This week we preview Money in the Bank. We make our picks and predict any surprises we expect.
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00;00;02;15 – 00;00;36;03
Unknown
And now heading to the ring at a total combined weight of all. Wow. The top rope wrestling put ten.
00;00;41;08 – 00;01;04;21
Unknown
Welcome to another edition of the Top Rope Wrestling Podcast. I am Rick and Drew is full of snot and rocking his Foo Fighters shirt for the 18th week in a row. I don’t know about that. Wasn’t there a week that you didn’t wear it because you spilled something on it or something? Yeah, it spilled something on it. By the way, this light that you’re seeing here is not my little like Ring of light here.
00;01;04;22 – 00;01;23;04
Unknown
Yeah, that’s turned off. I ah. I need my blue light bulb this morning. So I went and just grabbed a light bulb that I had hanging around the house. And this light bulb apparently is too fucking light up an entire planet. I can’t find my other light like my other light that fell behind my monitor. And now I can’t see where it went to.
00;01;23;23 – 00;02;00;24
Unknown
So you have a single light on me right now. It’s creating a lot of light, though, and it’s okay. But that’s enough. Not for that. We don’t have anything to worry about. There. But we are covering probably one of two pay per views that have a situational aspect to them that actually matter the Royal Rumble. And that’s, oh, I guess three because you have some Survivor series, two Survivor series as a matter I know, but it matter.
00;02;00;24 – 00;02;26;07
Unknown
It’s one of the big four. I mean, at least it’s something. But I mean, money in the bank is the players championship of wrestling of that. It’s the fifth major, so to speak. I could see it. That definitely fits that. So we will go ahead and take a look at the card and and see where things are going.
00;02;27;04 – 00;02;49;07
Unknown
I don’t know if any of these that were announced, if there are any new matches announced on Monday that aren’t on this list. I can fill in the blanks. Oh, okay. They have a prediction of a Kevin Owens versus Ezekiel match. Okay. That match is supposed to happen on Raw to qualify for money in the bag. And it did not happen.
00;02;49;07 – 00;03;19;20
Unknown
They said they had to push it back. So maybe it is going to go by prediction is that match happens on Friday and the winner goes to money in the bank. Okay. There’s still one slot left. Got it. So it’s not fully set yet? Yeah. So if that does happen, I guess. Well, it won’t really actually happen there, but first up on the actual card is the U.S. championship theory versus Bobby Lashley.
00;03;20;23 – 00;03;40;01
Unknown
Should be a good match. Yeah, I mean, Lashley has been putting on a lot of good matches. Theory puts on good matches. I mean, I don’t care for the character, but I mean, that’s kind of just good character writing, I guess. See? Yeah, that’s the thing. He is. He’s good because you don’t like him because he’s doing what he’s supposed to do, correct?
00;03;41;20 – 00;04;10;26
Unknown
I do not believe Lashley is going to win this match. They set up some some teasing between Austin Theory and John Cena last night. I saw that. So I’m thinking probably SummerSlam. They’re going to do a theory versus Cena. My my theory is that John Cena and Austin theory will fight. I could foresee that happening. They’ve definitely done a little tease.
00;04;10;26 – 00;04;42;25
Unknown
And I know last night they had some AIW stars congratulating John Cena. I really. Yeah. You think Vince would ever like if. If A.W. reached out to say they were doing a tribute to somebody? I think Vince would let them do it. He gave them some footage of Luke Harper when? Brody. Yeah, I guess so. But, yeah. So we three three takes this match to continue on to verse or to fight Cena for the U.S. championship.
00;04;43;15 – 00;05;10;24
Unknown
I mean, he’s going to take the match via shenanigans. It’s not going to be a win win. Right. Then next up is the undefeated WWE Tag Team Championships, which is the USOs versus the street profits. Yep. That is not going to happen for the street profits. No, it is not. So, yeah, I’m not upset with you on there.
