the industry at that time, except for
maybe Dusty Rose that could talk on a mic like
Flair. Yes. Right. So, and then, and R. Anderson
gave you that stern talk, like he was a parent.
R. Anderson was... He was the gangster we all
loved, right? Because he was that guy who, I'ma
beat you up bad, bro. Like, he was - And he did
it. And he did it, right? So, if you could give
me a new kind of version of the Four Horsemen
in 2025, and with a BRG, and no ditty, good looking
guy, young, arrogant, has all that flair shit.
you have arn anderson jr who looks just like
arn anderson you got cw you know what i'm saying
you got cw anderson who's doing his thing and
these guys look great and you're like oh snap
and you pull the plug like that yeah and you're
like well damn right like why did we get excited
for this yeah so so basically you put them together
sell merchandise and then pull the plug just
dumb because You're losing out on something fans
would eventually... You gotta stick to something,
right? You gotta stick to it until it either...
Look what, like, Roman Reigns. The fans fucking
couldn't stand Roman, right? They just fucked
this guy. And then it clicked. It hit. You found
the niche. All of a sudden, we got nine million
fucking Anoys and Batus. Jesus, they got too
many here now. NWO part two over here, just the
bloodline. Just imagine when they actually pull
the plug and pull all those guys together. Like
not even fighting against each other, then you
say enough. We need to take over and we can take
over. And you put the Uso, Reign, the five guys
with Solo, Fatou, that's going to be NWO, but
it's going to be... the islanders or the foundation
or something like that of just Samoan Hawaiian
wrestlers taking over the whole, every show.
They're gonna go to NXT, they're gonna go to
a main event, they're gonna go to, shit, they're
gonna go to TNA and take over TNA. I put champions
in every company. Dude, that's gonna be crazy
when that happens if - they pull the trigger
like that. I'm pretty sure somebody's saying,
dude, we have to pull the trigger on this. These
guys could be the next NWO for 30 years later,
what NWO did and what could have done because
unfortunately, NWO didn't last, what? Yeah. Two
years. And they have somebody, NWA, NWO, NWO
black and white, NWO red, then they all broke
up, then NWO silver and black. And I think the
last one was gold and black. It was some shit.
With Jeff Jarrett. And before they just decide
enough. But the thing about W is they struggle
with factions, right? Like we lost Junaikai,
so Contra Unit loses her. And Grandpa, he left.
He's not there. We don't get a proper send off
for him. He's back in Japan. You know, so it's
like... Y 'all got to do better, man. Y 'all
got to stick to something because there's no
lane. No. All right, so let's go back to the
show. The third match was Bishop Dyer versus
Anthony Green for an opera first session. Great
match. Huh? Great match. Well, yeah. And I said,
this match, Anthony Green getting a chance, he
was going to show off. Not Windu because he's
the way he's going to beat Bishop Dyer in this
opera cup thing. No. It happened the way how
I knew it was going to happen. Anthony Green
needs to get signed by MLW already. Give him
a contract and let him do this every month because
this was match delivered. And I was happy. So
we sat back. We've been high on Green for a little
bit now. Since he's been there, we were saying,
Dan, we hope we see more of him because the kid
is talented. I was afraid watching this match
up that Dyer coming into MLW the way he is. they
might run through Green, right? And they did
not, they let this be a legit match. But Green
got his shit off to him, right? Green got his
offense in there, he showed his aerial, he showed
his athleticism, his speed, his technical shit.
I said, we know what we're gonna get from Dyer.
So when I see what Green gave, I was like, yo.
Y 'all better lock something up. So then they
show commercial for the next MLW show, which
is going to be September 13 in Dallas, Fireland,
which means we're going to have to wait a whole
damn month again to watch another MLW show, which
this is the part that sucks for us because it
gets us excited that, oh shit, they're back,
they're doing something good. And now they put
the plug on us for another month and we will
see shit for them for another month. So, the
fourth match was supposed to be Matt Riddle against
Dynamo Dyjak, but that never happened because
Kruel beat up Riddle in the back. Yep. And he
went to the ring to do his contract, but then
Dyjak kicked that and said, no, that's not happening
tonight. And then they brawled all the way to
the back and more. But then now we have Matt
Riddle against Dynamo Dyjak for The September
13th show is going to be the main event of that
show in Dallas. So when is Crew going to get
his stupid title match and win the title already?
I don't know. But yeah. So that didn't happen.
