AEW Forbidden Door and NXT Heatwave Preview, Plus WWE Moves PLEs to ESPN

The Ringer Wrestling Show

The Ringer

Wrestling, Sports

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

David and Kaz fire the mics and have a lot to discuss after a heavy news week in pro wrestling. They discuss the following: Naomi announcing her pregnancy and vacating the Women’s world title (0:23) Adam “Hangman” Page vs. MJF stipulations changing (3:49) WWE announcing WrestlePalooza and moving PLEs to ESPN in September (17:16) AEW Forbidden Door preview (33:40) Whether WWE is trying to get rid of its competition (56:01) Athena vs. Toni Storm for the AEW Women’s Championship (1:24:20) Oba Femi vs. Je’Von Evans (1:32:48) Dave and Kaz respond to the best alien wrestling fan questions (1:46:34) Be sure to check out our videos on BlueSky, TikTok, Instagram Threads, and X. Hosts: David Shoemaker and Kazeem Famuyide Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Danny Kelly and it's officially fantasy football season, which means the ringer fantasy football show is back with the latest news from around the NFL and everything you need to get ready for the fantasy football season.
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0:18.1	Cold open question of the week, Kaz!
0:20.4	What up, shoes shoes it's official
0:22.3	mm congratulations to the uh uh uso family yeah uh naomi and jimmy usso are having a kid
0:34.5	mm-hmm the bloodline continues, baby.
0:37.9	Here's my question for you.
0:39.5	Yes.
0:41.1	If you, if it was up to you, what would you name their kid?
0:46.1	Oh.
0:47.8	Well, they have to be like their shoot shoot name or like Jonathan Fatu
0:57.7	nah like they're Trinity what's well Trinity Fatu I guess but yeah I mean I feel like they
1:03.8	would have to go through like the rock sort of thing right where like Duane Johnson was
1:08.6	you know Rocky My Via for a while,
1:11.7	like Rocky Johnson, Peter, my via.
1:13.9	So in the next 20-something years where, you know, the offspring,
1:19.5	this is so weird, of Naomi and Jimmy make their debut,
1:24.2	I'd assume they just go for the Dwayne Johnson treatment,
1:27.1	just call themselves
1:27.8	like Trinity Uso.
1:29.5	You're talking about their on screen name?
1:31.7	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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