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State of Combat with Brian Campbell

05/31 WWE: Extreme Rules Preview, Praising the Women's MITB Match

State of Combat with Brian Campbell

CBS Sports, Boxing, MMA

Society & Culture, Sports News, News, Sports

4.6767 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

With just days until Extreme Rules, the guys break down the PPV card as WWE looks for a No. 1 contender to Brock Lesnar's universal championship (49:45). Brian Campbell shares his issues with recent TV main events (14:45), while Nick Kostos fawns over the women's Money in the Bank match (4:10) and Adam Silverstein shares why the upcoming PPV is not "extreme" enough. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know, guys, I was on the network watching Nick's, like, Wheelhouse Childhood Favorite

0:04.5

WrestleMania 8 from Indianapolis.

0:06.5

And I think, like, legacy-wise, WWE missed the bow.

0:09.6

I'm not doing that Hulk Hogan Rick Flair match back then.

0:12.2

I mean, everyone loves the Hogan Rock icon versus icon thing.

0:15.8

But that should have been you are generations icon-Icon match.

0:19.3

You know who I blame, honestly? I blame Terry Belaya, Hulk Hogan, and his massive ego for that.

0:24.0

Because Savage Flair wasn't even the main events of WrestleMania 8.

0:26.6

We had to see Hogan go out there and stink up the joint against Psycho Sid

0:29.8

and set up an angle for that Summer Slam.

0:31.4

And Brian, it just goes to show you the power that Hogan had, even though he's past his prime at that point. WrestleMania 9, he puts himself over in the main event after Yoko Suna goes over Brad

0:40.6

Hart, so not only did they screw up WrestleMania 8 because Hogan's ego is the size of the

0:44.4

Sears Tower, but WrestleMania 9 goes into the trash as well.

0:47.8

And we had to deal with that Gibron's warrior bailing him out at 8.

0:50.7

Look, what makes me mad, mania, W w w w you could have fixed it the first time they

0:54.3

didn't they had a chance to reboot it russomani at 20 in new york you know that russamina we're not

0:58.2

supposed to talk about because of benoit that could have been old guy hogan versus old guy

1:02.3

flare they could have fixed the problem a second time do you know what i remember from

1:06.1

russomania eight honestly when the ultimate warrior ran out. Do you remember? Because I was, what, maybe like 9, 10 years old when that happened?

1:12.1

People were saying that wasn't the real ultimate warrior because he had the short hair

1:15.6

and he wasn't as big as he had been.

1:17.3

And then there was the, are there two ultimate warriors here?

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