00;05;10;24 – 00;05;38;02
Unknown
The USOs are taking that one. The Smackdown Women’s Championship, Ronda Rousey versus Natalia. I don’t care, but we already know that championships not going anywhere in Italy is never one one and probably never will. I mean, she may end someday in her life, but not today, no. Then you have the raw championship matches. Bianca Belair versus Carmella again.
00;05;38;10 – 00;06;11;09
Unknown
Kamala had her two championships and this is not going to be her third one. Apparently the match was originally supposed to be against Ripley. And Rhea Ripley is apparently not cleared to wrestle currently. Yeah, she had some kind of brain injury. They said they’re actually calling it a brain injury. Interesting. Hopefully it’s not too serious. So, yeah, Belair, I think we’re we’re kind of in agreement that none of those nothing’s changing hands.
00;06;11;21 – 00;06;35;25
Unknown
No titles are going to change hands. Next up is the women’s money in the bank ladder match with John. You have to go one by one and you tell me the percentage or you’re married or do I or do you read them all four and then you go through. Okay. So we have Lacey Evans versus Alexa Bliss versus Liv Morgan versus Raquel Rodriguez.
00;06;36;06 – 00;07;00;12
Unknown
I wanted to call her Raquel Gonzalez. Oscar versus Oscar versus Shotzi versus a TBA. The TBA didn’t get as of this publishing of this. I mean, I can say they beat, isn’t it? It did say Becky Lynch, was it? All right. Hold on. Did it say Becky Lynch? No, there was no Becky Lynch. Okay. She got the last spot.
00;07;01;17 – 00;07;02;08
Unknown
Oh, okay.
00;07;05;29 – 00;07;57;00
Unknown
Yeah. Let me just make sure that. Yes. Okay. Okay. So we’ll go one by one through these. Lacey Evans, zero. Alexa Bliss for Liv Morgan. What did I say? Lacey Evans had zero. Okay, less than that. Raquel Rodriguez. I’ll give her a good 50% Oscar. That 20% chance. Shotzi. No. And Becky Lynch probably is what’s going to win, but I would say it comes down to her.
00;07;57;00 – 00;08;14;20
Unknown
Raquel Rodriguez and Oscar are the the major players in this match. But I would say Becky Lynch is going to win it. You think Becky Lynch and Oscar for The Fighter since Oscar won it, and then Becky Lynch gave her the title a couple of years ago and comes out of the two of them and Becky Lynch ends up winning.
00;08;15;11 – 00;08;52;18
Unknown
I’m kind of hoping Raquel Rodriguez wins it. I would like to see something different. Get a decent push. I’m with you on that, mostly because we’ve seen her wrestle at gymnasiums. Yes, we have definitely seen her. And then the men’s is Seth Rollins, Sheamus, Drew McIntyre, almost Sami Zayn. And it says TBA. But is it do they is it still a TBA?
00;08;53;08 – 00;09;00;03
Unknown
So last night Riddle qualified and there’s still one TBA.
00;09;03;26 – 00;09;30;21
Unknown
So Riddle got in because. Let’s see. It should. It would help. I actually, like, watched it this week, but I didn’t. Okay, so Riddle got it in this week. So Riddle is the TBA? No, there’s still one more slot left. Okay. Riddle is not on this list. I can assure you he’s ahead. Okay. Oh two TBA. Sorry. Yeah.
00;09;30;26 – 00;10;04;11
Unknown
Okay. So we’ll go through these. So the today is supposed to be a match between Ko and Zico, so we’ll run through it with KO and then run through it with Zico. Okay. Okay. Seth Rollins. I like that. That 6% chance of winning 6%. Okay. Yeah. Seamus did no. Zero. I did not realize, like, he is the oldest active Smackdown member on the Smackdown roster.
00;10;04;21 – 00;10;34;17
Unknown
Roster. Oh, Smackdown. Smackdown roster. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Because I was going to say freakin edge is all there is, but apparently Seamus is 44, so I did not realize he was that old. Makes sense. But that old, you know, three years older than me. Drew McIntyre, at like at the 12% you had to win to amass, almost no chance of winning, almost all those years.
