Episode 79 - MITB Predictions

Get ready for a brand new, briefcase waving, scary mask wearing, and Turner Network Television subscribing episode of the Brothers of Discussion!  We’re going to cover everything from AEW’s foray into cable TV, the Tommy Magee Lost Tape documentary, and the best (and worst) case scenarios for the Women’s and Men’s Money in the Bank Matches!

That and so much more is ready to be dissected by the Brothers of Discussion.

Tidbits

• TNT is back in the wrasslin’ business!

  • They agree to a TV deal with AEW

  • Hot Tag: is this the most poetic decision or what?

  • Makes it even more obvious how in touch with the wrestling fan base Cody is (ie his making sure that GOT and “Double or Nothing” don’t fall on the same day)

• Undertaker v Goldberg announced for next Super Showdown in Saudi Arabia

  • Another attempt to move the needle and get us to watch

  • Combined age is 106

    • Best case scenario for what will be a short, clunky match

• Bray Wyatt debuts the demon mask

  • Created by Tom Savini (holy shit!!)

  • Who the fuck is going to Bret Hart this gimmick and let Bray go over??

• Tommy Magee v Bret Hart 10/7/1986 tryout match Tom McGhee

• Funny bit idea:

  • Howard Finkel does a great job reading the rules for Royal Rumbles...what if he explained the rules for board games? Or online video games?

    • Hungry Hungry Hippos

    • Pokemon

• Did WWE do enough to make you turn off the series finale of Game of Thrones on Sunday? Or as the internet wailed with rage, did GOT botch enough creative decisions to get you watching WWE?

MITB

• Is anyone cashing in tonight?

• Ricochet v Corbin v Strowman v Ali v Andrade v Big Mac v Sami Zayn v Orton (men’s MITB)

  • Michael

    • Best Case: Sami Zayn

    • Worst Case:  Orton

    • Likeliest: Big Mac

  • Matthew

    • Best Case: Sami Zayn, Drew McIntyre

    • Worst Case: Randy Orton

    • Likeliest: Andrade?

• Alexa Bliss v Natalya v Ember Moon v Mandy Rose v Naomi v Dana Brooke v Bayley v Carmella (women’s MITB)

  • Michael

    • Best Case: Bayley

    • Worst Case: Natalya

    • Likeliest: Ember Moon

  • Matthew

    • Best Case: Bayley

    • Worst Case: Dana Brooke

    • Likeliest: Mandy Rose

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• Iconics v Asuka + Kairi (The Kabuki Warriors) (women’s tag team championships)

• Daniel Bryan + Rowan v Usos (Smackdown tag championships)

• Tony Nese v Ariya Daivari (Cruiserweight Championship)

  • Book this as Tony Nese v “Arya” to get people watching?

• Samoa Joe v Rey Mysterio (US Championship)

• Roman v Elias

• Miz v Shane McMahon (Steel cage match)

• Becky Lynch v Charlotte (Smackdown Women’s Match) + Becky Lynch v Lacey Evans (Raw Men’s Match)

  • Best case scenario to expand the Women’s division while still keeping Becky at the top of the card?

    • Does that involve Becky losing a belt due to a cash-in?

• Rollins v AJ Styles (Universal Championship)

• KO v Kofi for the (WWE Championship)

  • How much longer are we dedicating to this:/

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NXT

NXT UK (Derivative)

• Piper wins quickly with Michinoku (?) driver Jamie Hader (hoping its Hater)

• Toni Storm runs a promo on Nina Samuels

• Ligero vs Devlin (to qualify  for Number One Contender Fatal 4 Way) goes to Devlin

• Mustache Mountain wants a rematch with Grizzled Young Vets, James Drake, and Zack Gibson

• Jack Starz (with awesome ACDC entrance music) vs Ilja Dragunov (Moscowvite Madman with cool red contacts)

  • Torpedo Moscow wins for Dragunov

• Killer Kelly vs Xia Brookside

  • Interrupted by Jinny

  • Jinny introduces Beth Phoe...I mean Jazzy Gabert

• The Bomber, Dave Mastiff vs Wolfgang (to qualify  for Number One Contender Fatal 4 Way) goes to Mastiff but is attacked by Gallus

Tommy Magee v Bret Hart documentary/match

Tommy Magee v Bret Hart 10/71986 tryout match Tom McGhee

• Cassette inner workings, pretty cool

• Magee, chiseled, 6’3, “handsome” per Bret lol

  • 2nd in world’s strongest man, backflips

  • Vince” this is the future” the next Hogan, shredded powerlifter

  • Late 80’s replacement for Hogan

  • Bret got him through an A+ match

• Magee v Debiase

• Why’d the tape go missing?

  • You could request for them in developmental

  • You could get the ones with “mess-ups” on it

  • Tape Trading community

  • It never surfaced, never aired

  • It was innocuous, a non-televised match that wasn’t historic until years later

  • Internet folklore, no benefit in WWE keeping it

    • Proof that WWE was wrong about their assessment

• Mary Kate Anthony was converting tapes for Bret Hart

  • VHS into DVD

  • The found one had the wrong date, name spelled wrong

• Turns into a video on how great Bret is great at getting people over

  • The irony of the whole video, we had that champion there the whole time

• Sean Waltman

  • Come back to wrestling, get a table, Fuck, there’s a “Shockmaster” booth

• Tom Magee looks like Funkhouser!

  • “You’re the next hulk hogan” I never heard that haha

  • Seems happy humble and grateful, tell Bret he’s a wonderful athlete and performer

• This is the story of Anvil maybe? Or at least that’s how the documentary’s shot, but this guy didn’t stay in the game