AND THEN 10 (Wrestling Soup 4/2/24) w/@TheRCWRShow
WRESTLING SOUP
Wrestling Soup Network
4.4 • 738 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this episode, the hosts from Wrestling Soup, along with Lee Sanders of the RCWR show, dive into wrestling criticisms, news, and share their experiences from past events. The conversation includes a special mention of an interview with Marvin the Monster from Tooney Town wrestling, highlighting the unique blend of puppetry and wrestling production. Additionally, the episode takes a deep dive into the recent CM Punk controversy, his interview with Ariel Hawani, and reflections on CM Punk's career and impact on AEW. Discussions also touch on AEW's talent releases and the company's financial decisions, as well as WWE's current direction under Triple H's management, spotlighting the Roman Reigns documentary and the anticipation for WrestleMania week. Moreover, they discuss the potential of WWE meeting greets and share personal anecdotes on attending wrestling events and interacting with iconic fighters, rounding off with a preview of upcoming wrestling shows and personal projects.
00:00 Celebrating 12 Years of Wrestling Critique and Collaboration
00:42 Wrestlemania Week Highlights and Puppet Wrestling Insights
01:22 Diving Deep into the CM Punk Controversy
03:10 Analyzing CM Punk's Interview and Wrestling Industry Dynamics
05:39 The Fallout: Reactions and Reflections on CM Punk's Statements
11:02 AEW's Management and Talent Dynamics Explored
17:07 The Business of Wrestling: Success, Strategy, and AEW's Future
24:38 AEW's Roster Changes and Financial Implications
32:29 Roster Overhaul: The Debate on Cutting Wrestlers
34:04 Tony Khan's Controversial Cuts and Financial Struggles
38:41 AEW's High-Profile Hires: Strategy or Desperation?
40:42 Wrestling Fans' Growing Disinterest in AEW
43:04 WWE's Resurgence: A Return to Glory Days
48:52 The High Cost of Fame: WWE's Meet and Greet Prices
53:40 Celebrating Wrestling Legends and Future Plans
01:00:47 WrestleMania Hype and Fan Excitement
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wrestling-soup--1425249/support.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Wrestling soup for a mature audience. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm still doing the boys. |
| 0:07.3 | Wrestling soup with myself and Lee Sanders from the RCWR show. |
| 0:11.8 | Celebrating 12 long years of wrestling. |
| 0:16.6 | Criticisms and news and information and everything else like that. |
| 0:20.8 | And hopefully everybody's doing well. |
| 0:22.7 | A lot of shit came out since yesterday. |
| 0:24.6 | Myself and Joe did like an emergency broadcast to talk a little bit about the |
| 0:29.1 | CM Punk situation that went down. |
| 0:32.2 | Well, not even the situation, but the interview with Ariel Hawani, right? |
| 0:37.0 | And I don't know about you. |
| 0:38.9 | I've been looking forward to this for a long time because I knew in, I guess you want |
| 0:44.1 | to say in my wrestling fan heart that there was no way in hell that CM Punk was just |
| 0:49.3 | going to leave AW and all this bad blood and all of these bad takes from different journalists and fans online and just leave it alone. |
| 1:00.7 | I understand that the guy has grown, but he's known for fucking opening up. |
| 1:05.5 | Even when he first came into WWE, that Survivor Series in Chicago, Rosemont. He didn't open up with what I think many of us |
| 1:14.4 | want. I think literally Lee, when I first showed up, I just wanted him to say fuck AEW. But he didn't |
| 1:21.6 | do that. So I assume you got a chance to listen to at least some of the interview, right? Yeah, I still haven't done the full, |
| 1:29.5 | what, he was on for two hours during that segment. Was it really two hours? God damn, okay. |
| 1:34.4 | Because I looked at, yeah, I looked at the time stamps on their actual video. And I'm like, |
| 1:39.0 | damn, you guys had CM Punk for two hours or at least 90 minutes i'm like good god no i mainly have seen the clips |
| 1:46.1 | online so i have a general idea of because i would say grant told i probably checked out at |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wrestling Soup Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Wrestling Soup Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.