WWE SmackDown Review: An Emotional Tribute Show to Bray Wyatt & Terry Funk

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is going to be a little bit of a different SmackDown review. Obviously,
Smackgown itself wasn't what it normally is. It wasn't what it was advertised or
supposed to be because obviously, as you are well aware, it was a
very rough week for wrestling fans and for pretty much everybody who's familiar with Gray
Wyatt and also Terry Funk. I didn't want to not give Terry Funk the
respect he deserves for you know, everything that he's done in his career.
But I mean, man, I gotta be honest, it's Debray Wyatt news
that was different. It was just a little bit different than really anything since,
like Kobe Bryant when he passed away at the very beginning of twenty twenty.
Just to be completely honest, I can't think of a celebrity between then
and now that it actually affected me this much. You know, I can
only speak for myself. I'm sure that there's been people who have been affected
differently by others, and I'm not trying to compare the two. I'm just
simply, you know, saying from from my perspective here, I haven't been
affected by a celebrity's death like this in a very long time. And if
you want to talk about wrestlers, man, we're going all the way back
to you know, Eddie Guerrero, Crispinwall. And you know, obviously,
whenever details came out about Crispin Wall, that changed the way everybody viewed it.
But in the moment, whenever you knew, because it wasn't until several
days after that we actually got more horrific details about that. So in the
moment people were devastated. Whenever Kris bin Wat died before you actually had time
to, you know, look at the whole situation after things kind of unfolded.
And that's how I felt with bray Wyatt, just being completely honest.
I was not a huge Wyatt family fan. I was really intrigued with the
fiend character. But I was always really just drawn to what bray Wyatt was
doing. It would always seemed like his promos, they were always somewhat of
like a riddle you had to figure it out yourself. He just seemed like
he was different, maybe just he had a little bit more creative control over
what he was saying. He didn't seem like he was, you know,
the typical WWE scripted promo, so I always thought that was a little bit
different. But you know, we'll get into all that. You know,
we'll definitely talk about that a little bit more here on the show. We're
gonna run through the few things that actually happened on SmackDown that were wrestling related,
not gonna you know, harp on them too long. They really have
no meaning in terms of storyline development or anything like that. It was pretty
much just a way to give the audience some entertainment, you know, instead
of just completely having it be an emotional night, which it was. They
started it off pretty emotional and it just continued on really throughout the show.
So they wanted to sprinkle in some wrestling throughout the night, and you could
definitely appreciate that. I think it was a you know, a job well
done by WWE, just the way that they were able to throw this together
on the fly and put together a really meaningful show. It I guess it
shows that WWE does have a finger on the pulse of you know, how
important Bray Wyatt was to the whole ww universe. But you know that everybody
there who works for WWE knows Bray Wyatt from a different perspective, not just
the character, but they know him as Wyndham, you know. So it's
tough, you know for every body. The production team I'm sure was in
tears doing their jobs that they had to do, the people backstage, all
the wrestlers as they were lining up at the top of the stage. When
the show started off, it was it was something that you never want to
see, you know, like that's whenever you see one happened in real time.
It's like, man, you know that we're going to remember this for
a long time. This is going to be played over and over again,
and it's just part of us now. We kind of just have to go
forward as wrestling fans always do. But I did want to apologize beforehand about
my voice. I've been sick as hell the past few days. I actually
had a couple of interviews scheduled for the Football Function podcast, and I haven't
been able to do those because I've just been so safe. My co host
for the Football Function was also sick on Wednesday. I'm still it's Saturday and
Wednesdays whenever. Right got sick, and I'm still not feeling a hundred percent
you could probably hear I sound a little bit ingested, so I do apologize
this is not necessarily an easy SmackDown review to do, so if you'll just
bear with me, we'll definitely get through this and you know, talk about
the show that aired on August twenty fifth, twenty twenty three. From a
Louisville, Kentucky. Shout out DJ Kuzmo for the location breakdown, who also
was a guest on the Football Function Podcast this week. I definitely appreciate that
Detroit Kyle as well. I always appreciate the support from my WWE podcast family
that followed me over to the Football Function Podcast. It means a lot,
and for those two to take time out of their Sunday evening to talk some
football with me, it definitely does not go unappreciate it on my end.
