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The Ringer Wrestling Show

AEW Revolution Preview. Plus, MJF Talks Preparing for the Texas Death Match.

The Ringer Wrestling Show

The Ringer

Sports, Wrestling

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

COLD OPEN QUESTION OF  THE WEEK: Five years ago this week was AEW’s exploding barbed wire death match. If WrestleMania had that match, who would you want to see in it (0:30)? David, Kaz, and Brian kick off the show discussing Ricky Sosa’s television debut on TNA wrestling (9:10) They discuss the following: Which wrestling themes they play enough before it hits ‘Spotify Wrapped’ (19:25) ESPN will no longer use letter grades for WWE PLEs (23:00) Brock Lesnar’s potential opponents for WrestleMania (49:25rtt) AEW ‘Revolution’ Preview (56:28) Then Ben Cruz sits down with MJF ahead of his Texas Death match with Adam Hangman Page, where he discusses not only how he is preparing for the match, but also how he is preparing his wife, and his fellow 'Happy Gilmore 2' cast members (1:46:01). Be sure to check out our videos on BlueSky, TikTok, Instagram Threads, and X. Hosts: David Shoemaker, Kazeem Famuyide,  Brian H. Waters, and Ben Cruz Guest: Maxwell Jacob Friedman Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A wise man once said in this world, nothing can be certain except death taxes and your boy Johnny Bananas.

0:07.2

Welcome to the brand new Death Taxes and Bananas channel where we'll be recapping season 41 of the challenge every week with all your favorite cast members.

0:15.6

I'm going to dive deep into the drama, get every side of every story, and tell stories about behind the scenes on set

0:22.8

antics. So, follow Death Taxes and Bananas on Spotify, where you can watch every episode

0:28.3

or subscribe to YouTube.com at Death Taxes Bananas on YouTube.

0:36.2

Cold open question of the week, Kaz.

0:38.7

What up, Shoes?

0:40.7

Good to have you back, man.

0:41.8

Now, as you might have heard, I know you heard.

0:44.2

We texted about it.

0:45.4

Your old friend, the road dog Jesse James, is no longer on the creative team at WWE.

0:52.0

It was, I think the news broke that he was, it didn't say that he

0:54.7

was fired.

0:55.3

The assumption,

0:56.2

I think,

0:56.5

when the news broke

0:57.1

was that he was fired, then the news came out that he kind of saw the writing on the wall. His power was diminishing. He decided to walk away of his own accord. We don't know all the details there. Maybe you do. I know you guys

1:08.2

I know you guys have a deep history

1:09.8

I know that he called you out

1:11.2

for stinking up the arena

1:12.6

at one point

1:13.5

um I know you guys, I know you guys have a deep history. I know that he called you out for stinking up the arena at one point. You got to get that proper context, Dave. That could mean a lot of things. I think this is pretty well known. I was just kind of joking. But was it the Ross for WrestleMania? When it was it was a big raw? It was the raw. I think it was the anniversary row. Oh, the anniversary show, DX.

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