Nothing happened. And then your boy Kojima with
the red guy versus Bobby Fish. We had the show
before where we said Kojima was going to win
this match. It happened like we did. It was almost
nine minutes long. So this show gave us some
good lung matches. No squashes, just real good
matches and made you think like, maybe they could
turn that around and have this guy win. But no,
Kojima won. Which was no surprise. What do you
thought about the, I like the match because I
was like Bobby Fish with Kyle O 'Reilly when
they were Red Dragon. Bobby Fish is not the same
guy from back then. you know his physique is
not the same like it was back then either so
but he still gives you you know that match he
still gives you that now this is listen solid
match you don't i do not like kojima i don't
like this guy right like decent wrestler but
he's already at that age where he's slow as fuck
right like he's just not yeah He don't have that
pace, but this is it. The one thing I can say
is he's safe, he's clean. So I give him the respect
because even at that age, he's still putting
really good matches on. That's it. The one thing
that I don't get is what happened next kind of
threw me away. What the fuck was when the snitch
Okamura came to the ring and they kind of buried
the hatchet after like two months of the turning
each other and having a match against each other.
Now they're back together again. So I'm like,
uh, yeah, I don't get this. And then the fans
were throwing bread at the ring. And then he
said, yeah, don't try this at home because he
was actually eating the bread. I'm thinking,
man, I'll be hungry too after that match, but
I'm not touching no bread that's being thrown.
Nope. I don't know where that bread's been at.
Where? You don't know if that shit has rats walking
around and shooting the house and stuff like
that. But... They made some more matches where
they have the final, like I mentioned, September
13th, will air live on YouTube. They have Templadio
versus Ikora Kwon and Hammerstone versus, hold
on, hold on, let me just say, oh yeah. Templadio
versus Ikora Kwon, so you're gonna see Ikora
Kwon's gonna be in the show again, in a live
show, which is good. And they're gonna have Hammerstone
against Justice in a no DQ match. So we have
three matches for next month. So, Templario is
the one that has the sword crawls around his
face. Yeah, like the knife. Yes, that's Templario.
So he's going to fight Quan. So this should be
interesting. They're giving Quan different types
of... because Mystico, obviously, even though
he's older, he's still super fast and athletic.
Templario... He's fast, athletic, and he's strong,
right? Like, there's a big difference of body
type between Teblario and, and Mistral. Yeah.
Yeah. And yes. Uh, the next match was six, which
was the female match, which you know, I love
women's wrestling, uh, was Blackheart against
Ava Everett. Um, that was a good, I mean, it
went eight minutes. So I love it when they give
the women a chance to get out there. I thought
Ava gave a real good match. Ava Russell good
match against Chassie. I don't know how Chassie
still got that dumb cast on her hand and she
could still move around. I don't know. That was
weird. But yeah, I thought Ava Everett had a
hell of a match. I'm hoping that she'll get used
more regularly and not just once in the blue
moon because she's in the States. I don't know
if she's in Germany or she's back, I don't know.
She travels back and forth between WXW and the
States. Yeah, so I don't know how that's gonna
happen. They show more cruel and dodgy still
fighting in the back. Another Dungato segment.
That Dungato shit was tearing me up all night.
I thought that shit was funny. And like I said,
like you mentioned, I hope that they do have
a Dungato guy coming up in November. A real wrestler
comes out with a bottle of tequila. and start
busting motherfuckers around the head with it.
Here's a free one for you. Take it back to the
street. Yeah, man. Just start knocking them out.
And then the main event was Mystico against O
'Quann. And this is where we're starting about.
You were talking. Unfortunately, in spirit and
heart, we wanted O 'Quann to win. But we knew
that gold up against Mystico and this Oprah Cup.
was gonna be impossible cuz we know Mystico is
the cash cow of MLW at the moment. And then they're
gonna have him lose in the first round. So I
mean, it was a good match. He almost went almost
eight minutes. Like you said, Ikora Kwon once
again showed off like he's been doing when he
gets the chance to wrestle. He goes out there
and shows what he could do. Mystico is Mystico.
I mean, he's the... He's 11, bro. He's the golden
goose of everybody out there in Mexico and here.
If you use him in AEW or here, he sells. So now
he's still having the thing with MJF and RRH,
big stuff that they're going on there. So we
still saw Kru and Tajik still wrestling. And
then... Dodged through over the roof of the roof.
So and then cruel did a John wick and disappeared
So, I don't know how do you guys try to kill
this dude when he got a talent match coming up?
Oh But then he disappeared something so he's
a magician now, so I don't I don't I don't know
if I would call it a John wick because The first
time I remember seeing that is when Michael Myers
gets shot off the ledge. They think they kill
him, and then when they look over, he's gone.
So I was like, I get it, you know. He's a monster.
Can't get killed. No, it's like the Undertaker
thing, right? Yeah, he's unstoppable. You can't
kill him. You can only hope to contain him, basically.
And the thing with Cruel that I still don't understand
with MLW, is he's a side attraction right like
you see him once in a while and he's always on
some like crazy what do you call that uh the
match weapons of mass destruction right so he's
always there's something weird and then he's
gone for a little while now with the roster flipping
the way it's flipped you're using him more for
the last last two shows he's opened the show
yeah yeah You know, the last month on the live
episode was him and Baba, Baba, Baby Baba and
that tag team match, which they won. And then
this week in the tape show, he's in a six -way
scramble match. Again, on the first match, but
then he's featured heavily throughout the show.