But anyways, this SmackDown what we're talking about. It started off with all
of the superstars lined up on the top of the stage so WWE could give
the ten rings of the bell. You know, they ring the bell ten
times as a way to honor any super star pastoral present who passes away,
and it's just something they've always done and I always thought it was a classy
move for them to do that. Triple h was in the in the middle
of everybody, just right there on the stage, next to guys like Cody
Rhodes. Obviously bron Stroman was standing there, Eric Rowan. I love that
they were able to bring him back and give him a front and center spot.
I just I really like that in that rocking chair that was standing there
just by itself with a spotlight on it. And then they play a video
package for Bray Wyatt. Oh man, that right there. There was not
a dry eye in my house watching this because you knew, I mean,
honestly, showing all of the you know, his wrestling highlights, showing his
career in the form of a video package. That was touching. That was
nice to see. It's always a way to give them their flowers. But
honestly, man, when they showed him and his family, it shifted everything.
You know, it went from man, we're honoring a wrestler here in
his career, to man, we're celebrating the life of a father of a
husband who literally died at thirty six years old. You know, it's it's
it's not normal to be having the ten bells for somebody who was just on
the active roster for a full decade. You know. That's why the Bray
Wyatt news hits just so much different than than really anything else that I've seen
in such a long time, you know, in my adult life for sure,
Like that was just that was crazy because Bray Wyatt, I mean,
he's been multiple versions, you know, Like he's obviously the cult leader the
Wyatt Family. That's where I was introduced to him in twenty fourteen when I
started watching WWE again, and then he shifted to the Fiend and the Wyatt
Family. There were also different versions of that also, I do want to
say before we move on to just his Fiend gimmick, the family started off
as something and then it evolved and it was similar to what it started as,
but as you have to over the years, you can't stay the exact
same kind of similar to like Roman Reigns his baby Face character whenever he was
you know, the big dog and all that, Like he was still baby
Face Roman Reigns, but it shifted, just small tweaks here and there made
it a little bit different throughout the years until ultimately he switched to something completely
different. And that's kind of what we saw with the bray Wyatt Wyatt family
version whenever he had Luke Harper and Eric Rohan eventually brought in bron Stroman and
then he was by hisself, but he was still bray Wyatt, you know,
he still had the lantern. He was still bray Wyatt, just a
little bit different. And then Randy Orton obviously teamed up with him a little
bit. They had the Daniel Bryan situation Alexa Bliss later on in his career.
But this is just me pretty much saying that, you know, from
an outsider who really wasn't the the biggest Wyatt Family fan. I was still
aware and I acknowledged all of the changes throughout the years, and it was
definitely entertaining. It was good stuff. I was just more so into the
Roman reigns and you know, the Dan Ambrose seth Rollins aspect of them all
go in their separate ways during that time that I really wasn't focused on,
you know, what was going on on the mid card, although whenever I
look back now, it was a phenomenal time in wrestling like that twenty fourteen,
twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen era, right before they went back to the
quote unquote brand split. Whenever SmackDown was still I mean, it was still
obviously taped. It wasn't live like when they went SmackDown Live. SmackDown was
taped on Tuesdays, I believe, and then shown on Fridays or maybe even
Thursdays at this point. To be honest, it's all kind of fuzzy right
now. So don't put all your eggs into what I'm saying. But but
what I'm saying is times like these is whenever you get a chance to reflect
on that. Like I went back and I was watching some bray Wyatt stuff
and I was reminded, like, man, this was a fun time and
wrestling, Like I remember what I was doing in life around that time,
you know, like I remember what my life was like eight years ago or
however long. So that's one good thing that you can do whenever you reflect,
is you could appreciate things a little bit differently. And I think that's
one thing that people are doing right now with Bray Wyatt. They're reflecting.
They're thinking about all the good things and all the good memories that they got
from watching this guy on their on their television screen. He got a lot
of fans like you all see the fireflies and people holding up their phones with
their flashlights in the sky. That was always a massive thing. Just for
as long as I can remember, bray Why has always had a massive fan
base, and that's something that I've always you know, appreciated from Afar because
I've been a part of other cult like followings. Like I mean, whenever
Roman Rains was a baby face. And I know I've already alluded to this
in this episode, but it was not popular to be a Roman Rains fan.