00;10;35;00 – 00;11;04;22
Unknown
Oh, there’s no chance of winning. Sami Zayn that same as almost no, no chance Riddle. Like a 3,000% chance he wins this match. So you’re thinking Riddle takes it? I’m thinking Riddle takes. And Ezekiel. Ezekiel. So can go fuck himself with those stupid little flairs he wears on his arms. No, he has, like, a fucking -500 chance of winning, Elias.
00;11;05;29 – 00;11;34;06
Unknown
Why is he better? What do you think? Yeah, and K.O.. I’ll give Elias a 7% chance if I give him secured negative five. So he has one more percent chance of winning than Seth Rollins. Seth Rollins? Yeah. So the surprise factor. Oh, it. I’m. Yeah, I don’t like the money in the bank. Matches are the only ones that really interest me that much.
00;11;34;12 – 00;11;59;01
Unknown
But, I mean, the three Lashley match should be a good match. The USOs strip off. It should be a good match. But they’re like, I. There’s not going to be anything surprising. Nothing shocking. Add up the matches tomorrow are Friday. I think there’s maybe a couple more. Yeah because I and honestly I think they of because they had some wonky finish to the AJ styles versus mismatch.
00;11;59;02 – 00;12;24;21
Unknown
Like it went like 15 minutes and then the Miz just walked out. I’m thinking that might be maybe a kickoff match. Okay. Yeah. I mean, they they haven’t announced any kickoff matches or anything that seems to fit in that kickoff category, really? I guess they get throw the tag team championship in the kickoff if they wanted to. But the frickin Smackdown Women’s Championship and that one, you think they’re really gonna put Ronda Rousey in the kickoff?
00;12;25;00 – 00;12;49;02
Unknown
You think she would let that happen? I don’t I don’t know what her contract says. I don’t know if her contract says, no, no, no. First match. I don’t know. I mean, I just I figure that she’s one of those people that would have that kind of thing in her contract be like, I got to tell you, when when I saw Joan Jett a couple weeks ago in concert.
00;12;49;02 – 00;13;12;20
Unknown
Yes, I did. Half expect Ronda Rousey to start walking through the crowd would rad reputation played okay I mean I get it but was she going to be like spouting off conspiracy theories while she did it? Who? Ronda Rousey. Ronda Rousey or Joan Jett? I’m both. I don’t know. Ronda Rousey. Oh, she conspiracy theory. Is she flat earther.
00;13;12;25 – 00;13;33;06
Unknown
I don’t know if she’s a flat earth or I know she like has like retweeted things about about like Sandy Hook and all that crap. Desperately wanted me to flatter her. Not someone that’s making fun, like pretending I’m flat earth or I want to meet a legitimate flatter there one. So come on podcasts. I’m sure we could find one and like talk about wrestling and flat earth.
00;13;34;03 – 00;13;48;00
Unknown
Well, Bo Dallas is a flat earth or so if we could like bring brainy like it into like since guy comes out to talk about flat earth the Bo Dallas that yeah I think we might be able to swing that who knows.
00;13;52;21 – 00;14;14;17
Unknown
Yeah. I was talking to somebody the other day about like all the pay per views and everything and honest. Like, I dig the two day wrestlemanias. But if they get longer than like three and a half, 4 hours on a single day, it’s going to be nuts. I think that are too long. But at least there is are action packed like this.
00;14;14;17 – 00;14;37;14
Unknown
Match after match after match after match. I’m telling you that that revolution was great, but it was grueling. Like like it was just. It was just too much. The WrestleMania that mean you went to it was the same thing. It was like I was enjoying myself, but I was just ready to leave. Yeah, I will say. I don’t know.
00;14;37;14 – 00;15;05;16
Unknown
Have you watched any of them? Forbidden door at all. AWP blew it. It was like, watch. I watched New Japan stuff about as often as you watch main roster wrestling. It was actually pretty good. They had some. Some decent matches. The Orange Cassidy. Oh. Why am I completely blanking on his name? Oh, I keep wanting to say awesome theory, and it’s not.
