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Today on Not Sam Wrestling, Alex Levine from the Gaslight Anthem talks about the current state of wrestling and just being a wrestling fan.

We've got a lot to talk about as we build up to WrestleMania and did something happen last night in that exploding ring match?

This is Not Sam Wrestling.

This is Not Sam Wrestling.

Introducing your host from New York, here is Sam Rivers.

How are we all doing? Happy Monday. Welcome to Not Sam Wrestling.

Welcome to the week. It's another week. And this world of being a wrestling fan as we head towards WrestleMania and all those great things.

Let's get into it. Alex Levine is going to be on the show. He's a good buddy of mine and a huge wrestling fan. We'll get to it.

But there's bigger fish to fry. All right. Look, I understand. I don't talk about AEW that much.

I get criticized sometimes for it, but I don't care luckily. I mean, I don't know if you've noticed me.

But if you would look at my past records, you would see that I'm pretty well documented that criticism doesn't generally bother me.

It doesn't dictate the way I do things. The reason that I don't talk about AEW is number one.

There's a conflicting wrestling show on at the same time called NXT. And NXT is a show that I watch loyally.

So there's a lot of AEW stuff I missed. I can't speak on AEW as an expert fan the way I can, I believe, WWE and NXT.

Because I miss a lot of it and I don't watch dark or any of that stuff. Also, I have a clear admitted built in bias.

I'm not going to be able to talk about the intricacies of AEW without the shift of I grew up a WWE fan.

I've always been a WWE fan. You can go to episode one of Sam Roberts wrestling podcast before it was even not Sam wrestling.

And you'll hear me telling you I am a WWE fan. And then WWE decides to take a chance on the kid and put him on a couple of pre-shows.

And yeah, the loyalty to WWE builds in me as it should as a loyalty that you would have towards anybody that would believe in you and take a chance on you should exist.

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