If you were a Roman Rains fan, people were like what the hell,
like why, Like, it's it's stupid right now, He's trying to
be forced on our throw of instct man just keeps giving WrestleMania main event after
WrestleMania main event. People weren't really as welcoming to the Roman Reigns type massive
following. So I had to kind of, you know, keep that to
the side. But as far as bray Wyatt goes, it's more so like
a wear it on your sleeve, you know. Bray Wyatt's fans are not
quiet, they're not apologetic. They do not care if you appreciate it or
not. And that's one thing that I like. So it's going to be
tough just navigating through the quote unquote life without bray Wyatt because no one expected
this at all. Like whenever somebody sent a message to the discord, that's
what made me look and immediately and I apologize for not remembering exactly who who
sent that initial message, but they said, hey, pretty sure Wyndham Rotunda
aka bray Wyatt passed away. Triple Ags just tweeted it, and I'll say,
wait what, And I went to Twitter immediately searched Triple Edge's name,
and I saw the tweet and had to rub my eyes make sure that it
wasn't one of those blue check mark pranks or anything like that. Like I
had to make sure triple check quadruple check. And whenever I've actually realized this
was real, I mean, I was downstairs because I'm in my new studio
right now, the one that I've been pretty much putting together for the past
week. I was in a probably two and a half hour in the middle
of a two and a half hour grind of just putting shelves up and or
wiring up chords and actually decorating some of these shelves and getting flags hung up
on the wall, all that good stuff, you know, things that you
look forward to do whenever you move your studio. And I got that news,
and it's just like, man, like I had all this energy,
I had all this motivation to get this knocked out, and then it's just
like all of the wind was knocked out of my cells. To be specific,
I hung up a Fiend action figure on this top shelf, like it's
right up there right now. I'm literally looking at it. And that was
the day that I got the news, you know. So that just tells
you, like, man, I did not think when I was hanging that
bad boy, because I put it up strategically, like I have the old
school nineteen nineties Kane action figure kind of along the same area as him.
I have the Boogeyman around the same area as him. And the thought process
behind that was I wanted to put the creepy slash people who could strike fear
position behind other wrestlers, you know, to give off that oh they're creeping
up behind him. Look, I mean these wrestlers are on shelves. They're
here for looking for decoration. It's not like I'm putting him in a ring
and actually fighting these bad boys. I'm trying to be strategic as to where
I, you know, display these wrestlers, and I wanted to put bray
Wyatt kind of you know, creeping up behind somebody because I have the Fiend
version that's that was just the one bray Wyatt action figure that I was like,
oh man, I have to get that one, like that's so sick
and yeah, it's it's just it's sad. I'm sorry that I'm a little
bit at a loss for words here. I kind of just had to hop
on here and say something, you know. I didn't want to obviously just
let the week go without a SmackDown review. That's not an option. I
knew for sure that we were going to do some type of show. I
just really wasn't sure what because I planned on talking about my sickness because I
remember I got sick as hell on Wednesday, and that's whenever I was like,
oh man, like this is rough. On Thursday morning, I was
like, man, I'm gonna have to this. It's to the point now
to where I'm gonna have to freaking talk about this on the show. And
I was also going to talk about Terry Funk because that's big news as well,
and I knew I was going to have to talk about that on the
show. But the Bray Wyatt stuff wants that happened, I was like,
man, this there might not be a SmackDown review. This just might be
a tribute show altogether. And that's pretty much what it's going to end up
being. I mean, the only things that happened on SmackDown we had Rayma
Stereo had a one on one match against Grayson Waller. He ends up winning
that match, and Austin Theory comes out, the former United States Champions up
getting attacked by Santos as Kabar, So we got that. We also had
a hardcore or a Terry Funk hardcore match, which wasn't a whole lot of
hardcore stuff. Really wasn't expecting there to be, although I mean there's been
some speculation maybe that it wouldn't be a bad idea to just rename the term
hardcore, like a hardcore match or a hardcore rules to Terry Funk rules.