00;15;05;16 – 00;15;29;13
Unknown
I know. It’s obviously not that Will Ospreay match was something. If you got a chance to check it out, I would highly recommend. Watch. I understand you’re going to look at me like I’m an asshole when I say this. Did we interview that guy or did we just interview a bunch of people that wrestled him? I think we interviewed a bunch of people who wrestled him.
00;15;29;29 – 00;16;01;07
Unknown
Okay. Because I think we would remember Reed, I mean, it just so familiar for someone I’ve never seen wrestle that I can’t remember if we actually interviewed him or just interviewed like interview after interview of people saying that they wrestled him. Yeah, I, I, I think I know who you’re thinking about and it wasn’t him, but yeah. Because I think you’re thinking of the dude that we from Australia.
00;16;01;23 – 00;16;25;04
Unknown
Yeah. Well New Zealand is from New Zealand. Yeah. Same but yeah that was a really good interview. It was. But yeah. No I we have not wrestled or we have not we, I think we tried to get Will Ospreay at one point. We haven’t wrestled him. We have not wrestled him. Okay. Let me know in advance if we’re going to wrestle, get it.
00;16;25;05 – 00;16;55;09
Unknown
Got to get in shape, lift the weight. But yeah, it’s a it was a really good match. We got a chance to check it out. I think it’s available on YouTube now. You can find it. Is there a door anywhere on this? Pay-Per-View? Only in the logo that people walk through. No one walks through a forbidden door. No, there the forbidden door is the two of them coming together to create a single pay per view.
00;16;56;06 – 00;17;21;05
Unknown
And we consider Chris Jericho being on Raw last night and walking through the forbidden door. Uh, no. I think it was more. He would have to be resort ish and again ish it was ish. How about it? It was harsh. It’s about as close as forbidden doors. You’re going to get in WWE. So yeah. But yeah, that matches is a blast.
00;17;21;05 – 00;17;57;26
Unknown
We had a chance to check it out. So yeah. Anything else you need to want to cover or talk about? Mean any news? I haven’t really seen any news this week, so I’m. Did I see any wrestling news really? There has not been much. Now, I don’t know if anyone’s quit recently or gotten fired or I haven’t seen any kind of news at all.
00;17;57;26 – 00;18;43;08
Unknown
Oh, the open up is, as Conrad Thompson would say, let me open up the Google with the sheets. Oh, anything pops up. What’s his face made his debut at Forbidden Door. I don’t know what his name is. I’m sorry. I can’t hear what he’s going by now. Wow. You go by Claude? Yeah, it’s Claude. Something he. When he called Claudio Kasten testing noli.
00;18;44;00 – 00;19;06;25
Unknown
Yeah. When he, when he called to get the gate open at full sail. And I was the unlucky person that answered the phone and couldn’t, couldn’t help him at all because I was too new. He’s like, Yeah, my name is Claude Cicero. And I’m like, Oh, I know who the fuck you are. We have to sit here and pretend, I don’t know.
00;19;07;04 – 00;19;41;22
Unknown
The fucking Swiss cyborg is on the other end of the phone. But yeah, he. He was the replacement for for, um, Bryan Danielson. I really didn’t think he was in a, I didn’t think he was going to jump ship anywhere. I really thought he was just going to hold out till he brought it back. Now he he’s there.
00;19;41;22 – 00;20;26;04
Unknown
He’s part of the Blackpool Combat Club now with William Regal and Moxley and yeah, we’ll Danielson or something. Wheeler. Yeah. The hell is that guy’s name? That the Asian dude. Yeah, I’m completely blanking out it also and yeah he quit orange Cassidy stable to join that one. Todd Wheeler I don’t that’s not it but yeah. God, I’m like my brain is shot today.