That's what I'm saying, right? Okay, what are
you doing with this dude? I think that, and obviously
it'll never happen because the Undertakers are
one of one. Right? Like, I'm not, I'm not crapping
on Kane, nothing like that. But when you think
of dead men, the Undertaker is the end all be
all, right? Like he's the guy. But if you were
smart, uh, court Bauer and, and, and PWH or pH
or whatever, Paul, yeah, PWH. Yeah. I was going
to slow it down and say as much as I can say
if PWH right. It's just too much. Um, if you
were smart. You start booking him like the Undertaker.
You know what I'm saying? Like, start letting
him put people in fucking body bags. You know,
let him put them in. What she did before. What
she would do before in the body bags. But that's
what I'm saying. Don't go away from it, right?
Like, give us that. And at some point, do a burial
match or something and, you know, let him do
something epic. Put his hand through the dirt
or something. I don't know, like... You know,
give us more of him. You know what I mean? Like,
he's our guy. Him and Hammerstones are the only
ones we, the OGs left. Yeah, and Quan. Yeah,
but Quan, Quan never really got the op though.
Didn't they, at the beginning of the show, didn't
they say that Renta said that the MLW open weight
title was going to be held up now? So they take
the title. It should be Quan. But she did say
that there's no champion. It's vacant and it's
going to be in doubt. She did say that. Okay.
So it's next month. Well, they already have one
wrestling. I just told you he's going to be wrestling
Tempaglio. So unless that's going to be that
match for the title there. They didn't say the
title match, but maybe they'll add it later when
y 'all say it. But yeah, so. I mean, he doesn't
have to fight, uh, Mistico. Mistico don't want
that belt. Yes, I agree. So, maybe he's fighting
Tampaglio next month. So maybe that match, they'll
put the title out between them too. Who do you
think would get it? Do you think Tampaglio will
get it, or do you think Juan? Juan should get
it, but we already know the love affair with
CMLL, and they have to respect them because they're
letting all those guys come here. So unfortunately,
it most likely going to be Templadio. Because
he wants to avenge the disrespect that they did
on Cesar two months ago when he spit that shit
on Cesar and took the belt. So that's the story
on the Templadio one. He wants to get the revenge
and put the family or the respect back on De
La Renta and Dario and put the family back on
top. So by him wearing this belt is doing that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're putting gold back where
it belongs. Yeah, but once again, you're burying
Quan again. And Quan didn't come out to no country
unit shit. Usually he comes out to play. Yeah,
exactly. So maybe things change. Maybe the whole
thing is done then. The whole contract you did
I don't remember the quank come on crew come
out to the contract unit song. Nope Okay, so
they've already killed it Jesus Christ. I'll
be some shit who's cool being contract unit for
five years and when when country unit was broken
up He was doing it on the independence with his
own. Yes. Yeah his own little crew out there.
Yeah Yeah, man, so that's it. So that was it
Out of the five, I gave the show a four. I'm
not going to say five, but this is a four, four
and a quarter, four and a half. I love this shit.
Damn. Dude, this is the first time ever you've
gone over me. You know, it was like lower than
me. I'm over it, bro. I literally watched the
show and I was like, listen, I was sitting next
to Alex and I was like, All right, let me watch
this MLW shit, right? My BKFC edit, let me watch
this shit. I watched it, I was like, man, this
is all right. I changed my sit. Let me put it
on TV instead of my phone. Man, dude, I sat back
and this shit was good. It was a good show. The
problem is, like we used to say with TNA, you
give us something good and then now we gotta
wait. And they take it away from us for a month.
The wave, that wave that goes is now flat again
by the time the next show happens because you're
not riding the wave. And that's the part that
eventually they have to figure it out going into
2026. Only positive thing remaining in 2025 is
that there's only four months left in the year.
So we get to either give four more, four more
to maybe six, seven with the tape shows of MLW.
before 2026 starts and then hopefully then, and
then we all know November comes and things start
slowing down because of the holidays, Thanksgiving,
and then Christmas, then New Year's. So a lot
of stuff starts slowing down. So, and we're probably
going to get one of those best off for Elmer
Bellamy. So that will kill our momentum going
into 2026. So it's always something going on
with these guys, this whole. 2025 has been a
nightmare for Elmo W in 2025 in my opinion. Anyways,
I agree scheduling and stuff like that, but I
don't know. So Jeff, anything else you want to
talk about that you have or if not already gave
me the you better hurry up with your shit and
start cooking. Ah, she already told you both.
So listen, like subscribe shit on that good shit.
For me, this guy, we outta here. Deuces. Deuces!