Like whenever somebody's cutting a promo and say I want to challenge you to match
Terry Funk rules, you already know exactly what that implies. Just pretty much
meaning that. I mean, we're about to beat the hell out of each
other with some weapons, and you know there's going to be some color,
so just get used to it. That match was between the Street Profits and
they brawling brutes. The Street Profits get to win. They do have some
new merch or some new merch, some new gear that they were wearing into
the ring. It wasn't like a drastic change or anything like that, but
it was just noticeably different from what they've been wearing. They still had a
little bit of the same vibe when they came out, the same theme song,
all that stuff, So that that's something that I feel like, if
they're going to fully go into this character change, they're going out to tweak
that a little bit. But they do get the win. They still look
dominant. It does seem like the Street Prophets are on their way. Bobby
Lashly comes out to the ring during this match and he lays a vicious spear
on I think it was Butch, and Butch might have been the one that
was on the receiving end of that, but it was not pretty, to
say the least. If you were butched, that was I mean, it
was pretty if you liked the spear. That was a good spear, but
just butch so Bobby Lash is probably one of the most beautiful spears in all
of wrestling. That's including you know, brown Breaker Edge is probably my favorite.
Goldberg had a beautiful one back in the day. Regardless of how you
feel about Goldberg, he is, you gotta give him credit where it's due.
The guy can can deliver a spear, at least back in his prime.
Let's see. The final match of the night was La Night versus in
Balor. Ellie Night gets a very impressive clean win, but the most impressive
thing was how he handled the situation before the match. He addresses bray Wyatt,
he stays in character, he addresses them is as well, he pays
respect to bray Wyatt as well. This was just phenomenal work. Like this
was a difficult time in WWE put bray Wyatt in the main event spot and
said go like carry us right now, and he did. And I think
that that's promising. You should It should be a promising sign if you're an
La Night fan, which I am, but if also you're a WW executive
or if you're somebody who works for the company to see that you do have
somebody on your hands that can handle that spotlight in a situation like that.
This was a very difficult circumstance that he had to do. He even said,
I'm not going to come out and pretend that I was best friends with
bray Wyatt, but the guy literally helped me out so much in our program
together. Eli Knight was bray Wyatt's last match. Me and John Mike cost
we were there in attendance is Rocky Tea and probably many others in San Antonio,
Texas for the Royal Rumble. In the moment, you never would have
thought this is going to be anybody's quote unquote last match, you know,
whether it's bray Wyatt, any of the people that were in the Royal Rumble,
Like you just think, man like you don't expect that, you know,
it does make it more special now like I cherished that, I cherished
that night, no one that not only did I get to see, you
know, the Royal Rumble, how great of a moment that was seeing Cody
Rhodes win, Sammy Zane's turn or Sammy Zane turn on Roman Reigns, But
now that also is attached to bray White in a very very different way,
and I'm definitely glad that I was able to see that in person. But
I do want to talk about Terry Funk for a little bit here. This
one was tough too. Number one, Terry Funk passed away in my hometown
here in Amarillo, Texas. Like literally where I am recording this right now
is where Terry Funk was from. That's where he was currently living, I
believe, like an assisted living environment like a facility, and his funerals here
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It's at like I think two o'clock or something like that. There's like a
between five to seven on Thursday. There is like a memorial, you know,
they're going to honor him, and then that next morning, Friday,
I think I think maybe around you know, one o'clock or something along those
lines, they're going to have a service for him, and I legitimately might
go to that. I'm going to be off next Friday. I feel like
it's it's very rare that something like that actually happens, So there's a good
chance I'm going to go pay my respects to Terry Funk, which would be
an honor. You know, I met Terry Funk when I was in the
fourth grade because my hometown I live in Emerald, Texas right now. My
hometown Dalhart, Texas is about eighty six miles north from here, and Terry
Funk had an autograph signing there in two thousand and four. Me and my
best friend Joseph at the time, we got action figures that we each had
signed by him, and also a book where he wrote future tag team Champs,
which was very cool, Like in the moment, a WWE wrestler actually
saying that you're going to be a future tag team champion like that was so
insane. In the moment, I know that my buddy Joey, the one
that was there with me. I know that he remembers that, and that's
how I was introduced to Terry Funk. There was multiple times, like throughout
my childhood that he would appear on WWTV, whether it was raw or something
like that, and I would hear Jim Ross say Emerlo, Texas and that
was crazy, Like he went to WT West Texas A and M University here
and he played football. It's just it's literally the most local legend that I've
ever met, that I've ever known. There's a place called Lake Tanglewood right
here in Emerlo, Texas where he actually lived, like where his house was
the place that I worked for, Me and John both we do landscaping maintenance
for the neighbor's house that live literally right next door to his actual house.