00;20;26;04 – 00;20;52;02
Unknown
My brain is totally shot. Wheeler, you to die? That’s it. I knew there was a wheeler in there somewhere. Well, anything you want to plug or anything? I mean, we can get out of here. It’s not even done. 20 minutes. We literally have just passed the 20 minute mark on our record. I can milk like five more than five more minutes.
00;20;52;03 – 00;21;29;14
Unknown
When you talk about anything, I don’t really care. I’m my my brain. I’ve been doing a lot of work stuff recently since I was out for months. It seems I was out for we used to keep it on wrestling. I am wrestling with whether I liked Obi-Wan Kenobi or not, I enjoyed it. Okay, so let’s put it the I, I enjoyed the story at the there were some do this hold on a second so we can cover our bases here we’re going to spoil Obi-Wan Kenobi possibly by accident.
00;21;29;23 – 00;22;30;16
Unknown
So shut your radio off in five, four, three, two, one. Okay. I enjoy I enjoyed this story for the most part, the direct like the the directing slash photography of it. There were some issues that I had with it like it didn’t flow too oddly. There were times when it looked like it was handheld that it really shouldn’t have been like it should have been more stable camera and yeah, so I just, I liked it like I, I wish they would just say it’s not canon because the whole Obi-Wan Kenobi meeting, the little kid who shouldn’t know him, I’m just.
00;22;30;23 – 00;23;03;28
Unknown
It just drove me crazy. Yeah. I mean, I don’t know. Again, I’m trying as little to spoil it as possible, but the little kid, 20 years later, acts like they don’t know him. We clearly they spent several weeks together with this person. So, yeah, there’s that. And then there’s a few other things that just don’t match up with the continuity.
00;23;03;28 – 00;23;33;15
Unknown
But I absolutely love that scene where Kenobi and the mask breaks. And you see, it’s always ended with the face of smoke. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that was. So that was the scene that really kind of blew it for me because most of the fight scene was shot like it was in handheld, like it was on on somebody’s shoulder, which generally is done to stimulate or stimulate somebody in a crowd or, you know, like getting bounced around, moved around like that.
00;23;34;29 – 00;24;00;12
Unknown
There was no crowd. There was no one to move the camera around. There’s not a third person that’s there holding a camera. It was just it should have been a static camera or, you know, some kind of unnatural movement to it. Not bouncing and shaking. It could have been a Steadicam or Dolly cam. Yeah, exactly. So that was my one of my biggest things that took me out of that scene because it was it was a cool scene, the fight and everything else.
00;24;00;18 – 00;24;41;22
Unknown
But I’m like, I don’t I don’t want that. I don’t you know, it doesn’t need to be. And it could just be me being me. But I mean, everyone nitpicks about something with with those things. So I mean, yeah, there’s always something there’s there’s one thing once we once we sign off, I’ll tell you that I found very funny that the only reason I will not just blast that on air is because we try to keep things like on an even nonpolitical keel here through so well.
00;24;41;22 – 00;25;07;11
Unknown
You got to get out of here. We’ll get out of here. We will leave Canada alone. And as I say, we could talk movies and TV all they leave me to this cave at sea. Go to you Top Rope Wrestling Podcast at Instagram. It has still not been updated at least seven or eight weeks, but you can go there and you can look around at some random show we did six months ago that I put up there that you should listen to.
00;25;08;03 – 00;25;30;28
Unknown
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00;25;32;09 – 00;25;50;28
Unknown
I don’t even remember what it was about. I don’t know if that’s like long term effects of COVID or early dementia or it was just a forgettable episode. But you can go listen to last week’s episode or email us and Rick is going to tell you how to do that. Last week we talked about all the news that happened while I was on vacation.
00;25;51;05 – 00;26;15;25
Unknown
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00;26;15;25 – 00;26;38;21
Unknown
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00;26;38;21 – 00;27;18;14
Unknown
Yeah. If you want to bring me a cheesecake, fine. Leave it on my studio doorstep and walk away. Yeah. One of these days we’ll get back to actually recording in the same studio. Yes, that would be nice. Yeah. Oh, well, live long and prosper, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Good.