One time, we were there putting up Christmas lights just that's what we do
as well. People find Christmas lights service for our clients. And we were
installing the Christmas lights there and we see a truck just drive by really slowly.
We don't really know who it was, Like it was just like because
I mean, it's like a folk legend out there, you know, Like
is that Terry Funk. Is that Terry Funk. You know, everybody who
goes to Lake Tanglewood is looking forward celebrity, especially if you're a wrestling fan
and you know that there was a legend that lives here amongst us, You're
always going to be on the lookout for him. I go out to Lake
Tanglewood every single Wednesday. I've gone out to Tanglewood every single Wednesday since twenty
fourteen, that's literally almost ten years now, and I've only seen Terry Funk
one time. The one time that I was putting up these Christmas lights and
he drove by, and me and the guy that was there working working with
me, whose name was Caleb. We look to the street and the trucks
driving by very very slowly, Like the speed limit on these streets are like
probably twenty twenty five miles per hour, and this person's driving like ten miles
an hour, and it was Terry Funk and his wife, and he just
gives us a little bit of a wave. My stomach dropped. My arm
hair right now is standing up just thinking about it, and like it was
just crazy because obviously that was the last time that I ever saw him.
He did end up going to like an old folks home, you know,
and assisted living area because he started dealing with really bad dementia late, really
late in his life. Mcfoley even talked about it in a tweet once,
having some guilt for it, Like he said, Man, I can't help
but think about all the all the rough matches that me and Terry Funk put
ourselves through. You know, I can't help but think about all of the
things that you know, I did to him over the years that hopefully didn't
contribute to this. I mean, he had some guilt, and you know,
it's it's very sad whenever you think about stuff like that. And I
would never ever try to put words into anybody's mouth or speak for them,
especially somebody who was no longer living. But I would assume that Terry Funk
didn't have any type of grudge or any type of resentment for any of the
people who he worked with, people who he was also inflicting a lot of
damage to to their bodies, you know, over the year. It was
all for the It was all for the sake of entertainment, of making sure
that you got your money's worth. There's probably so many local gyms here in
Texas that Terry Funk sold out. He made a lot of promoters a lot
of money over the years. A hell of an athlete, just an absolute
badass. This is somebody who you didn't want to cross. At any point
he showed up on w WW RAW I think it was with Dean Ambrose.
Whenever they were advertising his hardcore match at WrestleMania with Rock Lesner. They were
just bringing various legends that, you know, to come kind of hype him
up and give them a little bit of like a you know, a build
up speech. And at one point it was Terry Funk and he was seventy
two years old, just cutting an a one promo. Especially for somebody that
old, it was great to see. I was like, man, that's
Terry Funk right there. You don't like, what the hell? How does
he just crawl out of bed and go do that on TV? When there's
some wrestlers who are away way younger that just for whatever reason, they just
don't have it. You know, they just don't have it. It's an
unspoken thing, you know, they just it's something that you damn near can't
even coach. Some wrestlers have it, some don't. You know it took
six years for Roman Reigns to get it. Whenever you talk about just that
charisma where all of your lines are hitting on all cylinders, you're not stumbling
over any words or anything like that. And I feel like Terry Funk just
as somebody who was born with it just at birth. He knew right away
like he was meant to be a professional wrestler, and that journey and that
destiny ended up finding him. Luckily, we were all blessed and lucky that
we had somebody like that and past generations to set the mold and form some
of our favorite wrestlers and some of our favorite hardcore wrestlers that you know,
we saw an ECW and all that stuff. Terry Funk was very important,
I guess in many many ways whenever you look at that and just the history
of hardcore wrestling. But I'm not going to, you know, touch anymore
on it. This is a little bit of a shorter episode. I do
apologize for that. It was, you know, tough to talk about some
of this stuff. I do feel better and how than I did whenever I
first started, and that's just comes from talking about it with you guys.
You know, just getting a little bit off your chest, you know,
just being able to voice some of these some of these thoughts you have because
you know, just getting hit with somebody as local as Terry Funk and then
bamm, not even twenty four hours later, it's like, wait, what
Bray Wyatt too, Like, how in the hell is this happening? So
I feel for all of my wrestling fan friends out there. I mean,
at this point, I feel like it's all right to call you guys my
family. You know, I've known some of you for years now. I'm
literally creeping up on three years exactly. Let's see, yep, three years
on October two from whenever I've officially been part of this ww podcast team,
and it's been a wild ride. Like this episode right here is episode one
fifty. I've been counting these bad boys up, just my episodes that I've
recorded. This is my one hundred and fiftieth episode, and it just so
happens to be one that's unlike any others. You know, you don't you
don't plan stuff like this clearly, Like so it's not like we I wanted
episode one fifty to be one that wasn't just a regular SmackDown review It's just
how the cookie crumbles sometimes and how things work out. But I do appreciate
you guys for going along with me on this ride. I do you know,
I'm keeping you guys in my thoughts as well. You know, I
know that bray Wide impacted a lot of people. Wrestling fans are people that
get invested in characters. You know, I'm one of them. I'm a
I'm a very proud wrestling fan, and I know how it is to have
your favorites. There's people out there that idolize bray Wyatt. People were spending
what like thousands of dollars on that championship belt that was customed to the fiend.
I think that thing is probably gonna be worth a lot more money now
if I know the way the eBay works. So if you do have any
bray Wyatt merchandise or you know, action figures, collectibles, memorabilia, hold
onto it, you know, represent that stuff. Take pride in the fact
that you got it whenever he was alive. You know, some people are
gonna go stock up on bray Wyatt merch now, They're gonna go buy all
the stuff that they can. Take pride in the fact that you had it
before that you supporting him before it was, you know, the cool thing
to do. And I know it's always been technically cool to support bray Wyatt.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying that, like, if
you were a supporter of bray Wyatt before then you know, you should still
be a fan now and be very proud about that. And if you're not
a bray Wyatt fan before and now you are because you're like, man,
like I want to I want to respect this guy. I appreciate what he
meant to the company. Now, that's okay too, Like it's okay to
change your mind, it's okay to jump on the bandwagon or whatever. It's
never too late to be a fan of something. And you know, don't
let anybody tell you that you can't. You know, it's it's not cool
now to be a fan or anything like that. Like, like whatever you
want and if you if you feel like supporting bray Wyatt, that's definitely,
in my book, a very cool thing to do, especially considering that WWE
has announced that they're donating all of his proceeds to any merch sold from bray
Wyatt to Joe Joe and his kids. You know, his family are going
to get that money in those royalties. So definitely, if it's in your
means, if you feel like it's something you want to do, go get
a bray Wyatt. Sure, go Bryant, or go buy a bray Wyatt
picture that's you know, one of the moments that are big of his career.
They sell those on WW shop, whether it's you know, one of
the moments he won a WW championship or debuted as the Fiend or something like
that. There's many many moments in time that WWE is probably captured and they're
able to market it. So go support Bray Why if that's something you feel
like you want to do. But I did want to give a shout out
to both Bray Wyatt and Terry Funk. Rest in peace, and you know
you're never going to leave the wrestling fans hearts. That's one beautiful thing about
the wrestling world is people live forever. They really do. In a sense.
Whenever you talk about the immortality of somebody like Terry Funk, who left
a mark on many many decades, six decades of being a professional wrestler,
people just don't do that anymore. I mean, I know that there's some
I mean it's few and far between, but for the most part, this
is a brutal, brutal lifestyle that these guys are, you know, choosing
to dedicate their life too just taking a beating every single night. I know
professional wrestlers now aren't in WWE, but they wrestle for you know, a
living. They get paid off of wrestling, and they travel around all throughout
the Panhandle, through Oklahoma and up to Kansas. They dedicate their life to
this, and you know, power to them. I definitely hit my hat
and I have all the respect in the world for them because they're following their
passion and they're doing what they love and being able to do it for six
decades is you know, a really big testament to Terry Funk. And then
when you look at you know, Bray Wyatt, it's easy to say that
he's going to live on forever because man, he's thirty six years old,
like he still had so much life left to live, just as a human,
you know, not even to mention probably the ten years that that he
was supposed to be still at least an active wrestler on some company. But
WW seemed like always the place that he fit in the best, at least
in my personal opinion. I know he probably didn't get a chance to do
a whole lot outside of WW, at least with an actual following. He
really got famous throughout you know, the late NXT and coming into the WWE.
It's still it's still crazy to even think about it really is, to
be honest, But like I said, I appreciate you guys sticking around with
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